Air Forces & Warfare

In August 1943, a highly classified US Army Air Force unit, code-named the 'Wright Project', departed Langley Field for Guadalcanal in the South Pa...

Italy began work on a new fighter-bomber in the late 1970s, aiming to field an aircraft capable of surviving in heavily defended Cold War airspace,...

A vivid narrative history of the Solomons and New Guinea campaigns of World War II, which represented key turning points in the U.S. Navy's campaig...

Using maps, contemporary photographs, and new artwork, this book examines the Hellcat and the naval aviators who flew them. Joining combat in the ...

Researched from original-language primary sources, this is a uniquely well-informed and multi-faceted history of the World War I air campaign of Bl...

'Awesome!' - Andy McNab'You must read this book' - Colonel Tim Collins OBE'Page-turning and revelatory' - Sir Ranulph Fiennes_________________The o...

The Messerschmitt ME 163 Komet was the most dangerous production fighter ever built by Germany, and Sgt. E.R. Jones of Stockton, California receive...

Clive 'Killer' Caldwell was a natural and brilliant pilot, a superb shot, and a born leader. He saw action against the Germans, Italians and Japane...

The enemy bomber grew larger in my sights and the rear gunner was sprayed by my guns just as he opened fire. The rest was merely a matter of second...

On 20 January 1944 Bomber Command Navigator Reginald Wilsons Halifax, LW337, comes into the sights of an ace Luftwaffe night fighter pilot, and is ...

On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. It was the start of a conflict that would erupt over every continent, see the deaths of tens of millio...

Lasting sixteen weeks during the momentous year of 1940, the Battle of Britain ended with the Luftwaffe having failed to achieve the decisive victo...

Jeff Gray won the Distinguished Flying Medal in command of a Lancaster bomber. After the war he flew the York, Hermes, Stratocruiser, Comet 4, and ...

This definitive work on air rescue operations of the US Army Air Force and US Air Force takes the reader from the birth of the service during World...

Hanna Reitsch longed to fly. Having broken records and earned the respect of the Nazi regime, she became the first female Luftwaffe test pilot, and...

The US Army's Special Operations Aviation Regiment fields the best helicopter pilots in the world. Alan Mack was one of these intrepid Night Stalk...

Profoundly moved by the stories of wartime casualties as a child, Dilip Sarkar has since spent a lifetime reconstructing the lives of many of the f...

Drawing on rare, historical photography and specially commissioned artwork, Matthew Willis explores the heroic feats of the few Royal Navys obsoles...

During the Battle of Midway in June 1942, US Navy dive bomber pilot Wade McClusky proved himself to be one of the greatest pilots and combat leader...

In Fifteenth Air Force against the Axis: Combat Missions over Europe during World War II, Kevin A. Mahoney provides a detailed combat history of th...

Suhail Aziz was born in Sylhet, Bangladesh. He joined the Pakistan Navy and, after initial training in Pakistan, he entered the Britannia Royal Nav...

September 1940: In the midst of the Second World War, The Luftwaffe unleashed a series of devastating raids on Southampton, all but destroying its ...

General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the twentieth century, but his leadership of the second lar...

The story of the P-51B Mustang aircraft from its development prior to the American entry into the war through to D-Day in June 1944. During World ...

Arguably two of the finest fighters built during the course of World War II, the Me 262 and P-51 Mustang heralded new dawns in aircraft performance...

For anyone who is interested in the air war from 1941 to 1945, the information provided here is of inestimable value. There are no more than a hand...

Very few people would include Mexico in the list of U.S. World War II Allies. Sadly, Mexico's aid to the United States and the Allies has been larg...

Fly with the best in Top Gun: 50 Years of Naval Air Superioritythe definitive, highly illustrated, in-depth look at the Navy's famous fighter unit,...

During the Second World War, a secret department was formed at Britain''s Air Ministry to co-ordinate a strategy to defeat German bombing by means ...

It was not long before midnight on 17 May 1943 when the inhabitants of Günne, the German village close to the Möhne Dam, heard the air-raid warning...

In the early hours of 26th June 1942, six airmen from 102 Squadron return from Bremen in their Halifax, Q for Queenie, having taken part in the thi...

The Hawker Hurricane, together with the Spitfire, is the most famous aircraft of the Second World War. Many pilots including Douglas Bader thought ...

Bomber Command's night offensive against Nazi Germany, which lasted for nearly six years, was one of Britain's major contributions to the allied ef...

The remarkable memoir of a U.S. fighter pilot, who after his escapades of shooting down German aircraft in France began an even greater adventure a...

For you the war is over. Last of the Kriegies tells the extraordinary stories of five of the last remaining Second World War RAF Bomber Command Pri...

On 16 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster aircraft from the RAFs 617 Squadron set off to attack the great dams in the industrial heart of Germany. Flying ...