(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Air World, ISBN-13: 9781399067393)
On 1 May 1960, a traditional military parade was held in Moscow. What stood it out from the previous ones, however, was the number of missiles, and in particular the ground-to-air anti-aircraft variants, that were present.There was perhaps nothing su...Loe edasi...
When 1944 began, the Third Reichs position on the Eastern Front still seemed promising. Despite a series of major defeats at Kursk, Smolensk and on the Dnieper, the Germans still held vast swathes of Russian territory. Hitler declared that the conqu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Nov-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Air World, ISBN-13: 9781526798053)
On the night of 14/15 August 1944, the roar of an unknown aircraft was heard over the dense forests to the south-east of Moscow. Flying past the Soviet capital, the aircraft turned towards a ‘secret’ landing site at Yegoryevsk on the outskirts of the...Loe edasi...
A ground-breaking study of the Battle of Stalingrad containing unpublished materials detailing branches of the armed forces and the important contribution of the Russian river flotilla.The Battle of Stalingrad was the bloodiest battle of the Second W...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Oct-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Air World, ISBN-13: 9781399061230)
The Siege of Leningrad was one of the most brutal battles of the Second World War. The second largest and most populous city in the Soviet Union, Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, was one of the three priority targets of the German invasion, Operation B...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Nov-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Air World, ISBN-13: 9781526789938)
Much has been written about the famous fighters and bombers of the Luftwaffe which proved successful in the invasion of Poland, the Battle of France, and the Battle of Britain. Little attention, however, has been focused on the Luftwaffe’s transport...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Sep-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Air World, ISBN-13: 9781526774460)
This is the story of the aerial element of the Battle for Moscow between 1941 and 1942, known to the Germans as Operation Typhoon.In October 1941, Operation Typhoon and the battle for Moscow began. According to Hitlers plan, it was to be the ‘last o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jul-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Air World, ISBN-13: 9781526789891)
Germany was never able to match the power of the Allied air forces with their great four-engine bombers, the Lancasters, Liberators and Flying Fortresses. Indeed, many have ascribed the defeat of Germany in the Second World to its lack of a strategic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Nov-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Air World, ISBN-13: 9781526775474)
Drawn from German and Russian sources, much of the latter only recently declassified, the authors expose for the very first time the Luftwaffe’s secret operations and reveal the fate of many of the pilots, agents and saboteurs in a story as breathtak...Loe edasi...
