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, ...

On January 1, 1945, the skies over Western Europe erupted in one of the most intense air battles of World War II. The German Luftwaffe launched Operation Boden Plata, a high-risk attack against ...

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 ...

No sooner the first aircraft rose into the sky the military took hold of the new invention As far back as World War 1 daredevil pilots engaged into the fighting and aces like Manfred von Richtofen or ...

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 ...