Centurion Universal Tank 1943-2003 (New Vanguard, Volume 68) by Simon Dunstan

The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots

Jon E. Lewis - The massive publication of Fighter Pilots

From yesteryear's flying aces to today's most sensible weapons, The massive ebook of Fighter Pilots offers, within the phrases of the wrestle pilots who fought them, fifty amazing air battles that experience formed army historical past within the 20th century. Veteran anthologist Jon E. Lewis has assembled firsthand bills from all of the nice army campaigns of aerial battle, together with international Wars I and II, the Spanish Civil warfare, Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf, and Bosnia. web page after interesting web page of this singular assortment brings into shiny play the exploits of such mythical pilots as Manfred von Richtofen, Eddie Rickenbacker, Douglas Bader, and Johnnie Johnson; the Luftwaffe global warfare II aces Heinz Knoke, Gerd Barkhorn, and Johannes Steinhoff; and 40 different courageous airmen from the USA, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, and North Korea. the following, too, are the planes during which those pilots flew into glossy historythe Spitfire, the Mustang, the Me 109, the 0, the F-16, the MiG, and the Harrier. including the death-defying drama of strive against, this quantity vividly captures different features of the fighter pilot's lifestyles, together with the perils of bailing out in enemy territory, the day-by-day horrors of internment in a jap POW camp, and a harrowing account of being shot down in a blazing Spitfire. The true-life aerial wrestle adventures during this stirring assortment supply a vicarious, adrenaline-fueled excursion into the shell-blasted skies of battle within the 20th century.

Super-Heavy Tanks of World War II (New Vanguard, Volume 216)

This identify explores the perception and layout of various huge, immense and strong tanks that got here to be particular as 'super-heavy'. The interesting super-heavy tanks of worldwide struggle II have been heirs to the siege laptop culture - a way of breaking the impasse of floor strive against. As a category of struggling with motor vehicle, they begun with the realm struggle I proposal of the quest for a "breakthrough" tank, designed to move enemy strains.

The Royal Navy and the Battle of Britain

This persuasive examine assaults the major myths surrounding the conflict of england to revise the relative prestige of maritime and aviation components within the defence of england. with no denigrating the heroism of the fighter pilots, Anthony Cumming demanding situations the effectiveness of the Royal Air strength in 1940 and offers the Royal military a lot higher prominence than others have.

Arming the Two Koreas: State, Capital and Military Power (Politics in Asia Series)

North Korea has generally been visible as militarily greater to South Korea within the lengthy feud among the 2 international locations. This brilliantly argued e-book faucets right into a good deal of reports curiosity in North Korea for the time being within the wake of contemporary hostility opposed to Japan. Hamm controversially indicates that the got concept of Koreas army power is partially a fantasy created via South Korea to justify a major programme of rearmament.