Fully illustrated, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops fighting in three bloody battles of World War II in the Pacific.In June 1944, the United States military launche...więcej »
Wspomnienia wojenne generała George’a Smitha Pattona jr (1885 –1945) przybliżają czytelnikowi tę niezwykle barwną i kontrowersyjną postać. Po ukończeniu elitarnej uczelni wojskowej w We...więcej »
Chorągiew wojewody pomorskiego Denhoffa, rzucona w tym czasie do boju na rozkaz króla, szybko uległa przeważającej sile wroga. Nadszedł decydujący moment boju kawalerii. Król nakazał ...więcej »
A superbly illustrated new account of how Germany's High Seas Fleet was built, operated and fought, as it challenged the world's most powerful navy in World War I.Seven years before the...więcej »
W pełnej pasji opowieści Autorzy prezentują rozwój koncepcji związanych z wykorzystaniem na polu walki wozów bojowych - od wzmiankowanych przez Homera rydwanów i renesansowych ...więcej »
During more than two decades of uninterrupted flying Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown enjoyed the most extraordinary career of any test pilot and no pilot has a logbook with list a greater variety o...więcej »
Having completed the revision of his series of British Secret Projects titles, Tony Buttler has now begun the same treatment for his early volumes on American Secret Projects. This first revised bo...więcej »
By the end of the Second World War the USA and Great Britain had developed viable jet fighters, even if these aircraft came a bit too late to have a significant impact on the course of the conflict...więcej »
A greatly expanded edition, with over 60 pages of new material, of the definitive book on these unusual and exciting aircraft. Brings the Ekranoplan story up to date whilst consideri...więcej »
After the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union tried to exert its political influence on the Asian continent. A major pillar of this cold‐war policy was the widespread supply of arms to th...więcej »
In the years after WWII, aircraft used for special missions appeared in the world’s leading air forces, including the Soviet Union. The first airborne early warning and control aircraft was t...więcej »
The second of two volumes charting the development of American airlifter design from the 1940s to the present day. Makes extensive uses of primary source material and includes many t...więcej »
To counter the threat from a Soviet 'blue water' navy, a large investment was made in the years from 1945 until the 1960s, to develop maritime patrol aircraft. For years the Air Staff and Ministrie...więcej »
This book examines the last generation of high-performance British propellor-driven fighters, types such as the Firecrest, late mark Spitfires and Seafires, Spiteful and Seafang, Sea Fury, late mar...więcej »
n 1963, Eugen Sänger, became head of the Eurospace organisation which promoted the ‘AeroSpace Transporter’. In response to a Eurospace call, aircraft makers in France, Germany and ...więcej »
This book charts the history of the US airlifter from its origins in World War II to today’s transport giants. In doing so, it reveals and describes numerous designs which never saw the ligh...więcej »
This book completes the process of revising Tony Buttler’s successful British Secret Projects titles, which have described the design and development of the UK’s military aircraft since...więcej »
The Tactical Aviation branch (FA – Frontovaya aviatsiya) has always occupied an important place in the structure of the Soviet, and subsequently Russian, Air Force. In the 20-odd post-Soviet ...więcej »
At the height of the Cold War it was Britain’s V-Force and its Valiant, Vulcan and Victor bombers that carried the UK’s nuclear deterrent from the mid Fifties until the end of the Sixti...więcej »
The design and production of the airborne signals intelligence (SIGINT) aircraft of the USAAF during World War Two was an example of a rapid wartime evolutionary process. In three short years, the ...więcej »