Air Forces & Warfare

From the South China Sea to the mountains of Nepal, the continued economic rise of the Peoples Republic of China has led to a dramatic shift in the...

On 4 July 1942, American airmen flew in US-built bombers against a German target for the first time. It was a small operation involving six US crew...

This instant Sunday Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter pilots whose remarkable encounter during the Second World War became the stuff ...

In the bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, Stephen E. Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battleground...

Here is an authentic memoir of a remarkably wide range of Western Front experience from the very beginning of the Great War until the end. Strange ...

In August 1917, the U.S. 26th Yankee Division was formally activated for service in World War I. When the soldiers arrived in France, they were acc...

This book gives a detailed account of the Zeppelin raids on Bolton and Rossendale in late September 1916, setting them in the context of wider even...

Aerial bombardment remains important to military strategy, but the norms governing bombing and the harm it imposes on civilians have evolved. The p...

The Americans second year of the war saw the Eighth Air Force finally bombing Berlin, or Big-B as it was known. The arrival in the theatre of an ev...

By early 1941, Great Britain stood alone against the aerial might of Nazi Germany and was in need of pilots. The Lend-Lease Act allowed for the tra...

Bill Lambert: World War I Flying Ace is a detailed scholarly biography of a World War I pilot who lived at the edge of greatness, but could never...

This diary focuses intensely on Col. Samuel Russ Harris' life within his own 499th Bomb Group and his relationship with the 73rd Bomb Wing's ope...

Viper Pilot is the high-octane memoir of one of America's elite aviators: a twenty-year battle-seasoned pilot who flew 151 combat missions in the w...

In December 1943, Eisenhower was Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe with General Carl Spaatz in command of all US Army Air Force. In Janu...

The RAF Halton Apprenticeship Scheme has a deserved reputation for excellence. The brainchild of MRAF Hugh Trenchard, the founder of the Royal Air ...