Our volunteer team of  Librarians have kept busy over the last few years and made the following changes in our Library:

One of the most popular sections in the Library is that containing stories about people and their exploits in the Royal Air Force. These have now been re-grouped so that biographies, autobiographies and personal memoirs are all together (as Category H1) shelved in alphabetical order using the first three letters of the subject’s name.

This should make for easier browsing as all the books about an individual will be in the same place. Books about more than one person or groups of people will continue separately as Category H3 where they are shelved alphabetically, using the first three letters of the editor or person who  assembled the stories.

All the books in the catalogue are listed on the two Apple computers at the far end of the library. They also contain a facility to search for a book either by its title or by the author’s name.

Recent additions to the stock include:

Catalogue Ref/Title/Author

H1 JOH - 3578

Bolts from the Blue: From the Cold War to Chief of the Air Staff, ACM Sir Richard Johns

 

A1 CAM - 3541

Chinook Crash  - (Mull of Kintyre 1994), Steuart Campbell

 

K2 WIL - 3513

Laughter in the Sky: Confessions of a Flying Instructor, Kevin Wilkey

 

F5 ROT - 3567

The Baedeker Blitz: Hitler’s Attack on Britain’s Historic Cities, Niall Rothnie

 

F13 SUT -3523

The Berlin Airlift: Salvation of a City, Jonathan Sutherland & Diane Canwell

 

K2 GRA - 3524

Air Dog to Top Dog, Elizabeth Graydon

 

A1 CHA - 3550

Harrier: Super Profile, Christopher Chant

 

F1 SAU - 3586

Dowding’s Despatch 1941: The Battle of Britain Narrated Examined and Explained, (Published 2021), Andy Saunders

 

G1 MAT - 3581

Cold War: Hot Peace: 50 Years of Tactical Supply 1970-2020, Alan Matthews (Editor)