Air Combat

Air Combat

by Dmitriy KhazanovAleksander Medved Edward M. Young and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 18/02/2019

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This book brings together the best and most iconic fighters of World War II, pitted against one another in desperate aerial combat.


The battle for the skies in World War II fuelled a race between rival air forces to develop ever faster and more capable fighter aircraft – and the struggle for air superiority was never over until the war itself ended.


This volume explores four clashes of some of the finest planes and pilots, in key theatres of the war: Spitfires duelling the formidable Bf 109 over the Channel, the Fw 190 battling the Soviet La 5 and 7 on the Eastern Front, the F4F Wildcat in a desperate clash with the legendary A6M Zero-sen, and the F4U Corsair in combat with the second-generation Japanese Ki-84 in the closing days of the war.


Fully illustrated with contemporary photographs, maps and colour artwork, Air Combat conveys the full story behind these dramatic aviation duels.

ISBN:
9781472836748
9781472836748
Category:
Second World War
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
18-02-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Edward M. Young

Edward M. Young is a retired financial executive with degrees in Political Science from Harvard University and the University of Washington.

During his career he held assignments in New York, London, Tokyo and Hong Kong. He has written a number of books and numerous articles on aviation and military history.

He is the author of eight Osprey books and lives in Seattle, Washington.

Tony Holmes

Tony Holmes has worked in aviation book publishing for 30 years, and in that time he has written more than 20 titles on US Naval Aviation-five of them exclusively on the F-14 Tomcat.

He has visited US Navy aircraft carriers underway at sea on more than 20 occasions, covering flight operations in the Northern Arabian Gulf, the Pacific and Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean.

He was awarded the Tailhook Association's Hook Magazine Contributor of the Year award in 2004 (I am the only non-American to receive this accolade).

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