Slovenian Axis Forces in World War II, 1941-1945 by Antonio J. Munoz, Vincent Wai

The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots

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

From yesteryear's flying aces to today's best weapons, The significant ebook of Fighter Pilots provides, within the phrases of the strive against pilots who fought them, fifty really good 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 battle, together with international Wars I and II, the Spanish Civil warfare, Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf, and Bosnia. web page after interesting 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 global conflict II aces Heinz Knoke, Gerd Barkhorn, and Johannes Steinhoff; and 40 different courageous airmen from the United States, 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 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 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 excursion into the shell-blasted skies of battle within the 20th century.

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

This name explores the belief and layout of a number of huge, immense and strong tanks that got here to be targeted as 'super-heavy'. The interesting super-heavy tanks of worldwide battle II have been heirs to the siege computing device culture - a way of breaking the impasse of floor wrestle. As a category of battling motor vehicle, they begun with the area conflict I inspiration of the hunt for a "breakthrough" tank, designed to move enemy traces.

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 components 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 offers the Royal military a lot larger prominence than others have.

Arming the Two Koreas: State, Capital and Military Power (Politics in Asia Series)

North Korea has routinely been noticeable as militarily enhanced 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 contemporary hostility opposed to Japan. Hamm controversially exhibits that the got notion of Koreas army power is partially a fantasy created via South Korea to justify a big programme of rearmament.