Royal Air Force Germany after 1945 by Bill Taylor This detailed survey takes the lid off RAF operations within Germany and provides a detailed valediction of its exploits from the formation of the British Air Forces of Occupation in July 1945 to the tense days of the Berlin Airlift and the Cold War.   The establishment of NATO and its Tripwire strategy of the 1950s placed Germany firmly in the front line via its Forward Defence policy.   These were the heady days of Vampires, Venoms, Canberras, Swifts, Hunters and Javelins preparing to meet the potential foe.   As crisis piled upon crisis - Gary Powers and the U-2, the Berlin Wall, Cuban Missiles, Czechoslovakia - the RAF looked to a new generation of aircraft with which to meet the threat: Buccaneers, Harriers, Jaguars and Phantoms.   The 1970s and 1980s saw the situation changing as Tornados joined the RAF's armoury in Germany.   However, with the collapse of the USSR and demolition of the Berlin Wall, the need to base British military air power in Germany was no longer deemed necessary.   This book serves as a timely and wide ranging study of a hitherto thinly documented era of RAF history. Price: £35.00 Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Midland Publishing (2003) 4 Watling Drive, Hinckley, LE10 3EY ISBN-1 85780 034 6