Great Book of Combat Aircraft

by Paolo Matricardi

Overview

THE STORY OF A HUNDRED YEARS OF COMBAT FLIGHT

Great Book of Combat Aircraft begins with the origins of military aviation, complete with vintage photos of pilots and machines of a bygone era. It traces the evolution of these devastating works of technology, with sections on the rise of the bomber, the birth of the monoplane, and the role of electronics and missiles.

As the story unfurls, it reveals the dramatic events of past and recent conflicts fought in the skies, over land and sea, covering everything from the First World War to the Cold War. Here, you’ll discover the fiercest aircraft from the United States, Russia, Germany, Italy, Japan, and beyond.

This fully illustrated book ends with a look toward the future in terms of both aircraft and strategy. In the hands of a single military leader, these sophisticated weapons can be as powerful as an entire army would have been in the past.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788854040069
Publisher:	Whitestar
Publication date:	09/28/2018
Pages:	456
Sales rank:	522,010
Product dimensions:	10.50(w) x 12.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

PAOLO MATRICARDI is an aviation journalist who lives and works in Rome. He has written many books on aviation that have been translated into other languages and distributed in Europe, the United States, and Japan. Among these, in collaboration with Enzo Angelucci, is the series World Aircraft, 1918–1935 (7 volumes); World Aircraft: Combat Aircraft, 1945–1960; the two volumes World Aircraft: Commercial Aircraft, 1935–1960, and The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Military Aircraft: 1914 to the Present; and the series of large format illustrated books dedicated to the aircraft of the Second World War. His recent works are the two volumes Fighters and Bombers and 100 Years of Aviation: A History of Humankind’s Conquest of the Skies, the story of the first century of powered aircraft.