Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots

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

From yesteryear's flying aces to today's most sensible weapons, The monstrous e-book of Fighter Pilots provides, within the phrases of the wrestle pilots who fought them, fifty superb air battles that experience formed army historical past within the 20th century. Veteran anthologist Jon E. Lewis has assembled firsthand debts from the entire nice army campaigns of aerial struggle, 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 vibrant play the exploits of such mythical pilots as Manfred von Richtofen, Eddie Rickenbacker, Douglas Bader, and Johnnie Johnson; the Luftwaffe international struggle 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 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 wrestle, this quantity vividly captures different elements 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 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 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 a number huge, immense and robust tanks that got here to be targeted as 'super-heavy'. The interesting super-heavy tanks of global struggle II have been heirs to the siege computing device culture - a way of breaking the impasse of flooring wrestle. As a category of struggling with automobile, they started with the area battle I notion of the quest for a "breakthrough" tank, designed to pass enemy traces.

The Royal Navy and the Battle of Britain

This persuasive research assaults the major 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 normally been obvious as militarily more desirable to South Korea within the lengthy feud among the 2 international locations. This brilliantly argued ebook faucets right into a good deal of stories curiosity in North Korea in the meanwhile within the wake of modern hostility opposed to Japan. Hamm controversially exhibits that the got concept of Koreas army energy is partially a fable created via South Korea to justify a massive programme of rearmament.