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24 titles for readers of Twelve Days in May by Brian Cull, selected for shared themes: Aviation & Space, World War II, Wars & Conflicts, and Military.

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Pacific Air How Fearless Flyboys, Peerless Aircraft, and Fast Flattops Conquered the Skies in the War with Japan — David Sears

Pacific Air How Fearless Flyboys, Peerless Aircraft, and Fast Flattops Conquered the Skies in the War with Japan

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

I Will Run Wild The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway — Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

I Will Run Wild The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Hell on Earth Dramatic First-Hand Experiences of Bomber Command at War — Mel Rolfe

Hell on Earth Dramatic First-Hand Experiences of Bomber Command at War

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Finish Forty and Home The Untold World War II Story of B-24s in the Pacific — Phil Scearce

Finish Forty and Home The Untold World War II Story of B-24s in the Pacific

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

British Secret Projects 4 Bombers 1935-1950 — Tony Buttler

British Secret Projects 4 Bombers 1935-1950

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Spitfire, Mustang and the ‘Meredith Effect’ How a Soviet Spy Helped Change the Course of WWII — Peter Spring

Spitfire, Mustang and the ‘Meredith Effect’ How a Soviet Spy Helped Change the Course of WWII

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

‘D-Day Dakotas’ 6th June, 1944 — Martin W. Bowman

‘D-Day Dakotas’ 6th June, 1944

Martin W. Bowman

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Corregidor 1945 Repossessing the Rock — Mark Lardas

Corregidor 1945 Repossessing the Rock

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Engineers of Victory The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War — Paul M. Kennedy

Engineers of Victory The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War

Paul M. Kennedy

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

South China Sea 1945 Task Force 38’s Bold Carrier Rampage in Formosa, Luzon, and Indochina — Mark Lardas

South China Sea 1945 Task Force 38’s Bold Carrier Rampage in Formosa, Luzon, and Indochina

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Flying Into Hell The Bomber Command Offensive as Seen Through the Experiences of Twenty Crews — Mel Rolfe

Flying Into Hell The Bomber Command Offensive as Seen Through the Experiences of Twenty Crews

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Dogfight Over Tokyo The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II — John Wukovits

Dogfight Over Tokyo The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Hill The Brutal Fight for Hill 107 in the Battle of Crete — Robert Kershaw

The Hill The Brutal Fight for Hill 107 in the Battle of Crete

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

1 Group Swift to Attack : Bomber Command’s Unsung Heroes — Patrick Otter

1 Group Swift to Attack : Bomber Command’s Unsung Heroes

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Last Mission of Lady Jane II The Life and Death of an 8th Air Force B-17 and Her Crew — Lisa A. Vans

The Last Mission of Lady Jane II The Life and Death of an 8th Air Force B-17 and Her Crew

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Strike Hard A Bomber Airfield at War : RAF Downham Market and Its Squadrons, 1942-1946 — John B. Hilling

Strike Hard A Bomber Airfield at War : RAF Downham Market and Its Squadrons, 1942-1946

John B. Hilling

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

B-17s Over Berlin Personal Stories from the 95th Bomb Group (H) — Ian L. Hawkins

B-17s Over Berlin Personal Stories from the 95th Bomb Group (H)

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Operation Barbarossa 1941 The Luftwaffe Opens the Eastern Front Campaign — William E. Hiestand

Operation Barbarossa 1941 The Luftwaffe Opens the Eastern Front Campaign

William E. Hiestand

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Damned Hunchbacks Italy’s Forgotten Torpedo Bomber Units of the Second World War (1940-1943) — Paolo Morisi

Damned Hunchbacks Italy’s Forgotten Torpedo Bomber Units of the Second World War (1940-1943)

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Damn Lucky One Man’s Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History — Kevin Maurer

Damn Lucky One Man’s Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Beaufighter Boys True Tales from Those Who Flew Bristol’s Mighty Twin — Graham Pitchfork

Beaufighter Boys True Tales from Those Who Flew Bristol’s Mighty Twin

Graham Pitchfork

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Jayhawk Love, Loss, Liberation, and Terror Over the Pacific — Jay A. Stout

Jayhawk Love, Loss, Liberation, and Terror Over the Pacific

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

The Four Geniuses of the Battle of Britain Watson-Watt, Henry Royce, Sydney Camm and RJ Mitchell — David Coles

The Four Geniuses of the Battle of Britain Watson-Watt, Henry Royce, Sydney Camm and RJ Mitchell

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Bomber Command – Operation Hurricane The Story of Those Who Flew, Fought, and Failed to Return on 14 and 15 October 1944 — Marc Hall

Bomber Command – Operation Hurricane The Story of Those Who Flew, Fought, and Failed to Return on 14 and 15 October 1944

Themes: Aviation & Space • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

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