Air Forces & Warfare

Anti-aircraft artillery was extensively used in combat in the First World War, though such weapons had made their debut in the Franco-Prussian War ...

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), also called the Lightning II, is a strike fighter airplane being procured in different versions for the Air Fo...

While the United States sought to remain neutral in the early years of World War II, some Americans did not. This book is the first to provide t...

In some ways, Alfie Fripp''''s war ended when he was shot down on a reconnaissance sortie over Germany in October 1939. In many others, it was only...

Originally designed to intercept Soviet bombers striking from the east, the Panavia Tornado Air Defence Variant was conceived as a stop gap, derivi...

First flown in 1940, the prototype Vought F4U Corsair instantly became the fastest fighter in the world and the fastest US aircraft of any descript...

The incredible details of the bold, near-disastrous first Allied airborne commando raid. Audacious to the extreme, Operation Colossus was a raid i...

During the First World War Britains Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) fought alongside one another in the greatest confli...

Silver Cross recipient, Mike Borlace is considered to be one of the most experienced combat helicopter pilots of recent times. Now he collates his ...

The early 1950s were a boom time for British aviation. The lessons of six years of war had been learned and much of the research into jet engines, ...

Book covers Finnish Jets used Finnish Air Force. Camouflage and markings of the fighters are described in unparalleled detail by the well-known Fin...

For anyone who is interested in the air war 1941-45, the information provided here is of inestimable value. There are no more than a handful of Sec...

At Easter 1972, North Vietnam invaded the South, and there were almost no US ground troops left to stop it. But air power reinforcements could ...

Danger and excitement; courage and selflessness and gripping stories of life and death in the air: Lady Luck took these heady ingredients and mixed...

The Luftwaffe - the German Air Force - will no longer have a decisive influence on the outcome of World War II, no matter how long it takes to ...

In this compelling sequel to Final Flights, aviation archaeologist Ian McLachlan has reconstructed the dramatic last flights of Second World War ai...

During the cradle of aviation, at the beginning of the Great War, France had access to only a few dozen military aircraft, with a staff who didnt q...

An updated and extended version of the now-out-of-print Volume 12 in the highly acclaimed Classic Warbirds series, this new book tells the stories ...

The 1970s were a decade of great change for Britains military air arms. The RAF handed over the role of operating Britains nuclear deterrent to the...

As part of the famous 101st Airborne Division (the Screaming Eagles), the 321st Glider Field Artillery Battalion saw nearly constant action during ...

The Battle of Britain started on 10 July 1940, ending 16 weeks later on 31 October 1940. The Luftwaffes intention was to destroy Fighter Command, d...

Spitfire Voices represents an important oral history of the Spitfire from the fighter pilot's perspective. Drawing upon the personal letters, diari...

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 fighte...

More than 150,000 American Jews served in the air war during World War II. Despite acts of heroism and commendations, they were subject to bigot...

The jump jet was the first vertical/short takeoff and landing (VSTOL) operational jet aircraft developed using the revolutionary vectored thrust Pe...

Shortly before the start of the Second World War, the University Air Squadron was formed to give basic training to young men selected as potential ...

This book evaluates the development of the Rhodesian Air Force during the Second Chimurenga or Bush War (1966-1980). Airpower in irregular confl...

Combat helicopter pilots in the Vietnam War flew each mission in the face of imminent death. Begun as a series of letters to Department of Veterans...

She flew the swift P-51 and the capricious P-38, but the heavy, four-engine B-17 bomber and C-54 transport were her forte. This is the story of Nan...

Find out how a pilot was instructed in flying a Battle of Britain fighter, using the original Pilot's Notes for the Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker...

Ryuji Nagatsuka did not know, when he made an application to become a pilot in October 1943, that by the following autumn Japans situation in the w...