Air Forces & Warfare

In 1935, the intent of the Army Air Corps was to build a potential intercontinental bomber, a Guardian of the Hemisphere; they granted Donald Dougl...

Willy Messerschmitt's Bf 109 is among the most famous fighter aircraft in the history of military aviation, and it was during the Spanish Civil War...

Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern B...

The B-24 Liberator remains to this day the world's most-produced heavy bomber and multi-engine aircraft, and the most produced military aircraft in...

Fighters Over the Fleet is an account of the parallel evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defense and the ships they sought to defend. This v...

In early 1942, while most of the American military was still in disarray from the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, a single...

The English Electric Canberra first came into production in the late 1940s and has since played a hugely significant part in world events. In Canbe...

Inspiring memoir of Colonel Harold H. Brown, one of the 930 original Tuskegee pilots, whose dramatic wartime exploits and postwar professional succ...

'James Holland is a master' BBC HistoryIt was to be the battle to end the air war once and for all.During the third week of February 1944, the comb...

This revised, expanded edition chronicles the development and career of the worlds predominant military airlifter, from its origins in the depths o...

Sam Elworthy's career was remarkable by any standards. Born in New Zealand in 1911 and educated in England, he was called to the Bar. After learnin...

By the autumn of 2001, the venerable F-14 Tomcat had been developed into a truly multi-role fighter-bomber thanks to the aircraft's awesome load-ca...

The most complete book ever published on the SR-71 Blackbird, from initial design stage and testing through production, testing, and operations. ...

The F4U Corsair, designed by Vought and produced by that firm, as well as, Goodyear and Brewster Aeronautical Corporation, would not only rack up a...

This concise, illustrated history focuses on the McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom II aircraft and units assigned to George AFB, California, from 19649...

Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Wi...

The B-24 Liberatorequipped organization that evolved from its original 2nd Bomb Wing status to a Divisional level commenced operations out of East ...

The XP-86F took to the skies for the first time in October 1947. Essentially, it was the result of incorporating swept wings into North American Av...

Until now, Army Air Force Bases in Nebraska during World War II had never before been presented in a single book (most of the photographed structur...

This is a study of one of the 8th USAAFs sub-units. The 1st Combat Bomb Wing (1CBW), created on 13 September 1943, was preceded first by the 1st Bo...

Storied pilot Homer Stockert, born in Churubusco, Indiana, won air races in Fort Wayne in the 1920s, earning him legendary fame while only in his t...

In Night Hunters , air power historian William P. Head provides the first detailed study of the development and deployment of the AC-130 gunship. W...