Downing the ‘red devil’: a different perspective

V-Force: Britain’s Nuclear Bombers

In 2015, the veteran author, Frederick Forsyth, by then aged 76, unleashed his latest spellbinding adventure. The opening sentences of the latest volume from the man who had already produced such clas

To mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, John Eskdale and other survivors share their harrowing memories of war and stories of hope

THIS MOVING BIOGRAPHY OF AN ‘UNKNOWN’ WWII RAF FIGHTER ACE CHARTS DESMOND IBBOTSON’S CAREER, THE STORY ENDING WITH A TWIST WHEN HIS REMAINS ARE DISCOVERED IN ITALY IN 2005

The failed high-altitude fighter that proved crucial to the liberation of Europe as a deadly ground-attack aircraft

The Royal Air Force was formed in the last year of the First World War. And by the time that the guns fell silent at the end of the Second World War, it had grown to almost one million serving personn