The Untold Story of the Tragedy, the Nazi Secrets, and the Quest to Rule the Skies
By the author of Ashes Under Water (Lyons, 2014), here is one of the great untold stories of World War II. The Hidden Hindenburg finally catches up with a German conman who mislead the world about the Hindenburg to bury his own Nazi connections.
It was a crucial moment of WW2. 1940. The Royal Air Force, virtually alone, defended the skies of Britain against massed formations of German bombers. They put up such a ferocious defence that Hitler gave up ideas of invading Britain and turned his attention to an assault on the Soviet Union.
A thrilling, first-person account of one of the most famous prison escapes of World War II. Jens Mueller was one of only three men who successfully escaped from Stalag Luft III on the night of 24 March 1944 - the breakout that later became the basis for the famous film The Great Escape. This memoir tells how Mueller, a pilot in one of the RAF's ......
Volume 5 in Blaine Taylor's photographic history of Hermann Goering sees the Reichsmarschall at his most powerful: commander-in-chief of the fearsome Luftwaffe and the Fuhrer's named successor. Victories for the Luftwaffe in Spain and Poland cover him in glory, and yet he is fearful of what's to come and uncertain whether his nation will survive.
Larry Haas, Bell Aircraft, and the FBI's Attempt to Capture a Soviet Mole
The First Counterspy is the pulse-quickening and traumatic story of spy, counterspy, and an American family unwittingly caught in its web. Until this case, the FBI had never recruited civilian counterspies to catch a Soviet agent.
A comprehensive, highly detailed, and highly illustrated history of Soviet-built fighters used during the Second World War including detailed descriptions of both operational and experimental fighters. It has photographs and colour profiles of all fighter aircraft. Drawings from period flight and technical manuals are also included.
John Cunningham became a well-known personality following his WW2 combat successes, and his demonstrations of the Comets and Tridents at the Farnborough Air Shows. He was a modest man who did not seek publicity, but was a highly skilled test pilot in Britain's pioneering jet age. He also sold Tridents to China.
1945: a mushroom cloud rises 20,000 feet into the sky. This is not from the bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. It is the remains of the battleship 'Yamato'. Representing the ambition and determination of Imperial Japan, the loss of the 'Yamato' in a kamikaze operation in April 1945 has become a symbol of the downfall of the Imperial Japanese ......
The gripping book about a panzer division and its battles in the shattered streets of Stalingrad. In Death of the Leaping Horseman, the untold story of 24. Panzer-Division's savage fighting on Stalingrad's outskirts and in the devastated ruins of the city itself is revealed in a detailed day-by-day account.
