Counteroffensive : U.S. Marines from Pohang to No Name Line by Ronald J Brown

The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots

Jon E. Lewis - The enormous e-book of Fighter Pilots

From yesteryear's flying aces to today's most sensible weapons, The monstrous ebook of Fighter Pilots offers, within the phrases of the strive against pilots who fought them, fifty marvelous air battles that experience formed army background within the 20th century. Veteran anthologist Jon E. Lewis has assembled firsthand money owed from all of the nice army campaigns of aerial battle, together with international Wars I and II, the Spanish Civil struggle, Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf, and Bosnia. web page after interesting web page of this singular assortment brings into bright 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 US, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, and North Korea. right here, too, are the planes within which those pilots flew into smooth 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 existence, together with the perils of bailing out in enemy territory, the day-by-day horrors of internment in a eastern POW camp, and a harrowing account of being shot down in a blazing Spitfire. The true-life aerial strive against adventures during this stirring assortment supply a vicarious, adrenaline-fueled day trip into the shell-blasted skies of struggle within the 20th century.

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

This identify explores the notion and layout of more than a few huge, immense and strong tanks that got here to be precise as 'super-heavy'. The interesting super-heavy tanks of global struggle II have been heirs to the siege computing device culture - a method of breaking the impasse of flooring wrestle. As a category of battling motor vehicle, they started with the area conflict I idea of the hunt for a "breakthrough" tank, designed to move enemy strains.

The Royal Navy and the Battle of Britain

This persuasive examine assaults the foremost myths surrounding the conflict of england to revise the relative prestige of maritime and aviation components within the defence of england. with out denigrating the heroism of the fighter pilots, Anthony Cumming demanding situations the effectiveness of the Royal Air strength in 1940 and provides the Royal army a lot larger prominence than others have.

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

North Korea has commonly been noticeable as militarily more suitable to South Korea within the lengthy feud among the 2 countries. This brilliantly argued booklet faucets right into a good deal of reports curiosity in North Korea in the mean time within the wake of modern hostility opposed to Japan. Hamm controversially exhibits that the bought notion of Koreas army energy is partially a fantasy created via South Korea to justify a major programme of rearmament.