Aviation 35

Thunderbolt! The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace is the incredible true life story of Robert S. Johnson, one of America’s leading fighter pilot aces in World War II. His memoir is an actio……続きを見る

'DESERVES TO JOIN REACH FOR THE SKY AND THE LAST ENEMY AS ONE OF THE GREAT RAF BOOKS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR' - ANDREW ROBERTS As I write, I can clearly recall the stinging heat of aburning Blenheim……続きを見る

Declassified government records shed additional light on the cancellation and subsequent destruction of the Avro Arrow. The controversial cancellation of the Avro Arrow ー an extraordinary achieveme……続きを見る

The Saga of Pappy Gunn is the biography of heroic World War 2 Air Force fighter pilot, Colonel Paul Irving Gunn. “An affectionate biography of an almost legendary Air Force hero” ー Kirkus Reviews. 続きを見る

An illuminating look at how human vulnerability led to advances in aviation technology. As aircraft flew higher, faster, and farther in the early days of flight, pilots were exposed as vulnerable, i……続きを見る

The Foundations of the Science of War by Col. J. F. C. Fuller, first published in 1925, aims, as the title suggests and in the author's own words, to provide "a foundation of the science of war, or,……続きを見る

Luftwaffe over Scotland is the first complete history of the air attacks mounted against Scotland by Nazi Germany during World War Two and undertakes a detailed examination of the strategy, tactics ……続きを見る

For a hundred years the Royal Air Force has been at the forefront of the UK's defences. In the 1920s and 1930s, the RAF protected Britain's empire; during the Second World War it played a key role i……続きを見る

Silver Cross recipient, Mike Borlace is considered to be one of the most experienced combat helicopter pilots of recent times. Now he collates his experiences in this compelling wartime memoir set a……続きを見る

An important rethinking of the Normandy war narrative Beyond the Beach examines the Allied air war against France in 1944. During this period, General Dwight David Eisenhower, as Supreme Allied Comm……続きを見る

'An extraordinarily gripping and powerful story' Evening Standard 'An intimate account . . . rich in detail' James Holland ________ Two months before the outbreak of the Second World War, eighteen-y……続きを見る

Black LightningーThe Legacy of the Lockheed Blackbirds Revised edition of The Archangel and the Oxcart Black LightningーThe Legacy of the Lockheed Blackbirdsーbrings to life the unique and mesmerizi……続きを見る

The incredible details of the bold, near-disastrous first Allied airborne commando raid. Audacious to the extreme, Operation Colossus was a raid in the early, dark days of the Second World War, when……続きを見る

This collection contains the five greatest and most influential military classics written prior to the nineteenth century. The first, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, is not only the oldest military work ……続きを見る

The Luftwaffe and the War at Sea is a collection of fascinating accounts written by German military officers – both Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe – about the naval war in the air in the North Atlantic ……続きを見る

No 206 Squadron began its life with the formation of the Royal Air Force in April 1918. Like many other units, it was absorbed into the fledgling RAF from its previous existence as No 6 Squadron RNA……続きを見る

“Their Greatest Disgrace” outlines the 17-year campaign to clear the names of two RAF pilots who had been maliciously blamed for the 1994 crash on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland in which 29 died. The……続きを見る

On 10 May 1940, the French possessed one of the largest air forces in the world. On paper, it was nearly as strong as the RAF. Six weeks later, France had been defeated. For a struggling French Army……続きを見る

During the Second World War the need for an on-board technical expert to join the Bomber Crews evolved. The various systems on the latest 4-engined 'Heavy Bombers', namely the Handley Page Halifax, ……続きを見る

During the plunging temperature of the early Cold War years the RAF found itself increasingly in need of a truly all-weather high performance fighter. There were two leading designs available as pro……続きを見る

Joe Ruff is an exceptional young man, raised in rural Mississippi, who is conflicted by events in his emotional childhood, but who goes on to experience the hair-raising thrill of flight, motorcycle……続きを見る

La guerra del Vietnam, nella sua cosiddetta “fase americana”, terminata con la caduta di Saigon nel 1975, è stato un conflitto che ha segnato più generazioni, in America e nel mondo. Seguendo la fal……続きを見る

Bert Stiles (1920-1944) was an American author of short stories who was killed in action during World War II while serving as a fighter pilot in the US Army Air Forces. His mother commemorated his m……続きを見る

Mussolini Hawks Aviazione Aviation Military Aviolibri IBN Fighter Units Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana 1943 1945 mattioli Marco 続きを見る

Nel 1929 i futuristi Filippo Tommaso Marinetti e Fedele Azari crearono il “Primo dizionario aereo italiano”. L’anno della prima pubblicazione e la personalità degli autori non facciano però pensare ……続きを見る

Winged Victory is a 1934 novel by English World War I fighter pilot Victor Maslin Yeates that is widely regarded as a classic description of aerial combat and the futility of war. The novel concerns……続きを見る

"Spitfire Pilot" was written in 1940 in the heat of battle when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitler's Third Reich. It is a tremendous personal account of one of the fiercest and most ide……続きを見る

(Ebook Interattivo). Due episodi reali e misteriosi. A Milano, nei giorni della Liberazione, un giovane partigiano viene ucciso da altri partigiani che si giustificano con scuse assai poco credibili……続きを見る

Last Flight from Singapore documents Donahue’s life from the autumn of 1941 through to the evacuation of Java after being wounded in "the greatest military disaster ever suffered by British arms". “……続きを見る

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte) during the First World War. He i……続きを見る