Secondhand WWII Aviation & Military History Bargain Book Box SP2904

Secondhand WWII Aviation & Military History Bargain Book Box SP2904

Fifteen illustrated histories of the Second World War, with Purnell's celebrated weapons, campaign, and battle book series at the core. Spitfires, Mosquitoes, Zeros, B-29s, U-boats, Schweinfurt, Anzio, and Operation Market Garden — every major theatre represented, told by aviation and military historians at the top of the form.

1. Luftwaffe — Alfred Price — The definitive account of Germany's air arm, introduced by Generalleutnant Adolf Galland. Price covers development, tactics, and the Luftwaffe's role from the Battle of Britain to the final collapse.
2. Zero Fighter — Martin Caidin — Japan's legendary A6M Zero defined Pacific aerial combat. Introduced by ace Saburo Sakai, Caidin charts its early dominance and eventual obsolescence.
3. Schweinfurt: Disaster in the Skies — John Sweetman — The two 1943 US Eighth Air Force raids on Schweinfurt's ball-bearing factories resulted in catastrophic losses and changed the course of the strategic bombing campaign.
4. Pacific Hawk — John Vader — The P-40 Warhawk in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor through the island-hopping campaigns.
5. U-Boat: The Secret Menace — The opening volume in Purnell's weapons series, covering German submarine warfare and the Battle of the Atlantic that nearly severed Allied supply lines.
6. Liberation of the Philippines — MacArthur's return — one of the largest combined land, sea, and air operations of the Pacific war. Purnell's Campaign Book No. 12.
7. B29: The Superfortress — Carl Berger — The bomber that carried the strategic air war to Japan's home islands, culminating in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions.
8. Japan: The Final Agony — Alvin Coex — The Allied endgame against Japan: kamikaze attacks, the planned invasion, and the decisions that ended the Pacific war.
9. Airborne Carpet: Operation Market Garden — Anthony Farrar-Hockley — The bold 1944 plan to leapfrog the Rhine by seizing its bridges, and precisely where and why it failed.
10. Spitfire — John Vader — An illustrated tribute to the RAF's most iconic fighter, foreworded by top-scoring Desert ace Air Vice-Marshal 'Johnnie' Johnson.
11. Mosquito: Wooden Wonder — Edward Bishop — Built from wood, faster than most fighters: the Mosquito served as bomber, nightfighter, pathfinder, and spy plane — arguably the war's most versatile aircraft.
12. Me 109 — Martin Caidin — The Messerschmitt Bf 109 from Spain to Stalingrad — the Luftwaffe's indispensable front-line fighter throughout the war.
13. Anzio: The Bid for Rome — Christopher Hibbert — The 1944 amphibious landing meant to unlock the Italian stalemate. Instead: four months of brutal combat before Rome finally fell.
14. Wellington Bomber — Edward Bishop — Bomber Command's workhorse in the early war years — its design, operations, and the crews who flew into occupied Europe.
15. The New Cold War: Moscow v. Pekin — Edward Crankshaw — A sharp Penguin Special on the Sino-Soviet split and the fracturing of the communist world into rival camps.