Voices in Flight: The Dambuster's Squadron by Colin Higgs

The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots

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

From yesteryear's flying aces to today's most sensible weapons, The colossal publication of Fighter Pilots provides, within the phrases of the wrestle pilots who fought them, fifty marvelous air battles that experience formed army heritage within the 20th century. Veteran anthologist Jon E. Lewis has assembled firsthand debts from the entire nice army campaigns of aerial war, together with global 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 brilliant 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 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 elements 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 eastern POW camp, and a harrowing account of being shot down in a blazing Spitfire. The true-life aerial wrestle 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 more than a few huge, immense and strong tanks that got here to be distinctive as 'super-heavy'. The interesting super-heavy tanks of global warfare II have been heirs to the siege laptop culture - a method of breaking the impasse of flooring wrestle. As a category of scuffling with automobile, they begun with the area conflict I inspiration of the quest for a "breakthrough" tank, designed to go enemy strains.

The Royal Navy and the Battle of Britain

This persuasive examine assaults the main 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 better prominence than others have.

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

North Korea has normally been visible as militarily better 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 acquired thought of Koreas army power is partially a fable created through South Korea to justify an enormous programme of rearmament.