January 1, 1945 the skies of Belgium, Holland, and France erupted into chaos. Allied airmen were caught off guard, German ...

New Year’s 1945, the Western Front was quiet… too quiet. While Allied forces rested after the Ardennes offensive, Germany’s ...

NASM copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Summary "Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for fifty years, using resources that span the globe. This book, ...

Originally published in 1980 in von Below's native Germany, this English translation is sure to become an important memoir for those studying the Nazi war machine. In 1937, von Below was a 20-year-old ...

LONDON: Goering is trying his hardest to give us in full the secrets of the Luftwaffe, writes Paul Holt. His most important revelation has convinced Allied experts that the jet-propelled aircraft will ...

London: Greenhill/Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole, . Pp. 191. Illus, maps, tables, append., biblio., index. $19.95 . ISBN:1-85367-440-0 An immensely detailed, yet quite ...

No sooner the first aircraft rose into the sky the military took hold of the new invention As far back as World War 1 daredevil pilots engaged into the fighting and aces like Manfred von Richtofen or ...

German airmen who crashed in Ireland during the Second World War and survived were interned here, becoming objects of great curiosity among local people who encountered them, as Ryle Dwyer discovers.