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Forgotten Heroes Aces of the Royal Hungarian Air Force in the Second World War

Stenge Csaba B.

ISBN: HB: 9781911512684, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
464 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 400 black&white and colour photos, 40 tables

Prior to the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces – including the Air Force – prepared to engage the Little Entente forces; however, after a short skirmish prior to the war with the Slovaks, during the war, their oppone...

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Biography & Memoires

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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Flight of the Dragon A Taiwanese U-2 Pilot's Long Journey to Freedom

Rios Bromley Linda

ISBN: PB: 9781911096481, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
152 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 photos

When Chang-di "Robin" Yeh departed on his scheduled recon flight on 1 November 1963, his life was full of promise. In an instant, the experienced pilot transitioned from a free man to a prisoner held on spy charges by mainland China. Promised early o...

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Military

Fighter Aces Knights of the Skies

Sadler John, Serdiville Rosie

ISBN: PB: 9781612004822, Casemate, June 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Just over a decade after the first powered aeroplane flight, fearless pioneers were flying over the battlefields of France in flimsy biplanes. As more military aircraft took to the skies, they were equipped with weapons and their pilots began to deve...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

Flying The Icon Spitfire

Cotter Jarrod

ISBN: HB: 9780993212987, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, September 2016
160 pp., 27.9x20.8 cm, 200 illus

The Supermarine Spitfire is not only one of the most famous British icons, but it is arguably the most widely-recognised and popular aircraft in the history of aviation. For many generations it was said to be "every schoolboy's dream" to fly a Spitfi...

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Flashpoint China Chinese Air Power and the Regional Balance

Rupprecht Andreas

ISBN: PB: 9780985455484, Casemate, Harpia Publishing, May 2016
80 pp., 27.7x21.1 cm, colour and black&white illus.

From the South China Sea to the mountains of Nepal, the continued economic rise of the People's Republic of China has led to a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the region. As a result, the relationship between China and its neighbours, as we...

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Flying Tigers Colors Camouflage and Markings of the American Volunteer Group and the USAAF 23rd Fighter Group, 1941-1945

Molesworth Carl

ISBN: PB: 9788360672266, Casemate, Model Centrum Progres, April 2016
64 pp., 29x20.5 cm, 38 colour illus., 105 black&white illus.

No aircraft markings in history are more iconic than the distinctive shark's mouths applied to the noses of American Volunteer Group and 23rd Fighter Group P-40s and P-51s that fought in the skies over Asia during World War II. This book covers the c...

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Flight Gear US Army Force Aviators in Europe 1942-1945

Bianchi Mathieu

ISBN: HB: 9782352503026, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, November 2013
176 pp., 31x23 cm, over 1000 photos

This new book is designed as a guide to the flight clothing and equipment issued to American airmen in Europe, August 1942 (the first bombing mission over France) to May 1945. Hundreds of period photographs and hundreds of detailed pictures of surviv...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Fighting Units in Color, No. 03 VF-17 Jolly Rogers - Early US Navy Corsair Units: VF-12 and VF-17

Jarski Adam, Kolacha Zbigniew

ISBN: PB: 9788372372291, Casemate, AJ Press, June 2012
48 pp., 28x21 cm, 122 black&white photos, 31 colour photos, 22 drawings

Not for sale in Poland! This book was published as part of the "war" against what is probably the most permanent myth of the US Navy aviation units: the myth of red outlines on US national markings of VF-17 aircraft during the first (October – Nove...

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F/Rf-4e Phantom II

Anestis Alexandros, Papadimitriou George

ISBN: PB: 9789606740756, Casemate, Periscopio Publications, March 2010
128 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 400 colour photos, 30 colour profiles, 8 scale plans

We are glad to introduce to you the third volume of Periscopio's series of modelling and historical reference publications under the title "PHOTO GALLERY & PROFILES". This volume covers in 140 pages the most successful versions of an aeroplane that r...

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