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 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
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
General Histories
- Biplane to Monoplane: Aircraft Development 1919-1939
Edited by Philip Jarrett
Putnam, 1997
ISBN 0 85 177 874 7
Histories of Conflict
- The Bombing War – Europe 1939-1945
Richard Overy
Allen Lane, 2013
ISBN 978-0-713-99561-9 - 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
Jane’s
- Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft 1938
Compiled and Edited by C.F. Grey and Leonard Bridgman
Sampson Low, 1938
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 - End of the Dinosaurs: Boeing’s B-9, Breaking the Bomber Mould
Alain Pelletier
Air Enthusiast, September/October 2002 - 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