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A-10 Thunderbolt II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom 2002-07
Written by Gary Wetzel
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $22.95
In the early 1970s, the USAF, still fresh in the mire of the Vietnam War, began the search for a more effective aircraft to conduct the CAS mission. With aircraft losses climbing, the need for an aircraft that could withstand punishment as well as deliver it was unmistakable. Looking at past... Read more >
Written by Gary Wetzel
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $22.95
In the early 1970s, the USAF, still fresh in the mire of the Vietnam War, began the search for a more effective aircraft to conduct the CAS mission. With aircraft losses climbing, the need for an aircraft that could withstand punishment as well as deliver it was unmistakable. Looking at past... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
A-10 Thunderbolt II Units of Operation Enduring Freedom 2002-07
Written by Gary Wetzel
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
In the early 1970s, the USAF, still fresh in the mire of the Vietnam War, began the search for a more effective aircraft to conduct the CAS mission. With aircraft losses climbing, the need for an aircraft that could withstand punishment as well as deliver it was unmistakable. Looking at past... Read more >
Written by Gary Wetzel
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
In the early 1970s, the USAF, still fresh in the mire of the Vietnam War, began the search for a more effective aircraft to conduct the CAS mission. With aircraft losses climbing, the need for an aircraft that could withstand punishment as well as deliver it was unmistakable. Looking at past... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Bf 110 vs Lancaster
1942-45
Written by Robert Forczyk
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.95
Unable to conduct ground operations on the European continent until Allied strength was marshalled for a full-scale invasion, the British government based its grand strategy in World War II on a protracted campaign of aerial bombardment of Nazi Germany's cities in order to bring the Third Reich to its knees. At... Read more >
1942-45
Written by Robert Forczyk
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $18.95
Unable to conduct ground operations on the European continent until Allied strength was marshalled for a full-scale invasion, the British government based its grand strategy in World War II on a protracted campaign of aerial bombardment of Nazi Germany's cities in order to bring the Third Reich to its knees. At... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Bf 110 vs Lancaster
1942-45
Written by Robert Forczyk
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
Unable to conduct ground operations on the European continent until Allied strength was marshalled for a full-scale invasion, the British government based its grand strategy in World War II on a protracted campaign of aerial bombardment of Nazi Germany's cities in order to bring the Third Reich to its knees. At... Read more >
1942-45
Written by Robert Forczyk
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
Unable to conduct ground operations on the European continent until Allied strength was marshalled for a full-scale invasion, the British government based its grand strategy in World War II on a protracted campaign of aerial bombardment of Nazi Germany's cities in order to bring the Third Reich to its knees. At... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Brewster F2A Buffalo Aces of World War 2
Written by Kari Stenman
Illustrated by Chris Davey
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
Entering service with the US Navy as a carrier-borne fighter, the Brewster F2A, later named Buffalo by the British and simply the Brewster by the Finns, saw relatively little service with its own nation. Indeed, it was to see action on just one occasion in US colors: the engagement off Midway... Read more >
Written by Kari Stenman
Illustrated by Chris Davey
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.95
Entering service with the US Navy as a carrier-borne fighter, the Brewster F2A, later named Buffalo by the British and simply the Brewster by the Finns, saw relatively little service with its own nation. Indeed, it was to see action on just one occasion in US colors: the engagement off Midway... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Call Sign Rustic
The Secret Air War over Cambodia, 1970-1973
Written by Richard Wood
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $19.95
President Richard Nixon could not keep American ground troops in Cambodia beyond June 1970 without authorization from Congress, which was not forthcoming. Not wanting to desert the anti-communist Lon Nol regime, he ordered top-secret, round-the-clock air support over Cambodia, and the Rustics were born.
Author Richard Wood flew as one of the... Read more >
The Secret Air War over Cambodia, 1970-1973
Written by Richard Wood
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $19.95
President Richard Nixon could not keep American ground troops in Cambodia beyond June 1970 without authorization from Congress, which was not forthcoming. Not wanting to desert the anti-communist Lon Nol regime, he ordered top-secret, round-the-clock air support over Cambodia, and the Rustics were born.
Author Richard Wood flew as one of the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
A Wasp Among Eagles
A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II
Written by Ann Carl
Format: eBook, 152 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $14.95
Before World War II most Americans did not believe that the average woman could fly professionally, but during the war more than a thousand women pilots proved them wrong. These were the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), who served as military flyers on the home front. In March 1944 one of... Read more >
A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II
Written by Ann Carl
Format: eBook, 152 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $14.95
Before World War II most Americans did not believe that the average woman could fly professionally, but during the war more than a thousand women pilots proved them wrong. These were the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), who served as military flyers on the home front. In March 1944 one of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Balloon-Busting Aces of World War 1
Written by Jon Guttman
Illustrated by Harry Dempsey
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
Tethered balloons reached their zenith as a means of providing a stationary observation platform above the battlefield during World War I. It took a special breed of daredevil to take on such odds deep in enemy lines in order to destroy a balloon, with Balloon specialists such as Willy Coppens, Pierre... Read more >
Written by Jon Guttman
Illustrated by Harry Dempsey
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
Tethered balloons reached their zenith as a means of providing a stationary observation platform above the battlefield during World War I. It took a special breed of daredevil to take on such odds deep in enemy lines in order to destroy a balloon, with Balloon specialists such as Willy Coppens, Pierre... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Conflict in the Balkans 1991-2000
Written by Tim Ripley
Illustrated by Mark Rolfe
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
Osprey's examination of aircraft action in the Balkan region during the Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001) as well as during the conflicts that followed up until 2001. Exposing the true scale and significance of the deployment of air power in the Balkans, this book details the activities of NATO and UN aircraft as well... Read more >
Written by Tim Ripley
Illustrated by Mark Rolfe
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
Osprey's examination of aircraft action in the Balkan region during the Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001) as well as during the conflicts that followed up until 2001. Exposing the true scale and significance of the deployment of air power in the Balkans, this book details the activities of NATO and UN aircraft as well... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Curtiss P-40 ñ Long-nosed Tomahawks
Written by Carl Molesworth
Format: Trade Paperback, 57 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $18.95
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Written by Carl Molesworth
Format: Trade Paperback, 57 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $18.95
Read more >
Curtiss P-40 - Long-nosed Tomahawks
Written by Carl Molesworth
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
The initial version of the Curtiss P-40, designated by the manufacturer as the Hawk H-81, combined the established airframe of the earlier radial-powered H-75 (P-36) fighter with the Allison V-1710 liquid-cooled engine. The year was 1939, and the marriage was one of expediency. With the threat of war in Europe growing... Read more >
Written by Carl Molesworth
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
The initial version of the Curtiss P-40, designated by the manufacturer as the Hawk H-81, combined the established airframe of the earlier radial-powered H-75 (P-36) fighter with the Allison V-1710 liquid-cooled engine. The year was 1939, and the marriage was one of expediency. With the threat of war in Europe growing... Read more >
F-4 Phantom II vs MiG-21
USAF & VPAF in the Vietnam War
Written by Peter Davies and Gareth Hector
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
From difficult weather conditions to unreliable missile armament to unequal rules of engagement, this book tells the story of the challenges faced by the F-4 and MiG-21 pilots. Using first-hand accounts wherever possible the author draws us into the dangerous world experienced by American and North Vietnamese pilots. Influential leaders and... Read more >
USAF & VPAF in the Vietnam War
Written by Peter Davies and Gareth Hector
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
From difficult weather conditions to unreliable missile armament to unequal rules of engagement, this book tells the story of the challenges faced by the F-4 and MiG-21 pilots. Using first-hand accounts wherever possible the author draws us into the dangerous world experienced by American and North Vietnamese pilots. Influential leaders and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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F-86 Sabre vs MiG-15
Korea 1950-53
Written by Doug Dildy
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $18.95
As the routed North Korean People's Army (NKPA) withdrew into the mountainous reaches of their country and the People's Republic of China (PRC) funneled in its massive infantry formations in preparation for a momentous counter-offensive in the last months of 1950, both lacked adequate air power to challenge US and UN... Read more >
Korea 1950-53
Written by Doug Dildy
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $18.95
As the routed North Korean People's Army (NKPA) withdrew into the mountainous reaches of their country and the People's Republic of China (PRC) funneled in its massive infantry formations in preparation for a momentous counter-offensive in the last months of 1950, both lacked adequate air power to challenge US and UN... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
F-86 Sabre vs MiG-15
Korea 1950-53
Written by Doug Dildy
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
As the routed North Korean People's Army (NKPA) withdrew into the mountainous reaches of their country and the People's Republic of China (PRC) funneled in its massive infantry formations in preparation for a momentous counter-offensive in the last months of 1950, both lacked adequate air power to challenge US and UN... Read more >
Korea 1950-53
Written by Doug Dildy
Illustrated by Jim Laurier
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
As the routed North Korean People's Army (NKPA) withdrew into the mountainous reaches of their country and the People's Republic of China (PRC) funneled in its massive infantry formations in preparation for a momentous counter-offensive in the last months of 1950, both lacked adequate air power to challenge US and UN... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
MiG-3 Aces of World War 2
Written by Dmitriy Khazanov
Illustrated by Andrey Yurgenson
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
Created by ex-Polikarpov designers Ivanovic Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich, the MiG-1/3 family of fighters was built to satisfy a Soviet Air Force requirement for an advanced, fast, high altitude fighter. Entering service in the spring of 1941, the problematic MiG-1 had its handling problems rectified with the hasty production of the... Read more >
Written by Dmitriy Khazanov
Illustrated by Andrey Yurgenson
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
Created by ex-Polikarpov designers Ivanovic Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich, the MiG-1/3 family of fighters was built to satisfy a Soviet Air Force requirement for an advanced, fast, high altitude fighter. Entering service in the spring of 1941, the problematic MiG-1 had its handling problems rectified with the hasty production of the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
No 126 Wing RCAF
Written by Donald Nijboer
Illustrated by Chris Davey
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $16.95
The success of No 126 Wing began before the D-Day landings, but its phenomenal performance after the Normandy invasion has no simple explanation. True, it profited from being in all the right places at all the right moments during the war - D-Day and the breakout, Falaise Gap, Operation Market Garden... Read more >
Written by Donald Nijboer
Illustrated by Chris Davey
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $16.95
The success of No 126 Wing began before the D-Day landings, but its phenomenal performance after the Normandy invasion has no simple explanation. True, it profited from being in all the right places at all the right moments during the war - D-Day and the breakout, Falaise Gap, Operation Market Garden... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Blue Moon over Cuba: Aerial Reconnaissance during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Written by William B. Ecker USN (Ret)
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $9.95
Most books on the Cuban Missile Crisis tell the story using the memoirs of those who advised President Kennedy as he struggled to avoid World War III. This book is the only known personal account of the lead photographic reconnaissance squadron’s scouting dangerous low-level operations, flying the supersonic RF-8A Crusader, during... Read more >
Written by William B. Ecker USN (Ret)
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $9.95
Most books on the Cuban Missile Crisis tell the story using the memoirs of those who advised President Kennedy as he struggled to avoid World War III. This book is the only known personal account of the lead photographic reconnaissance squadron’s scouting dangerous low-level operations, flying the supersonic RF-8A Crusader, during... Read more >
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The British Airman of the Second World War
Written by Stuart Hadaway
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $12.95
This title will provide an introduction to the extraordinary range of conditions and challenges experienced by British airmen during the Second World War. The airman of the Royal Air Force served in every corner of the globe during this conflict, operating over oceans and deserts, jungles and cities. Rather than take... Read more >
Written by Stuart Hadaway
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $12.95
This title will provide an introduction to the extraordinary range of conditions and challenges experienced by British airmen during the Second World War. The airman of the Royal Air Force served in every corner of the globe during this conflict, operating over oceans and deserts, jungles and cities. Rather than take... Read more >
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Fokker D.XXI Aces of World War 2
Written by Kari Stenman
Illustrated by Chris Davey
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $22.95
Entering service with the Dutch air force from early 1938, the aircraft was also built under license in Denmark and Finland. Production was also scheduled to commence in Spain too but Nationalist forces overran the factory before this commenced. The Dutch D.XXIs saw less than a week of action following the... Read more >
Written by Kari Stenman
Illustrated by Chris Davey
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $22.95
Entering service with the Dutch air force from early 1938, the aircraft was also built under license in Denmark and Finland. Production was also scheduled to commence in Spain too but Nationalist forces overran the factory before this commenced. The Dutch D.XXIs saw less than a week of action following the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Fokker D.XXI Aces of World War 2
Written by Kari Stenman
Illustrated by Chris Davey
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.95
Entering service with the Dutch air force from early 1938, the aircraft was also built under license in Denmark and Finland. Production was also scheduled to commence in Spain too but Nationalist forces overran the factory before this commenced. The Dutch D.XXIs saw less than a week of action following the... Read more >
Written by Kari Stenman
Illustrated by Chris Davey
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.95
Entering service with the Dutch air force from early 1938, the aircraft was also built under license in Denmark and Finland. Production was also scheduled to commence in Spain too but Nationalist forces overran the factory before this commenced. The Dutch D.XXIs saw less than a week of action following the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Russian Aces of World War 1
Written by Victor Kulikov
Illustrated by Harry Dempsey
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $22.95
Although the Russian Imperial Army Air Service consisted of no more than four BAGs (Boevaya Aviatsionniy Gruppa – battle aviation groups), each controlling three or four smaller AOIs (Aviatsionniy Otryad Istrebitelei – fighter aviation detachments) equipped with a variety of aircraft types, its fighter pilots nevertheless gave a good account of... Read more >
Written by Victor Kulikov
Illustrated by Harry Dempsey
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $22.95
Although the Russian Imperial Army Air Service consisted of no more than four BAGs (Boevaya Aviatsionniy Gruppa – battle aviation groups), each controlling three or four smaller AOIs (Aviatsionniy Otryad Istrebitelei – fighter aviation detachments) equipped with a variety of aircraft types, its fighter pilots nevertheless gave a good account of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Russian Aces of World War 1
Written by Victor Kulikov
Illustrated by Harry Dempsey
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.95
Although the Russian Imperial Army Air Service consisted of no more than four BAGs (Boevaya Aviatsionniy Gruppa – battle aviation groups), each controlling three or four smaller AOIs (Aviatsionniy Otryad Istrebitelei – fighter aviation detachments) equipped with a variety of aircraft types, its fighter pilots nevertheless gave a good account of... Read more >
Written by Victor Kulikov
Illustrated by Harry Dempsey
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.95
Although the Russian Imperial Army Air Service consisted of no more than four BAGs (Boevaya Aviatsionniy Gruppa – battle aviation groups), each controlling three or four smaller AOIs (Aviatsionniy Otryad Istrebitelei – fighter aviation detachments) equipped with a variety of aircraft types, its fighter pilots nevertheless gave a good account of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Spanish Republican Aces
Written by Rafael Lopez
Illustrated by Julio Caeiro
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.95
At the start of the civil war, most young fighter officers joined the rebels (Nationalists). It was the high ranking officers, grupo or escuadrilla commanders, and the NCOs, sergeants and corporals who remained loyal to the government. The obsolete Nieuport Ni.52s and the three rare Hawker Furies were soon outpaced by... Read more >
Written by Rafael Lopez
Illustrated by Julio Caeiro
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.95
At the start of the civil war, most young fighter officers joined the rebels (Nationalists). It was the high ranking officers, grupo or escuadrilla commanders, and the NCOs, sergeants and corporals who remained loyal to the government. The obsolete Nieuport Ni.52s and the three rare Hawker Furies were soon outpaced by... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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USAF McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
Written by Peter Davies
Illustrated by Adam Tooby
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $18.95
In many respects the most successful, versatile and widely-used combat aircraft of the post-war era the F-4 Phantom II was quickly adopted by the USAF after its spectacular US Navy introduction. It was so much better than any other USAF fighter at the time that Air Force generals were happy to... Read more >
Written by Peter Davies
Illustrated by Adam Tooby
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $18.95
In many respects the most successful, versatile and widely-used combat aircraft of the post-war era the F-4 Phantom II was quickly adopted by the USAF after its spectacular US Navy introduction. It was so much better than any other USAF fighter at the time that Air Force generals were happy to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
USAF McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
Written by Peter Davies
Illustrated by Adam Tooby
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.95
In many respects the most successful, versatile and widely-used combat aircraft of the post-war era the F-4 Phantom II was quickly adopted by the USAF after its spectacular US Navy introduction. It was so much better than any other USAF fighter at the time that Air Force generals were happy to... Read more >
Written by Peter Davies
Illustrated by Adam Tooby
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.95
In many respects the most successful, versatile and widely-used combat aircraft of the post-war era the F-4 Phantom II was quickly adopted by the USAF after its spectacular US Navy introduction. It was so much better than any other USAF fighter at the time that Air Force generals were happy to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
