Category: World War Ii

By Richard Hough&Denis Richards

By Bryan Philpott

This ebook lines the background of RAF strive against devices flying in Singapore and Burma. the foremost airplane kinds operated via the RAF in this interval are all coated, and their missions exact. plane markings and aircrew uniforms are proven in complete color illustrations.

By Martin W. Bowman

The third Air department: Elveden corridor was once the Headquarters of this department of the eighth US military Air strength. frequently it flew B17 Flying Fortresses out of Suffolk, yet integrated a few bases in Norfolk. a few devices had brief sessions flying B24 Liberators. The recognized 'Bloody Hundredth', established at Thorpe Abbotts used to be normal of the devices in the third Air department. From June 1943 to January 1944 it focused its efforts opposed to airfields, submarine amenities and plane industries in France and Germany. January via may perhaps 1944, the gang bombed enemy airfields, industries, marshaling yards, V-1 missile websites, together with participation within the Allied crusade opposed to enemy airplane factories in the course of substantial Week, February 20-25, 1944. Participated within the first sunlight raid opposed to Berlin (March four, 1944) and accomplished a chain of assaults opposed to Berlin March 6, eight, 1944 for which the one centesimal Bomb crew used to be offered a moment Presidential Unit quotation. in the summertime of 1944 oil...

By Michael Asher

In summer season 1941 Erwin Rommel was once Hitler's favorite normal: he had pushed the British out of Libya and stood poised to invade Egypt. He appeared unbeatable. So the British determined to have him killed. The British opened their counter-attack with a chain of precise forces raids, the 1st ever operation by way of the newly shaped SAS. Rommel was once one of many goals. Michael Asher unearths how bad making plans and incompetence in excessive areas resulted in catastrophe within the desert-- and the way incredible bravery and very good improvisation enabled a handful of guys to flee. vintage actual existence event, written through best-selling wasteland professional and novelist Michael Asher.

By Samuel J. Newland

The authors commence with an exam of prewar making plans for varied contingencies, then circulation to the origins of “Germany first” in American struggle making plans. They then concentrate on the concept that, favourite via either George C. Marshall and Dwight D. Eisenhower, that the USA and its Allies needed to behavior a cross-channel assault and adopt an offensive geared toward the heartland of Germany. Following this history inside the preliminary chapters, the rest of the ebook presents a finished dialogue outlining how the ecu crusade was once was once conducted. The authors finish that American political leaders and warfare planners tested logical and available targets for the nation’s army forces. despite the fact that through the campaign’s execution, American army leaders have been sluggish to place into perform what may later be known as operational point war. For comparability, the authors comprise an appendix protecting German efforts at battle making plans within the tumultuous Nineteen Twenties and Nineteen Thirties.

By Rene Francillon, Gerry Embleton

This ebook lines the wrestle heritage of USAAF medium bomber devices of worldwide struggle 2. significant airplane kinds are all coated, and their missions over North Africa and Europe are distinct. plane markings and aircrew uniforms are proven in complete color illustrations.

By Bruce Quarrie

Offers with the German panzers in North Africa in the course of WW2

By Pictorial Record

"A significant number of photos with explanatory textual content that graphically portrays a variety of facets of the struggle in North Africa and the center East; Sicily, Corsica, and Sardinia; and Italy and southern France."