A leading historian of World War II sheds new light on the purposes and impact of the U.S. incendiary and atomic bombing of Japan’s cities in 1945.
With the development of the B-29 “Superfortress” i……続きを見る
A focused, illustrated history of NATO's war against Serbian forces over Kosovo. [THE CORRECT VERSION OF THIS EBOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD.]
On the night of March 24, 1999, NATO forces began m……続きを見る
Airmen in Vietnam weren't above the hell of war-but they went beyond the call of duty.
It was America's longest, most withering war, as hellish in the air as it was on the ground. But little has bee……続きを見る
In the five months after Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy won a string of victories in a campaign to consolidate control of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. In June of 1942, Japan suffe……続きを見る
In 1927, when aviator Charles A. Lindbergh flew his famous monoplane in a triumphant tour of the United States, the Spirit of St. Louis touched down in Wheeling, West Virginia, for his visit to the ……続きを見る
著者:Brian D O'Neill
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2012年11月20日
The first title in the Elite Units series to deal with an American bombardment group, this title focuses on the 303rd BG, dubbed the 'Hells Angels.'
One of the very first B-17 units assigned to the ……続きを見る
著者:S. D. Tucker
出版社: Frontline Books
発売日: 2022年10月24日
Nazi UFOs tells the strange tale of how, following the first alleged flying saucer sightings made in the USA in 1947, a series of fantasists and neo-fascists came forward to create a media myth that……続きを見る
著者:Brian D. Laslie
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2024年03月19日
The story of the United States Air Force (USAF) stretches back to aerial operations prior to the First World Warーwell before the USAF became a separate serviceーand looks forward to a new era of ai……続きを見る
Detailed technical analysis, and a range of photographs and illustrations, of the fighter immortalized in the film Tora! Tora! Tora!
Unquestionably the most iconic Japanese fighter of World War II, ……続きを見る
著者:John D Beatty
出版社: JDB Communications, LLC
発売日: 2024年03月09日
February 1945.
World War Two is entering its sixth year. In Europe, Germany is on its knees, its shattered cities in ruins, battered by clouds of bombers attacking day and night. In the Pacific, the……続きを見る
著者:D. W. Carter
出版社: The History Press
発売日: 2013年08月20日
The little-known story of a major catastrophe in a 1960s African American community: A "commendable, if unsettling, account." ーRichard Kluger, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Simple Justice
On the……続きを見る
This volume chronicles aerial combat of the Korean War through both historical narrative and the personal accounts of Allied airmen and POWs.
In Combat Over Korea, military historian Philip D. Chinn……続きを見る
著者:Andrew D. Bird
出版社: Grub Street Publishing
発売日: 2021年02月12日
From the author of A Separate Little War, a detailed history of the British World War II aircraft and their brave crew.
In 1940, the defense of Great Britain rested with a handful of volunteer aircr……続きを見る
This lively, funny memoir by a World War I pilot is "recommended for its rare view of the RAF in its nascent years and beyond" ( Over the Front).
Annotated by aviation historian Norman Franks, this ……続きを見る
Sun Tzu in Space provides a novel way of thinking about the future, connecting international relations, history, and science fiction to better understand some of the various paths for future human a……続きを見る
Terror in Frankfurt is the untold story about one of the most terrifying terrorist attacks in U.S. Air Force history. This riveting account follows Staff Sergeant Trevor Brewer through his school ye……続きを見る
著者:D. Ray Bowe
出版社: Bowe Brothers Books
発売日: 2022年04月12日
This book is a compilation of the stories of three brothers, and the many others they knew, while they served in their respective Air Force units alongside other branches of the military and support……続きを見る
An F/A-18 TopGun Fighter Pilot shares with you the philosophy and attitude to help anyone achieve more, through a thrilling story of achievement and victory.
Officer School, Flight Training, Dogfigh……続きを見る
When his electronic warfare plane--call sign Bat 21--was shot down on 2 April 1972, fifty-three-year-old Air Force navigator Iceal “Gene” Hambleton parachuted into the middle of a North Vietnamese i……続きを見る
This classic study is considered essential reading for its analysis of fast aircraft carrier development in WWII. It provides a fascinating record not only of the U.S. Navy's metamorphosis from a ba……続きを見る
An exceptional storyteller with an analytical eye, Merrel Clubb has gathered the letters he sent his parents from the Pacific Theater of World War II and his subsequent reflections on that war and o……続きを見る
著者:Richard D. Newton
出版社: University Press of Kansas
発売日: 2020年02月10日
In light of technological advances and multiplying irregular conflicts, conventional wisdom suggests airpower as the ideal, low-cost means of conducting modern warfareーand the air control method ad……続きを見る
This book is a collection of mostly light hearted stories about tactical Naval Aviation off aircraft carriers in the 1960’s and 1970’s. It is not a history, per se, nor is it like one of the many fi……続きを見る
This book is, simultaneously, a biography of Admiral Herbert Victor Wiley and a history of the U.S. Navy’s lighter-than-air program. As tensions rose between Japan and the U.S. over control of East ……続きを見る
The C-124 Globemaster--a U.S. military heavy-lift transport in service 1950 through 1974--barreling down a runway was an awesome sight. The aircraft's four 3800 hp piston engines (the largest ever m……続きを見る
An F/A-18 TopGun Fighter Pilot shares with you the philosophy and attitude to help anyone achieve more, through a thrilling story of achievement and victory.
Officer School, Flight Training, Dogfigh……続きを見る
After 9/11, the initial focus from the U.S. government, media, and the public was on security at commercial airports and aboard commercial airlines. Soon, investigation revealed the hijackers had tr……続きを見る
The early history of British aerial defence development is one of misdirection and delusion. The misdirection, judging by the criteria of successful aerial defence in World War II, was primarily in ……続きを見る
To Rule the Skies: General Thomas S. Power and the Rise of Strategic Air Command in the Cold War fills a critical gap in Cold War and Air Force history by telling the story of General Thomas S. Powe……続きを見る
著者:Brian D. Laslie
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2021年05月14日
The first comprehensive treatment of the air wars in Vietnam.
Filling a substantial void in our understanding of the history of airpower in Vietnam, this book provides the first comprehensive treatm……続きを見る