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  • The Influence of Air Power Upon History

    de Walter J. Boyne ...
    From the New York Times-bestselling author, an analysis of how flight has shaped warfare, politics, diplomacy, technology, and mass culture.In this book, Walter Boyne—former Air Force pilot and director of the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum—examines the application of air power from the earliest days of the balloon down to the current era of space warfare, and postulates some startling new ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Influence of Air Power Upon History

    de Walter J. Boyne ...
    "A comprehensive, balanced overview of war in the air" from a world-renowned authority on aviation history and New York Times–bestselling author ( Booklist).The Influence of Air Power Upon History makes a startlingly new analysis of the far-reaching implications flight has had on warfare, politics, diplomacy, technology, and mass culture. Author Walter Boyne examines the application of air power ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • How the Helicopter Changed Modern Warfare

    de Walter J. Boyne ...
    From its introduction to warfare in the 1940s to its role in Middle East operations, the helicopter has had a profound effect on military tactics and techniques. It has evolved from a means of transport to a precise component of the Special Operations Force. Apart from the challenges its design faced on the battlefield, this rotary-wing aircraft also faced opposition from the very military that ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Walt Boyne's Crummy Novel On Sex, Drugs, Planes and Aspergers

    de Walter J. Boyne ...
    This book is intended to show how the best aspirations of modern men and women can, in today's society, be warped by the pressures of drugs and the free-wheeling ease with which the most moderrn weapons can be used. It illustrates the high level of intelligence and competence in their trade that modern drug cartel leaders have, of their intense rivalries, and of the harm that is inflicted in ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • War in Pacific Skies

    de Charlie Cooper, Ann Cooper ...
    Paintings by the renowned aviation artist plus "lots of wartime photographs and plenty of entertaining and informative text. . . . absorbing reading" ( Aviation History).Climb in to the cockpit of some of America's most heralded warbirds, like the P-38 that carried Richard Bong to his forty kills, and fly along with Paul Tibitts in the Enola Gay as it makes its final approach on Hiroshima. This ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Clash of Wings

    World War II in the Air

    de Walter J. Boyne ...
    From the author of Clash of Titans comes a captivating exploration of the role of air power in World War II.In his captivating narrative, Boyne resurrects the war of the skies in all its heroic and tragic drama, while supplying insightful, expert conclusions about previously overlooked aspects of the war, including the essential role of American bombers in Europe; Germany's miscalculation of the ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Big Book of X-Bombers & X-Fighters

    USAF Jet-Powered Experimental Aircraft and Their Propulsive Systems

    de Steve Pace ...
    They're all here--every X-bomber and X-fighter since 1942.On October 2, 1942, the Bell XP-59 Airacomet soared up and away from present-day Edwards AFB, launching the US Army Air Forces into the Jet Age. In the several decades since, hundreds of new variations of experimental and test turbojet-powered bombers and fighters--X-bombers and X-fighters--have taken explosive flight. These aircraft blazed ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Clash of Titans

    World War II at Sea

    de Walter J. Boyne ...
    In an overview of naval campaigns from 1939 to 1945, a military historian and author of Clash of Wings explains how sea power changed the course of World War II.From the Atlantic to the Pacific to the North Sea and the Mediterranean, Walter Boyne weaves together dramatic battle scenes with skillful analyses of strategies and tactics to present a wide-ranging look at all of the naval forces ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • MiG Alley

    The US Air Force in Korea, 1950–53

    de Thomas McKelvey Cleaver ...
    Following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing myth in the West was that of the absolute supremacy of US Air Force pilots and aircraft over their Soviet-supplied opponents. The claims of the 10:1 victory-loss ratio achieved by the US Air Force fighter pilots flying the North American F-86 Sabre against their communist adversaries, among other such fabrications, went unchallenged until the end ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Yom Kippur War

    And the Airlift Strike That Saved Israel

    de Walter J. Boyne ...
    A vivid chronicle of the military and diplomatic crisis that exploded between Israel and a coalition of Arab states in October 1973.The Yom Kippur War brought Arab and Jew into vicious conflict. A war in which Israel almost unleashed her nuclear arsenal and set two superpowers on a treacherous course of nuclear escalation. And a war that eventually brought peace. But a peace fraught with delicate ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Hypersonic Thunder

    de Walter J. Boyne ...
    Series series Novels of the Jet Age
    The jet age began in 1939 with the brief hop of a secret German airplane. Seventy years later, the entire world depends upon the jet engine in every sphere - political, military, economic, and social. In Hypersonic Thunder, Walter Boyne weaves an intricate story of how the jet engine changed aeronautics and astronautics, pushing the frontiers of flight forward and permitting humankind to enter the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Operation Iraqi Freedom

    What Went Right and Why, What Went Wrong and Why

    de Walter J. Boyne ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Weapons of Desert Storm comes Walter J. Boyne's Operation Iraqi Freedom.No war has ever had the intensive media coverage of the 2003 war in Iraq, and none has ever had such monumental second-guessing. Months before the war began, domestic and international pundits painted a gloomy picture of a new Vietnam or of a nuclear Armageddon that would see ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD