Bibliography

Encyclopaedic Works

These tend to be big books! Davilla & Soltan weighs in at 3.4kg, and the equivalent work of Grosz, Haddow & Schiemer on Austro-Hungarian aircraft still at 3.2kg. They are very informative resources, and very much worth their price if you can find them.

• French Aircraft of the First World War.
  James J. Davilla and Arthur M. Soltan.
  Flying Machines Press, 1997.
  ISBN 0-9637110-4-0.
• Austro-Hungarian Army Aircraft of World War One
  Peter M. Grosz, George Haddow and Peter Schiemer.
  Flying Machines Press, 1993.
  ISBN 0-9637110-0-8
• The Osprey Encyclopaedia of Russian Aircraft 1875-1995.
  Bill Gunston.
  Osprey Aerospace, 1995.
  ISBN 1-85532-405-9.
• The German Giants – The German R-planes 1914-1918.
  G.W. Haddow and Peter M. Grosz.
  Putnam, 1988.
  ISBN 0-85177-812-7.
• The British Bomber since 1914
  Francis K Mason
  Naval Institute Press / Putnam, 1994
  ISBN 1-55750-085-1
• United States Military Aircraft since 1908
  Gordon Swanborough and Peter M. Bowers
  Putnam, 1971
  ISBN 0 370 00094 3
• Japanese Aircraft 1910-1941
  Robert C. Mikesh and Shorzoe Abe
  Putnam, 1990
  ISBN 0 85177 840 2
• Japanese Aero-Engines 1910-1945
  Mike Goodwin and Peter Starkings
  MMP Books, 2017
  ISBN 978-83-65281-32-6
• Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War
  R. J. Francillon
  Putnam, 1970
  SBN 370-00033-1
• Polish Aircraft 1893-1939
  Jerzy B. Cynk
  Putnam, 1971
  ISBN 0-370-00085-4

National Histories

• The Royal Air Force and Aircraft Design 1923-1939: Air Staff Operational Requirements
  Colin Sinnott
  Franks Cass, 2001
  ISBN 0-7146-5158-3
• Germany’s First Air Force 1914-1918.
  Peter Kilduff
  Arms and Armour, 1991.
  ISBN 1-85409-053-4.
• German Bombers of World War One
  Alex Imrie
  Arms and Armour – Vintage Aviation Fotofax
  ISBN 1-85409-015-1
• The British Aircraft Specifications File: British Military and Commercial Aircraft Specifications 1920 – 1949.
  K.J. Meekcoms and E.B. Morgan
  Air-Britain, 1994
  ISBN 0-85130-220-3
• L’Aviation Française de Bombardement et de Renseignement (1918-1940)
  Raymond Danel and Jean Cuny
  Editions Larivière, Collection Docavia Volume 12, 1978.
• The Rise and Fall of the French Air Force: French Air Operations and Strategy 1900-1940
  Greg Baughen
  Fonthill, 2017
  ISBN 978-1-78155-644-3
• Aufklärer – Luftwaffe Reconnaissance Aircraft & Units 1935-1945
  David Wadman, John Bradley, and Barry Ketley
  Hikoki, 1997
  ISBN 0 9519899 87
• Courage Alone: The Italian Air Force 1940-1943
  Chris Dunning
  Hikoki, 1998
  ISBN 1 902109 02 3
• Soviet Combat Aircraft of the Second World War: Volume 2
  Yefim Gordon and Dmitri Khazanov, with Alexander Medved’
  Midland, 1999
  ISBN 1 85780 084 2
• Wings of the Luftwaffe
  Eric Brown
  Airlife, 1993
  ISBN 1 85310 413 2
• The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
  Adam Tooze
  Penguin, 2007
  ISBN 978-0-141-00348-1
• British Flight Testing – Martlesham Heath 1920-1939
  Tim Mason
  Putnam, 1993
  ISBN 0-85177-857-7
• Echoes of War – The Story of H2S Radar
  Sir Bernard Lovell
  Adam Hilger, 1991
  ISBN 0-85274-317-3
• French Bombers of World War II in action
  Alain Pelletier
  Squadron/Signal, 2003
  ISBN 0-89747-458-9
• Sunburst – The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941
  Mark R. Peattie
  Naval Institute Press, 2001
  ISBN 978-1-59114-664-3

Type and Manufacturer Histories

• Aeroplani Caproni: Gianni Caproni and His Aircraft, 1910-1983
  Rosario Abate, Gregory Alegi and Giorgio Apostolo
  Museo Caproni, 1992
• Dornier Bombers and reconnaissance aircraft 1925-1945
  Manfred Griehl
  Arms and Amour, 1990
  ISBN 1 85409 000 3
• Dornier – Die Chronik des Ältesten Deutschen Flugzeugwerks
  Aviatic Verlag, 1985
  ISBN 3 925505 01 6
• Fokker Vliegtuigbewapening
  G. de Vries and B.J. Martens
  De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1994
  ISBN 90-6707-346-6
• Heinkel He 177, 277, 274
  Manfred Griehl and Joachim Dressel
  Airlife, 1998
  ISBN 1-85310-364-0
• Jean Stampe & Maurice Vertongen – Antwerpse Vliegtuigbouwers
  Jean Dillen
  Snoeck, 2016
  ISBN 978-94-6161-321-9
• Martin Aircraft 1909-1960
  John R. Breihan, Stan Piet, and Roger S. Mason
  Narkiewicz/Thompson, 1995
  ISBN 0-913322-03-2
• Boston Soviétiques
  Viktor Koulikov
  Aero Journal No 25
  Juin-Juillet 2002
• Junkers Ju 88 – Star of the Luftwaffe
  Manfred Griehl
  Arms and Armour, 1990
  ISBN 1-85409-043-7
• Junkers Ju 88
  Ron Mackay
  Crowood, 2001
  ISBN 1-86126-431-3
• Junkers Ju 88A
  Philip J.R. Moyes
  Aerodata International
• Junkers Ju 88 in action
  Uwe Feist and Mike Dario
  Squadron-Signal, 1974
• Junkers Ju 88 in action (part 1)
  Brian Filley with Don Greer and Perry Manley
  Squadron-Signal, 1988
  ISBN 0-89747-201-2
• Junkers Ju 88 (Vol I)
  Krysztof Janowicz
  Kagero
  ISBN 83-89088-57-6
• Junkers Ju 288/388/488
  Karl-Heinz Regnat
  Midland Publishing, 2004
  ISBN 1-85780-173-3
• North American B-25 Mitchell
  Jerry Scutts
  Crowood, 2001
  ISBN 1-86126-394-5
• B-25 Mitchell in action
  Ernest R. McDowell
  Squadron/Signal, 1978
  ISBN 0-89747-033-8
• The Lockheed P-38 Lightning
  Warren M. Bodie
  Widewing Publications, 1992
  ISBN 0-9629359-5-6
• Ed Heinemann – Combat Aircraft Designer
  Edward H. Heinemann and Rosario Rausa
  Naval Institute Press, 1980
  ISBN 0-87021-797-6
• Savoia Marchetti S.79 in Action
  Roberto Gentilli and Don Greer
  Squadron/Signal, 1986
  ISBN 0-89747-173-3
• SIAI SM.84
  Cesare Gori
  La Bancarella Aeronautica, 2006
• C.R.D.A. CANT Z 1007
  Giancarlo Garello
  La Bancarella Aeronautica, 2002
• Mitsubishi Type 1 Rikko ‘Betty’ Units of World War 2
  Osamu Tagaya
  Osprey, 2001
  ISBN 1-84176-082-X
• Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu
  Richard M. Bueschel
  Schiffer, 1997
  ISBN 0-7643-0344-9
• Mitsubishi Ki-67 Hiryu
  Richard M. Bueschel
  Schiffer, 1997
  ISBN 0-7643-0350-3

Histories of Conflict

• Biplane to Monoplane: Aircraft Development 1919-1939
  Edited by Philip Jarrett
  Putnam, 1997
  ISBN 0 85 177 874 7
• The Bombing War – Europe 1939-1945
  Richard Overy
  Allen Lane, 2013
  ISBN 978-0-713-99561-9
• Blood and Ruins – The Great Imperial War 1931-1945
  Richard Overy
  Allen Lane, 2021
  ISBN 978-0-713-99562-6
• First to Fight – The Polish War 1939
  Roger Moorhouse
  The Bodley Head, 2019
  ISBN 978-1-847-92460-5
• Munich, 1938
  David Faber
  Simon & Schuster, 2008
  ISBN 978-1-4391-3234-0
• Arms For Spain: The Untold Story of the Spanish Civil War
  Gerald Howson
  John Murray, 1998
  ISBN 0-7195-5556-6
• Luftwaffe over America
  Manfred Griehl
  Greenhill Books, 2004
  ISBN 1-85367-608-X
• The Battle of Britain
  Richard Hough and Denis Richards
  Norton, 1989
  ISBN 0-393-30734-4
• Eagles in Flames – The fall of the Luftwaffe
  E.R. Hooton
  Brockhampton Press, 1999
  ISBN 1-86019-995-X
• The Battle of Britain – New Perspectives
  John Ray
  Arms and Armour, 1994
  ISBN 1-85409-345-2
• Corpo Aero Italiano – De Italiaanse Luchtmacht in België 1940-1941
  Cynrik De Decker
  De Krijger, 2001
  ISBN 90-72547-86-1
• Exploding Fuel Tanks
  Richard L. Dunn
  2011
  ISBN 978-1-4507-7305-8

Jane’s

• Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft 1938
  Compiled and Edited by C.F. Grey and Leonard Bridgman
  Sampson Low, 1938
• Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft 1945 – Collector’s Edition
  Compiled and Edited by Leonard Bridgman
  Jane’s Information Group, 1994
  ISBN 000-470831-8

Articles

• Amiot 120 – Le Bel Inconnu
  Michel Bénichou
  Le Fana de l’Aviation, Fevrier-Mars 1999
• 80 ans d’Avions à Méaulte
  Roland de Narbonne
  Le Fana de l’Aviation, Avril-Mai 2005
• SB: The radical Tupolev
  Air International, January-March 1989
• Le Bloch 131
  José Fernandez
  Air Magazine 30, Fevrier/Mars 2006.
• La production du Bloch 131
  Didier Dubant and Jean-Pierre Pierry
  Air Magazine 31, Avril/Mai 2006.
• La révolution manque de Fokker en Amerique
  Alain Pelletier
  Le Fana de l’Aviation, Fevrier 2002
• Douglas Y1O-35 et Y1B-7: Quand les bombardiers étaient facteurs
  Alain Pelletier
  Le Fana de l’Aviation, Mars 2003
• Douglas A-20 “Havoc”
  Rene J. Francillon
  Le Fana de l’Aviation, Octobre-Novembre 2007
• Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien (Douglas XB-42 and XB-43)
  Rene J. Francillon
  Le Fana de l’Aviation, Septembre 2007
• Forgotten Warrior (Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon)
  Michael O’Leary
  Aeroplane Monthly, February 2004
• Boston Soviétiques
  Viktor Kournilov
  Aero Journal No.25, June-Juillet 2002
• End of the Dinosaurs: Boeing’s B-9, Breaking the Bomber Mould
  Alain Pelletier
  Air Enthusiast, September/October 2002
• A Dying Breed – Japanese conventional bomber operations 1944-45
  Mark Huggins
  Air Enthusiast, May/June 2002
• Le bombardement français dans la tourmente
  Patrick Facon
  Le Fana de l’Aviation, Mai-Juin 2016
• Le Boeing B-9: La fin des dinosaures d’Amerique
  Alain Pelletier
  Le Fana de l’Aviation, Février 1999.
• Boeing’s “Forgotten” Monster: XB-15, a Giant in Search of a Cause
  Air Enthusiast, January/February 1999
• Aluminium Overcast
  Michael O’Leary
  Aeroplane Monthly, September 2009
• The Elegant Elk – Poland’s Unfortunate Bomber
  Air International, October 1988
• The Classic Heinkel
  Air International, August, September and October 1987
• Database: Bristol Blenheim
  Graham Warner
  Aeroplane Monthly, October 2005
• Database: Handley Page Hampden
  Harry Fraser-Mitchell
  Aeroplane Monthly, July 2006
• Database: Martin B-26 Marauder
  Martyn Chorlton
  Aeroplane Monthly, October 2011
• To Hell and Back in a Hampden
  Wg Cdr Peter McDermott
  Aeroplane Monthly, July 2009
• Vickers Warwick – The Good-Samaritan Bomber
  Air International, March & April 1988
• Tested & Failed: High-Altitude Wimpys
  Derek Collier Web
  Aeroplane Monthly, January & February 1997
• Ermolaev Er-2 – Un bombardier politique
  Dimitri Khazanov and Alexandre Medved
  Le Fana de l’Aviation, Octobre & Novembre 2005