Scapegoats: Thirteen Victims of Military Injustice by Michael Scott

The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots

Jon E. Lewis - The big booklet of Fighter Pilots

From yesteryear's flying aces to today's best weapons, The gigantic publication of Fighter Pilots provides, within the phrases of the strive against pilots who fought them, fifty fantastic air battles that experience formed army background within the 20th century. Veteran anthologist Jon E. Lewis has assembled firsthand debts from the entire nice army campaigns of aerial conflict, together with global Wars I and II, the Spanish Civil warfare, Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf, and Bosnia. web page after intriguing 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 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 offer 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 notion and layout of more than a few huge, immense and strong tanks that got here to be specified as 'super-heavy'. The interesting super-heavy tanks of global conflict II have been heirs to the siege computer culture - a method of breaking the impasse of flooring wrestle. As a category of scuffling with car, they all started with the area battle I inspiration of the quest for a "breakthrough" tank, designed to pass enemy strains.

The Royal Navy and the Battle of Britain

This persuasive examine assaults the most important myths surrounding the conflict of england to revise the relative prestige of maritime and aviation elements 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 military a lot better 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 enhanced 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 intervening time within the wake of contemporary hostility opposed to Japan. Hamm controversially indicates that the bought inspiration of Koreas army power is partially a fable created via South Korea to justify an incredible programme of rearmament.