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Cover -- Title Page -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 A Peace That Is No Peace, 1949-59 -- CHAPTER 2 We Will Bury You! 1960-69 -- CHAPTER 3 Freezing Frontiers, 1970-79 -- CHAPTER 4 Tear Down This Wall! 1980-89 -- In Neutral Skies -- AFTERWORD -- APPENDIX - Air Orders of Battle -- GLOSSARY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- About the Author -- eCopyright.

An independent service 1918-1922 -- Policing the Empire 1923-1938 -- Holding the line 1939-1942 -- The road to victory 1943-1945 -- Last days of Empire 1946-1959 -- Cold War 1960-1974 -- The temperature rises 1975-1989 -- Return to the Middle East 1990-1998 -- Operations continue 1999-2008 -- A century of operations 2009-2018.

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