Air Forces & Warfare

The US Air Force has performed peripheral reconnaissance adjacent to the traditional foe of Russia, China, North Korea and others for seven decades...

The fate of the free world hung in the balance. Stalin's Soviet Union sought to drive the Western democracies from Germany to continue the communis...

_ I realised that this brief but abortive sortie was to be the final mission of my Luftwaffe flying career.'_ Johannes Kaufmann's career was an ex...

After World War II the Royal Air Force went through a considerable downsizing, but retained an essential maritime reconnaissance role for the prote...

The Red Star and the Roundel are the symbols of organisations that share a century of existence, a century with a full quota of conflict as well as...

In 1938, the Reichsluftfahrtsministerium (German Air Ministry, RLM), issued a requirement for a new twin-engine heavy fighter to replace the Me 110...

New and updated edition: the original autobiography is enhanced by the addition of family photos and extracts from unpublished letters and writings...

The ideas behind the Grumman F-14 Tomcat first began to take shape back in the late 1950s when it was discovered that the Soviet Union was quickly ...

After his books about the Pointe du Hoc, WN 62 and recently Pegasus Bridge and the Melville Battery, von Keusgen gives us here a lively chronologic...

The untold story of the hitherto secret projects that lead to the development of inertial navigation in the UK, and the many missiles that were des...

Ever since its invention, aviation has embodied the dream of perpetual peace between nations, yet the other side of this is the nightmare of an unp...

July 1940, and Britain is the only European country which hasnt caved in to Hitlers Third Reich. Hitlers stated aim was to eliminate the English ho...

Following on from the success of Victor Boys and Vulcan Boys, Tony Blackman, in collaboration with Anthony Wright, brings you Valiant Boys to compl...

Replacing the Vulcan, Buccaneer and Jaguar in the front line of the Cold War, the remarkable swing-winged Tornado GR1 provided Britain s strike c...

The McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom was a true multi-role combat aircraft. Introduced into the RAF in 1968, it was employed in ground attack, air reco...