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anonymous

The pitcher and the well

1961

JD McDonald

(Jan

Bach)

Een zwerver in het luchtruim

1941

C.C. Küpfer

(Douglas

Bader)

Reach for the sky

1954

Paul Brickhill

Bernt

Balchen

Come north with me

1959

 

Ursula

Barnett Potter

I'll fly no more

1951

 

Denis

Barnham

One man's window

1959

 

Duchess of

Bedford

The flying Duchess (Diaries)

1968

John Bedford

JRD (Bob)

Braham

Scramble!

1961

 

Jo

Capca

Red sky at night

1958

Kendall McDonald

Leonard

Cheshire

Bomber Pilot

1943

 

Roderick

Chisholm

Cover of darkness

1953

 

Pierre

Clostermann

The big show

1951

 

Roald

Dahl

Going solo

1986

 

Evert van

Dijk

Over den Oceaan

1930

 

A.G.

Dudgeon

The luck of the devil

1985

 

Neville

Duke

Test Pilot

1953

 

Neville

Duke

Sound Barrier

1953

 

Amelia

Earhart

The fun of it

1932

 

Clyde

Fenton

Flying doctor

1947

 

Ph. Joubert

de la Ferté

The fated sky

1952

 

(James H.

Flatley)

The Grim Reapers

1943

Stanley Johnson

Antony

Fokker

de Vliegende Hollander

1931

Bruce Gould

Adolf

Galland

The first and the last

1954

 

Ernest K.

Gann

Fate is the Hunter

1961

 

Edna

Gardner Whyte

Rising above it

1991

Ann L. Cooper

David

Garnett

A rabbit in the air

1932

 

Guy

Gibson

Enemy coast ahead

1944

 

Duncan

Grinnell-Milne

Wind in the wires

1926

 

Richard

Hillary

The last enemy

1943

 

Colin

Hodgkinson

Best foot forward

1957

 

Samuel

Hynes

Flights of passage

1988

 

Berthold K.

Jochim

der letzte Flug der Wundervogel

?

 

WE

Johns

Biggles: pioneer air fighter

1932

 

Johnnie

Johnson

Wing Leader

1956

 

André

Jubelin

The flying sailor

1951

 

J.A.

Kent

One of the few

1971

 

Yasuo

Kuwahara

Kamikaze

1957

Gordon T. Allred

(James H.

Lacey)

Ginger Lacey - fighter pilot

196?

Richard T. Bickers

Ted W.

Lawson

30 seconds over Tokyo

1943

 

(Hervé

Ledaim)

Fighter under a soviet star

?

L. Duhau

Cecil

Lewis

Sagittarius Rising

1936

 

Anne Morrow

Lindbergh

North to the Orient

1935

 

Anne Morrow

Lindbergh

Listen! The wind

1938

 

Charles A.

Lindbergh

The Spirit of st Louis

1953

 

Norman

Macmillan

Freelance pilot

1937

 

Beryl

Markham

West with the night

1940

 

(Beryl

Markham)

Straight on till morning

1987

Mary S. Lovell

René

Mouchotte

Diaries 1940 - 1943

1956

 

Richard

Pape

Boldness be my friend

1953

 

(Pat

Pattle)

Ace of aces

1965

ECR Baker

Hugh

Popham

Sea Flight

1954

 

C.F.

Rawnsley

Night fighter

1957

R. Wright

Manfred von

Richthofen

Der rote Kampfflieger

1920

 

(Manfred von

Richthofen)

Red Knight of Germany

1927

Floyd Gibbons

Hans Ulrich

Rudel

Stuka Pilot

1958

 

Gerhard H.

Rudolf

Jäger gegen Rote Falken

?

 

Charles R.

Samson

Cairo to Cape Town

1931

 

Robert L.

Scott

God is my co-pilot

1943

 

Nevil

Shute

Slide rule

1954

 

Ivan

Smirnoff

Smirnoff vertelt

1938

 

Ivan

Southall

They shall not pass unseen

1956

 

Antoine de

st-Exupéry

Courrier Sud

1929

 

Antoine de

st-Exupéry

Vol de Nuit

1931

 

Antoine de

st-Exupéry

Terre des Hommes

1939

 

Barry

Sutton

The way of a pilot

1943

 

Lowell

Thomas

European Skyways

1928

 

(R Stanford

Tuck)

Fly for your life

1956

Larry Forrester

Ernst

Udet

Mein Fliegerleben

1935

 

Willem van

Veenendaal

Tussen hemel en aarde

1957

 

Andries

Viruly

Voor vrij? ..Contact!

1929

 

W.A.

Waterton

The quick and the dead

1956

 

R. van

Z. Bergmann

Het doel bereikt

1990

 

 

 

 

 

 

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