Air Forces & Warfare

In some ways, Alfie Fripp''''s war ended when he was shot down on a reconnaissance sortie over Germany in October 1939. In many others, it was only...

Originally designed to intercept Soviet bombers striking from the east, the Panavia Tornado Air Defence Variant was conceived as a stop gap, derivi...

First flown in 1940, the prototype Vought F4U Corsair instantly became the fastest fighter in the world and the fastest US aircraft of any descript...

The incredible details of the bold, near-disastrous first Allied airborne commando raid. Audacious to the extreme, Operation Colossus was a raid i...

During the First World War Britains Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) fought alongside one another in the greatest confli...

Silver Cross recipient, Mike Borlace is considered to be one of the most experienced combat helicopter pilots of recent times. Now he collates his ...

The early 1950s were a boom time for British aviation. The lessons of six years of war had been learned and much of the research into jet engines, ...

Book covers Finnish Jets used Finnish Air Force. Camouflage and markings of the fighters are described in unparalleled detail by the well-known Fin...

For anyone who is interested in the air war 1941-45, the information provided here is of inestimable value. There are no more than a handful of Sec...

At Easter 1972, North Vietnam invaded the South, and there were almost no US ground troops left to stop it. But air power reinforcements could ...

Danger and excitement; courage and selflessness and gripping stories of life and death in the air: Lady Luck took these heady ingredients and mixed...

The Luftwaffe - the German Air Force - will no longer have a decisive influence on the outcome of World War II, no matter how long it takes to ...

In this compelling sequel to Final Flights, aviation archaeologist Ian McLachlan has reconstructed the dramatic last flights of Second World War ai...

During the cradle of aviation, at the beginning of the Great War, France had access to only a few dozen military aircraft, with a staff who didnt q...

An updated and extended version of the now-out-of-print Volume 12 in the highly acclaimed Classic Warbirds series, this new book tells the stories ...

The 1970s were a decade of great change for Britains military air arms. The RAF handed over the role of operating Britains nuclear deterrent to the...

As part of the famous 101st Airborne Division (the Screaming Eagles), the 321st Glider Field Artillery Battalion saw nearly constant action during ...