Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force. Formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world. Following victory over the Central Powers in 1918 the RAF emerged as, at the time, the largest air force in the world. Since its formation, the RAF has taken a significant role in British military history, in particular, playing a large part in the Second World War where it fought its most famous campaign, the Battle of Britain. ...more

Royal Air Force Books

Lieber wütend als traurig. Die Lebensgeschichte der Ulrike Marie Meinhof

Bomber Command (Zenith Military Classics)

The Big Show: The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat (Pierre Clostermann's Air War Collection Book 1)

The Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower, #2)

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German Fighters of the Great War - Vol 1 by Ronny Barr

German Fighters of the Great War - Vol 2 by Ronny Barr

World War 1 in the Air

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Reach for the sky

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World War One & Two Romantic Fiction

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Guidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.

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“ We’re not feeling edgy; the system is feeling nervous. ”
― Red Army Faction

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“ [Kenneth Wilfrid Young Fison] joined the RAF as a radio observer in December 1941. At the time of joining he recorded in his diary the words of Edmund Burke: ‘When Bad Men combine, the good must associate; else will they fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. ”
― David Ross, Richard Hillary: The Definitive Biography of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot and Author of The Last Enemy

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