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In the following list, a unit or airfield may appear in chapters or sections rather than the whole book. Many of these books are out of print. These books are NOT available from BAAC, but the best place to start tracking a title down is www.abebooks.co.uk and www.bookfinder.com. Please email us if you know of any books with chapters about specific squadrons, other units or airfields - particularly biographical ones! If you've read any books listed under unknown RAF units, please email which units are mentioned.

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Books relevant to specific raids or events

Arnhem
M Middlebrook 'Arnhem 1944'

Augsberg
J Currie 'The Augsberg Raid' (Goodall 1987)

Baedeker Raids
'Story of the Exeter Blitz' (Wheaton c1943)
P Crampton 'Blitz of Canterbury' (Meresborough 1989)
L Kessler 'Great York air raid' (Dalesman 1979)
N Rothnie 'The Baedeker Blitz' (Ian Allen 1992)
M Wainwright 'Bath Blitz' (Kingston 1985)
C Whiting 'Three star Blitz: Baedeker Raids' (Leo Cooper 1987)
G Worrall 'Target Exeter' (Private)

Battle of Britain
R T Bickers 'Battle of Britain' (Salamander 1990)
E Bishop 'Battle of Britain' (George Allen & Unwin 1960)
M J Bowyer 'Battle of Britain 50 years on' (PSL 1990)
Brown 'Spitfire Summer' (2006)
S Bungay 'Most dangerous enemy' (Aurum 2000)
R W Clark 'Battle for Britain' (Harrap 1965)
Goss 'Luftwaffe Fighters Battle of Britain: the inside story' (Crecy 2000)
J Foreman 'Battle of Britain - the forgotten months' (Air Research 1998)
N R Franks 'Battle of Britain' (Bison 1981)
D A Johnson 'Battle of Britain - and the American factor' (Combined 1998)
Ishoven 'Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain' (1980)
M Julian 'Battle of Britain' (Jonathan Cape 1967)
F K Mason 'Battle over Britain' (McWhirter Twins 1969)
D Middleton 'Sky suspended: Battle of Britain 1940-41' (Secker & Warburg 1960)
M Parker 'Battle of Britain' (Headline 2000)
A Price 'Battle of Britain' (A & A 1990)
A Price 'Battle of Britain: The Hardest Day: 18th August 1940' (BCA 1979)
J Ray 'The Battle of Britain - New Perspectives' (Arms & Armour 1994)
A Robinson 'RAF Fighter Squadrons in the Battle of Britain' (Brockhampton Press 1999)
J M Spraight 'Battle of Britain 1940' (Geoffrey Bles 1941)
J F Turner 'Battle of Britain' (Airlife 1998)
W G Ramsey (ed) 'The Battle of Britain Then and Now' (After the Battle 1985)

Berlin
A W Cooper 'Bombers over Berlin' (Kimber 1985)
Cooper 'Bombers over Berlin: the RAF offensive Nov 1943-March 1944' (Airlife 2003)
Ethell & Price 'Target Berlin: mission 250 6th March 1944' (A&A 1981)
M Middlebrook 'Berlin raids' (Viking 1988)
J Searby 'Bomber Battle for Berlin' (Guild 1991)
Wilson 'Men of air: the doomed youth of Bomber Command' (covers Berlin, Magdeburg, Leipzig & Nuremberg 1944; published 2008)

Birmingham
C Chinn 'Brum undaunted: Birmingham during the Blitz' (Birmingham Library Service 1996)

Blitz
W G Ramsey (ed) 'The Blitz Then and Now' (3 vols After the Battle 1987-90)

Bodenplatte
Norman Franks 'Battle of the airfields'
Manhro &Putz 'Bodenplatte: the Luftwaffes last hope' (Hikoki 2004)

Bristol
J Dike 'Bristol Blitz Diary' (Redcliffe 1982)
H Reid 'Bristol Blitz (the untold story)' (Redcliffe 1988)
S Shipley 'Bristol Syren Nights: diaries & stories of the blitzes' (Redcliffe 1989)
R Winstone 'Bristol Blitzed' (Winstone 1973)

Bruneval
G Millar 'Bruneval raid' (Bodley Head 1974)

Channel Dash
J D Potter 'Fiasco: break-out of the German battleships' (Readers Union 1970)
T Robertson 'Channel Dash' (QBC 1958)

Cologne
Ralph Barker 'The thousand plan' (The Reprint Society 1966)
Feast 'Heroic Endeavour' (Pathfinder op December 1944) (Grub St 2006)
C Messenger 'Cologne: the first 1000 bomber raid' (Ian Allen 1982)
C Messenger 'Cologne: crucial battles of WW2' (Ian Allen 1982)
Eric Taylor 'Operation Millenium' (Robert Hale Ltd 1987 ISBN 0 7090 2967 5)
Taylor 'Operation Millenium: raid on Cologne May 1942' (Spellmount 2004)

Coventry
Allan W Kurki 'Operation Moonlight Sonata' (Greenwood Press 1995)
'Coventry's Blitz' (Coventry Evening Telegraph 1990)
N Longmate 'Air Raid - Coventry 1940' (Hutchinson 1976)

Dams
H Euler 'Dams raid: through the lens' (After the Battle 2001)
Falconer 'Dambusters: breaking the great dams 16-17th May 1943' (Sutton)
S Harrison 'Dambusters 60th anniversary' (J & KH 2003)
J Holsgrove & H Graham 'Dambusters away' (Freelance Library 1998)
S Ottaway 'Dambuster: a life of Guy Gibson VC' (Leo Cooper 1994, reprinted softback 2007)
J Sweetman et al 'Dambusters' (Timewarner 2003)
J Sweetman 'The Dambusters raid' (A & A 1993)
Ward & Wachtel 'Dambuster raid crash sites: in Holland and Germany' (2008)

Dieppe
N Franks 'Greatest air battle: Dieppe 19th August 1942' (Kimber 1979)
N Franks 'Greatest air battle: Dieppe 19th August 1942' (Grub St 1992)

Dresden
A Cooper 'Target Dresden' (Independent 1995)
D Irving 'Destruction of Dresden' (Kimber 1964)
A McKee 'Dresden 1945: The Devil's Tinderbox' (Souvenir 1982)
F Musgrove 'Dresden and the heavy bombers' (Pen & Sword 2005)
F Taylor 'Dresden' (Bloomsbury 2004)

Dunkirk
N Franks 'Air Battle for Dunkirk 26 May - 3 June 1940' (Grub St 2006)

Essen
J Searby 'Great raids vol 2 - Essen' (Nutshell 1978)

Folkestone/ WW1 bombing Easdown/ Genth 'A glint in the sky' (WW1 Gotha & Zeppelin attacks on Kent)

Hamburg
J Heitmann 'Hamburg Firestorm' (After the Battle no. 70)
M Middlebrook 'Hamburg raid'
G Musgrove 'Operation Gomorrah: the Hamburg firestorm raids' (Janes 1981)

Leipzig
Wilson 'Men of air: the doomed youth of Bomber Command' (covers Berlin, Magdeburg, Leipzig & Nuremberg 1944; published 2008)

Le Portel
M Cumming 'Starkey Sacrifice: bombing of Le Portel 1943' (Sutton 1996)

London
D Johnson 'City Ablaze: 2nd great fire of London 1940' (Kimber 1980)
J Neville 'Blitz - London: Then & Now' (Hodder & Stoughton 1990)
L Whitnell 'Engines over London' (Carroll & Nicholson 1949)

Magdeburg
Wilson 'Men of air: the doomed youth of Bomber Command' (covers Berlin, Magdeburg, Leipzig & Nuremberg 1944; published 2008)

Mailly-le-Camp
Burkett/ Gilbert 'Not just another milk run' (2005)

Manchester
Smith 'Flying bombs over the Pennines: story of V-1 attack on Manchester 24th December 1944' (Smith)
P Smith 'Luftwaffe over Manchester: the Blitz years 1940-44' (Richardson 2003)

Mercury/ Crete
Comeau 'Operation Mercury: a British airmans first hand account of the fall of Crete in 1941' (PSL 1991)

Munster
Ian Hawkins 'The Munster raid'
I Hawkins 'Munster: the way it was' (Robinson 1984)
I Hawkins 'The Munster raid: before and after' (FNP 1999)

Nuremburg
J Campbell 'Bombing of Nuremburg' (Alison & Busby 1973)
M Middlebrook 'The Nuremburg raid' (Allen Lane 1973)
G Taylor 'The Nuremberg massacre' (Sidewick & Jackson 1980)
Wilson 'Men of air: the doomed youth of Bomber Command' (covers Berlin, Magdeburg, Leipzig & Nuremberg 1944; published 2008)

Peenemunde
J Heitmann 'Peenemunde Rocket Centre' (After the Battle 1991)
M Middlebrook 'Peenemunde raid' (Allen Lane 1982; Pen & Sword 2000)
J Searby 'Great raids vol 1 - Peenemunde' (Picton 1987)

Ploesti
R Bujor, D Melinte & C Nastase 'Ploesti: Low Level Strike' (Modelism International, Romania, 2007)
Duggan & Stewart 'Ploesti: the great ground-air battle of 1st August 1943' (Cape 1963)
M Hill 'Black Sunday' (Schiffer 1993)
L W Newby 'Target Ploesti: view from a bombsight' (Arms & Armour 1983)
L Wolff 'Low level mission: Ploesti Raids' (Longmans 1958)

Plymouth
A Clamp 'Blitz of Plymouth 1940-44) (Clamp c1990)
F Wintle 'The Plymouth Blitz' (Bossiney Books 1989)

Portsmouth
'Smitten City: Portsmouth under Blitz' (Portsmouth Newspapers 1981)

Regensburg/ Schweinfurt
E Jablonski 'Double Strike: Epic raids on Regensburg/ Schweinfurt' (Doubleday 1974)

Revigny
Oliver Clutton-Brock 'Massacre over the Marne' (1994)

Southampton
A Brode 'Southampton Blitz' (Countryside 1982)

Taranto
Smithers 'Taranto 1940' (Leo Cooper 1995)

Tirpitz attacks
L Peillare 'Sink the Tirpitz' (Putnam 1968)
B Sweetman 'Tirpitz, Hunting the Beast' (Allied air attacks) (Naval Institute Press 2000)

WW1 - UK
C Cole & E Cheeseman 'The air defence of Britain 1914-1918' (Putnam 1984)
Morris 'The German air raids on Great Britain 1914-1918' (1925, reprinted 2008)

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Arnhem	M Middlebrook 'Arnhem 1944'
Augsberg	J Currie 'The Augsberg Raid' (Goodall 1987)
Baedeker Raids	'Story of the Exeter Blitz' (Wheaton c1943) P Crampton 'Blitz of Canterbury' (Meresborough 1989) L Kessler 'Great York air raid' (Dalesman 1979) N Rothnie 'The Baedeker Blitz' (Ian Allen 1992) M Wainwright 'Bath Blitz' (Kingston 1985) C Whiting 'Three star Blitz: Baedeker Raids' (Leo Cooper 1987) G Worrall 'Target Exeter' (Private)
Battle of Britain	R T Bickers 'Battle of Britain' (Salamander 1990) E Bishop 'Battle of Britain' (George Allen & Unwin 1960) M J Bowyer 'Battle of Britain 50 years on' (PSL 1990) Brown 'Spitfire Summer' (2006) S Bungay 'Most dangerous enemy' (Aurum 2000) R W Clark 'Battle for Britain' (Harrap 1965) Goss 'Luftwaffe Fighters Battle of Britain: the inside story' (Crecy 2000) J Foreman 'Battle of Britain - the forgotten months' (Air Research 1998) N R Franks 'Battle of Britain' (Bison 1981) D A Johnson 'Battle of Britain - and the American factor' (Combined 1998) Ishoven 'Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain' (1980) M Julian 'Battle of Britain' (Jonathan Cape 1967) F K Mason 'Battle over Britain' (McWhirter Twins 1969) D Middleton 'Sky suspended: Battle of Britain 1940-41' (Secker & Warburg 1960) M Parker 'Battle of Britain' (Headline 2000) A Price 'Battle of Britain' (A & A 1990) A Price 'Battle of Britain: The Hardest Day: 18th August 1940' (BCA 1979) J Ray 'The Battle of Britain - New Perspectives' (Arms & Armour 1994) A Robinson 'RAF Fighter Squadrons in the Battle of Britain' (Brockhampton Press 1999) J M Spraight 'Battle of Britain 1940' (Geoffrey Bles 1941) J F Turner 'Battle of Britain' (Airlife 1998) W G Ramsey (ed) 'The Battle of Britain Then and Now' (After the Battle 1985)
Berlin	A W Cooper 'Bombers over Berlin' (Kimber 1985) Cooper 'Bombers over Berlin: the RAF offensive Nov 1943-March 1944' (Airlife 2003) Ethell & Price 'Target Berlin: mission 250 6th March 1944' (A&A 1981) M Middlebrook 'Berlin raids' (Viking 1988) J Searby 'Bomber Battle for Berlin' (Guild 1991) Wilson 'Men of air: the doomed youth of Bomber Command' (covers Berlin, Magdeburg, Leipzig & Nuremberg 1944; published 2008)
Birmingham	C Chinn 'Brum undaunted: Birmingham during the Blitz' (Birmingham Library Service 1996)
Blitz	W G Ramsey (ed) 'The Blitz Then and Now' (3 vols After the Battle 1987-90)
Bodenplatte	Norman Franks 'Battle of the airfields' Manhro &Putz 'Bodenplatte: the Luftwaffes last hope' (Hikoki 2004)
Bristol	J Dike 'Bristol Blitz Diary' (Redcliffe 1982) H Reid 'Bristol Blitz (the untold story)' (Redcliffe 1988) S Shipley 'Bristol Syren Nights: diaries & stories of the blitzes' (Redcliffe 1989) R Winstone 'Bristol Blitzed' (Winstone 1973)
Bruneval	G Millar 'Bruneval raid' (Bodley Head 1974)
Channel Dash	J D Potter 'Fiasco: break-out of the German battleships' (Readers Union 1970) T Robertson 'Channel Dash' (QBC 1958)
Cologne	Ralph Barker 'The thousand plan' (The Reprint Society 1966) Feast 'Heroic Endeavour' (Pathfinder op December 1944) (Grub St 2006) C Messenger 'Cologne: the first 1000 bomber raid' (Ian Allen 1982) C Messenger 'Cologne: crucial battles of WW2' (Ian Allen 1982) Eric Taylor 'Operation Millenium' (Robert Hale Ltd 1987 ISBN 0 7090 2967 5) Taylor 'Operation Millenium: raid on Cologne May 1942' (Spellmount 2004)
Coventry	Allan W Kurki 'Operation Moonlight Sonata' (Greenwood Press 1995) 'Coventry's Blitz' (Coventry Evening Telegraph 1990) N Longmate 'Air Raid - Coventry 1940' (Hutchinson 1976)
Dams	H Euler 'Dams raid: through the lens' (After the Battle 2001) Falconer 'Dambusters: breaking the great dams 16-17th May 1943' (Sutton) S Harrison 'Dambusters 60th anniversary' (J & KH 2003) J Holsgrove & H Graham 'Dambusters away' (Freelance Library 1998) S Ottaway 'Dambuster: a life of Guy Gibson VC' (Leo Cooper 1994, reprinted softback 2007) J Sweetman et al 'Dambusters' (Timewarner 2003) J Sweetman 'The Dambusters raid' (A & A 1993) Ward & Wachtel 'Dambuster raid crash sites: in Holland and Germany' (2008)
Dieppe	N Franks 'Greatest air battle: Dieppe 19th August 1942' (Kimber 1979) N Franks 'Greatest air battle: Dieppe 19th August 1942' (Grub St 1992)
Dresden	A Cooper 'Target Dresden' (Independent 1995) D Irving 'Destruction of Dresden' (Kimber 1964) A McKee 'Dresden 1945: The Devil's Tinderbox' (Souvenir 1982) F Musgrove 'Dresden and the heavy bombers' (Pen & Sword 2005) F Taylor 'Dresden' (Bloomsbury 2004)
Dunkirk	N Franks 'Air Battle for Dunkirk 26 May - 3 June 1940' (Grub St 2006)
Essen	J Searby 'Great raids vol 2 - Essen' (Nutshell 1978)
Folkestone/ WW1 bombing	Easdown/ Genth 'A glint in the sky' (WW1 Gotha & Zeppelin attacks on Kent)
Hamburg	J Heitmann 'Hamburg Firestorm' (After the Battle no. 70) M Middlebrook 'Hamburg raid' G Musgrove 'Operation Gomorrah: the Hamburg firestorm raids' (Janes 1981)
Leipzig	Wilson 'Men of air: the doomed youth of Bomber Command' (covers Berlin, Magdeburg, Leipzig & Nuremberg 1944; published 2008)
Le Portel	M Cumming 'Starkey Sacrifice: bombing of Le Portel 1943' (Sutton 1996)
London	D Johnson 'City Ablaze: 2nd great fire of London 1940' (Kimber 1980) J Neville 'Blitz - London: Then & Now' (Hodder & Stoughton 1990) L Whitnell 'Engines over London' (Carroll & Nicholson 1949)
Magdeburg	Wilson 'Men of air: the doomed youth of Bomber Command' (covers Berlin, Magdeburg, Leipzig & Nuremberg 1944; published 2008)
Mailly-le-Camp	Burkett/ Gilbert 'Not just another milk run' (2005)
Manchester	Smith 'Flying bombs over the Pennines: story of V-1 attack on Manchester 24th December 1944' (Smith) P Smith 'Luftwaffe over Manchester: the Blitz years 1940-44' (Richardson 2003)
Mercury/ Crete	Comeau 'Operation Mercury: a British airmans first hand account of the fall of Crete in 1941' (PSL 1991)
Munster	Ian Hawkins 'The Munster raid' I Hawkins 'Munster: the way it was' (Robinson 1984) I Hawkins 'The Munster raid: before and after' (FNP 1999)
Nuremburg	J Campbell 'Bombing of Nuremburg' (Alison & Busby 1973) M Middlebrook 'The Nuremburg raid' (Allen Lane 1973) G Taylor 'The Nuremberg massacre' (Sidewick & Jackson 1980) Wilson 'Men of air: the doomed youth of Bomber Command' (covers Berlin, Magdeburg, Leipzig & Nuremberg 1944; published 2008)
Peenemunde	J Heitmann 'Peenemunde Rocket Centre' (After the Battle 1991) M Middlebrook 'Peenemunde raid' (Allen Lane 1982; Pen & Sword 2000) J Searby 'Great raids vol 1 - Peenemunde' (Picton 1987)
Ploesti	R Bujor, D Melinte & C Nastase 'Ploesti: Low Level Strike' (Modelism International, Romania, 2007) Duggan & Stewart 'Ploesti: the great ground-air battle of 1st August 1943' (Cape 1963) M Hill 'Black Sunday' (Schiffer 1993) L W Newby 'Target Ploesti: view from a bombsight' (Arms & Armour 1983) L Wolff 'Low level mission: Ploesti Raids' (Longmans 1958)
Plymouth	A Clamp 'Blitz of Plymouth 1940-44) (Clamp c1990) F Wintle 'The Plymouth Blitz' (Bossiney Books 1989)
Portsmouth	'Smitten City: Portsmouth under Blitz' (Portsmouth Newspapers 1981)
Regensburg/ Schweinfurt	E Jablonski 'Double Strike: Epic raids on Regensburg/ Schweinfurt' (Doubleday 1974)
Revigny	Oliver Clutton-Brock 'Massacre over the Marne' (1994)
Southampton	A Brode 'Southampton Blitz' (Countryside 1982)
Taranto	Smithers 'Taranto 1940' (Leo Cooper 1995)
Tirpitz attacks	L Peillare 'Sink the Tirpitz' (Putnam 1968) B Sweetman 'Tirpitz, Hunting the Beast' (Allied air attacks) (Naval Institute Press 2000)
WW1 - UK	C Cole & E Cheeseman 'The air defence of Britain 1914-1918' (Putnam 1984) Morris 'The German air raids on Great Britain 1914-1918' (1925, reprinted 2008)

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