The books listed here are focused on regional losses or airfields throughout the British Isles, they have been put into three tables, the first detailing books which cover the whole of the British Isles or the nations which make up these islands. Table 2 gives details of those books which cover broad regions and the third focuses on books about a specific county.

Nations of the British Isles P Clark 'An Unexpected Foe'
D W Earl 'Hell on High Ground'
D W Earl 'Hell on High Ground Vol. 2'
D J Smith 'High Ground Wrecks and Relics'
N Wotherspoon, A Clark & M Sheldon 'Aircraft Wrecks the Walker's Guide'
England  
Channel Islands
Edward Pinnegar 'A history of aviation in Alderney' (Amberley Publishing 2010)
Isle of Man S Poole 'Rough Landing or Fatal Flight: a history of aircraft accidents on, over and around the Isle of Man' (Amulree Publications 1999)
Northern Ireland D J Smith 'Action Stations 7: military airfields of Scotland, the North East and Northern Ireland' (Patrick Stephens)
Republic of Ireland  
Scotland J Allan 'Wings over Scotland' (Tervor, 2002)
Chorlton 'Scottish airfields in the Second World War: vol 1 the Lothians' (2009)
Chorlton 'Scottish airfields in the Second World War: vol 2 Fife & central region' (2009)
Chorlton 'Scottish airfields in the Second World War: vol 3 the Grampians' (2011)
D J Smith 'Action Stations 7: military airfields of Scotland, the North East and Northern Ireland' (Patrick Stephens)
Les Taylor 'Luftwaffe over Scotland' (2010)
Wales Delve 'The military airfields of Britain: Wales and the West Midlands' (2007)
E Doylerush 'Fallen Eagles' (Midland Counties 1990)
Terrence Hill 'Down in Wales' (Carreg Gwalch 1994)
Terrence Hill 'Down in Wales 2' (Carreg Gwalch 1996)
Terrence Hill 'Final descent: air crashes in Wales and the borders' (Leo Cooper 1999)
D J Smith 'Action Stations 3: military airfields of Wales and the North West' (Patrick Stephens)

 

Regions of the UK  
East Anglia
Micheal Bowyer 'Action Stations 1: military airfields of East Anglia' (Patrick Stephens 1979)
Michael Bowyer 'Air Raid: the enemy offensive against East Anglia 1939-45'
East Coast
J P Foynes 'Battle of the east coast 1939-45' (Foynes 1994)
Hebrides
Hughes 'The Hebrides at war' (Canongate 1998)
Midlands
M S Boylan 'A Moorlands Dedication: an account of the 40 military aircraft accidents in the Leek area of North Staffordshire during World War Two' (WH Beech 1992)
A Brew 'The history of Black Country aviation' (Sutton, 1983)
Delve 'The military airfields of Britain: Wales and the West Midlands' (2007)
Delve 'The military airfields of Britain: East Midlands' (2009)
Goodrum 'Dying to fly: the human cost of military flying; East Midlands' (2010)
Halpenny 'Action Stations 2: military airfields of Lincolnshire and the East Midlands' (Patrick Stephens 1981)
M Bowyer 'Action Stations 6: military airfields of the Cotswolds and the Central Midlands' (Patrick Stephens 1983)
Northern England
Bamford/ Collier 'Eyes of the night: the air defence of north-western England 1940-43' (2006)
Martyn Chorlton 'Airfields of North East England in the Second World War'
M J Hurst 'Air Crashes In The Lake District' (Airlife 1997)
Bill Norman 'Luftwaffe over the North' (1939-1943) (Leo Cooper 1993 and 1997)
D J Smith 'Action Stations 3: military airfields of Wales and the North West' (Patrick Stephens)
D J Smith 'Action Stations 7: military airfields of Scotland, the North East and Northern Ireland' (Patrick Stephens)
P J Smith 'Flying bombs over the Pennines' (24th December 1944) (Neil Richardson 1988)
North Wales E Doylerush 'No landing place: a guide to aircraft crashes in Snowdonia' (Midland Counties 1985)
E Doylerush 'No landing place volume 2'
Jones 'Airfields and landing grounds of Wales: north' (2008)
Peak District
R Collier 'Dark Peak wrecks' (Barnsley Chronicle 1979)
R Collier & R Wilkinson 'Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks' (2 vols) (Pen & Sword 1995)
R Collier 'Dark Peak aircraft wrecks' (Wharncliffe Woodmoor 1982)
P J Cunningham 'Peakland air crashes: the south' (Landmark Publishing 2005)
P J Cunningham 'Peakland air crashes: the central area' (Landmark Publishing 2006)
P J Cunningham 'Peakland air crashes: the north' (Landmark Publishing 2006)
South East England
C Ashworth 'Action Stations 9: military airfields of the South East' (Patrick Stephens)
Brooks 'Thames Valley airfields in the second world war: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Middlesex' (Countryside 2000)
B Halpenny 'Action Stations 8: military airfields of Greater London' (Patrick Stephens)
Peter Jacobs 'Airfields of 11 Group' (Pen & Sword 2005)
South Wales E Doylerush 'Rocks in the clouds: high ground aircraft crashes of south Wales' (2007)
Hughes 'Wings over the Wye: illustrated history' (Hughes 1984)
Jones 'Airfields and landing grounds of Wales: south' (2007)
Jones 'Warplane wrecks of south Wales and the Marches' (1982)
Jones 'Airfields and landing grounds of Wales: west' (2008)
South West England
'The military airfields of Britain: South-western England'
C Ashworth 'Action Stations 5: military airfields of the South West' (Patrick Stephens)
Dudley & Johnson 'Weston-super-Mare and the aeroplane' (2010)
Sutton 'South west wings: a diary of aviation incidents and accidents in west Somerset and north Devon' (ALD, 2003)
Thames Valley
'Thames Valley airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside)

 

Counties of the UK  
Bedfordshire
'Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside)
Birmingham
G Negus & T Staddon 'Aviation in Birmingham' (Midland Counties 1984)
Cambridgeshire
Bowyer 'Military Airfields of Cambridgeshire' (Patrick Stephens Ltd 1987)
Julian Evan-Hart 'War-torn skies of Great Britain: Cambridgeshire' (Red Kite 2008)
Smith 'Cambridgeshire Airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside 1999)
Smith 'Heroes of Bomber Command: Cambridgeshire' (2008)
Cheshire
Ferguson 'Cheshire Airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside 2008)
Cornwall
'In Cornish Skies: images of aviation'
Peter London 'Aviation in Cornwall' (Air Britain)
Cumbria
Connon 'In the shadow of the eagles wing: aviation in Cumbria, Dumfries & Galloway 1825-1914' (St Patrick's 1982)
Martyn Chorlton 'Cumbria airfields of world war 2' (includes Isle of Man) (Countryside 2006)
Derbyshire
'Nottingham and Derbyshire airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside)
Dorset
Dawson 'Wings over Dorset' (Dorset Publishing 1983, 1989)
Legg 'Dorset flight: the complete history' (Dorset Publishing 2001)
Smith 'Dorset airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside)
'Wings over Weymouth'
Dumfries & Galloway
Connon 'In the shadow of the eagles wing: aviation in Cumbria, Dumfries & Galloway 1825-1914' (St Patrick's 1982)
Essex
Smith 'Essex and its race for the skies 1900-1939' (2008)
Glamorgan Thursby 'Glamorgan aviation: Eheda' (2009)
Gloucestershire
J Rennison 'Wings over Gloucestershire' (Piccadilly Publishing 1988)
Gwynedd Snowdonia Aviation Historical Group 'The air war over Gwynedd' (1985)
R Sloan 'Aircraft crashes, flying accidents in Gwynedd 1910-1990' (Carreg Gwalch, 1994)
Hampshire
'Hampshire airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside)
Colin Crudas 'In Hampshire Skies' (The History Press 2001)
Gilliam 'Wight air wrecks' (Tempus, 2002)
Herefordshire
Robin Brooks 'Herefordshire & Worcestershire airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside 2006)
Hertfordshire
Julian Evan-Hart 'War-torn skies of Great Britain: Hertfordshire' (Red Kite 2007)
'Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside)
Kent
'Kent airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside)
Humphreys 'Kent aviation: a century of flight' (Sutton 2001)
Matthews 'Heroes of Fighter Command: Kent' (2008)
'Wings over south Canterbury'
Lancashire
N Wotherspoon 'North West aircraft wrecks' (Pen & Sword 2006)
'Lancashire airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside)
Leicestershire
R Bonser 'Aviation in Leicestershire and Rutland' (Midland Counties Publications 2001)
'Leicester and Rutland airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside)
Lincolnshire
S. Finn 'Lincolnshire air war' (Finn 1973)
S. Finn 'Lincolnshire air war book two' (Control Column 1983)
Green et al 'Wings over Lincolnshire' (Midland 1994)
Halpenny 'Action Stations 2: military airfields of Lincolnshire and the East Midlands' (Patrick Stephens 1981)
M Ingham 'Air Force Memorials of Lincolnshire' (Midland Publishing 1995)
'Lincolnshire airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside)
'Metal Birds 1, 2 & 3' (three separate books on Lincolnshire air war)
Norfolk
Bowman 'World War II RAF aifields in Norfolk' (2009)
Matthews 'Heroes of Bomber Command; Norfolk' (Countryside 2006)
Smith 'Norfolk airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside 1997, 2004)
Northamptonshire
'Northamptonshire airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside)
M Gibson 'Aviation in Northamptonshire' (Northamptonshire Libraries 1982)
Northumberland
& County Durham
Gray et al 'Air crash Northumberland' (individual accounts and aviation archaeology) (2009)
Bill Norman 'Broken Eagles 2' (Luftwaffe losses over Northumberland & Durham, 1939-45) (Leo Cooper 2002)
Derek Walton 'Northumberland Aviation Diary' (Norav Publications 1999)
Nottinghamshire
Nottingham and Derbyshire airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside)
Needham 'Nottinghamshire air crashes' (2009)
Orkney
Rev Dr T Crouther Gordon DFC 'Early flying in Orkney: seaplanes in World War I' (BBC Radio Orkney 1985)
Lamb 'Sky over Scapa 1939-1945' (2008)
Oxfordshire
Brooks 'Oxfordshire Airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside 2001)
Wright 'Royal Flying Corps in Oxfordshire 1912-18' (Wright 1985)
Pembrokeshire Paul Williams 'The James Brothers: Pembrokeshire's aviation pioneers'
Rutland
R Bonser 'Aviation in Leicestershire and Rutland' (Midland Counties Publications 2001)
'Leicester and Rutland airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside)
Shropshire
Brooks 'Shropshire airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside 2008)
Neal 'Shropshire airfields in the Second World War' (expanded second edition) (Countryside 2009)
Somerset
'Somerset airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside)
Staffordshire
'Staffordshre airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside)
Brew 'Staffordshire and Black Country airfields: Archive Photo Series' (Chalford 1997)
Suffolk
Smith 'Suffolk airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside 1997)
Smith 'Heroes of Bomber Command: Suffolk' (2009)
Surrey
Matthews 'Heroes of Fighter Command: Surrey' (2009)
Parry 'War-torn skies of Great Britain: Surrey' (Red Kite 2007)
Pilkington 'Surrey airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside 1997)
Sussex
Brooks 'Sussex Airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside 1998)
Matthews 'Heroes of Fighter Command: Sussex' (2008)
Warwickshire
Graham Smith 'Warwickshire airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside 2004)
Wiltshire
Berryman 'Wiltshire airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside 2005)
'Wings over Wiltshire'
Worcestershire
Robin Brooks 'Herefordshire & Worcestershire airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside 2006)
Yorkshire
Bright 'Air war over east Yorkshire in WW2' (Flight Recorder 2005)
Dodsworth 'Wings over Yorkshire: pioneer aviators and their flying machines, a pictorial survey' (Hutton Press 1988)
Halpenny 'Action Stations 4: military airfields of Yorkshire' (1982)
Bill Norman 'Broken Eagles' (Luftwaffe losses over Yorkshire,1939-45) (Leo Cooper 2001)
Bill Norman  'Failed to Return' (Yorkshire Memorials: 4 Group and No.6 (RCAF) Group) (Leo Cooper 1995)
Otter 'Yorkshire Airfields in the Second World War' (Countryside 2003)
Redman 'Yorkshires early flying days' (Dalesman, 1981)
Wadsworth 'Heroes of Bomber Command: Yorkshire' (2008)

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