Air Forces & Warfare

One of the many wartime airmen who documented his day to day experiences in a diary, was RCAF navigator Jan Gellner. Prior to the outbreak of the S...

The striking power of the Imperial Japanese Navys carrier-­based attack aircraft was established at Pearl Harbor, and the IJNs carrier-­based torpe...

Formed in 1918, the Royal Air Force is the oldest independent air force in the world. This long history has seen operations conducted across a vari...

In the new year of 1944 the French Resistance in northern France was on its knees. Relentless attacks on its diverse and disorganised networks by t...

Thor: Anatomy of a Weapon System examines the technical aspects of the Thor Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile system as based in the UK during t...

The moving biography of Lt Col William Norman Reed, a World War II fighter ace who fought with the Flying Tigers and died in defence of the two nat...

While the F 105 Thunderchief was the USAF''s principal strike weapon during the Rolling Thunder campaign, the US Navy relied on the Douglas A-4 Sky...

A compact guide to 70 of the most iconic aircraft to have shaped warfare over the last 100 years.Aviation has revolutionised warfare over the last ...

This is a fighter pilot's autobiography of life in the RAF from 1955 to 1991. It is structured around the Hawker Hunter, it being the first operati...

The air campaign that incinerated Japans cities was the first and only time that independent air power has won a war.As the United States pushed ...

This compact, masterful work by an outstanding historian marks a pivotal moment in military history: the birth of Britains Royal Air Force. Writing...

In 1948, when the newly founded nation of Israel came under siege from a coalition of Arab states, a band of volunteer airmen from the United State...

The birth of the Royal Air Force during World War I marked a pivotal moment in modern military and political history. With Europes western front fr...

It is a story that has been told on numerous occasions. Still, it has an air of improbability about it. A low flying aircraft, faced with an onslau...

Formed in 1916, 41 Squadron is one of the oldest Royal Air Force squadrons in existence. The unit saw service in the First World War, on Policing D...

With the Third Reich on the brink of defeat Hitler's instructions to his designers were clear. He wanted a Volksjäger a People's Fighter that was ...

This book presents a fresh angle on the Spitfire by examining the contribution to its development and achievements by over 65 people - some famous,...

In this engaging book we see how an 18-year-old miner shoveling ore from deep in the ground in Utah suddenly found himself, only two years later, 3...

When the Royal Canadian Air Force wouldnt accept him as a pilot in the summer of 1939, Keith Skeets Ogilvie walked across the street in Ottawa and ...

William Francis Blackadder was a pilot of No. 607 Squadron, one of only two Auxiliary Air Force squadrons posted across the Channel during the illf...

When modern readers think of Hermann Goring, what probably comes to mind is the overweight drug addict and convicted war criminal who cheated the h...