Air Forces & Warfare

The Great War of 1914-1918 saw the rapid development of the aeroplane as a weapon of war. Initially its role was seen as that of reconnaissance, an...

'A brilliant insight into life in the air and on the ground' ObserverIn February 1945, British and American bombers rained down thousands of tons o...

R. J. Mitchell at Supermarine is the definitive account of the life of Britains best-known aeronautical engineer. Shelton calls upon unpublished le...

If the Wright brothers' 1903 flights in Kitty Hawk marked the birth of aviation, World War I can be called its violent adolescence--a brief but blo...

Maltese aviation artist and historian Richard J. Caruana, who started his career just over 50 years ago, celebrates this special milestone with a w...

In 1933, the Air Ministry issued a specification for a general-purpose four-engine flying boat capable of operating from the outposts of the Empire...

The book will describe some of the most daring air attacks of World War II. Some were outstanding successes and some were unmitigated disasters. No...

The flak started about four or five minutes before the target and immediately it was apparent that it was intense and extremely accurate. Oboe enta...

Every week the TV news highlights the routine use of drones and guided missiles against terrorist enemies and the recreational use of drones has be...

The Soviet Air Force had just started to re-equip with modern fighters when the Germans opened Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Uni...

This beautifully illustrated book provides information on the air arms of the nations which took part in aerial warfare during the First World War ...

This second volume describes in detail the camouflage and markings of more of the day fighters used by the Yugoslav Air Force from 1918 to 1941. ...

The worlds worst air disaster happened more than 40 years ago on a remote Atlantic Ocean island, when two fully loaded 747 passenger jets collided ...

This revised edition contains 26 stories about World War II airmen who came to grief on the Pennine Hills of North Derbyshire. Wartime aviation his...

Studies of air combat in the Vietnam War inevitably focus on the MiG-killing fighter engagements, B-52 onslaughts or tactical strikes on the Hanoi ...

When the Wright Brothers made their first flight in the early years of the twentieth century it sparked the imagination of those who wanted to fly,...

Designed in response to a 1951 requirement, the C-130 Hercules is the most successful military airlifter ever built. Since it first flew in prototy...

It is fair to say that the DC-3 was the very first true airliner, and it paved the way for the hundreds of increasingly advanced commercial aircraf...

This is a compelling book for lovers of sea and air stories from the Great War era. In the twelve stories told by the participants, many of whom we...

Control of the air is the foundation for all conventional military operations against an adversary with an air defence capability. In future warfar...