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  • Gibbons v. Ogden

    John Marshall, Steamboats, and the Commerce Clause

    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    What began as a standoff between competing steamship entrepreneurs ended as one of the Supreme Court’s most significant cases. Gibbons v. Ogden in 1824 brought into sharp relief the ongoing tug-of-war for power between individual states and the federal government. By applying the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, the Court set a key precedent for federal authority. But, behind the scenes, the ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Wingless Eagle

    U.S. Army Aviation through World War I

    At the start of the twentieth century the United States led the world in advances in aviation, with the first successful engine-powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903. Fifteen years later, however, American airmen flew European-designed aircraft because American planes were woefully inadequate for service on the Western Front. Why was the United States ... Leer más

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  • Mosquito: Menacing the Reich

    Combat Action in the Twin-Engine Wooden Wonder of World War II

    On 15 November it came suddenly out of nowhere inches above the hangars with a crackling thunderclap of twin Merlins. As we watched, bewitched, it was flung about the sky in a beyond belief display for a bomber that could out perform any fighter. Well-bred whisper of a touch down, a door opened and down the ladder came suede shoes, yellow socks and the rest of Geoffrey de Havilland.The memories of ... Leer más

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  • Buccaneer Boys

    True Tales by Those who Flew the 'Last All-British Bomber'

    The historian and author of The Sowreys details the history of the British fighter plane and what life was like for its crews flying missions around the world.Twenty-four aircrew who flew the iconic aircraft with the Fleet Air Arm, the Royal Air Force, and the South African Air Force (SAAF) relate their experiences and affection for the Blackburn Buccaneer. Buccaneer Boys traces the history of the ... Leer más

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  • Red Devils over the Yalu

    A Chronicle of Soviet Aerial Operations in the Korean War 1950-53

    Series Libro 26 - Helion Studies in Military History
    The Korean War (1950-1953) was the first - and only - full-scale air war in the jet age. It was in the skies of North Korea where Soviet and American pilots came together in fierce aerial clashes. The best pilots of the opposing systems, the most powerful air forces, and the most up-to-date aircraft in the world in this period of history came together in pitched air battles. The analysis of the ... Leer más

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  • Billy Bishop VC: Lone Wolf Hunter

    The RAF Ace Re-Examined

    de Peter Kilduff ...
    A "superb" look at one of the Great War's most storied combat pilots and his legendary solo missions, with never-before-published photos (Barrett Tillman).William Avery Bishop is recognized as the British Empire's highest-scoring WWI ace, credited with seventy-two combat victories. Overall, he ranked behind only Manfred von Richthofen and René Fonck.This remarkable man's story—his personal courage ... Leer más

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  • Rare Birds: Forgotten Aircraft of the Second World War

    The Second World War saw the apex of piston-engine aircraft design, and ushered the world into the jet age. Anybody who studies aviation will know the names: Spitfire, Mustang, Zero, Messerschmitt, Shturmovik. But there were many more aircraft to take to the skies before and during the war, and frequently their stories remain unknown. This book seeks to tell those stories, to bring to the fore the ... Leer más

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  • A Short History of the First World War

    Land, Sea & Air, 1914-1918

    de Gordon Kerr ...
    Series series Short History
    As the war is slipping beyond living memory, this concise history helps ensures that the conflict is never forgottenWWI, lasting just four years from 1914 to 1918, was without parallel, the first true global conflict in which all of the earth's great powers participated. This book tells the story of this cataclysmic event. It describes the background to war, the international rivalries and ... Leer más

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  • American Volunteer Group ‘Flying Tigers’ Aces

    Series Libro 41 - Aircraft of the Aces
    The American Volunteer Group, or 'Flying Tigers', have remained the most famous outfit to see action in World War II.Manned by volunteers flying American aircraft acquired from the British, the AVG fought bravely in the face of overwhelming odds in China and Burma prior to the US entry into World War II. Pilots such as 'Pappy' Boyington, R T Smith and John Petach became household names due to ... Leer más

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  • Broken Me 262A Jet Fighters-Part 2

    de David Myhra ...
    Photographs and information of unfinished, war weary, crash-landed, cannibalized, new ones, but all "dead" Messerschmidt Me262s, found scattered all over the former Nazi Germany at the end of World War II, 8 may 1945. Enjoy this nine part series! ... Leer más

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  • Bad Lads

    RAF National Service Remembered

    de Alf Townsend ...
    Between 1945 and 1963 over 2 1⁄2 million 18-year-olds were called up for national service. Alf Townsend was one of them, and here he tells his story – the highs and lows of life as a lowly Aircraftman Second Class in the early 1950s. Before national service intervened Alf was 'heading down the criminal road at top speed', having grown up in a North London slum where money was short and local ... Leer más

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  • Aircraft Down

    Forced Landings, Crash Landings and Rescues

    de Alec Brew ...
    Twenty-three compelling accounts of desperate circumstances and unbelievable survival when planes went down in remote and dangerous locations.When a pilot experiences a sudden loud bang or sudden total silence, he is often faced with the stark choice of the parachute or attempting to get the aircraft down to earth in as few pieces as possible. This book describes twenty-three remarkable and true ... Leer más

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