Submarine Diary: The Silent Stalking of Japan by Corwin Mendenhall

The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots

Jon E. Lewis - The massive ebook of Fighter Pilots

From yesteryear's flying aces to today's most sensible weapons, The giant e-book of Fighter Pilots provides, within the phrases of the wrestle pilots who fought them, fifty fabulous 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 war, together with international Wars I and II, the Spanish Civil conflict, 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 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 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 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 wrestle adventures during this stirring assortment offer 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 name explores the notion and layout of a number huge, immense and robust tanks that got here to be distinctive as 'super-heavy'. The attention-grabbing super-heavy tanks of worldwide struggle II have been heirs to the siege computer culture - a method of breaking the impasse of floor strive against. As a category of struggling with car, they started with the realm warfare I inspiration of the hunt for a "breakthrough" tank, designed to pass enemy strains.

The Royal Navy and the Battle of Britain

This persuasive research 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 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 usually been obvious as militarily more desirable to South Korea within the lengthy feud among the 2 international locations. This brilliantly argued e-book 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 obtained inspiration of Koreas army power is partially a delusion created via South Korea to justify a tremendous programme of rearmament.