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Behind the Enemy Lines

Alberti Agostino, Merli Luca

ISBN: PB: 9788875654429, Bookport, IBN Editore, October 2019
136 pp., 24x17 cm, illus.

Between the spring and autumn of 1944, the Luftwaffe constituted a constant threat to the incursions of the MAAF (Mediterranean Allied Air Forces), and the losses in men and aircraft were even more substantial. In the span of a few months, between th...

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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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Bomber Command: Battle of Berlin Failed to Return

Bond Steve, Darlow Steve, Feast Sean, Macdonald Andy, Owen Robert, Russel Nicole, Sandall Howard

ISBN: HB: 9780993415272, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, May 2017
128 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 100 illus.

"Tonight you are going to the Big City. You will have the opportunity to light a fire in the belly of the enemy that will burn his black heart out". The message from Commander-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command Sir Arthur Harris was clear. As the Second...

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Black Hawks Rising The Story of AMISOM's Successful War against Somali Insurgents, 2007-2014

Oloya Opiyo

ISBN: HB: 9781910777695, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2016
286 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Black Hawks Rising – the title of this book – acknowledges the formation and deployment of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) in March 2007. Initially confined to peacekeeping within the Mogadishu enclave, it transformed into a peace-makin...

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Baptism of Fire The First Combat Experiences of the Royal Hungarian Air Force and Slovak Air Force, March 1939

Stenge Csaba B.

ISBN: PB: 9781906033934, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2011
136 pp., 24.8x18.4 cm, 150 black&white photos, 8 colour aircraft profiles, 1 map

This story is a short but devastating episode from the turbulent history of Central Europe in the 20th Century, one that is hardly known outside the countries concerned. This short conflict was hushed up even in the German media in 1939, because the...

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Boeing 707, Kc-135 In Civilian and Military Versions

Breffort Dominique

ISBN: HB: 9782352500759, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, December 2008
212 pp., 29.6x21 cm, illustrated throughout

Although the Boeing 707 is known worldwide as the machine which took civil aviation from the piston engine era into that of the jet engine, what is very often not known is that its existence was only made possible by the success of its immediate pred...

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Bell P-39 Aircobra in Italian Service

Mattioli Marco

ISBN: PB: 9788886815857, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2001
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 21 colour illus., 55 black&white (including threeviews and profiles)

The authour explains clearly and precisely the chronological operational history of the P-39, describing the pilots? missions during the II World War. The text is both English and Italian and suits the aviation history lovers as well as modellers, to...

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