Allied fighter pilots began encountering German jetsprincipally the outstanding Me 262 fighterfrom the autumn of
1944. Stunned by the aircraft's speed and rate of climb, it took USAAF and RAF units time to work out how to combat this deadly ...
With more than 23,000 copies of the first edition sold, this second edition of the
best-selling Bolt Action World War II Wargaming Ruleset from Osprey and Warlord Games presents streamlined and refined rules, incorporating all the FAQs and errata compiled ...
In the war against Hitler, the Allies had to use every ounce of cunning and
trickery that they possessed, and combining military deceptions with the double-agent network run by the intelligence services, they were able to send the enemy inaccurate ...
Hitler called Norway the “Zone of Destiny” for Nazi Germany because convoys from Churchill's Britain
and Roosevelt's United States supplied Stalin's Soviet Russia with critical equipment and foodstuffs during the darkest days of the German invasion. The words Murmansk Run ...
The design quality of France's armored vehicles is somewhat forgotten in light of the myth
of superiority surrounding the German Panzers' role in the Blitzkrieg against France, Belgium and the Netherlands.The second volume of two covering the French tanks of ...
The Italian Royal Navy (Regia Marina) operated one of largest cruiser forces of World War
II. As a signatory to the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, the Regia Marina immediately attempted to reinforce its treaty-limited battleship force by building seven large ...
There is a chapter of World War 2 history that remains largely untold: the story
of the fourth largest Allied military of the war, and the only nation to have fought in the battles of Leningrad, Arnhem, Tobruk and Normandy. ...
The first American fighter fitted with a tricyle undercarriage and mid-mounted engine, the P-39 proved
less than successful in the hands of its launch customer, the US Army Air Force (AAF). Hampered by unreliabilty and poor engine performance at high ...