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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.

Written from the unique perspective of a fast jet cockpit, Tornado Over the Tigris captures the essence of what it was really like to fly a Tornado at the front-line of the Cold War in Germany and on operations over Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf War. After achieving a boyhood ambition to qualify as an RAF pilot, Michael Napier was posted to RAF Bruggen in Germany where he spent five years flying Tornado GR1 strike/attack aircraft at the height of the Cold War. Always exhilarating, sometimes amusing and often dangerous, Michael Napier's Tornado flying ranged from 'routine' low-flying in con

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction & Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Early Days: 1982-1984 -- Chapter 2 Cold War: 1985-1990 -- Chapter 3 Cold War: Hot War 1990-1991 -- Chapter 4 Gulf War: January/February 1991 -- Chapter 5 The New Order: 1991-1995 -- Chapter 6 Operational to the End: 1996-2001 -- Appendix 1 Squadron Markings -- Appendix 2 List of Tornado GR1 Aircraft

In the seven decades since the Second World War, 14 Squadron has operated a wide array of aircraft types (Mosquitoes, Vampires, Venoms, Hunters, Canberras, Phantoms, Jaguars and Tornados) in a fascinating variety of roles. For much of this time, the Squadron was based in Germany at the front line of the Cold War, but it also participated in the Gulf War in 1991, in operations over Iraq from 1991-2009, in the Kosovo conflict in 2000 and latterly during the war in Afghanistan, firstly with the Tornado GR4 and then with the Shadow R1. Today the Squadron operates in great secrecy in an Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance role.Having had access to log-books, contemporary diaries, maps and photographs, as well as oral and written accounts from a large number of ex-Squadron members, the author has been able to produce as complete an account as is presently possible of the operational history of 14 Squadron in the second half of the twentieth century and the opening years of the twenty-first.