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Dirigible Dreams
The Age of the Airship
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Here is the story of airships—manmade flying machines without wings—from their earliest beginnings to the modern era of blimps. In postcards and advertisements, the sleek, silver, cigar-shaped airships, or dirigibles, were the embodiment of futuristic visions of air travel. They immediately captivated...
The Black Sheep
The Definitive History of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
With their renowned squadron leader Greg “Pappy” Boyington, Marine Fighting Squadron (VMF) 214 was one of the best-known and most colorful combat units of World War II. The popular television series Baa Baa Black Sheep added to their legend—while obscuring the truly remarkable combat record...
Flying the SR-71 Blackbird: In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission
In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
For anyone who has ever wondered what its like to fly the SR-71 on a secret Mach 3 reconnaissance mission, this book has the answer. Flying the SR-71 Blackbird takes readers along on an operational mission that only a few Air Force pilots have ever experienced. The Lockheed SR-71, unofficially known...
US Navy Carrier Aircraft vs IJN Yamato Class Battleships
Pacific Theater 1944–45
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
As the Pacific War approached a crescendo, the clashes between swarming US Navy carrier aircraft, and the gigantic Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) Yamato-class battleships became symbolic of the fortunes of the two nations. They also served as a metaphor for the profound changes in naval technology and...
by Charlie Cooper, Ann Cooper, Boyne
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2010
Covers the most famous air engagements in WWII's Pacific Theater of Operation in an exquisite and beautiful fusion of art and history. Paintings of acclaimed aviation artist Jack Fellows are supplemented by color maps, previously unpublished photographs, original artwork, and personal accounts. Climb...
by Martin Bowman
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
This fourth volume of a comprehensive five part work on D-Day covers every aspect of aerial operations on and behind the beaches at 'Omaha' and 'Utah' beaches on 6 June 1944. It might be imagined that the passing years would blunt the outlines of the experience but the D-Day veterans do not forget....
Master of Airpower
General Carl A. Spatz
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
“A valuable and long-overdue biography of one of America’s greatest soldiers.”—Parameters
The story of Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaatz’s life is more than a biography of one of America’s great military leaders. It is a history of the development of airpower, and a fascinating, inside look...
The Touch of Greatness
Colonel William C. Bentley Jr., Usaac/Usaf; Aviation Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Colonel William C. Bentley Jr. was a member of the small elite group of U.S. Army Air Corps officers who formed the genesis for the development of what we now know as the U.S. Air Force. He was not only rated as a Command Pilot and was a test pilot on the B-17, but he was a doctrinal visionary in...
by Richard Bach
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
From the bestselling author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, comes an inspiring collection of short stories of being a pilot.
With perfect insight, Richard Bach captures the true esssence of flying and the magic of being in the air. Philosophical and adventurous, each story will grab you and...
Air Power
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This essential book offers a compelling and original interpretation of the rise of military aviation. Jeremy Black, one of the world’s finest scholars of military history, provides a lucid analysis of the use of airpower over land and sea both during the two world wars and the more limited wars...
Target for Tonight
A pilot's memoirs of flying long-range reconnaissance and Pathfinder missions in World War II.
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
The author was born of a well-to-do Yorkshire family and joined the Auxiliary Air Force on his eighteenth birthday in 1939. On the occasion of Chamberlain's speech to the British nation on September 3 the situation changed dramatically and from being a 'super weekend club', his squadron was assigned...
LZ Hot!
Flying South Africa's Border War
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
This book captures the experience of the South African Air Force helicopter pilot as never before; from 'rookie' to seasoned combat aviator in one of history's most intense counterinsurgency conflicts - the South African Border War.
Nick Lithgow's work relates the grueling endurance of SADF...
Night and Day Bomber Offensive
Allied Airmen in World World II Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
For much of World War II England provided the only western European base from which the British and American air forces could take the war into Nazi-occupied Europe and Germany itself. The American Eighth and Ninth Air Forces struck enemy targets by day at great distances, often on raids of eight...
English Electric Canberra
The History and Development of a Classic Jet
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
This amazing airplane first flew in 1949 and is still in front-line service with the RAF. It has served in a variety of roles including those of tactical bomber, photo-reconnaissance, navigational trainer, maritime strike, electronic countermeasures and target-towing. It was manufactured in the USA...