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  • Taking Flight

    Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity through the First World War

    by Richard P. Hallion ...
    The invention of flight represents the culmination of centuries of thought and desire. Kites and rockets sparked our collective imagination. Then the balloon gave humanity its first experience aloft, though at the mercy of the winds. The steerable airship that followed had more practicality, yet a number of insurmountable limitations. But the airplane truly launched the Aerial Age, and its ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Storm Over Iraq

    Air Power and the Gulf War

    by Richard Hallion ...
    An incisive account of the Persian Gulf War, Storm Over Iraq shows how the success of Operation Desert Storm was the product of two decades of profound changes in the American approach to defense, military doctrine, and combat operations. The first detailed analysis of why the Gulf War could be fought the way it was, the book examines the planning and preparation for war. Richard P. Hallion argues ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot's Life From Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs

    A Fighter Pilot's Life From Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs

    by Jack Broughton,Richard P. Hallion ...
    In 1945 Second Lieutenant Jack Broughton graduated from West Point with the silver pilot wings of a newly commissioned member of the Army Air Corps. Nearly thirty years later, he retired as a full colonel in the United States Air Force, an entity that didn't even exist when he first learned to fly. Along the way Colonel Broughton saw duty in virtually every fighter aircraft the Air Corps and then ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • D-Day 1944 - Air Power Over The Normandy Beaches And Beyond [Illustrated Edition]

    by Richard P. Hallion ...
    Includes over 12 photos and maps of the Overlord OperationsOperation Overlord, the Normandy invasion-like William the Conqueror's before it or the Inchon landing afterwards-will long be studied as a classic in military planning, logistics, and operations. OVERLORD depended to a remarkable degree upon the use of air power in virtually all its forms. A half-century ago, aircraft were primitive ... Read more

    $1.38 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • World War II Close Air Support Tactics

    by Dr Richard P. Hallion ...
    Series Book 254 - Elite
    In this illustrated study, an acknowledged expert charts the development of close air support and battlefield air interdiction in theory and practice during World War II.In World War I the use of aircraft to support ground operations was in its infancy, and it was only after the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 that close air support (CAS) and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Naval Air War in Korea

    by Richard P. Hallion ...
    How carrier-based air power helped define victory in the first hot war of the Cold War.In The Naval Air War in Korea, Richard P. Hallion offers a compelling and authoritative account of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps air campaign during the Korean War, a conflict that marked a pivotal transition in the history of military aviation. Through meticulous research and engaging narrative, Hallion ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • The Battle Against The U-Boat In The American Theater [Illustrated Edition]

    by Richard P. Hallion ...
    Series series The U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II
    Includes 20 IllustrationsIn 1942 the Allied powers faced the most serious challenge to their control of the seas encountered in the Second World War: the menace of the U-boat. Fast, well- armed, and long-ranged, Hitler's submarines attacked shipping throughout the North Atlantic, often within sight of America's coastal towns and cities.Eventually, the combination of intelligence, land and sea- ... Read more

    $1.38 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rolling Thunder 1965–68

    Johnson's air war over Vietnam

    by Dr Richard P. Hallion ...
    Series Book 3 - Air Campaign
    A new history of Rolling Thunder, the Vietnam War's first, most intense, and biggest US air campaign, by one of the most eminent names in air power studies. Ideal for Vietnam War aviation enthusiasts and historical students, as well as everyone interested in Cold War air power.Operation Rolling Thunder was the campaign that was meant to keep South Vietnam secure, and dissuade the North from arming ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Cactus Air Force

    Air War over Guadalcanal

    by Eric Hammel, Thomas McKelvey Cleaver ...
    Using diary entries, interviews and first-hand accounts, this vivid narrative brings to life the struggle in the air over the island of Guadalcanal between August 20 and November 15, 1942.The battle of Guadalcanal was the first offensive operation undertaken by the US and its allies in the Pacific War. The three months of air battles between August 20, 1942, when the first Marine air unit arrived ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • To Hanoi and Back

    The U.S. Air Force and North Vietnam, 1966-1973

    by Wayne Thompson ...
    After nearly eighteen months of the largely unsuccessful bombing campaign called Operation Rolling Thunder, the US Air Force began to look for ways to overcome technological, geographical, and political challenges in North Vietnam and use limited air power more effectively. In 1972 the two Linebacker campaigns joined with other air operations to make a dramatic, although temporary, difference. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Wright Flyers 1899–1916

    The kites, gliders, and aircraft that launched the “Air Age”

    by Dr Richard P. Hallion ...
    Series Book 13 - X-Planes
    Orville and Wilbur Wright, two bicycle-making brothers from Dayton, Ohio, secured their place as the most famous names in aviation history when, on December 17, 1903, they made the first powered, controlled, and sustained heavier-than-air flight.But their success over the cold and windswept Carolina dunes that day has overshadowed their many other accomplishments before and after that historic ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Desert Storm 1991

    The most shattering air campaign in history

    by Dr Richard P. Hallion ...
    Series Book 25 - Air Campaign
    An expertly written, illustrated new analysis of the Desert Storm air campaign fought against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which shattered the world's fourth-largest army and sixth-largest air force in just 39 days, and revolutionized the world's ideas about modern air power.Operation Desert Storm took just over six weeks to destroy Saddam Hussein's war machine: a 39-day air campaign followed by a four ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD