Return Of Sky Ghost (Wingman, Book 15) by Mack Maloney

The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots

Jon E. Lewis - The substantial booklet of Fighter Pilots

From yesteryear's flying aces to today's best weapons, The sizeable publication of Fighter Pilots offers, within the phrases of the wrestle pilots who fought them, fifty great 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 struggle, together with international Wars I and II, the Spanish Civil warfare, Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf, and Bosnia. web page after fascinating web page of this singular assortment brings into brilliant play the exploits of such mythical pilots as Manfred von Richtofen, Eddie Rickenbacker, Douglas Bader, and Johnnie Johnson; the Luftwaffe global struggle II aces Heinz Knoke, Gerd Barkhorn, and Johannes Steinhoff; and 40 different courageous airmen from the USA, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, and North Korea. right here, 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 wrestle, 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 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 struggle within the 20th century.

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

This identify explores the belief and layout of a variety of huge, immense and strong tanks that got here to be specified as 'super-heavy'. The attention-grabbing super-heavy tanks of worldwide warfare II have been heirs to the siege laptop culture - a way of breaking the impasse of floor wrestle. As a category of struggling with automobile, they all started with the realm warfare 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 military a lot higher 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 improved to South Korea within the lengthy feud among the 2 international locations. This brilliantly argued booklet 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 indicates that the bought thought of Koreas army power is partially a fable created by means of South Korea to justify a tremendous programme of rearmament.