Spanish Peaks Library District

Illustrations and text examine the development and service records of twenty-three of the most important bombers of World War II, with specifications tables, cutaway drawings, and photographs.

Of every 100 operational airmen in World War II, nine were killed flying in England and three severely injured in crashes; non-operational casualties numbered more than 15,000. Operational casualties were chillingly grim—more than 56,000 airmen died in World War II, more than half those involved. George Culling was a 19-year-old Lancaster navigator whose experiences often involved battling tricky and dangerous conditions. Fascinated by the ever-present...

Fighters of the RAF: From the Battle of Britain, to the siege of Malta and the flaming fighter-bomber cauldron over Normandy, the brave men of the RAF helped turn the tide against the Luftwaffe and paved the way for ultimate victory. Follow us as Churchill's famous "Few" relate their incredible experiences during some of the greatest air campaigns of World War II. Fighter Tactics 101: Follow the evolution of air combat tactics during World War II...

"The gripping story of how an all-volunteer air force helped defeat five Arab nations and protect the fledgling Jewish state. In 1948, only three years after the Holocaust, the newly founded nation of Israel came under siege from a coalition of Arab states. The invaders vowed to annihilate the tiny country and its 600,000 settlers. A second Holocaust was in the making. Outnumbered sixty to one, the Israelis had no allies, no regular army, no air force,...

A Covert-One team led by Lieutenant Colonel Jon Smith is dispatched to a site in the Canadian arctic where a Soviet bomber crashed more than fifty years ago, but they must deal with a vicious arms dealer who got there first as well as a weapon more deadly than the anthrax admittedly on board.