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Heinz Knoke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of the Second World War. This vivid first-hand record of his experiences has become a classic among aviation memoirs and is a fascinating……続きを見る

Rise of the Mavericks traces the beginnings and subsequent development of the U.S. Air Force Security Service. Established in 1948 as part of the emerging U.S. national security apparatus, this comm……続きを見る

Avenger Wrath es la historia de un Hog Driver y su viaje durante la guerra en Afganistán, que opera desde la base aérea de Bagram con la hermosa, aunque mortal, cadena montañosa afgana como telón de……続きを見る

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Number 1: Pearl Harbor Revised 2024 eBook Edition Number 1 includes the following articles covering many aspects of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor: (1) The R……続きを見る

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series 2023 eBook Edition This issue presents articles on the following World War II warplane topics: (1) Curtiss SBC Helldiver (2) Regia Aeronautica Aircraft Use……続きを見る

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series 2023 eBook Edition Coverage of a variety of topics on World War II in these 17 articles: (1) Don’t Forget the Privates: The Infantryman Won the War in Euro……続きを見る

Between 1940 and 1945, more than 100,000 airmen were shot down over Europe, a few thousand of whom survived and avoided being arrested. When Men Fell from the Sky is a comparative history of the tre……続きを見る

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series 2022 eBook Edition This issue presents articles on the following 16 World War II topics: (1) USS Alabama BB-60: American Battleship (2) The Aerodynamic Dev……続きを見る

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series 2023 eBook Edition This issue covers one of the most versatile aircraft of World War II. The Lockheed Hudson was an American-built light bomber and coastal……続きを見る

"Valor in the Skies: Courage and Sacrifice in Aerial Warfare" is a riveting exploration of the history of aerial combat, spanning over a century of innovation, challenges, and achievements. From the……続きを見る

This instant Sunday Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter pilots whose remarkable encounter during World War II became the stuff of legend. Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged……続きを見る

Announced in 1912, the Schneider Trophy stole the imaginations of pioneering aircraft manufacturers in America, France, Britain and Italy, as they competed in a series of air races that attracted a ……続きを見る

In the early hours of Thursday, July 10, 1919 hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers rushed out onto the streets and rooftops and gaped up into the sky as a great silver ship, hundreds of feet long, r……続きを見る

Britain's first flying machine was trailed in Perthshire in 1907 and ever since - whether at war or in peacetime - Scotland has been in the frontline of British military aviation. In Tartan Air Forc……続きを見る

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series 2023 eBook Edition Coverage of the Mitsubishi Ki-46, a twin-engine reconnaissance aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force in World War II. It……続きを見る

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series 2023 eBook Edition This issue covers the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber of World War II fame: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Design, experimental m……続きを見る

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series 2023 eBook Edition This issue covers the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter (interchangeably called the Me 109), the Luftwaffe’s main fighter aircraft during Wor……続きを見る

'Ireland's Aviator Heroes of World War II' celebrates Irish aviators who served in the Royal Air Force during the dark days of the Second World War. Individual stories have been painstakingly and ex……続きを見る

Explores the contributions made by the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service during World War I. This work also covers aircraft, an array of other subjects including organization, pay, ……続きを見る

The Lysander, Canberra, Lightning and Folland Gnat are massive names in the world of aviation. Only three aspects bound together these top-class aircraft: they were each radical in design, they were……続きを見る

Of every 100 operational airmen in the Second World War, nearly seven were killed flying in England and more than three severely injured in crashes. With a total of 12,398, the number of non-operati……続きを見る

Can air power alone win a war? That has been the question since the Second World War. Air attacks failed miserably in Vietnam: Operation Linebacker had little effect, while bombing Hanoi just increa……続きを見る

While it is true to say that the Venom carried out more operational ground attack sorties than any other RAF aircraft since the Second World War, its history has hitherto been sadly neglected or mis……続きを見る

It opens with a brief history of the service, followed by a chapter that reviews its situation on the outbreak of war. The chapters that follow look at the structure of the RAF, from the Air Ministr……続きを見る

Dogfight tells the story of some of the most incredible air battles of modern warfare. Alfred Price's action-packed accounts place you in the cockpit, offering a rare insight into what it was like t……続きを見る

R.J. Mitchell was virtually self-taught and almost all his aircraft were slow-flying seaplanes. The story of how this man from the land-locked Midlands, apprenticed to a locomotive works, became res……続きを見る

At the end of the First World War, British power in the colonies was at an all-time low. That was until a ragtag band of visionaries, including Winston Churchill and T.E. Lawrence, proposed that the……続きを見る

Of the 7,953 Bomber Command aircraft lost on night operations during the Second World War, an estimated 5,833 fell victim to Luftwaffe night fighters. In this detailed re-enactment of the air war ov……続きを見る

The role of the bomber has proved to be on of the most controversial aspects of twentieth-century warfare. Bombers tells the story of the bomber with a blend of narrative and personal accounts, rec……続きを見る

Probably the most famous fighter aircraft of all time, the Supermarine Spitfire reigned supreme and unsurpassed from the biplane era to the dawn of the jet age, a period that included the Second Wor……続きを見る