No single human invention has changed the nature of war more that the development of the aeroplane. Air Warfare Illustrated Atlas is a highly illustrated and accessible account of the development of aerial warfare, from the first skirmishes over the Western Front in World War I to today’s hi-tech netcentric aerial battlespace over Ukraine. Developing from unpowered observation hot air balloons in the 18th century and even the older kite, aerial warfare has become a multibillion-dollar industry and has led to many advances in technology and techniques such as aerodynamics, propulsion, radar and use of composites and engineered materials such as carbon fibre. Featuring more than 120 complex computer-generated battle maps and graphics, Air Warfare Illustrated Atlas explores every major air battle to have taken place in the world’s skies, as well as documenting the air element of campaigns such as Operation Barbarossa and Operation Desert Storm. Extensively researched text tells the history and the stories behind these battles concisely and clearly, alongside more than 150 striking archive photographic images.
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Over 120 detailed battle maps showing the development of air warfare from 1914 to the present day
Introduction Early Air Forces: 191418 Airships: 191418 Fighters:
191418 Bombers: 191418 Aircraft on the Western Front Aircraft Losses: 1918
Upheaval in Europe: 1920 The Inter-War Years Empire of the Air Birth of the
Luftwaffe Spanish Civil War: 193639 Japanese War in China: 193741 Clippers:
Long-Range Transport: 193439 European Air Forces Blitzkrieg: Poland 1939
Scandinavia: Finland 193940 Scandinavia: Denmark and Norway 1940 Invasion of
the West: 1940 The Battle of Britain: JulySeptember 1940 Bombing: Britain
and Germany: 194041 Maritime Air Patrol: 194041 The Mediterranean: 194042
The Balkans: The Fall of Crete Barbarossa: June 1941 Pearl Harbor: December
1941 Fall of Southeast Asia: 1942 The Battle of the Coral Sea: 1942 The
Battle of Midway:1942 The Caucasus and Southern Russia: 1942 Stalingrad:
194243 Guadalcanal: 1943 Operation Cartwheel Bombing Germany: 194244
Attacks on Berlin: 1944 North Africa and the Mediterranean: 194243 Sicily
and Southern Italy The Eastern Front: March 1943 Ukraine and The Crimea
Carriers in The Pacific Battle of the Philippine Sea: June 1944 The
Island-Hopping Campaign Closing the Gap: Patrolling The Atlantic D-Day: The
Assault D-Day: The Aftermath Market Garden and Varsity: 194445
Southeast-Asia: 194445 China: 194145 Operation Bagration Special
Operations: 194145 The End of the Reich Bombing the Home Islands: 1945
Nuclear War Berlin Airlift Korea: 195053 The Cold War: 195089 The Cuban
Missile Crisis: 1962 South-East Asia: 195975 Indochina and Vietnam
Arab-Israeli Wars Air-to-Air Tactics The Falklands War: AprilJune 1982 The
Gulf War: 1991 Afghanistan: 2006 Ukraine 2022 Index
Malcolm Swanston has been writing and mapping history for over thirty years, working on subjects ranging from Ancient Rome to Vietnam and beyond. With his son Alexander, he has created maps detailing key events in warfare for a wide range of publications, including The Historical Atlas of World War II. Alexander Swanston has been writing and mapping history for a number of years, working on subjects ranging from Ancient Rome to Vietnam and beyond. With his father Malcolm, he has created maps detailing key events in warfare for a wide range of publications, including The Historical Atlas of World War II.
