AN AUTHOR from Swanage has published his sixth book.

Broken Wings (Part 1) by Bob Bunyar is a selection of accounts of aircraft crashes and mishaps that occurred during the Second World War.

Bob, a former firefighter with the Avon Fire and Rescue Service, has been carrying out research for the book for several years.

It came about after he saw two roadside memorials remembering air crew who perished during the war.

One of these was at Hollocombe in north Devon where a Handley Page built Halifax Mk II crashed, and the other is at Woolverton in Somerset.

Here two aircraft came down after combat, one a German Luftwaffe Heinkel HE IIIP and the other a Spitfire Mk I From No. 125 Squadron from RAF Warmwell in Dorset.

Other crashes in Dorset feature in the book, as well as other areas of the country. These include two crashes at Bussey Stool Farm near Tollard Green, Field Grove Wood near Durweston and Bulbarrow Hill just west of Blandford Forum.

Broken Wings Part 1 comprises 94 A4 size pages and costs £10.99.

It is available from the Swanage Bookshop in Station Road, Swanage, the railway shop in Swanage Railway station and the Swanage Museum, in the Square.