Listen and read

Step into an infinite world of stories

  • Listen and read as much as you want
  • Over 400 000+ titles
  • Bestsellers in 10+ Indian languages
  • Exclusive titles + Storytel Originals
  • Easy to cancel anytime
Subscribe now
Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Fighter Aces of the R.A.F 1939-1945: A Gripping Compilation of WWII Air War Heroes - The Famous and the Forgotten

3 Ratings

4

Series

1 of 2

Duration
8H 30min
Language
English
Format
Category

History

Only a boy when World War II broke out, E. C. R. Baker was gripped by the stories he heard of heroism in the skies as the Allies defeated the mighty Luftwaffe.

But in the years after the war, he was struck by how few of the RAF's legendary fighter aces could be named by the general public.

Some, whose feats in deadly aerial combat equaled or even surpassed those of the most famous pilots, were virtually unknown.

Baker set out to make this right, devoting many years of research to collecting the personal life stories and combat details of the nearly fifty RAF fighter pilots who each shot down and destroyed more than twenty hostile aircraft.

Compiled with the help of surviving pilots and members of their squadrons, Fighter Aces of the RAF is a riveting and powerful book which combines meticulous historical accuracy with vivid descriptions, and brings some truly great men the recognition they so richly deserved.

© 2022 Tantor Media (Audiobook): 9781666119244

Release date

Audiobook: 1 February 2022

Others also enjoyed ...

  1. Unsung Eagles: True Stories of America’s Citizen Airmen in the Skies of World War II Jay A. Stout
  2. Luftwaffe Aces in the Battle of Britain Chris Goss
  3. The Battle of North Cape: The Death Ride of the Scharnhorst, 1943 Angus Konstam
  4. Red Road From Stalingrad: Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman Mansur Abdulin
  5. The Fall of Fortresses: The Classic Account of One of the Most Daring and Deadly Air Battles of WWII Elmer Bendiner
  6. Duel of Eagles: The Classic Account of the Battle of Britain Peter Townsend
  7. Oswald Boelcke: Germany’s First Fighter Ace and Father of Air Combat BGen R. G. Head
  8. Merlin: The Power Behind the Spitfire, Mosquito and Lancaster: The Story of the Engine That Won the Battle of Britain and WWII Graham Hoyland
  9. Sink the Haguro!: The Last Destroyer Action of the Second World War John Winton
  10. Normandiefront: D-Day to Saint-Lô Through German Eyes Bruce Conner
  11. Burning Steel: A Tank Regiment at War, 1939-45 Peter Hart
  12. Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to Victory Ted Barris
  13. 617 Squadron: The Dambusters at War Tom Bennett
  14. Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod Ray E. Boomhower
  15. Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-Boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic Ed Offley
  16. 82 Days on Okinawa: One American’s Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War’s Greatest Battle Robert L. Wise
  17. Support Troops: Behind the scenes of the air war in Vietnam William Monger
  18. Blood and Soil: The Memoir of A Third Reich Brandenburger Sepp de Giampietro
  19. Tank Battles of the Cold War 1948-1991 Anthony Tucker-Jones
  20. Fallschirm-Panzer Division 'Hermann Göring': A History of the Luftwaffe's Only Armoured Division 1933-1945 Lawrence Paterson
  21. The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance Thomas B. Buell
  22. Bloody Verrieres: The I. SS-Panzerkorps Defence of the Verrieres-Bourguebus Ridges: Volume I: Operations Goodwood and Atlantic, July 18–22, 1944 Arthur W. Gullachsen
  23. Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot Starr Smith
  24. Admiral Bill Halsey: A Naval Life Thomas Alexander Hughes
  25. Commanding the Pacific: Marine Corps Generals in World War II Stephen R. Taaffe
  26. Bloody Verrières: The I. SS-Panzerkorps Defence of the Verrières-Bourguebus Ridges: Volume 2: The Defeat of Operation Spring and the Battles of Tilly-La-Campagne, 23 July – 5 August 1944 Arthur W. Gullachsen
  27. High Tide in the Korean War: How an Outnumbered American Regiment Defeated the Chinese at the Battle of Chipyong-ni Leo Barron
  28. Tidal Wave: From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
  29. The Air War Through German Eyes: How the Luftwaffe Lost the Skies Over the Reich Jonathan Trigg
  30. Lancaster: The Forging of a Very British Legend John Nichol
  31. Otto Kretschmer: The Life of Germany’s Highest Scoring U-Boat Commander Lawrence Paterson
  32. Black Tulip: The Life and Myth of Erich Hartmann, the World's Top Fighter Ace Erik Schmidt
  33. Grey Wolf, Grey Sea: Aboard the German Submarine U-124 in World War II E. B. Gasaway
  34. Enemy Coast Ahead: The Illustrated Memoir of Dambuster Guy Gibson Guy Gibson
  35. The United States Navy in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa Mark E. Stille
  36. Save the Last Bullet: Memoir of a Boy Soldier in Hitler's Army Heidi Langbein-Allen
  37. The Defeat of the Damned: The Destruction of the Dirlewanger Brigade at the Battle of Ipolysag, December 1944 Douglas E. Nash, Sr.
  38. Forgotten War: The British Empire and Commonwealth's Epic Struggle Against Imperial Japan, 1941–1945 Brian E. Walter
  39. Aerial Warfare: The Battle for the Skies Frank Ledwidge
  40. The Wehrmacht's Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945 Robert M. Citino
  41. Ace of Aces: The Incredible Story of Pat Pattle - The Greatest Fighter Pilot of WWII E. C. R. Baker
  42. Vulcan 607 Rowland White
  43. Miracle at Midway Donald M. Goldstein
  44. The Tiger from Poznań Richard Siegert
  45. Gunboat Command: The Biography of Lieutenant Commander Robert Hichens DSO* DSC** RNVR Antony Hitchens
  46. No Greater Valor: The Siege of Bastogne and the Miracle That Sealed Allied Victory Jerome Corsi
  47. We Will Not Go to Tuapse: From the Donets to the Oder with the Legion Wallonie and 5th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade ‘Wallonien’ 1942-45 Fernand Kaisergruber