Book List for Parachute Regiment & Airborne Forces
Posted: Sun 10 Feb, 2008 10:15 pm
Parachute Regiment/Airborne Forces - General
Pegasus - The Journal of the Parachute Regiment & Airborne Forces (1946- Present)
Para! 50 Years of the Parachute Regiment - by Peter Harclerode
The PARAS: The inside story of Britains toughest Regiment - by John Parker
PARA - Inside the Parachute Regiment - by Claire Gilman
PARAS - An Illustrated History of Britains Airborne Forces - by David Reynolds
The Making of a PARA - by Rory Bridson
The Red Devils: Red On, Green On - Go! - by Graham Smith
First in! Parachute Pathfinder Company - by Ron Kent
The PARAS Ultimate Fitness - by Claire Gilman
The PARAS: 50 Years of Courage - A tribute to the Airborne Forces - by David Reynolds
Uniforms Illustrated No 10: The PARAS: The British Parachute Regiment - by James G. Shortt
The PARAS: The Story of the Parachute Regiment - by Theodore Rowland-Entwhistle
Paras: The Untold Story of the Birth of the Parachute Regiment - by Bill Buckingham
Ready for Anything: Parachute Regiment at War, 1940-82 - by Julian Thompson
THE RED DEVILS' (FROM BRUNEVAL TO THE FALKLANDS) - BY G.G. NORTON
The PARAS - by Frank Hilton
Rapid Reaction Forces - by Patrick Allen
ASSAULT FROM THE SKY: A HISTORY OF AIRBORNE WARFARE - by John Weeks
The Airborne Soldier - by John Weeks
Out of the Sky: a history of airborne warfare - by Michael Hickey
Airborne Warfare 1918 -1945 - by Barry Gregory and John Batchelor
AIRBORNE ASSAULT: PARACHUTE FORCES IN ACTION 1940-91 - By BRUCE QUARRIE
Wings Of War: Airborne Warfare 1918-1945 - by Peter Harclerode
Urquhart of Arnhem: The Life of Major General R.E.Urquhart, C.B., D.S.O. - by John Baynes
Nearly There: Autobiography of John Frost of Arnhem Bridge - by John Frost
WWII
General
Airborne: World War II Paratroopers in Combat - by Julie Guard
Devils and Eagles in Normandy 1944: American, British and Canadian Airborne Forces in Normandy - by Carl Shilleto
German
It Never Snows in September: The German View of Market-Garden and the Battle of Arnhem September 1944 - by Robert J. Kershaw
Storming Eagles: German Airborne Forces in World War Two - by James Lucas
German Airborne Divisions: Northwest Europe 1944-45 (Battle Orders) - by Bruce Quarrie
German Airborne Divisions: Mediterranean Theatre 1942-45 (Battle Orders) - by Bruce Quarrie
German Airborne Troops - by Roger Edwards
German Paratroopers: The Illustrated History of the Fallschirmjager in World War II - Chris Mcnab
The 1st Fallschirmjager Division in World War II: Years of Attack v. 1 - by Ben Christensen
The 1st Fallschirmjager Division in World War II: Years of Retreat v. 2 - by Ben Christensen
Fallschirmjagers: Eastern Front 1941-43: Vol 1 (Archive Series) - by Remy Spezzano
The Battle of Crete - by George Forty
The Fall of Crete - by Alan Clark
Fallschirmjager in Crete, 1941: The Merkur Operation - by Jean-Yves Nasse
Fallschirmjager: Portraits of German Paratroops in Combat - by Radovic Branislav
Fallschirmjager in Action (Weapons in Action Series) - by Uwe Feist
German Paratroops: Uniforms, Insignia and Equipment of the Fallschirmjager in World War II (Schiffer Military History) - by Robert Kurtz
Fallschirmjager: Storming the Gran Sasso- the Liberation of Mussolini - 12 September 1943 - by Oscar Lopez
British & Commonwealth
THE CREATION & DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH AIRBORNE FORCES 1941-45 - by Dr W. Buckingham
British Airborne Troops - by Barry Gregory
WITHOUT TRADITION: 2 PARA 1941 - 1945 - by Robert Peatling
Red Beret: Story of the Parachute Regiment, 1939-45 - by Hilary St George Saunders
The Bruneval Raid - by George Millar
Green Devils - Red Devils: Untold Tales of the Airborne Forces in WWII - by Edmund L Blandford
Red Berets into Normandy: 6th Airborne Division's Assault into Normandy D-Day 1944 - by Sir Huw Weldon
The Day the Devils Dropped in: The 9th Parachute Battalion in Normandy D-Day to D+6: Merville Battery to the Chateau St Come - by Neil Barber
Operation Tonga: Pegasus Bridge and the Merville Battery (Elite Ops) - by Jon Cooksey
Red Devils: The 6th Airborne Division at Normandy: 6th British Paras, 5-6 June 1944 - by Georges Bernage
Devils Own Luck: Pegasus Bridge to the Baltic 1944-45 - by Denis Edwards
The Pegasus Diaries: The Private Papers of Major John Howard DSO - by John Howard
Bounce The Rhine: The Greatest Airborne Operation in History - by Charles Whiting
The Silken Canopy - by Major Victor Dover MC
By Air to Battle: The Official Account of the British Airborne Divisions - HMSO 1945
WITH THE 6TH AIRBORNE DIVISION IN NORMANDY - BY LT GEN R N GALE
Go to It!: An Illustrated History of the 6th Airborne Division - by Peter Harclerode
Pegasus Bridge D-Day: The Daring British Airborne Raid - by Stephen E. Ambrose
Operation Market Garden Then and Now: v. 1 (Then & Now) - by Karel Margry
Operation Market Garden Then and Now: v. 2 (Then & Now) - by Karel Margry
No Surrender at Arnhem - by Robert Peatling
AIRBORN CARPET: OPERATION MARKET GARDEN - by ANTHONY FARRAR-HOCKLEY
A DROP TOO MANY - BY MAJOR GENERAL JOHN FROST CB, DSO, MC
With Pegasus In India: Story Of 153rd Gurkha Parachute Battalion
A BRIDGE TOO FAR - by CORNELIUS RYAN
A Bridge At Arnhem - by Charles Whiting
I Was a Stranger - by General Sir John Hackett
Men At Arnhem - by Tom Angus
ARNHEM 1944 - by William F. Buckingham
ARNHEM SPEARHEAD: A Private Soldier's Story - by JAMES SIMS
The Devils Birthday: The Bridges to Arnhem 1944 - by Geoffrey Powell
Return Ticket - by Anthony Deane-Drummond
Arnhem 1944: Operation Market Garden - by Stephen Badsey
ARNHEM: A TRAGEDY OF ERRORS - by PETER HARCLERODE
ARNHEM - BY MAJOR GENERAL R E URQUHART
In the Shadow of Arnhem- by Ken Tout
Arnhem: The Landing Grounds and Oosterbeek (Battleground Europe) - by Frank Steer
Arnhem: The Bridge (Battleground Europe) - by Frank Steer
Arnhem: The Fight to Sustain - by Frank Steer
Arnhem 1944: The Airborne Battle, 17-26 September - by Martin Middlebrook
Every Man an Emperor: The Battle of Arnhem/Oosterbeek 17th-25th September 1944 - by Gerry Leaper
THE BATTLE FOR THE RHINE 1944: ARNHEM AND THE ARDENNES : THE CAMPAIGN IN EUROPE - by ROBIN NEILLANDS
The Last Drop: Operation Varsity, March 24-25, 1945 - by by Stephen L Wright
Operation Plunder and Varsity: The British and Canadian Rhine Crossing (Battleground Europe) - by Tim Saunders
The History of the Glider Pilot Regiment: An Official History - by Sir John Hackett and Claude Smith
Wings of Pegasus (British Glider Pilot Regiment) - by George Chatterton
Silent Invader: Glider Pilot's Story of the Invasion of Europe in World War II - by Alexander Morrison
Arnhem Lift: The Diary of a Glider Pilot
Wot! No Engines?: RAF Glider Pilots and Operation Varsity - by Alan Cooper
Lion with Blue Wings. The story of the Glider Pilot Regiment. 1942-1945 - by Ronald Seth
Straight from the Horsa's Mouth - by Ted Hold
GLIDERBORNE: The story of the 2nd Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. (The 52nd) in World War II
Diary of a Red Devil by Albert Blockwell: by Glider to Arnhem with the 7th Kings Own Scottish Borders - by Albert Blockwell
Post War
6TH BRITISH AIRBORNE DIVISION IN PALESTINE 1945-1948 - by General R. Dare
Contact - A.F.N. Clarke
Not Mentioned in Dispatches... the History & Mythology of the Battle of Goose Green - Spender Fitz-Gibbon
Goose Green: A Battle is Fought to be Won - Mark Adkin
With 3 Para to the Falklands - Lieutenant General Sir Huw Pike
3 Para: Mount Longdon - The Bloodiest Battle (Elite Forces Operations Series) - Jon Cooksey
Green-eyed Boys: 3 Para and the Battle for Mount Longdon - by Christian Jennings
Spearhead Assault: Blood, Guts and Glory on the Falklands Frontlines - by John Geddes
Forward into Hell - by Vincent Bramley
Excursion to Hell: Mount Longdon, a Universal Story of Battle - by Vincent Bramley
The Two Sides of Hell - by Vincent Bramley
For Queen and Country - Nigel ‘Spud’ Ely
Falklands Hero: Ian McKay, the Last VC of the 20th Century - by Jon Cooksey
Freefall - by Tom Read (Charles Bruce)
No Mean Soldier - by Peter McAleese
Killing Zone - by Harry McCallion
Fighting Scared - by Robin Horsfall
CQB - by Mike Curtis
3 Para: Afghanistan, Summer 2006 THIS is war - by Patrick Bishop
The Battle for Helmand - The Paras in Southern Afghanistan - by David Reynolds
Foreign Airborne Forces
French
The Last Valley - by Martin Windrow (French defeat at Dien Bien Phu)
2E REP: The French Foreign Legion Parachutist's Regiment - by by Yves Debay
The Making of a Legionnaire: My Life in the French Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment - by Bill Parris
The Paratroopers of the French Foreign Legion: From Vietnam to Bosnia - by Howard Simpson
Pegasus - The Journal of the Parachute Regiment & Airborne Forces (1946- Present)
Para! 50 Years of the Parachute Regiment - by Peter Harclerode
The PARAS: The inside story of Britains toughest Regiment - by John Parker
PARA - Inside the Parachute Regiment - by Claire Gilman
PARAS - An Illustrated History of Britains Airborne Forces - by David Reynolds
The Making of a PARA - by Rory Bridson
The Red Devils: Red On, Green On - Go! - by Graham Smith
First in! Parachute Pathfinder Company - by Ron Kent
The PARAS Ultimate Fitness - by Claire Gilman
The PARAS: 50 Years of Courage - A tribute to the Airborne Forces - by David Reynolds
Uniforms Illustrated No 10: The PARAS: The British Parachute Regiment - by James G. Shortt
The PARAS: The Story of the Parachute Regiment - by Theodore Rowland-Entwhistle
Paras: The Untold Story of the Birth of the Parachute Regiment - by Bill Buckingham
Ready for Anything: Parachute Regiment at War, 1940-82 - by Julian Thompson
THE RED DEVILS' (FROM BRUNEVAL TO THE FALKLANDS) - BY G.G. NORTON
The PARAS - by Frank Hilton
Rapid Reaction Forces - by Patrick Allen
ASSAULT FROM THE SKY: A HISTORY OF AIRBORNE WARFARE - by John Weeks
The Airborne Soldier - by John Weeks
Out of the Sky: a history of airborne warfare - by Michael Hickey
Airborne Warfare 1918 -1945 - by Barry Gregory and John Batchelor
AIRBORNE ASSAULT: PARACHUTE FORCES IN ACTION 1940-91 - By BRUCE QUARRIE
Wings Of War: Airborne Warfare 1918-1945 - by Peter Harclerode
Urquhart of Arnhem: The Life of Major General R.E.Urquhart, C.B., D.S.O. - by John Baynes
Nearly There: Autobiography of John Frost of Arnhem Bridge - by John Frost
WWII
General
Airborne: World War II Paratroopers in Combat - by Julie Guard
Devils and Eagles in Normandy 1944: American, British and Canadian Airborne Forces in Normandy - by Carl Shilleto
German
It Never Snows in September: The German View of Market-Garden and the Battle of Arnhem September 1944 - by Robert J. Kershaw
Storming Eagles: German Airborne Forces in World War Two - by James Lucas
German Airborne Divisions: Northwest Europe 1944-45 (Battle Orders) - by Bruce Quarrie
German Airborne Divisions: Mediterranean Theatre 1942-45 (Battle Orders) - by Bruce Quarrie
German Airborne Troops - by Roger Edwards
German Paratroopers: The Illustrated History of the Fallschirmjager in World War II - Chris Mcnab
The 1st Fallschirmjager Division in World War II: Years of Attack v. 1 - by Ben Christensen
The 1st Fallschirmjager Division in World War II: Years of Retreat v. 2 - by Ben Christensen
Fallschirmjagers: Eastern Front 1941-43: Vol 1 (Archive Series) - by Remy Spezzano
The Battle of Crete - by George Forty
The Fall of Crete - by Alan Clark
Fallschirmjager in Crete, 1941: The Merkur Operation - by Jean-Yves Nasse
Fallschirmjager: Portraits of German Paratroops in Combat - by Radovic Branislav
Fallschirmjager in Action (Weapons in Action Series) - by Uwe Feist
German Paratroops: Uniforms, Insignia and Equipment of the Fallschirmjager in World War II (Schiffer Military History) - by Robert Kurtz
Fallschirmjager: Storming the Gran Sasso- the Liberation of Mussolini - 12 September 1943 - by Oscar Lopez
British & Commonwealth
THE CREATION & DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH AIRBORNE FORCES 1941-45 - by Dr W. Buckingham
British Airborne Troops - by Barry Gregory
WITHOUT TRADITION: 2 PARA 1941 - 1945 - by Robert Peatling
Red Beret: Story of the Parachute Regiment, 1939-45 - by Hilary St George Saunders
The Bruneval Raid - by George Millar
Green Devils - Red Devils: Untold Tales of the Airborne Forces in WWII - by Edmund L Blandford
Red Berets into Normandy: 6th Airborne Division's Assault into Normandy D-Day 1944 - by Sir Huw Weldon
The Day the Devils Dropped in: The 9th Parachute Battalion in Normandy D-Day to D+6: Merville Battery to the Chateau St Come - by Neil Barber
Operation Tonga: Pegasus Bridge and the Merville Battery (Elite Ops) - by Jon Cooksey
Red Devils: The 6th Airborne Division at Normandy: 6th British Paras, 5-6 June 1944 - by Georges Bernage
Devils Own Luck: Pegasus Bridge to the Baltic 1944-45 - by Denis Edwards
The Pegasus Diaries: The Private Papers of Major John Howard DSO - by John Howard
Bounce The Rhine: The Greatest Airborne Operation in History - by Charles Whiting
The Silken Canopy - by Major Victor Dover MC
By Air to Battle: The Official Account of the British Airborne Divisions - HMSO 1945
WITH THE 6TH AIRBORNE DIVISION IN NORMANDY - BY LT GEN R N GALE
Go to It!: An Illustrated History of the 6th Airborne Division - by Peter Harclerode
Pegasus Bridge D-Day: The Daring British Airborne Raid - by Stephen E. Ambrose
Operation Market Garden Then and Now: v. 1 (Then & Now) - by Karel Margry
Operation Market Garden Then and Now: v. 2 (Then & Now) - by Karel Margry
No Surrender at Arnhem - by Robert Peatling
AIRBORN CARPET: OPERATION MARKET GARDEN - by ANTHONY FARRAR-HOCKLEY
A DROP TOO MANY - BY MAJOR GENERAL JOHN FROST CB, DSO, MC
With Pegasus In India: Story Of 153rd Gurkha Parachute Battalion
A BRIDGE TOO FAR - by CORNELIUS RYAN
A Bridge At Arnhem - by Charles Whiting
I Was a Stranger - by General Sir John Hackett
Men At Arnhem - by Tom Angus
ARNHEM 1944 - by William F. Buckingham
ARNHEM SPEARHEAD: A Private Soldier's Story - by JAMES SIMS
The Devils Birthday: The Bridges to Arnhem 1944 - by Geoffrey Powell
Return Ticket - by Anthony Deane-Drummond
Arnhem 1944: Operation Market Garden - by Stephen Badsey
ARNHEM: A TRAGEDY OF ERRORS - by PETER HARCLERODE
ARNHEM - BY MAJOR GENERAL R E URQUHART
In the Shadow of Arnhem- by Ken Tout
Arnhem: The Landing Grounds and Oosterbeek (Battleground Europe) - by Frank Steer
Arnhem: The Bridge (Battleground Europe) - by Frank Steer
Arnhem: The Fight to Sustain - by Frank Steer
Arnhem 1944: The Airborne Battle, 17-26 September - by Martin Middlebrook
Every Man an Emperor: The Battle of Arnhem/Oosterbeek 17th-25th September 1944 - by Gerry Leaper
THE BATTLE FOR THE RHINE 1944: ARNHEM AND THE ARDENNES : THE CAMPAIGN IN EUROPE - by ROBIN NEILLANDS
The Last Drop: Operation Varsity, March 24-25, 1945 - by by Stephen L Wright
Operation Plunder and Varsity: The British and Canadian Rhine Crossing (Battleground Europe) - by Tim Saunders
The History of the Glider Pilot Regiment: An Official History - by Sir John Hackett and Claude Smith
Wings of Pegasus (British Glider Pilot Regiment) - by George Chatterton
Silent Invader: Glider Pilot's Story of the Invasion of Europe in World War II - by Alexander Morrison
Arnhem Lift: The Diary of a Glider Pilot
Wot! No Engines?: RAF Glider Pilots and Operation Varsity - by Alan Cooper
Lion with Blue Wings. The story of the Glider Pilot Regiment. 1942-1945 - by Ronald Seth
Straight from the Horsa's Mouth - by Ted Hold
GLIDERBORNE: The story of the 2nd Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. (The 52nd) in World War II
Diary of a Red Devil by Albert Blockwell: by Glider to Arnhem with the 7th Kings Own Scottish Borders - by Albert Blockwell
Post War
6TH BRITISH AIRBORNE DIVISION IN PALESTINE 1945-1948 - by General R. Dare
Contact - A.F.N. Clarke
Not Mentioned in Dispatches... the History & Mythology of the Battle of Goose Green - Spender Fitz-Gibbon
Goose Green: A Battle is Fought to be Won - Mark Adkin
With 3 Para to the Falklands - Lieutenant General Sir Huw Pike
3 Para: Mount Longdon - The Bloodiest Battle (Elite Forces Operations Series) - Jon Cooksey
Green-eyed Boys: 3 Para and the Battle for Mount Longdon - by Christian Jennings
Spearhead Assault: Blood, Guts and Glory on the Falklands Frontlines - by John Geddes
Forward into Hell - by Vincent Bramley
Excursion to Hell: Mount Longdon, a Universal Story of Battle - by Vincent Bramley
The Two Sides of Hell - by Vincent Bramley
For Queen and Country - Nigel ‘Spud’ Ely
Falklands Hero: Ian McKay, the Last VC of the 20th Century - by Jon Cooksey
Freefall - by Tom Read (Charles Bruce)
No Mean Soldier - by Peter McAleese
Killing Zone - by Harry McCallion
Fighting Scared - by Robin Horsfall
CQB - by Mike Curtis
3 Para: Afghanistan, Summer 2006 THIS is war - by Patrick Bishop
The Battle for Helmand - The Paras in Southern Afghanistan - by David Reynolds
Foreign Airborne Forces
French
The Last Valley - by Martin Windrow (French defeat at Dien Bien Phu)
2E REP: The French Foreign Legion Parachutist's Regiment - by by Yves Debay
The Making of a Legionnaire: My Life in the French Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment - by Bill Parris
The Paratroopers of the French Foreign Legion: From Vietnam to Bosnia - by Howard Simpson