Flygstridskrafter & luftkrigföring

Vid andra världskrigets utbrott sökte sig Heinz Knoke till Luftwaffe. Han var ingen framstående flygelev, men lyckades klara av utbildningen. Så småningom utvecklades han till en av det tyska flygvapnets mest framstående jaktpiloter, och utsågs i ...

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Now a major television event from Apple TV and Steven Spielberg, and companion to Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Now a major television event from Apple TV and Steven Spielberg (starring Austin Butler, Callum Turner and Anthony Boyle) and compa...

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Syftet med denna bok är att för första gången genomföra en djupare undersökning och analys av de haverier med dödlig utgång som skedde mellan 1946 och 1989. Det är också ett försök att för allmänheten på ett begripligt sätt klarlägga vad som egent...

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An illustrated account of the little-known operations of the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Forces flying boat units during World War 2. Respectively codenamed the Mavis and Emily by the Allies, Japans H6K and H8K flying boats outstripped their RAF a...

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SKUNK WORKS is the true story, told for the first time, of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the story of Lockheed's legendary ...

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Packed with personal accounts of the action, this is a vivid narrative history of the often-overlooked USAAF campaign in North Africa and Sicily in World War II. In 1942, the Western Allies needed to take the offensive against the Axis to relieve ...

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An illustrated account of the dramatic engagement between the Luftwaffes Me 163 units and Allied bombers during the closing years of World War II. In the summer of 1944, US Army Air Force (USAAF) aircrews flying over the Third Reich reported obser...

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Föreningen Flygande veteraner (flygandeveteraner.se) har över 2000 medlemmar och håller ett gammalt DC-3-flygplan i luften. Flygplanet har döpts till "Daisy" och förekommer sedan snart 30 år på snart sagt samtliga flyguppvisningar i Sver...

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Organised chronologically by type, German Aircraft of World War I offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main types of aircraft used by the German Air Force during World War I. The book offers a comprehensive survey of German aircraft, from the ...

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The Woomera Manual on the International Law of Military Space Activities and Operations is the first comprehensive examination on international law of military space activities, covering all aspects across times of peace, tension or crisis, and ar...

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From the critically acclaimed author of Dnkirchen 1940, this is a groundbreaking history of the epic three-day battle for Hill 107 that changed the course of the war in the Mediterranean. In this remarkable history, we discover each of the individ...

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"Texterna torde absolut tilltala dem som kittlas av krigshistoria, flyghistoria och personöden." BTJ Över ett dussin svenskar lyckades trots många hinder bli flygare på brittisk sida under andra världskriget. De upplevde några av 1900-ta...

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A new illustrated history of the German and Italian air campaigns in the invasions of Greece and Yugoslavia, the last full-scale Axis air offensives before Operation Barbarossa. The Greece campaign was launched by Italy in October 1940, the first ...

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A highly capable twin-engined destroyer, fighter-bomber, and night fighter, the Messerschmitt Bf 110 (unofficially the Me 110) was, in Hermann Grings estimation, the pick of the Luftwaffes offensive fighters. Drawing on the personal recollections ...

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'Vivid, wholly convincing, compelling. One of the best memoirs for years about the experience of flying in war' Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph Two months before the outbreak of WWII, seventeen-year-old Geoffrey Wellum becomes a fighter p...

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In this thoroughly researched, detailed and exhaustive study, aviation historian Luigino Caliaro tells the story of the three main fighters to serve in World War II produced by the Varese-based Aeronautica Macchi. The C.200 Saetta (Lightning) was ...

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The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Against all odds, one young lieutenant survives...

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Focke-Wulf 190 var ett av de mest legendariska tyska jaktflygplanen under andra världskriget. Det flögs av många av de stora essen. Just den flygplansindivid som denna bok handlar om tillverkades i Tyskland 1944 och flögs av ett av de största tysk...

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Barbarossa was the biggest German invasion of World War II. Comprehensively illustrated, this study explores the air campaign that spearheaded it, and how it evolved during the rest of 1941. The German invasion of the USSR, Operation Barbarossa, w...

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This instant Sunday Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter pilots whose remarkable encounter during the Second World War became the stuff of legend. Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wa...

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I Del 4 i Christer Bergströms populära bokserie om tyska flygare under andra världskriget får du bland annat möta Luftwaffes "problembarn" som blev en huvudvärk för många överordnade.

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The story of the hardest-fought air war of the jet era, where highly trained Israeli air forces almost met their match against Egypt and Syria's high-tech MiGs and missiles. The Yom Kippur War, or October War of 1973 was perhaps the most inte...

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Military Jet Aircraft contains 300 of the most important and influential military jet aircraft that have flown since World War II, including such famous aircraft as the Messerschmitt Me 262, English Electric Lightning, and North American F-86 Sabr...

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Hur var det att vara flygare i Hitlers Luftwaffe under andra världskriget? I Del 2 av Tyska flygare under andra världskriget låter författaren Christer Bergström veteranerna som var med utveckla detta. Christer Bergström har i fem decennier genomf...

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Ever since man first took to the air, combat aircraft have been at the cutting edge of aviation technology, resulting in some of the greatest and most complex designs ever built. Military Aircraft features 52 of the most important military aircraf...

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På en sömnig flygbas i Alabama under åren före andra världskriget la en liten grupp avhoppade piloter fram en radikal idé: Tänk om vi kan göra flygbombningen så pricksäker att framtidens krig kommer utkämpas helt och hållet i luften? Bombmaffian b...

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A focused, illustrated history of NATO's war against Serbian forces over Kosovo. [THE CORRECT VERSION OF THIS EBOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD.] On the night of March 24, 1999, NATO forces began military action to stop Serbia's campaig...

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Ö 1 Tummelisa En antologi När ÖFS, Östergötlands Flyghistoriska Sällskap, år 2012 skulle förse sig med en ny logotyp och symbolfigur, föll valet på övningsflygplanet Ö1 Tummelisa. Skälen var många. Tummelisa är välkänd och populär även utanför de ...

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Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) and Alaskan Air Command (AAC) were Major Commands of the United States Air Force. Pacific Air Forces controlled units stationed in Hawaii, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines. PACAF was responsible for an area of over...

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'Utterly brilliant: a fantastically exciting book... This really does read like the best kind of thriller. His best book yet' James Holland, author of Normandy '44 April 1982. Argentina invades the Falkland Islands. In response, Bri...

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