Books
Orange has published ten books, and numerous articles and conference papers including:
- Dowding of Fighter Command: Victor of the Battle of Britain, (Grub Street Pub, September 2008)
- Johnny Checketts: The Road to Biggin Hill, (Grub Street; New title edition, March 2007)
- Slessor: Bomber Champion - The Life of Sir John Slessor, (Grub Street Pub, October 2006)
- Tedder: Quietly in Command, (Routledge Pub, April 2004)
- Winged Promises: History of No.14 Squadron, RAF 1915-1945, (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, November 1998)
- Ensor's Endeavour: A Biography of Wing Commander Mick Ensor, (Grub Street, May 1994)
- Straight and Level, (Grub Street, October 1993) with Kenneth Cross
- Coningham: A Biography of Sir Arthur Coningham, (Methuen Publishing Ltd, February 1990)
- The Road to Biggin Hill, (Airlife Publishing Ltd, February 1987)
- Park: The Biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, (Methuen Publishing, August 1984)
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—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
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—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)