Start with high-confidence aviation history books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Lords of the Sky
Dan Hampton
Come Fly the World
Julia Cooke
Flying Blind
Feodor Chin, Peter Robison
Comm Check...
Michael Cabbage, William Harwood
Aircraft
DK, D.K. Publishing
The Complete Book of the SR-71 Blackbird
Richard H. Graham, Richard Graham
Black Sheep One
Bruce Gamble
Boeing Versus Airbus
John Newhouse
B-52 Stratofortress Units in Combat 1992-2025
Peter E. Davies, Jim Laurier
Jet Age
Sam Howe Verhovek
World War II Pilots
Michael Burgan, Dennis E. Showalter
Spitfires
Becky Aikman, Laurel Lefkow
U.s. Navy Attack Aircraft, 1920-2020
Norman Friedman PhD., Norman Friedman
Twelve Years of Turbulence
Gary Kennedy, Terry Maxon
Military Aircraft
Thomas Newdick
American Bomber Aircraft of World War II
Edward Ward
British Aircraft of World War I
Edward Ward, Ronny Bar
