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  • Mussolini’s Hawks. The Fighter Units of the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana 1943-1945

    by Marco Mattioli ...
    Mussolini Hawks Aviazione Aviation Military Aviolibri IBN Fighter Units Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana 1943 1945 mattioli Marco ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Savoia-Marchetti S.79 Sparviero Torpedo-Bomber Units

    by Marco Mattioli ...
    Series Book 106 - Combat Aircraft
    An illustrated technical history of the Gobbi Maledetti ('damned hunchbacks'), Italy's most recognisable combat aircraft.Italy's most successful wartime bomber, the S.79 saw combat with the Regia Aeronautica in France, Yugoslavia, Greece, North Africa, East Africa and in the Mediterranean. Initially developed as a transport, the aircraft evolved into a dedicated medium bomber during the Spanish ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Macchi C.202/C.205V Units in Combat

    by Marco Mattioli ...
    Series Book 145 - Combat Aircraft
    A study of the Macchi Folgore and Veltro, the most successful Italian fighters in World War II. With specially commissioned profiles, the book examines how these fighters were conceived, their performance and the fascinating stories of their pilots.Italian fighters, such as the Fiat G.50 and Macchi C.200, had always struggled with their straight-line speed and restricted armament when engaging ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Savoia-Marchetti S.79 Sparviero Bomber Units

    by Marco Mattioli, Mr Mark Postlethwaite ...
    Series Book 122 - Combat Aircraft
    Initially developed by Savoia-Marchetti as a transport, the aircraft had evolved into a dedicated medium bomber by the time the S.79-I made its combat debut in the Spanish Civil War in 1936.During World War 2, it became Italy's most successful bomber, and the most produced, with around 1370 built between 1936 and early 1944. Although initially hampered by poor tactics, the S.79 bomber crews ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    A P-51 Mustang Ace in the Mediterranean Theater

    by George Loving ...
    A COMBAT ACE’S ACCOUNT OF PILOTING THE GREATEST SINGLE-SEAT FIGHTER IN WORLD WAR IIWorld War II marked the end of an era; fighter pilots still flew by the seat of their pants, and George Loving recaptures the exhilarating world of aerial combat in all its stark terror and fiery glory. His first fighter was the famed Spitfire, hero of the Battle of Britain. By 1943, however, it was obsolescent and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Spec Ops

    Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice

    by William H. McRaven ...
    Vice Adm. William H. McRaven helped to devise the strategy for how to bring down Osama bin Laden, and commanded the courageous U.S. military unit that carried it out on May 1, 2011, ending one of the greatest manhunts in history. In Spec Ops, a well-organized and deeply researched study, McRaven analyzes eight classic special operations. Six are from WWII: the German commando raid on the Belgian ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The True Story of Catch-22

    The Real Men and Missions of Joseph Heller's 340th Bomb Group in World War II

    by Patricia Chapman Meder ...
    The real-life companion to the literary classic—written and illustrated by the daughter of the 340th Bomb Group's commander, Catch-22's Col. Cathcart.After the publication of his bestselling novel Catch-22, Joseph Heller usually chose to deny that any of his richly drawn characters were based on his actual war mates. However, to those who served with Heller in the 340th Bomb Group, the novel's ... Read more

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  • Fortress Ploesti

    The Campaign to Destroy Hitler's Oil Supply

    by Jay A. Stout ...
    A comprehensive account of the World War II Allied bombing campaign to destroy pivotal Romanian oil refineries—by the retired Marine Corps fighter pilot.Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the famous big and bloody raid of August 1943 and depicts the entire 1944 strategic campaign of twenty-plus missions that all but knocked Ploesti out of the war and denied the German war ... Read more

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  • Italian Battleships of World War II

    by Mark Stille ...
    Series Book 182 - New Vanguard
    Italy's navy, the Regia Marina, was the fourth-largest naval force in the world at the outbreak of World War II, and yet is often overlooked and largely discounted as ineffective.In general the fleet was made up of obsolete vessels, lacked radar functionality, and had a reputation for indiscipline and poorly trained crews. The complex and bureaucratic command system imposed on the fleet further ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940–1945

    Volume One: North Africa

    by Christopher Shores, Giovanni Massimello, Russell Guest ...
    This first volume in the seminal series on World War II aerial combat, pilots, and tactics that "reads like an encyclopedia on the subject" (Portland Book Review).In the early days of World War II, both Allied and Axis powers extended the theater of war to North Africa, where hard-fought battles were conducted in the harsh desert. But before anyone could claim victory on the ground, they had to ... Read more

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  • Lockheed F-104 Starfighter

    Interceptor, Strike, Reconnaissance Fighter

    by Dave Windle, Martin W. Bowman ...
    Series series Profiles of Flight
    The Starfighter was once described as a delight to fly, but one mistake and it will kill you. It is one of the worlds fastest fighters with a top speed of Mach 2.2 and a service ceiling of 58,000 feet. First delivered to the USAF in 1958 it was also sold to the German, Greek, Italian, Turkish and Italian Air Forces. It could carry a variety of air to air, and air to surface missiles and was ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bombers over Sand and Snow

    205 Group RAF in World War II

    by Alun Granfield ...
    205 Group RAF provided the only mobile force of heavy night bombers in the Mediterranean theater in the Second World War. It operated mainly from bases in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Italy, with occasional excursions to Malta, Greece and Iraq, attacking tactical and strategic targets according to the demands of the wider war in the theater. The force was relatively small when compared with the ... Read more

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