Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Feb 24, 2014 15:20:54 GMT 12
Phillip E. Sims' comprehensive history of the Short Empire Boats, published in 2000, has been reprinted and released in a smaller format by Pen & Sword.
Below are links to the book, and a couple of other flying-boat books on Pen & Sword's website....
• “Adventurous Empires — The story of the Short Empire Flying-Boats” by Phillip E. Sims
• “Short Sunderland — The ‘Flying Porcupines’ in the Second World War” by Andrew Hendrie
• “Sunderland Over Far-Eastern Seas — An RAF Flying Boat Navigator's Story” by Group Captain Derek Empson
• “Fabulous Flying Boats — A History of the World's Passenger Flying Boats” by Leslie Dawson
Also online, you can download in its entirety Brian Cassidy's excellent book “Flying Empires — Short ‘C’ class Empire flying boats” in PDF format....CLICK HERE (4.96MB).
