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First Kills The Illustrated Biography of Fighter Pilot Wladyslaw Gnys

Gnys Stefan

ISBN: HB: 9781612005560, Casemate, December 2017
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, highly illustrated

Polish pilot W³adek Gnyœ was credited with shooting down the first two German aircraft of World War II on September 1, 1939. On 2 September 1939, as Gnys' squadron took off near Krakow to intercept the German invaders, German Stuka pilot Frank Neuber...

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Lend-Lease and Soviet Aviation in the Second World War

Kotelnikov Vladimir

ISBN: HB: 9781911512264, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
656 pp., 24.4x17 cm, 100 colour aircraft, 650 colour and black&white illus.

Seventy years have passed since the Second World War yet the books and articles still keep coming in a never-ending stream discussing the question of what role the deliveries of arms and materials by Soviet allies played in the victory of the Red Arm...

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Prisoner of the Swiss A World War II Airman's Story

Culler Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9781612005546, Casemate, November 2017
160 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

During World War II, 1,517 members of US aircrews were forced to seek asylum in Switzerland. Most neutral countries found reason to release US airmen from internment, but Switzerland took its obligations under the Hague Convention more seriously than...

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Brazilians at War Brazilian Aviation in the Second World War

Rivas Santiago

ISBN: PB: 9781911512585, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 270 black&white photos, 35 colour photos, 6 maps, 10 tables

When the Second World War erupted, Latin America – despite being initially neutral – became part of it. Brazil, with its large provision of goods to the Allied Powers, was soon a victim of the Axis submarines – leading to the urgent development of an...

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Hot Skies Over Yemen Volume 1: Aerial Warfare over the Southern Arabian Peninsula, 1962-1994

Cooper Tom

ISBN: PB: 9781912174232, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 120 photos, 15-18 colour profiles, 3 maps

Since September 1962, hardly a week passed without a major armed confrontation or an outright war in Yemen. The number of long-lasting insurgencies, mutinies, rebellions, or terrorism-related activities that took place during this period is going int...

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Monographs, No. 09 Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe

Murawski Marek J.

ISBN: HB: 9788365437457, Casemate, Kagero, July 2017
228 pp., 29.7x21 cm, illus.

Not for sale in Poland! The monograph on the Messerschmitt Me 262, WW2 German jet fighter and fighter-bomber, discusses its design and development in regard to the evolution of jet propulsion and Messerschmitt company. The authors describe the util...

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Monographs, No. 08 Messerschmitt Bf 109F

Murawski Marek J., Atanasov Asen

ISBN: HB: 9788365437440, Casemate, Kagero, July 2017
260 pp., 29.7x21 cm, illus.

Not for sale in Poland! In the autumn of 1938 the design team of the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke in Augsburg began work on a development version of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 E, which at that time was entering service as the primary fighter of the Germa...

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Monographs, No. 04 Horten Ho 229

Murawski Marek J., Rys Marek

ISBN: HB: 9788365437150, Casemate, Kagero, July 2017
280 pp., 29.7x21 cm, illus.

Not for sale in Poland! Aircraft described as flying wing have aroused interest of the designers since the early, pioneer years of aviation. This definition is used to describe aircraft with specific design solutions, allowing for resignation from...

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SMI Library, No. 12 P-51/F-6 Mustangs with USAAF - in the MTO

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788365437112, Casemate, Kagero, July 2017
88 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 133 illus.

Not for sale in Europe! North American P-51 Mustang, famed for its service in the US Army Air Force as a long-rage escort fighter over western Europe, was no less successful in the other three major combat areas of World War Two: the Mediterranean,...

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Monographs, No. 05 Volume I: Yakovlev Yak-1

Kouznetsov Sergei, Rusetski Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9788365437181, Casemate, Kagero, July 2017
200 pp., 29.7x21 cm, illus.

Not for sale in Poland! The World War 2 fighters designed by A.S. Yakovlev's and his team are rightfully considered the weapon of the Victory in the history of the Soviet Union and Russia. Their speed, maneuverability and firepower made them famous...

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