Napoleon’s Polish Lancers of the Imperial Guard by Ronald Pawly

The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots

Jon E. Lewis - The colossal ebook of Fighter Pilots

From yesteryear's flying aces to today's most sensible weapons, The tremendous publication of Fighter Pilots offers, within the phrases of the wrestle pilots who fought them, fifty brilliant air battles that experience formed army historical past within the 20th century. Veteran anthologist Jon E. Lewis has assembled firsthand debts from all of the nice army campaigns of aerial battle, together with international Wars I and II, the Spanish Civil conflict, Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf, and Bosnia. web page after intriguing 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 international battle 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 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 points 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 wrestle adventures during this stirring assortment supply a vicarious, adrenaline-fueled excursion into the shell-blasted skies of struggle within the 20th century.

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

This name explores the notion 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 computer culture - a method of breaking the impasse of flooring wrestle. As a category of battling automobile, they started with the realm battle I suggestion of the quest 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 ordinarily been visible as militarily more desirable to South Korea within the lengthy feud among the 2 international locations. This brilliantly argued booklet faucets right into a good deal of reports curiosity in North Korea in the meanwhile within the wake of modern hostility opposed to Japan. Hamm controversially indicates that the obtained notion of Koreas army energy is partially a delusion created by way of South Korea to justify an incredible programme of rearmament.