The A to Z of the War of 1812 by Robert Malcomson

The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots

Jon E. Lewis - The huge publication of Fighter Pilots

From yesteryear's flying aces to today's best weapons, The big ebook of Fighter Pilots provides, within the phrases of the wrestle 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 bills from all of the nice army campaigns of aerial battle, together with global 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 brilliant play the exploits of such mythical pilots as Manfred von Richtofen, Eddie Rickenbacker, Douglas Bader, and Johnnie Johnson; the Luftwaffe global warfare 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 wrestle, this quantity vividly captures different aspects 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 warfare 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 detailed as 'super-heavy'. The interesting super-heavy tanks of global struggle II have been heirs to the siege computer culture - a method of breaking the impasse of flooring wrestle. As a category of battling car, they begun with the area warfare I thought of the quest for a "breakthrough" tank, designed to move enemy traces.

The Royal Navy and the Battle of Britain

This persuasive learn assaults the major myths surrounding the conflict of england to revise the relative prestige of maritime and aviation components 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 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 ordinarily been visible as militarily improved to South Korea within the lengthy feud among the 2 international locations. This brilliantly argued publication faucets right into a good deal of reports curiosity in North Korea in the intervening time within the wake of modern hostility opposed to Japan. Hamm controversially indicates that the acquired proposal of Koreas army energy is in part a delusion created by way of South Korea to justify an enormous programme of rearmament.