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Six-Day War 1967 - The Devastating First Strikes That Won Israel Air Supremacy by Shlomo Aloni; Adam Tooby (Illustrator)
35.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
The story of how the Israeli Force achieved one of the most audacious and important air power victories in history, wiping out enemy air forces more than twice its own size in a single morning. This new illustrated study examines the planning, execution and aftermath of Operation Focus showing how it n ...Show more
South China Sea 1945 - Task Force 38's Bold Carrier Rampage in Formosa, Luzon, and Indochina by Mark Lardas; Irene Cano Rodriguez (Illustrator)
35.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
A history of the US Navy's remarkable 1945 South China Sea raid against the Japanese, the first time in history that a carrier fleet dared to rampage through coastal waters. As 1945 opened, Japan was fighting defensively everywhere. As the Allies drew closer to the Home Islands, risks of Japanese air a ...Show more
Stalingrad Airlift 1942-43 - The Luftwaffe's Broken Promise to Sixth Army by William E. Hiestand; Adam Tooby (Illustrator)
39.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
The story of what really led to Germany losing the battle of Stalingrad - the inability of the Luftwaffe to keep Sixth Army supplied throughout the winter of 1942-43 - and why this crucial airlift failed.Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering's failure to deliver his promise to keep Sixth Army supplied at Stal ...Show more
The Blitz 1940-41 - The Luftwaffe's Biggest Strategic Bombing Campaign by Julian Hale; Mads Bangso (Illustrator)
39.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
Although best known for civilian suffering under the bombs, or perhaps for the valiant efforts of RAF Fighter Command, in military terms the Blitz was also the Luftwaffe's biggest and most ambitious strategic bombing campaign of the war. Striking industrial cities and vital ports from London to Glasgow ...Show more
The Italian Blitz 1940-43 - Bomber Command's War Against Mussolini's Cities, Docks and Factories by Richard Worrall; Graham Turner (Illustrator)
35.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
This title tells the fascinating story of World War II's forgotten strategic bombing campaign--the RAF's perilous, long-range missions, flying from English bases against the industry, cities, and dockyards of Mussolini's Italy.Between June 1940 and August 1943, RAF Bomber Command undertook a little-know ...Show more
The Kamikaze Campaign 1944-45 - Imperial Japan's Last Throw of the Dice by Mark Lardas; Adam Tooby (Illustrator)
33.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
An illustrated history of how Japan devised and launched a new kind of air campaign in late 1944 - the suicidal assaults of the kamikaze units against the approaching Allied fleets. As summer changed to autumn in 1944, Japan was losing the war. Still unwilling to surrender, Japan's last hope was to try ...Show more
The Oil Campaign 1944-45 - Draining the Wehrmacht's Lifeblood by Steven J. Zaloga; Edouard A. Groult (Illustrator)
33.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
A new illustrated history of one of the key air campaigns of late World War II - the American effort to cripple Germany's oil production, and grind its armed forces to a halt.With retreating German forces losing their oilfields on the Eastern Front, Germany was reliant on its own facilities, particularl ...Show more
The Ruhr 1943 - The RAF's Brutal Fight for Germany's Industrial Heartland by Richard Worrall; Graham Turner (Illustrator)
35.00 NZD
Category: Aviation | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
This illustrated study explores, in detail, the RAF's first concentrated air campaign of World War II against one of the hardest and most important targets in Germany - the industrial heartland of the Ruhr that kept Hitler's war machine running. Between March and July 1943, RAF Bomber Command undert ...Show more
Tokyo 1944-45 - The Destruction of Imperial Japan's Capital by Mark Lardas; Edouard A. Groult (Illustrator)
38.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
In November 1944, the US Army Air Force launched a 111-plane B-29 strike against Tokyo, the first since the morale-boosting Doolittle Raid of 1942. From then until VJ-Day, Tokyo would be hit 25 times: in 20 raids from B-29s based in the Marianas and by five strikes from US Navy carrier task forces. The ...Show more
Truk 1944-45 - The Destruction of Japan's Central Pacific Bastion by Mark Lardas; Adam Tooby (Illustrator)
33.00 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Air Campaign Ser.
A fully illustrated history of how the US Navy destroyed Truk, the greatest Japanese naval and air base in the Pacific, with Operation Hailstone, and how B-29 units and the carriers of the British Pacific Fleet kept the base suppressed until VJ-Day. In early 1944, the island base of Truk was a Japanese ...Show more