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Crécy Publishing are one of the premier World War II aviation book publishing companies in Europe. With over 200 titles in their book range, Crécy has a growing reputation informative, well written, historical books. Amongst their book writers are some of the best known names in military history and transport history (including at least three Victoria Cross holders) as well as many other well-known and respected historians and authors.

	A Civilian Affair - Crecy Eduard Friedrich Winkler A Brief History of the Civilian Aircraft Company of Hedon On Monday 2 March 1931, the Hull Daily Mail revealed: "There were many admiring eyes directed at an attractive-looking aeroplane at the Hull Municipal Aerodrome on Sat ...	From £5.99	More Information »
	Above The Battle D-Day The Lost Evidence - Crecy Product description D-Day The Lost Evidence Chris Going and Alun Jones On the night of June 5th 1944, the greatest armada the world has seen sailed into the stormy waters of the English Channel, its goal was no less than the liberation of Occupied Europe ...	From £14.95	More Information »
	Albert Ball VC - Crecy As one of the very first aces in the very first air combat war, the daring exploits of pilot Albert Ball in the 1st World War caught the public imagination like no other. He became possibly the first ‘celebrity’ ace and almost every other pilo ...	From £10.95	More Information »
	Auster - Crecy Barry Ketley largely pictorial volume tracing the history and development of the various marks of Auster light aircraft and its influence upon the birth and development of British Army aviation in, and after, World War II. Never a glamorous machine, but t ...	From £12.99	More Information »
	Bloody Biscay - Crecy The history of V Gruppe/Kampfgeschwader 40 Chris Goss Using personal accounts from both German and Allied survivors, Bloody Biscay relates the initial tribulations of the unit, the height of its success in spring and summer 1943, its battles against overw ...	From £14.95	More Information »
	Bodenplatte - Crecy The Luftwaffe’s Last Hope The Attack on Allied Airfields, New Year’s Day, 1945 John Manrho and Ron Pütz In the early morning of New Year’s Day 1945, as the last great German offensive in Ardennes slowly smouldered to an end and the ...	From £35.00	More Information »
	Chinese Aircraft - Crecy Shrouded in secrecy, output from the Chinese aviation industry was, until recently, largely unknown in the West. In the 1950’s, when communist China and the Soviet Union were on friendly terms the Soviet Union assisted in the setting up of the Peopl ...	From £34.95	More Information »
	De Havilland Mosquito - Vol 1 - Crecy An Illustrated History Volume 1 Stuart Howe The first volume in the two volume set traces the history of the Mosquito from its first flight in November 1940 through to its production and many variants. The aircraft’s varied post-war uses are outline ...	From £14.95	More Information »
	De Havilland Mosquito - Vol 2 - Crecy An Illustrated History - Volume 2 Ian Thirsk ** Now 400 Pages ** A private venture aircraft, the much-loved Mosquito was possibly the most versatile of all British aircraft of World War II. Revolutionary in its wood construction, the de Havilland Mosquito ...	From £19.95	More Information »
	Enemy Coast Ahead-Uncensored - Crecy Enemy Coast Ahead – Uncensored Leader of the Dambusters Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC DSO DFC First published in 1944, Enemy Coast Ahead combines Gibson’s RAF career, including the famous Dambuster raid which he himself led, with the inside sto ...	From £10.95	More Information »
	Evader - Crecy Evader is one of the most remarkable stories ever to come out of WWII. On September 5th, 1943, Denys Teare baled out of his burning Lancaster bomber over Occupied France; and from this moment on became an evader in the midst of the enemy. Continually thwa ...	From £6.99	More Information »
	Eyes for the Phoenix - Crecy Allied Aerial Photo-Reconnaissance Operations in South-East Asia 1942-1945 Geoffrey J Thomas The story of aerial photo-reconnaissance over Europe and the Mediterranean from bases in the United Kingdom is well known. Perhaps even more important in terms of ...	From £22.95	More Information »
	Faith, Hope and Malta - Crecy The most comprehensive account of the Air Forces in Malta during WWII. Malta was a vital base from which Allied aircraft could inflict serious damage on the crucial Axis supply route to Rommel in North Africa. In order to secure that route the might of th ...	From £6.99	More Information »
	Fist from the Sky - Crecy The story of Captain Takashige Egusa the Imperial Japanese Navy’s most illustrious dive-bomber pilot Peter C Smith Takashige Egusa was one of the Imperial Japanese navy’s most skilful and influential leaders in the field of dive-bombing, playi ...	From £19.95	More Information »
	Five Up - Crecy Product description A chronicle of five lives Laddie Lucas In World War II Laddie Lucas became famous as a legendary fighter ace, and at the age of just twenty-six led the top-scoring 249 Squadron during the Battle of Malta. Later he commanded a Spitfire ...	From £7.99	More Information »
	Flights into the Night - Crecy Reminiscences of a World War II RAF Wellington pilot L Anthony Leicester As a young RAF pilot Anthony Leicester’s wartime service took him to Canada, the Middle East, India and Burma as well as Europe. He survived a midair collision in Canada, then, ...	From £7.99	More Information »
	Flying Without Wings - Crecy Before the space shuttle: testing NASA’s wingless aircraft Milton O Thompson and Curtis Peebles Co-written by a pilot-engineer who participated in every phase of NASA’s lifting body program, Flying Without Wings documents the adventure, triump ...	From £19.95	More Information »
	I-400 - Crecy Japan's Secret Aircraft Carrying Strike Submarine by Henry Sakaida, Gary Nila, and Koji Takaki While much has been written about submarine warfare in World War Two, very little information in the English language has surfaced on the awesome Japanese &lsqu ...	From £29.95	More Information »
	If the Gods Are Good - Crecy The Sacrifice of HMS Jervis Bay Gerald L Duskin and Ralph Segman This is the enthralling and, at times, harrowing account of one of the greatest and most heroic naval battles of World War II. On 28th October 1940 HMS Jervis Bay, an ancient cargo ship arme ...	From £10.95	More Information »
	Janusz Zurakowski - Crecy Legend in the Skies Bill Zuk with Janusz Zurakowski The story of Colonel (Squadron Leader) Janusz Zurakowski spans most of the first 50 years of military aviation, in war and peace. Born in Russia at the beginning of the First World War to Polish parents, ...	From £19.95	More Information »
	Keeping Watch - Crecy A Waaf in Bomber Command Pip Beck A sensitively written true story by a RAF Bomber Command wartime R/T operator who talked down the crews on their return from operations, met them off duty and so often, mourned their loss within days. The book sparkles wi ...	From £6.99	More Information »
	KG 200: The Luftwaffe's Most Secret Unit - Crecy Geoffrey J. Thomas & Barry Ketley Shrouded in secrecy and intrigue during its lifetime, KG 200 still remains one of the most fascinating units of the Luftwaffe. Delivering spies while flying captured Allied aircraft, conducting clandestine reconnaissa ...	From £29.95	More Information »
	Knights of the Skies - Crecy Michael C Fox Foreword by Group Captain Billy Drake DSO, DFC & Bar, DFC (US) In June 1940 Billy Drake was shot down in his Hurricane over France when a German cannon shell exploded behind his head. He survived thanks to a sheet of armour. Had he been ...	From £19.95	More Information »
	Latin American Air Wars - Crecy The aircraft were colourful and their crews were often courageous - but virtually unknown beyond the South American Continent. Throughout the first 70 years of practical flight in Latin America, obscure designs carried the colours and markings of many nat ...	From £34.95	More Information »
	Luftwaffe Aerial Torpedo Aircraft and Operations - Crecy Luftwaffe Aerial Torpedo Aircraft and Operations in World War Two by Harold Thiele This fascinating book offers a rare account into the operations of the Luftwaffe’s aerial torpedo units during the Second World War. Often overlooked, the crews who f ...	From £19.99	More Information »
	Luftwaffe Bombers’ Battle of Britain - Crecy The inside story: July-October 1940 The story of how the outnumbered RAF fought and defeated the superior Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain will always be a source of fascination. However, accounts of summer 1940 have tended to centre on the British d ...	From £19.95	More Information »
	Luftwaffe Colours 1935 - 1945 - Crecy Much has been written about the Luftwaffe but no aspect has been more controversial than the question of camouflage and markings of the aircraft. In this comprehensive study, the author follows the development and use of many colours used and establish ...	From £34.95	More Information »
	Luftwaffe Fighter-Bombers over Britain - Crecy The Tip and Run Campaign, 1942-1943 Chris Goss with Peter Cornwell and Bernd Rauchbach As the Battle of Britain came to a close, the Luftwaffe began arming its single-engined fighters with bombs, using them in preference to twin-engined bombers against ma ...	From £24.95	More Information »
	Luftwaffe Seaplanes 1939-1945 - Crecy An Illustrated History Chris Goss with Bernd Rauchbach Luftwaffe Seaplanes presents a fascinating pictorial account of the Luftwaffe’s sea and floatplanes between 1939 and 1945 and in the years immediately preceding the war. The volume combines near ...	From £15.99	More Information »
	Making for Sweden - Part 2 The United States Army Air Force - Crecy Wegman and Widfelt For many airmen Sweden offered the only hope of refuge when their aircraft were unable to make the flight back to Britain. The case of each individual landing in the country or its coastal waters is featured in remarkable detail, each a ...	From £24.95	More Information »
	MiGS over North Vietnam - Crecy Until now the day to day working and opinions of the Vietnamese Peoples’ Air Force (VPAF) has remained relatively unknown. For the first time the author focuses on the pilots and, using rare first-hand accounts and many new photographs analyses thei ...	From £29.95	More Information »
	Mission 376 - Crecy Battle over the Reich: 28 May 1944 Ivo de Jong Some of the bombing missions of the US Eighth Air Force in World War II, such as Schweinfurt and Berlin, have become legendary for one reason or another. Yet in the course of the war there were many others; m ...	From £29.95	More Information »
	Mosquito Pathfinder - Crecy Navigating ninety WWII ‘ops’ Albert and Ian Smith Having suffered the devastating effects of the Manchester blitz, sixteen year old Salford lad Albert Smith signed up to join the RAF not thinking he would be lucky enough to complete 90 operati ...	From £7.99	More Information »
	Night Fighter - Crecy CF Rawnsley and Robert Wright Once the day fighters had saved Britain from invasion, it fell to the night fighters to save her cities from destruction. At the beginning, interception by night proved virtually impossible, particularly, as the German bomber ...	From £5.99	More Information »
	No Moon Tonight - Crecy Don Charlwood A Bomber Command classic depicting the deep feelings associated with the human cost of the air war in World War II. This is the breathtaking story of a wartime bomber crew facing the hazards of bombing strongly defended targets. A navigator ...	From £6.99	More Information »
	Pathfinder - Crecy A war autobiography Air Vice-Marshal Don Bennett CB, CBE, DSO Air Vice-Marshal Don Bennett was one of the most outstanding figures of the 2nd World War and the creator and leader of the legendary Pathfinder Force of 8 Group. His record as a brilliant pilo ...	From £5.99	More Information »
	Pure Luck - Crecy Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales An authorised biography of Sir Thomas Sopwith, 1888-1989 Alan Bramson Sir Thomas Sopwith’s 101-year life spanned aviation history. A contemporary of the Wright Brothers, he went on to become a highly successful ae ...	From £10.95	More Information »
	RAF & RCAF Aircraft Nose Art in World War II - Crecy Clarence Simonsen Military aircraft decorated with gaudy personalised artwork, usually of the ribald and risque variety, are generally associated with American bombers and fighters, most of which flew by day. In contrast, those of their allies in the RAF ...	From £29.95	More Information »
	Rear Gunner Pathfinders - Crecy A Bomber Command book with a difference, the story of the air war over Germany as seen from the small Perspex bubble of a ‘Tail-End Charlie’ rear gunner in a Lancaster. Flying firstly with 626 squadron, and later 156 Pathfinder squadron, Ron S ...	From £6.99	More Information »
	Rise and Defend - Crecy Duncan Curtis Taken over by the United States Air Force in 1950 as a direct result of the developing chill of the Cold War, the ex-RAF station at Manston in Kent served as a forward air base from which American aircraft could be rapidly deployed to meet t ...	From £29.95	More Information »
	Rolling Thunder - Crecy John T Smith A fully detailed history of the Vietnam air campaign from both the airmen and the politician’s point of view. Paperback, 212mm x 142mm For more Crecy products click here	From £15.95	More Information »
	Selected for Aircrew - Crecy James Hampton The only survivor of three brothers in Bomber Command, James Hampton set out to explain to younger generations what life was really like for the men. A hard hitting and thought provoking book about life in Bomber Command.  376 pages, p ...	From £14.95	More Information »
	SHADOWS - Crecy Lft and Airwar in Biafra and Nigeria 1967-1970 Michael I. Draper The Nigerian Civil War broke out in 1967 after the country's Eastern Region declared itself the independent state of Biafra. It lasted for nearly three years. Of the many conflicts and wars ...	From £29.95	More Information »
	Shark Squadron - Crecy Robin Brown The complete history, from Sopwith Camels in WWI, through desert warfare in WWII, to postwar Hunters, still with the famous ‘shark’s mouth’ markings. 300 pages, hardback, 212mm x 175mm b&w photographs throughout For mor ...	From £24.99	More Information »
	Sigh for a Merlin - Crecy Testing the Spitfire Alex Henshaw The enthralling account of Alex Henshaw’s life with the Spitfire. Alex Henshaw spent the early days of World War II at Eastleigh, England, testing the immortal Spitfire fighter with Jeffrey Quill before being appoin ...	From £10.95	More Information »
	Spitfire – A Test Pilot’s Story - Crecy Jeffrey Quill This is the story of an exceptional test pilot and RAF and Fleet Air Arm pilot, Jeffrey Quill, who took charge of some of the most important military aircraft of his time. Starting with lively descriptions of the Royal Air Force in the mid 1 ...	From £10.95	More Information »
	Spitfires and Yellow Tail Mustangs - Crecy The 52nd Fighter Group in World War Two Tom Ivie and Paul Ludwig The USAAF 52nd Fighter Group enjoyed an outstanding record in World War II, yet despite flying two of the world's most famous fighter aircraft, to date its story has never been told. Activat ...	From £29.95	More Information »
	Straight Down! - Crecy The North American A-36 divebomber in action Peter C Smith “When we speak of dive-bombing we mean straight down...right down the smokestack. If your airplane doesn’t stand on its nose and lay eggs in their lap, then you are not dive-bombing.&r ...	From £19.95	More Information »
	Task Force 57 - Crecy The British Pacific Fleet, 1944-45 Peter C Smith Formed in 1944 the British Pacific Fleet was to fight alongside the Americans and so was given an American codename – Task Force 57. But the Pacific theatre was unlike anything the British had experie ...	From £10.95	More Information »
	The Bristol Blenheim - Crecy A Complete History Graham Warner Fully revised with over 700 new and updated entries. First published in 2002 to enormous critical acclaim The Bristol Blenheim draws on Graham Warner’s unparalleled knowledge of this remarkable aircraft. A former Ble ...	From £34.95	More Information »
	The Fw200 Condor - Crecy Jerry Scutts Born of an idea suggested by the Japanese Navy to arm Germany’s elegant Fw 200 Condor airliner for a maritime reconnaissance role, the Luftwaffe’s long range Condor proved it’s worth in the first years of World War II. A pra ...	From £29.95	More Information »
	The Hawker Hunter - Crecy Tim McLelland’s Hawker Hunter is both a comprehensive work of reference and an authoritative history. It covers the origins of the aircraft from both the P1040 and P1052 swept-wing versions and moves through design and development of the twin-seat d ...	From £29.95	More Information »
	The Long Drag - Crecy Don Evans Flight Recorder's latest title called The Long Drag is out now. Subtitled 'A Short History of British Target Towing', it has already been voted Book of the Month in its very first review! Written by Don Evans, who joined the RAF in 1942 and serv ...	From £9.99	More Information »
	The Platypus Papers - Crecy Michael Bird (a.k.a. Platypus) For 40 years Platypus, Sailplane & Gliding magazine's star writer by his own admission, has been entertaining gliding enthusiasts (with some success) as well as lecturing and admonishing them (with no success whatever) i ...	From £19.95	More Information »
	The Stirling Story - Crecy Michael JF Bowyer Developed, tested and brought into service in the first desperate years of the Second World War, the arrival of the first British fourengined ‘heavy’ bomber of the Second World War marked a turning point in the aerial warfare ...	From £24.99	More Information »
	The Tiger Moth Story - Crecy Alan Bramson 'A must-read classic' Pilot Magazine The Tiger Moth is one of the major aviation success stories. Developed by Geoffrey de Havilland during the early 1930s and flown for the first time on 26 October 1931, the biplane became the most important ...	From £24.95	More Information »
	The Warlords - Crecy Barry and Ann Money Intended to be the first of a series of books which will illustrate, in colour, every US Eighth Air Force fighter aircraft of World War II for which photographic evidence can be found. Not just the machines of the well-known aces, whic ...	From £17.95	More Information »
	The Whitley Boys - Crecy 4 Group Bomber Operations 1939-1940 GL “Larry” Donnelly DFM A graphic account of the hardships faced by the crews who flew Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys in the early stages of the war. Hardback, 210mm x 140mm 245 pages For more Crecy products ...	From £19.95	More Information »
	Uncommon Valour - Crecy AG Goulding DFM A comprehensive account of Bomber Command’s part in the Second World War, together with a personal view of the leadership of the force in those crucial years.  192 pages, ‘B’ format paperback B&w photograph sect ...	From £4.99	More Information »
	We Landed by Moonlight - Crecy Hugh Verity For most of the 2nd World War the RAF flew small aircraft into Occupied France at night, landing and taking off in total secrecy. Their mission was to transport agents to and from France to support the activities of the French Resistance and S ...	From £10.95	More Information »
	WEKUSTA: Luftwaffe Weather Reconnaissance Units - Crecy John A. Kington & Franz Selinger This book lifts the curtain on a largely unknown or forgotten World War II activity involving highly educated German atmospheric scientists and pilots in the so-called Wetter-Erkundungs Staffeln (Wekusta - Meteorologic ...	From £34.99	More Information »
	Wellington Wings - Crecy An RAF Intelligence Officer in the Western Desert F R Chappell Based on the diaries of the 205 Group intelligence officer who paints a realistic picture of the desert atmosphere. Revealing the tension during the nights when the Wellingtons were away on mi ...	From £15.95	More Information »
	Wing Leader - Crecy AVM ‘Johnnie’ Johnson The thrilling story of the topscoring Allied fighter pilot of the 2nd World War ‘Johnnie’ Johnson, who served with Fighter Command squadrons throughout the war, scoring his 38th and final victory in September ...	From £7.99	More Information »
	Winged Odyssey - Crecy Mary, Duchess of Bedford Lettice Curtis Mary du Caurroy, Duchess of Bedford, wife of the 11th Duke took her first flight in 1926 at the ripe old age of 61. The following year both Mary and her trusted pilot, Charles Barnard, set off in her Cirrus Moth bip ...	From £14.95	More Information »
	Winged Warfare - Crecy William Avery (‘Billy’) Bishop VC, DSO MC ‘Billy’ Bishop was one of the greatest fighter pilots of World War I and possibly one of the highest scoring fighter aces of all time. In just six weeks during April and May 1917 he shot do ...	From £10.95	More Information »
	Wings Aflame - Crecy The biography of Group Captain Victor Beamish DSO and Bar, DFC, AFC Doug Stokes The acclaimed biography of Victor Beamish, the legendary Irish station commander during the Battle of Britain, who flew more operational sorties than the much younger men unde ...	From £5.99	More Information »
	Wings Over Georgia - Crecy Jack Currie DFC Forerunner to the best-selling Lancaster Target, Wings Over Georgia is the story of Jack Currie’s entry into the RAF, his early UK training and his initial training with the US Army Air Corps under the Arnold Scheme. This eventually ...	From £3.99	More Information »
	Wrecks & Relics - 21st Edition - Crecy How many exhibits are there at Duxford? Where did Cosford’s ‘Cold War’ exhibition get its aircraft from? What happened to the RAF’s Jaguars? Where can I see a Constellation? How do I discover the aviation heritage of the South-West ...	From £17.95	More Information »