War Machines: Transforming Technologies in the U.S. by Timothy Moy

The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots

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

From yesteryear's flying aces to today's most sensible weapons, The significant publication of Fighter Pilots provides, within the phrases of the strive against pilots who fought them, fifty outstanding air battles that experience formed army heritage 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 struggle, 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 international warfare II aces Heinz Knoke, Gerd Barkhorn, and Johannes Steinhoff; and 40 different courageous airmen from the US, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, and North Korea. the following, too, are the planes within which those pilots flew into smooth 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 points 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 warfare within the 20th century.

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

This name explores the perception and layout of quite a number huge, immense and robust tanks that got here to be particular as 'super-heavy'. The interesting super-heavy tanks of worldwide warfare II have been heirs to the siege desktop culture - a method of breaking the impasse of flooring strive against. As a category of scuffling with automobile, they started with the realm conflict I inspiration of the hunt for a "breakthrough" tank, designed to go 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 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 generally been obvious as militarily more desirable to South Korea within the lengthy feud among the 2 international locations. This brilliantly argued ebook faucets right into a good deal of reports curiosity in North Korea in the meanwhile within the wake of modern hostility opposed to Japan. Hamm controversially exhibits that the acquired concept of Koreas army power is in part a fantasy created via South Korea to justify an important programme of rearmament.