Archive for Items Categorized 'Military', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.

Nieuport 11/16 Bébé vs Fokker Eindecker

by Jon Guttman

“The Babe” vs “The Scourge”—sounds like a wrestling match! The French in one corner, the Germans in the other. Both did well. More importantly they wrote a new chapter in aviation history.

Bomber Aircraft of 305 Squadron

by Lechosław Musiałkowski

Notice any strange markings on these familiar WW II aircraft? That’s because they’re in Polish service on RAF duty.

Spitfire V vs C.202 Folgore: Malta 1942

by Donald Nijboer

The air battles over Malta rank as the most intense aerial engagements of WW II. The stakes were high for each side and their most capable fighters were sent to put things right.

Messerschmitt Me 262 A Schwalbe

by Robert Peczkowski

This is a rather specialized book about one of several variants of this German WWII aircraft, famous for being the world’s first jet—and infamous for being too little too late

A Higher Call

by Adam Makos with Larry Alexander

German flak cripples an American bomber. Separated from the herd, it manages to stay aloft. It’s only a matter of time until a German fighter shows up. And then he does. You’ll be surprised what happens next.

Imperial Russian Air Force 1898–1917

Gennady F. Petrov

Hundreds of fabulous photos of things not often seen. Inexpensive. Чего Вы ждете? Пойдите получают это!

Early US Jet Fighters: Proposals, Projects and Prototypes

by Tony Buttler

Not every new idea can work. Even though these aircraft didn’t make the cut, the lessons learned here were necessary stepping stones.

The Birth of the Royal Air Force


by Ian Philpott


Which branch of the military operates stuff that flies? Not always and not everywhere is it the air force. This book fields micro and macro analysis to explain how the oldest independent air force in the world came into being. And what the other services had to say about that.

Lockheed A-12, The CIA’s Blackbird and Other Variants

by Paul F. Crickmore

You may not know and you may not care but without the A-12’s intelligence-gathering successes the world would have blown up long ago. No kidding. Read why and how here!

Rolls-Royce Motors: The Crewe Years

by Malcolm Bobbitt

Hard to imagine but a mere 64 pages manage to convey one of the best condensed versions of what was this fabled marque’s home for most of its now 110-year history.

Hungarian Fighter Colours 1930–1945

by Dénes Bernád and György Punka

Written specifically with the modeler in mind as sort of an authenticity guide in regards to paint and markings, these excellent books actually do quite a bit more by fleshing out one of the lesser-known chapters of WWII military aviation with extensively researched micro detail.

Breguet 27, Potez 39, Mureaux 115/117

by José Fernandez

These three French light aircraft of the 1930s borrowed construction techniques from the car industry. Many previously unpublished photos add layers of detail, especially about their service with foreign air forces.

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