Dust Off: Army Aeromedical Evacuation in Vietham (Center of by Dorland Peter Nanney James S.

The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots

Jon E. Lewis - The massive ebook of Fighter Pilots

From yesteryear's flying aces to today's most sensible weapons, The enormous booklet of Fighter Pilots provides, within the phrases of the strive against pilots who fought them, fifty marvelous air battles that experience formed army heritage within the 20th century. Veteran anthologist Jon E. Lewis has assembled firsthand bills from the entire nice army campaigns of aerial struggle, together with global Wars I and II, the Spanish Civil conflict, Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf, and Bosnia. web page after interesting web page of this singular assortment brings into vibrant play the exploits of such mythical pilots as Manfred von Richtofen, Eddie Rickenbacker, Douglas Bader, and Johnnie Johnson; the Luftwaffe international battle II aces Heinz Knoke, Gerd Barkhorn, and Johannes Steinhoff; and 40 different courageous airmen from the US, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, and North Korea. the following, too, are the planes during which those pilots flew into sleek 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 aspects 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 jap 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 battle within the 20th century.

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

This identify explores the perception and layout of more than a few huge, immense and robust tanks that got here to be specified as 'super-heavy'. The interesting super-heavy tanks of worldwide struggle II have been heirs to the siege computing device culture - a method of breaking the impasse of floor wrestle. As a category of scuffling with car, they begun with the realm struggle I notion of the hunt for a "breakthrough" tank, designed to go enemy strains.

The Royal Navy and the Battle of Britain

This persuasive learn assaults the foremost myths surrounding the conflict of england to revise the relative prestige of maritime and aviation elements 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 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 obvious as militarily greater to South Korea within the lengthy feud among the 2 countries. This brilliantly argued e-book faucets right into a good deal of reports curiosity in North Korea in the intervening time within the wake of contemporary hostility opposed to Japan. Hamm controversially indicates that the acquired concept of Koreas army power is partially a delusion created by way of South Korea to justify an important programme of rearmament.