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World War I Aviation Books

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Above the LinesSource
The Aces of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps; Norman L. R. Franks / Hardcover / Grub Street 1994
Above the TrenchesSource
A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces, 1915-1920; Christopher Shores, et al / Hardcover / Grub Street 1991
Above the Trenches SupplementSource
A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British...; Christopher Shores / Hardcover / Grub Street 1996
Above the War FrontsSourceReview
A Complete Record of the British Two Seater Bomber Pilot and Observer Aces, the British Two-Seater Fighter Observer Aces, and the Belgian, Italian, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Fighter Aces 1914-1918; Norman Franks, Russell Guest & Gregory Alegi / Hardcover / Grub Street 1997
Ace of the Iron Cross [ or try here ]
Ernest Udet / Hardcover / Arco 1981
Aces and Aircraft of World War ISource
Christopher Campbell / Hardcover / Blandford Pr 1981
Aces and Kings (Vintage Aviation Library Series, No 5)
L. W. Sutherland, Norman Ellison / Paperback / Greenhill Pr 1985
Aces and Planes of World War I
Joe Christy / Paperback / Tab Books 1968
Aces High
The war in the air over the Western Front 1914-18; Alan Clark / Unknown Binding / Putnam 1973
The Aeroplanes of the Royal Flying Corps (Military Wing)
J. M. Bruce / Hardcover / Chatto & Windus 1982
Against the Odds
The Life of Group Captain Lionel Rees, VC, OBE, MC, AFC; W. Alister Williams / Unknown Binding / Bridge Books
Air Aces of the 1914-1918 WarReview
B. Robertson / Hardcover / Aero Pub 1959
Air Aces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1914-1918Source
Martin D. O'Connor / Textbook Binding / Champlin Fighter Museum Pr 1986
The Air Defence of Britain, 1914-18 (Putnam Aeronautical)
Christopher Cole, E. F. Cheesman / Hardcover / Chatto & Windus 1984
An Air Fighter's Scrapbook (Vintage Aviation Library, 24)Source
Ira Jones / Paperback / Presidio Pr 1991
Air of Battle
William M. Fry / Unknown Binding / Kimber
Air War over Great Britain, 1914-1918 (Vintage Warbirds, No 7)
Raymond L. Rimell / Paperback / Arms & Armour 1987
The Air VCsSourceReview
VCs of the First World War; Peter J. Cooksley / Hardcover / Alan Sutton 1997
Airman's Outings With the RFC, June to December 1916 (Vintage Aviation Library, No 13)
Alan Bott / Paperback / Greenhill Pr 1986
The Airman's War, 1914-18
Peter Liddle / Hardcover / Blandford Pr 1987
Airmen of World War I
Men of the British and Empire Air Forces in Old Photographs; Chaz Bowyer / Hardcover / Hippocrene Books 1978
The Airship VC
Raymond Laurence Rimell / Hardcover / Seven Hills 1990
Albatross Fighters in Action
John F Couners / Paperback / Squadron/Signal Pub 1981
Albert Ball, VC
Chaz Bowyer / Hardcover / Kimber 1977
America's First Eagles
The Official History of the U. S. Air Service, 1917-1918; Lucien H. Thayer / Hardcover / R James Bender Pub 1984
American Aviators in the Great War, 1914-1918
Unknown Binding / Glasebrook Foundation
An American for Lafayette
The Diaries of E.C.C. Genet, Lafayette Escadrille; Edmond Charles Clinton, Genet / Hardcover / Univ of Virginia Pr 1982
An American Pursuit Pilot in FranceReview
Roland W. Richardson's Diaries and Letters, 1917-1919; Roland W. Richardson, et al / Hardcover / White Mane Pub 1994
The Annals of 100 Squadron
Being a record of the war activities of the pioneer night bombing squadron in France during the period March 1917 to November 11th 1918, including its operations against German towns whilst serving in the independent force of the RAF; Unknown Binding / Bivouac Books Ltd
Anzacs over England
The Australian Flying Corps in Gloucestershire, 1918-1919; Book and Video; David Goodland, Alan Vaughan / Hardcover / Alan Sutton 1992
Australian Air Ace
The Exploits of "Jerry" Pentland, MC, DFC, AFC; Charles Schaedel / Unknown Binding / Rigby
The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War 1914-1918
(The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918, Vol 8); F.M. Cutlack / Hardcover / Univ of Queensland Pr 1984
Austro-Hungarian Army Aircraft of World War One
Peter M. Grosz / Hardcover / Flying Machines Pr 1993
Aviation Awards of Imperial Germany in World War I and the Men Who Earned Them Volume II Vol 2
Neal W. O'Connor / Paperback / Foundation for Aviation WWI 1990
The Balloon Buster : Frank Luke of Arizona
Norman Shannon Hall / Textbook Binding / Ayer Co Pub 1972
Battle over Britain
A history of the German air assaults on Great Britain, 1917-18 and July-December 1940, and of the development of Britain's air defences between the World Wars; Francis K. Mason / Unknown Binding / McWhirter Twins Ltd
Battlebags
British Airships of the First World War : An Illustrated History; Ces Mowthorpe / Hardcover / Alan Sutton
The B.E.2 in Action (Aircraft, No. 123)
Peter J. Cooksley / Paperback/ Squadron/Signal Publications 1992
Billy Bishop: Canadian Hero
Dan McCaffery / Hardcover / James Lorimer & Co 1988
Billy Bishop Goes to War
John Gray / Paperback / Talonbooks Ltd 1982
The Birth of Independent Air Power
British Air Policy in the First World War; Malcolm Cooper / Hardcover / Unwin Hyman 1987
Bloody April
Alan Morris / Unknown Binding / Arrow Books
Bloody April...Black SeptemberReview
Norman L.R. Franks, et al / Hardcover / Seven Hills Books 1995
Bomber Pilot, 1916-1918
Charles Philip Oldfeld Bartlett / Unknown Binding / Allan
Bombing Colours: British Bomber Camouflage and Markings, 1914-1937
Bruce Robertson / Unknown Binding / Patrick Stephens
The Books of Miles, Westland, and Bristol AircraftReview
Photographs and views of every Miles, Westland and Bristol aircraft; Unknown Binding / Arno Pr
Brief Glory
The Life of Arthur Rhys Davids, DSO, MC and Bar; Alex Revell / Unknown Binding / Kimber
Bristol : An Aircraft Album
James D. Oughton / Unknown Binding / Allan
Bristol Aircraft Since 1910
C. H. Barnes / Unknown Binding /  Putnam
The Bristol Fighter (Vintage Warbirds, No 4)
J.M. Bruce / Paperback / Stirling Pub 1985
Britain's First Warplanes
J.M. Bruce / Hardcover / Arms & Armour 1988
British Fighter Units, Western Front, 1914-16
Alex Revell / Unknown Binding / Osprey Pub
British Fighter Units, Western Front, 1917-18
Alex Revell / Unknown Binding / Osprey Pub
British Military Aircraft of World War One
The official technical and rigging notes for RFC and RNAS fighting and training aeroplanes, 1914-1918; Unknown Binding / Arms & Armour Pr
British Military Aircraft Serials 1912-1969
Bruce Robertson / Unknown Binding / Allan
Building German Airpower, 1909-1914
John Howard, Morrow / Hardcover / Book World Promo 1976
Camel Drivers
The 17th Aero Squadron in World War I; Otis Lowell Reed, George Roland / Hardcover / Schiffer Pub Ltd 1997
Canadian Airmen and the First World WarSourceReview
The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Volume I; Sydney F. Wise / Hardcover / Univ of Toronto Pr 1980
The Canvas FalconsSource
The Story of the Men and the Planes of World War I; Stephen Longstreet / Unknown Binding / Ballantine Books 1983
Cavalry of the Clouds
Capt. Alan J. Bott / Hardcover / Ayer Co Pub 1972
Classic Aircraft of World War I (Osprey Classic Aircraft)
Melvyn Hiscock, Richard Winslade / Paperback / Osprey Pub 1994
The Clouds Remember
The Aeroplanes of World War I; Leonard Bridgman / Unknown Binding / Arms & Armour
Combat Report
Bill Lambert / Hardcover / Kimber
The Complete Book of FightersReview
An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Every