NASM copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Summary "Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for fifty years, using resources that span the globe. This book, ...

Germany invades Poland, leading Great Britain and France to declare war against Germany. May 15, 1940 In the first large scale “bombing war,” Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) bombs the Ruhr area of ...

Originally published in 1980 in von Below's native Germany, this English translation is sure to become an important memoir for those studying the Nazi war machine. In 1937, von Below was a 20-year-old ...

London: Greenhill/Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole, . Pp. 191. Illus, maps, tables, append., biblio., index. $19.95 . ISBN:1-85367-440-0 An immensely detailed, yet quite ...

LONDON: Goering is trying his hardest to give us in full the secrets of the Luftwaffe, writes Paul Holt. His most important revelation has convinced Allied experts that the jet-propelled aircraft will ...

As WWII drew to a close, Hitler's army was working at a furious pace in the hope of creating and deploying a number of weapons that could potentially have won the war. Many of these lethal inventions ...

German airmen who crashed in Ireland during the Second World War and survived were interned here, becoming objects of great curiosity among local people who encountered them, as Ryle Dwyer discovers.

A refurbished wartime pillbox has been opened up for the first time since 1945 to commemorate the Filton Blitz, which killed more than 140 people. Bristol Aeroplane Company's works and airfield were ...

3 colour charts in pocket inside back cover of vol. 1. 2 colour charts and an appendix inside back cover of vol. 2. v. 2 written also with J. Richard Smith and Tom Willis. v. 1. Pre-war development, ...