Air forces and warfare

Some 40 per cent of RCAF aircrew who served overseas during the Second World War did so in RACF squadrons.

The first of three volumes of the Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, this book provides the definitive story of Canadian airmen in World War I and, moreover, a revisionist account of the war in the air.

Updated third edition: "e;An excellent work.

In this unprecedented series exploring the big story of the Battle of Britain, renowned historian Dilip Sarkar investigates the wider context and intimate details of the epic aerial conflict in the summer of 1940 from all sides.

Almost forgotten in the haze of events that followed Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the summer of 1945 witnessed an intense public debate over how best to end the war against Japan.

A minute-by-minute account of the morning that brought America into World War II, by the New York Times-bestselling authors of At Dawn We Slept.

New York Times bestseller: The true story of the WWII naval battle portrayed in the Roland Emmerich film is "e;something special among war histories"e; (Chicago Sun-Times).

During World War II, an eccentric band of barnstormers, stunt flyers and commercial pilots joined military recruits to form the Pan American Air Ferries.

Over the past eight decades, developments in vertical lift aircraft--both helicopters and vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) planes--have given the American military unparalleled capabilities on the modern battlefield.

In Europe, World War II was four months old by Christmas 1939.

Women in an armored division!

For three years, Staff Sergeant Charles M.

As a 26-year old Marine radar intercept officer (RIO), Fleet Lentz flew 131 combat missions in the back seat of the supersonic F-4 B Phantom II during the wind-down of the Vietnam War.

John Reed was one of America's most dynamic journalists during the World War I decade.

A tough Jewish kid from the Bronx, Dan Altman enlisted in the Army when the U.

While the United States sought to remain neutral in the early years of World War II, some Americans did not.

The C-124 Globemaster--a U.

Takeo Yoshikawa (1912-1993) was an ensign in the Imperial Japanese Navy and a naval intelligence officer assigned the task of spying on the U.

Among the more than 260 American submarines that patrolled the Pacific during World War II, the USS Swordfish in 1941 was the first to sink a Japanese armed merchant ship, marking the beginning of the submarine's colorful history.

West Point graduates played a central role in developing U.

As the first botanical history of World War II, Plants Go to War examines military history from the perspective of plant science.

During the early months of World War II, Winston Churchill maneuvered to get the U.

Robert Lovett grew up in Texas, went to Yale, and earned his wings as a naval air force hero in World War I.

If wars were wagered on like pro sports or horse races, the Germany military in August 1914 would have been a clear front-runner, with a century-long record of impressive victories and a general staff the envy of its rivals.

Both before and during World War II, the Nazis restricted the rights of Jewish and communist doctors.

Marie Marvingt (1875-1963) set the world's first women's aviation records, won the only gold medal for outstanding performance in all sports, invented the airplane ambulance, was the first female bomber pilot in history, fought in World War I disguised as a man, took part in the Resistance of World War II, was the first to survive crossing the English Channel in a balloon, worked all her life as a journalist, spent years in North Africa and invented metal skis.

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Mid-flight noncombat mishaps and blunders occur frequently in the USAF during training and utility flights--sometimes with the loss of life and regularly with the destruction of expensive aircraft.

In the five months after Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy won a string of victories in a campaign to consolidate control of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.

More than 150,000 American Jews served in the air war during World War II.

The 92nd Infantry ("e;Buffalo"e;) Division was the last segregated (all-black) U.

Creating a guerrilla movement to fight the Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1942-1945) presented Colonel Wendell Fertig with some formidable challenges.

One of NASCAR's pioneers, Bud Moore won countless races in the sport's early rough and tumble days.

The story of Hitler's Wehrmachtsgefolge (armed forces auxiliaries) is less well known than that of Germany's other armed forces in World War II, such as the panzer divisions, the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine.

World War II began for the United States with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, followed by the invasion of the Philippine Islands the next day.

Seventy years after the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is still dealing with the effects of the bombings on the national psyche.

The life and achievements of General Omar Nelson Bradley are legendary.

During World War II Nathalie "e;Lily"e; Sergueiew, a woman of mystery, confidently seduced the German Intelligence Service into employing her as a spy against their British enemy.

In May of 1944, American airman Gerald E.

America's first West Coast armored and infantry training installation was built in California in 1941 and named Camp Cooke.

This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population.

As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, Japanese tactics required them to develop new weapons and strategies.

The mother of 11 year old Ilse Glaus turned down the last plane out of East Prussia ahead of the advancing Russians in order to stay back with her aged parents.

Joe Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship longer than any other fighter and defended it a record 25 times.

Among the many German immigrants to the United States over the years, one group is unusual: former prisoners of war who had spent between one and three years on American soil and who returned voluntarily as immigrants after the war.

"e;As a 15-year-old boy I fought briefly in a war.

How did the business of professional baseball fare during World War II?

A vivid, first-hand account of the tension and excitement of flying missions over Nazi GermanyThe British and American bomber crews of the Second World War often had to endure the most terrifying conditions.

A major new TV series - MASTERS OF THE AIR How America's bomber boys and girls in England won their war, and how their English allies responded to them.

A fast-paced and vivid narrative of the most horrific campaign in history: the four-year slaughter around the Belgian town of Ypres 1914-18.