Air Forces & Warfare

World War I fighter pilot William C. Lambert of Ironton, Ohio, flew for the British Royal Air Force in 1918. When he left the Western Front in A...

As a child, Dilip Sarkar was fascinated by the haunting image of an anonymous RAF Spitfire pilot. Taken minutes after landing from a Battle of Brit...

In this fascinating book the author examines the Japanese concept of Kamikaze, the deliberate self-sacrifice of life in the cause of victory. This ...

After the Gulf War of 1990, No Fly Zones (NFZ) were established over northern and southern Iraq and the Tornado GR 1 force stepped up to operations...

It is now more than 40 years since Fighters over the Desert was published, and nearly as long since this was followed by Fighters over Tunisia. Bot...

The Navigation Case reveals the drama and sacrifice expended by Americas pioneering pilots first ever demonstration of air superiority, during the ...

Throughout the first year of the war in the Pacific during World War II the USAAF was relatively ineffective against ships. Indeed, warships in par...

Bomber Command is a richly illustrated account of the Royal Air Force organisation from its inception prior to the Second World War in 1936 to its ...

Skalski Against all Odds provides a gripping and detailed account of the career of General Stanislaw Skalski, VM & bar, KW & 3bars, DSO, DF...

''Fascinating ... this collection illuminates corners of the wartime world ... it provides a valuable and often entertaining window'' GUARDIAN''The...

The Battle of Britain from July to September 1940 is one of the finest moments in our Nation's history. While credit rightly goes to 'The Few', vic...

From the television footage shown in all its stark reality and the daily coverage and subsequent memoirs, the impression delivered from the air bat...

For forty-four years, Clive Rowley flew with the Royal Air Force and for thirty-one of those years he specialised as an air defence fighter pilot. ...

In 1938, the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal, acting under the requirements issued by the Kaigun Koku Hombu for a Navy Experimental 13-Shi Car...

The German invasion of the Netherlands was meant to be a lightning-fast surgical strike, aimed at shoring up the right flank of the assault on ...

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 Blackburn, later Hawker Siddeley, Buccaneer enjoyed an incredible service career that lasted over four decades. Designed as a carrier-borne att...

The story of the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough, forerunner of the Worlds premier aeronautical research establishment wherein were designed ...

Shortly after the end of the Second World War, the United Kingdom was described as one vast aircraft carrier anchored off the coast of Europe. Duri...

The concept of strategic assault of a Nations industrial and military base by air was heralded by Britain as far back as the immediate period befor...

Often described as the US Armys aerial jeep the UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) was the general-purpose vehicle that provided mobility in a hostile jungle env...

Air-dropped supplies were a vital part of the Allied campaign in Burma during World War II. The transportation of munitions, food and medical suppl...

It was supposed to be just a training flight. The two Soviet-manufactured MiG 21s, each with two practice bombs and four air-to-ground rockets, wer...

All of a sudden there was the rush of an immense shadow coming towards him at terrific speed. It was the ground reaching up to gather him. The date...

''A military adventure, written with expertise...a tale of initiative,skill and courage, of pushing beyond the rules.'' The SpectatorApril 1982. Ar...

Dancing the Skies charts the flying career of Group Captain David Roome, who joined the Royal Air Force aged 18 as a pilot and flew the supersonic ...

Rendezvous with history, treading the land of France again... On 6 June 1944 there were nearly 500 French pilots and ground crew taking part in one...

Aerial warfare which has dominated western war-making for over 100 years, and despite regular announcements of its demise, it shows no sign of beco...

A riveting double biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women test pilots Hitler's personal Valkyries.Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von St...

'Stay low, stay on track, and stay alive' was the motto of the RAF's most secret Station, Tempsford. That's exactly what Geoffrey Rothwell did DFC...

No one could doubt that Frederick Warren Merriam was one of the earliest and most important of Britain's aviation pioneers. Indeed, he taught many ...

The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSE...

The aim of those who created the International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) was clear to provide a world-class facility to serve as a point for re...

Stanisaw Skalski was the top Polish fighter ace and the first Allied fighter ace of World War II. His combat career began on the wars very first da...

Although seen as a replacement for the A6M Zero-sen carrier-based fighter, the Mitsubishi J2M Raiden was actually designed as a land-based naval in...

Where was the Luftwaffe on D-Day? The Pointblank Directive answers this question using extensive new research that creates a portrait of perhaps th...