Pen: 3888 books
by Hans Seidler
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
From the outset of WW2, Gőring’s Luftwaffe Flak units saw extensive fighting with their 2cm, 3.7cm and deadly 8.8cm anti-aircraft guns. By the time of Hitler’s invasion of Russia, Luftwaffe ground forces had been expanded and were being used in both the army support and air roles.
After...
Luck of a Lancaster
107 operations, 244 crew, 103 killed in action
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
No 9 Squadron of Bomber Command converted from the Wellington to the Lancaster in August 1942. W4964 was the seventieth Lanc to arrive on squadron, in mid April 1943. She flew her first op on the 20th, by which time No 9 had lost forty-one of their Lancs to enemy action and another five had been transferred...
by Ian Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2007
German Guns of the Third Reich is an illustrated record of German light and heavy artillery, heavy mortars, anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns at war. Using previously unpublished photographs, many of which have come from the albums of individuals who took part in the war, it presents a unique visual...
MIG Menace Over Korea
Nicolai Sutiagin, Top Ace Soviet of the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Nikolai Vasil'evich Sutiagin, the top-scoring Soviet air ace of the Korean War, flew his MiG-15 in lethal dogfights against American Sabres and Australian Meteors. He is credited with at 22 'kills'. Yet the full story of his extraordinary achievements has never been told. Only now, with the opening...
Lightning Eject
The Dubious Safety Record of Britain’s Only Supersonic Fighter
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
The English Electric Lightning entered RAF squadron service in 1960 and continued flying in the interceptor role until 1988. It had a stunning world-beating performance with a top speed in excess of Mach 2 and a climb rate that would take it to 40,000 feet in a little over 3 minutes. The aircraft’s...
A Century of Air Power
The Changing Face of Warfare 1912-2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
No other technical development since the introduction of gunpowder has had as great an influence on warfare as the aircraft. From its early beginnings as simply a means of aerial reconnaissance to its utter supremacy on the battlefield, the aircraft has evolved into the most versatile and precise...
Stoke Field
The Last Battle of the Wars of the Roses
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
The Battle of Stoke, the last and most neglected armed clash of the Wars of the Roses, is one of history's great might-have-beens. The forces of the first Tudor king Henry VII confronted the rebel army of the pretender Lambert Simnel and his commander the Earl of Lincoln. Henry's victory over the...
In the Teeth of the Wind
Memoirs of the Royal Navy Air Service in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
So rapid have been the advances in the science of aeronautics since the end of the First World War that it requires a considerable feat of imagination to cast one's mind back over the comparatively short period of seventy years to the days when Flight Commander Bartlett of the Royal Naval Air Service...
Eagles Over North Africa and the Mediterranean
1940 – 1943
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Although the Luftwaffe achieved a great deal of success in North Africa between 1940 and 1943, it was hampered by the constant demand for men and machines elsewhere, logistical problems, such as a crippling lack of fuel, and the harsh desert conditions.
An impressive selection of photographs...
Luftwaffe Bombers in the Battle of Britain
Rare photographs from wartime archives
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Luftwaffe Bombers in the Battle of Britain will contains some 140-150 images of German bomber aircraft during the summer of 1940. The images will cover the entirety of the battle and will depict losses across Britain during this period. Each picture will tell its own story, and will be fully captioned...
The Strike Wings
Special Anti-Shipping Squadrons 1942-45
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
In November 1942, the RAF formed special Strike Wings to attack the heavily defended and seemingly invulnerable convoys that brought Germany’s vital supplies of iron ore from Scandinavia down the coast of Europe to feed its war machine. The outcome was a series sea/air battles at close quarters,...
by Hamish Ross, Fred Marafono
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Even by SAS standards this is the story of an outstanding warrior.
On the point of being demobbed from the SAS, Fred Marafono was recruited by David Stirling for his private security company. After Stirling’s death, Fred found himself in the midst of Sierra Leone’s Blood Diamond wars, and...
Meteor from the Cockpit
Britain's First Jet Fighter
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
The Meteor is remembered as the first British jet fighter to enter squadron service and the only jet powered Allied fighter to see action in WW II. Subsequent development was limited as a result of its relatively conventional airframe although it did hold the world air speed record for a while. The...
The Four Geniuses of the Battle of Britain
Watson-Watt, Henry Royce, Sydney Camm and RJ Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Had it not been for the vital contributions of the four men and their inventions described in this book the Battle of Britain could not have been won by the Royal Air Force. Each of these brilliant men contributed enormously to the aircraft and equipment upon which the gallant RAF fighter pilots depended...