My library just grew again 2015...

[Rheged]

I received last week and am actively reading (very interesting): Engines of war, by Wolmar Christian, about the influence of railways on war logistics and strategy.

Agreed!  I read my younger son (the military history graduate's)  copy.  An excellent review of railway  wartime logistics and strategy.

I moved house last year, and am now unpacking the mountain of  book boxes (after painting, fitting heating, organising a woodburning stove, sorting out a clear glass door on the bathroom that looked straight at the "throne"----honestly!)   and it's not so much library growing as being rediscovered.    Current gems are  three  volumes  of "Aircraft of the Fighting Powers"  volumes 2, 3 and 4   and a small box of C O I  wartime propaganda booklets.  More rediscovered gems to be reported later. 

[The Chaos]

Oooooh, some nice oddities there.    What are the two space ships from?

The 2 space ships are from space battleship yamato.

[seadude]

Picked up at Barnes & Noble earlier this week:  "The Ultimate Flying Wings of the Luftwaffe" by Justo Miranda. It's a new book that came out this year. Very nice with lots of individual chapters for tons of various flying wing designs from Arado to Lippisch and everything in between. Though sadly, the book does lack the following:
No index.
No bibliography.
Missing some flying wing designs like the Arado E.555.
Very short history text and specifications for each flying wing design described in the book.
No historical photographs of any flying wing designs/prototypes, etc.

Best thing I have to say about the book is all the blueprint line drawings of all the flying wing designs. Very nicely detailed.    On a scale of 1 to 5, I'll give this book a 3 or 3 1/2.

[Steel Penguin]

rivers of London : body work  part one  a comic based on the Peter Grant novels,  magic, river goddess, and the Met police.  lovely look and well in keeping with the books

[The Wooksta!]

Amongst various other books (can't remember the authors' names):

UFO Down!  The Berwynn Mountain crash
UFO Crash at Aztec
The Aztec Flying Saucer Affair (very slim volume - already finished!)
The Maury Island Affair
UFO Scotland
Hitler's Pope: Pius XII
Germany's Last Mission to Japan: The Failed Voyage of U234

Really want to get some of the Wilson & Blackett books on Arthur, but funds are running low.

[lancer]

Amongst various other books (can't remember the authors' names):

UFO Down!  The Berwynn Mountain crash
UFO Crash at Aztec
The Aztec Flying Saucer Affair (very slim volume - already finished!)
The Maury Island Affair
UFO Scotland
Hitler's Pope: Pius XII
Germany's Last Mission to Japan: The Failed Voyage of U234

Really want to get some of the Wilson & Blackett books on Arthur, but funds are running low.

It's nice to know someone else who knows about Wilson and Blackett. I've yet to get thier books but I've seen them a lot on Richplanet.

[Spey_Phantom]

2 new additions to the library:

-Buck Danny #45: Black Sea Sharks
-Buck Danny #53: Black Cobra

[NARSES2]

The Kamikaze Hunters. Story of the BPF's fighter pilots.

Always interested in the BPF. Dad was a gunner aboard a couple of the carriers - when one was replaced and came home he stayed  - and may well have known some of these guys at least in passing

[The Wooksta!]

Really want to get some of the Wilson & Blackett books on Arthur, but funds are running low.

It's nice to know someone else who knows about Wilson and Blackett. I've yet to get thier books but I've seen them a lot on Richplanet.

That's where I found them.  Highly intriguing if true.  I'm pretty sure that they live about a mile away from me and I'm sure I went past the house a week or so back.

[NARSES2]

In Smiths and noticed a new bookazine - Spitfires Over Berlin - The Air War in Europe 1945.

Looks very interesting and if you have an interest in the last months of the air war in Europe I'd suggest you take a look. At £6.99 excellent value. The full list of captured aircraft given AM numbers is worth a couple of quid alone 

[Captain Canada]

I grabbed the new VC-10 mag from Key. Lovely. Love that aero and there is so much I don't know about her.

[Mossie]

Aerial Firefighting by Wolfgang Jendsch.  Thanks to loupgarou for the recomendation.

A hefty tome, fills some gaps in my other books that mostly cover the US and the WWII era fire bomber conversions.  This book concentrates more on the current era and while a large chunk of it covers the US, there's a good amount from the rest of the world.  Helicopters get a strong mention too, my other books almost completely ignore them.

[McColm]

Picked up a copy of Aeroplanes Illustrated, Aviation Archive- Flying boats of WWII.
Covers the usual flying boats with cutaway , colour profiles, black and white photos.
I'll be adding a few of the mentioned flying boats to the stash in 1/72 scale.

[Steel Penguin]

the long mars,  in paperback   looking forward to a quiet read of this.

[Thorvic]

Managed to pick up a copy of the Model Alliance On Target special profile book on the Battle of Britain 70th. Realised I didn't have much in the way of Battle of Britain references, not bad as covers the pre-war, phoney war, Norway, France and then the Battle itself, plus the Italian element and even the FAA of the period