960円 From humble beginnings in 1911 with floatplanes, by the 1930s, the US Navy possessed dirigibles and were introducing fighter planes. By the start of WW2, monoplane fighters were replacing bi-planes and a major aircraft carrier build was underway.Fighters such as the Grumman FLF Hellcat and Vought...

1,760円 David Greville-Heygate was one of the few men who served in both the army and the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, but it was in the sky that he really earned his stripes. Stalking the skies flying photo-reconnaissance missions with No. 16 Squadron over Northern France, he was to win ...

10円 This book is for the passengers and aviation buffs who use Londons main airports. It includes a brief history, plans and photographs for each of the five airports, together with directions and information about gates, security, passport control, shopping, restaurants, car parks and other transpor...

18円 The development of air transport in the early 20th Century led military strategists to examine the concept of inserting light infantry at key points behind enemy lines by air landing and air drop.The Germans were first off-the-mark with assaults in Norway and at Eben Emael in 1940. Crete saw a la...

7,295円 In light of technological advances and multiplying irregular conflicts, conventional wisdom suggests airpower as the ideal, low-cost means of conducting modern warfareーand the air control method adopted by the British between the two world wars seems to back this up. Swift and precise targeting ...

5,300円 Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force documents the rapid development of nuclear ballistic missiles in the United States and their equally swift demise after the Cuban Missile Crisis, revealing how these drastic changes negatively influenced both the Ai...

752円 Dalla guerra d'Etiopia alla fine della Seconda guerra mondiale: questo è l'arco temporale in cui vengono analizzati, in quest'opera, i raid bellici a lungo raggio della Regia Aeronautica. La Regia Aeronautica, Arma prediletta del regime fascista, entra nella Seconda guerra mondiale, così come Ese...

1,405円 In questo libro l’autore descrive al meglio l’organizzazione e la storia dell’Aeronautica Militare Italiana che dopo l’armistizio nel 1943 rimase sotto il comando di Benito Mussolini e alleato della Germania: l’Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana (ANR). Lo studio parte dal suo fondatore il tenente...

2,135円 What happens when the history books are wrong? The United States Government wants you to not question the narrative that, in some cases, has been written by them for more than a century. But sometimes, real facts emerge from declassified documents that challenge what you thought you knew. This bo...

965円 This is a welcome reissue of a book which has been described as one of the best accounts about life in Bomber Command during World War II. Lancaster Target is the classic story of one crew’s fight to survive a full tour of operations in the night skies of wartime Europe. Flying Lancaster bombers ...

1,650円 “Jeffrey Copeland explains the complicated origins of something that most military members now take for grantedーthe promise of swift evacuation from the battlefield if wounded. Lt. Elsie Ott and her NCO Sam Rigazzi were two Army Air Forces medical professionals who made the first long-distance a...

562円 This book is about a kid, who was born and grew up on the north and wrong side of the tracks of a very small town, in poverty. And at age nine was on his own, street wise, with divorced parents going separate ways, two sisters went to live with aunts, the kid was on his own and lived with various...