Below is a list of book published about specific events during the two World Wars, mostly raids or major periods of aerial combat.
| 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) Patrick Bishop 'Battle of Britain: a day-by-day chronicle 10 July - 31 October 1940' (2009) 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) Holland 'The Battle of Britain: five months that changed history' (Bantam 2010) Ishoven 'Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain' (1980) D A Johnson 'Battle of Britain - and the American factor' (Combined 1998) M Julian 'Battle of Britain' (Jonathan Cape 1967) P Kaplan 'Fighter aces of the RAF in the Battle of Britain' (Pen & Sword 2007) 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' (Janes/ A&A 1981) Richard Knot 'Black night for Bomber Command' (high loss raid on 16th December 1943) (Pen & Sword 2007) M Middlebrook 'Berlin raids' (Viking 1988) M Middlebrook 'The bomber battle for Berlin' (Pen & Sword 2010) 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) |
| Brighton |
Rowland 'Out of the blue: the story of Brighton's worst air
raid in 1943' (Finsbury 2003) |
| Bristol |
J Dike 'Bristol Blitz Diary' (Redcliffe 1982) H Reid 'Bristol Blitz (the untold story)' (Redcliffe 1988) S Shipley 'Bristol Siren Nights: diaries & stories of the blitzes' (Redcliffe 1989 - first published 1944) 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' (Cahatto & Windus 1965; 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) |
| Copenhagen |
Reilly 'The sixth floor: RAF raid on Shell House, Copenhagen
1945' (Frewin 1969) |
| 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) |
| D-Day |
Stephen Darlow 'D-Day bombers: the veterans' story' (2010) Delve 'D-Day: the air battle' (Crowood 2004) |
| Dams |
A W Cooper 'The men who breached the dams' (Airlife, 1993) 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) Sweetman 'Operation Chastise: the dam raid: epic or myth' (Janes 1982) Arthur Thorning 'The Dambuster who cracked the dam' (Pen & Sword 2008) 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) 'Dresden: Tuesday 13 February 1945' |
| 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) |
| Falaise gap |
'Firestorm: Typhoons over Caen, 1944' |
| Filton |
Wakefield 'Target Filton: two Luftwaffe attacks in September
1940' (Redcliffe, 1990) |
| Folkestone/ WW1 bombing | Easdown/ Genth 'A glint in the sky' (WW1 Gotha & Zeppelin
attacks on Kent) (Pen and Sword 2004) |
| 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 |
Cooper 'Target Leipzig' (19-20 February 1944) (Pen & Sword
2009) 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 |
Hanson 'First Blitz' (1918 raids) (2008) D Johnson 'City Ablaze: 2nd great fire of London 1940' (Kimber 1980) J Neville 'Blitz - London: Then & Now' (Hodder & Stoughton 1990) Nixon 'Raiders overhead: a diary of the London Blitz' (Scolar 1980) 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 |
Jack Currie 'Battle under the moon: the RAF raid on Mailly-le-Camp
May 1944' (Crecy 1995) 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) |
| Netherlands |
Onderwater 'Operation Manna/ Chowhound: the Allied food
droppings April/ May 1945' (Midland 1991) |
| 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) 'The Ploesti raid through the lens' |
| 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) |
| Rjukan |
Wiggan 'Operation Freshman: the Rjukan heavy water raid
1942' (Kimber 1986) |
| Sicily (Husky) |
S W C Pack 'Operation Husky' (David & Charles 1977) C Whiting 'Slaughter over Sicily' |
| Southampton |
A Brode 'Southampton Blitz' (Countryside 1982) |
| Taranto |
Newton & Hampshire 'Taranto' (Kimber 1959) Smithers 'Taranto 1940' (Leo Cooper 1995) Wragg 'Sword Fish: the story of the Taranto raid' (Weidenfeld 2003) |
| Tirpitz attacks |
L Peillare 'Sink the Tirpitz' (Putnam 1968) B Sweetman 'Tirpitz, Hunting the Beast' (Allied air attacks) (Naval Institute Press 2000) |
| Tobruk |
Cull & Minterne 'Hurricanes over Tobruk: defence of Tobruk,
Janaury - June 1941' (Grub St. 1999) |
| 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) |