Air Forces & Warfare

Corporal Leonard Guttridge was among the many unsung heroes of the Battle of Britain--the Royal Air Force mechanics and armorers who patched bul...

One Nation Under Drones is an interesting and informative review of how robotic and unmanned systems are impacting every aspect of American life, f...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From bestselling historian Saul David, a riveting new history of the Bri...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From bestselling historian Saul David, a riveting new history of the Bri...

World War II is enshrined in our collective memory as the good war - a victory of good over evil. However, the bombing war has always troubled this...

Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force documents the rapid development of nuclear ballistic missiles in ...

Winning Armageddon provides definition to an all-too-long neglected figure of the Cold War General Curtis E. LeMay and tells the story of his advoc...

The last Pacific campaign of World War II was the most violent on record. Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher's Task Force 58 carriers had conducted air str...

During World War II the United States mobilized its industrial assets to become the great Arsenal of Democracy through the cooperation of the gover...

Free to patrol the skies and surface of the high seas under international law, U.S. and Soviet naval and air forces made daily direct contact durin...

The fourth volume in a series which describes the history of the little-known emblems and distinctive markings of early Russian military aircraft f...

From the author of Taking Mr. Exxon and The Death of an Heir comes the untold story of four luxury airliners trapped in the Pacific Ocean on and af...

A common theme of airpower histories is that the Combined Bomber Offensive was the proving ground for a post-war independent air force. Whether or ...

Based on extensive archival research, Sterling Michael Pavelec recounts the adventures of the handful of aviators and their aircraft during the Gal...

A fully illustrated study of the Nakajima Ki49 Helen, the twin-engined bomber of the Pacific War, from Japanese aviation expert George Eleftheriou....

After the devastating Pearl Harbor attacks in the spring of 1942, the United States was determined to show the world that the Axis was not invincib...

Illustrated with accurate artworks of military aircraft and their markings, Chinese Military Aircraft is a detailed guide to all the aircraft types...

**AS FEATURED IN THE TELEGRAPH**The ultimate fighting machine...The unflinching memoir of the elite combat pilot who flew it in action...And his na...

The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign of World War II, lasting the entirety of the war in Europe from September 1939 to May 1945. It ...

The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign of World War II, lasting the entirety of the war in Europe from September 1939 to May 1945. It ...

The history of aviation is full of striking and unusual designs, from the biplanes and triplanes of World War I, through the giant bombers and stre...

Secret Mission tells the tale of the secretive reconnaissance units assigned to the United States Air Forces in Europe that flew covert reconnaissa...

During the postwar era, the Soviet Union emerged as Americas sole threat, rendering the U.S. Army and Navy impotent against its vast military power...

From the critically acclaimed author of Dünkirchen 1940, this is a groundbreaking history of the epic three-day battle for Hill 107 that changed th...

In the summer of 1940, a new German aircraft began appearing in the skies over the British Isles. Unlike the rest of the Luftwaffes fleet in the Ba...

When America entered World War II in 1941, it was first left to the Army Air Forces to take the fight to Germany. In January 1942 the US Eighth Air...

This book investigates how drone warfare is deeply gendered and how this can be explored through the methodological framework of Haunting.Utilising...

A unique, illustrated history of the US Navy Fighter Weapons School's 50-year history. This book provides a unique, illustrated history of the...