An A to Z of Second World War RAF Fighter Command airfields, with full details of user squadrons and units. Also includes first-hand accounts, details of command organisation, frontline squadron battle orders, and training units. 

An examination of the life and career of one of the most influential and controversial of all British engineers – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, whose triumphs include the first tunnel under the Thames and the Great Western Railway.

Ian Allan, 1993
ISBN 0 7110 2175 9 out of print

Ian Allan, 1995
ISBN 0 7110 2305 0 out of print

A unique bibliographical and media guide to the exploits of RAF Bomber Command 1939–45 setting on record much of what has been written, filmed and sound recorded between 1939 and 1996.

Drawing on exclusive interviews with the men and women who built the Stirling and those who flew it into battle with the RAF, the history of the Short Stirling is brought vividly to life. 

Sutton, 1996
ISBN 0 7509 1294 4 out of print

Sutton, 1997
ISBN 0 7509 1063 1 out of print

Sutton, 2007
ISBN 0 7509 47589

Who were the Spitfire and Hurricane pilots of the Battle of Britain in 1940? How did they spend a typical day? Pitched together in combat, which was the better machine – Spitfire or Me109?

The life and times of an RAF Second World War heavy bomber crew, including a description of a typical night raid, flying kit, bombs, defensive armament and equipment carried.

Exclusive interviews with director Michael Anderson and editor Richard Best, and the RAF aircrew who flew the Lancasters in the film tell the fascinating story of the making of this cinematic epic.

Previously published in 1991 as Stirling at War, this redesigned edition tells the story of the Stirling in the words of the factory workers that built it, the groundcrews who serviced it and the aircrews who flew it.

Pocket-size appreciation of one of the greatest true stories of the Second World War: the daring attack on the Ruhr dams by RAF Lancasters of 617 Squadron in May 1943. 

Sutton, 2002 

ISBN 0 7509 2974 X out of print

Sutton, 2006
ISBN 0 7509 4114 6 out of print

Bed & Bolster, 2009
ISBN 0 9563423 0 0

Shire, 2010
ISBN 0 74780 796 4

Bed & Bolster, 2010
ISBN 0 9563 423 1 7

More than 200 fascinating colour photographs tell the Concorde story, from genesis through to design and first flights, and from service with British Airways and Air France to eventual retirement in 2003.

Combining RAF Bomber and Fighter Airfields of World War 2 in a fully revised and re-illustrated new edition with the addition of Coastal Command bases to give full coverage of all RAF frontline airfields and bases from 1939 to 1945.

Haynes, 2010
ISBN 978 1 84425 867 3 out of print

Haynes, 2012
ISBN 1 84425 529 0 out of print

Insights into the design, construction, science and purpose behind some of the innovative machines, systems and structures that were used by the Allies on D-Day and after, including swimming tanks, Mulberry harbour, Gee and advance airfield building.

A celebration of the engineering projects and lasting legacy that I.K. Brunel has contributed to Britain’s cultural heritage. Includes coverage of the complete range of Brunel’s works.

Insights into the design, construction and anatomy of the RAF’s Halifax bomber, including its combat career, how it was flown and maintained, and Halifax survivors S-Sugar (1973) and Canada’s rebuilt Mk VII in 1995.

Midland Publishing 2012 ISBN 1 85780 349 5

Haynes, 2015 

ISBN 0 85733 791 7

The top 100 technical innovations that span the RAF’s 100-year history supported by more than 300 photographs and illustrations – everything from the Gosport speaking tube of 1917 to the futuristic Striker Helmet of 2017.

Classic Osprey ‘Combat Aircraft’ series account of the RAF squadrons that flew the Short Stirling in combat in the Second World War. Includes 24 exclusive colour profile artworks of individual aircraft.

Haynes, 2016 

ISBN 1 78521 067 9

Haynes, 2017 

ISBN 1 78521 084 6

The design, construction and operation of the feared Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber, including its combat history, insights into what it was like to fly and maintain, and surviving Ju 87s worldwide.

Insights into the organisation of the wartime Command and how it went about bringing Germany to its knees – includes chapters on airfield building, aircraft and crews, tactics, finding the missing and the Luftwaffe opposition.

Osprey, 2018 

ISBN 1 4728 2042 6

Haynes, 2018 

ISBN 1 78521 141 6

D-Day 75th anniversary edition including a new chapter on navy frogmen and army demolition engineers who landed with the first assault troops to clear the beaches of mines and obstacles. With a foreword by Major General Stuart Watson CBE.

The 1620 voyage of the Pilgrim Fathers to the New World, early settler life in New England, including a look at the early settlers in America, sea travel in the 17th century, and the Mayflower II replica.

Haynes, 2018 

ISBN 1 78521 192 8

With Allan Burney

With David Falconer

With David Falconer

Sutton, 1999
ISBN 0 7509 1995 7 out of print

Sutton, 2000
ISBN 0 7509 2442 X out of print

Illustrated with a wealth of archive photographs, A Century of Bath was published in 1999 to mark the millennium and recalls what the city has lost in terms of buildings, traditions and ways of life.

Insights into the design, construction and anatomy of the legendary ‘Wooden Wonder’, including its combat career, how it was flown and maintained, and how Mosquitoes are being restored and returned to the air in the 21st century.

With David Falconer

Sutton, 2001
ISBN 0 7509 2672 4 out of print

With Brian Rivas

Haynes, 2013
ISBN 0 85733 360 5

2018

Biography of the author’s grandfather who served as an engineer officer in the RAF from 1923 until 1957, including service with the Schneider Trophy team (1927–31) and the PRU at Benson in WW2.

2018

Centenary commemorative booklet describing life in Bradford-on-Avon during the Great War, the hundreds of men who volunteered or were conscripted, the Red Cross hospital, food rationing, the Spanish Flu pandemic, and war casualties.

2020

The story of a wartime tragedy in the West Country town of Bradford-on-Avon in 1944 when a Halifax bomber crashed after a routine training flight went wrong. Includes an interview with the sole survivor.

Articles

Over the years Jonathan has been a contributor to the specialist aviation press including the now defunct Aircraft Illustrated and Armed Forces magazines, and more recently Aeroplane Monthly, FlyPast and Britain at War.

Among his more recent articles have been mini-biographies of two of the greatest RAF photo-reconnaissance pilots of the Second World War, Squadron Leader John Merifield (FlyPast, March 2015) and Wing Commander Steve Steventon (Britain at War, April 2018).