Description

From yesteryear's flying bullets to today's top weapons, The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots provides, in what of the fight pilots who battled them, fifty amazing atmosphere fights which have formed military record in the twentieth-century. Experienced anthologist Jon Elizabeth. Lewis has constructed direct reports from all of the wonderful military strategies of aerial combat, including World Wars I and II, the Spanish Civil War, Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf, and Bosnia. Page after exciting page of the single series brings into vibrant play the intrusions of such renowned pilots as Manfred von Richtofen, Eddie Rickenbacker, Douglas Bader, and Johnnie Johnson; the Luftwaffe World-War II bullets Heinz Knoke, Gerd Barkhorn, and Johannes Steinhoff; and forty additional courageous airmen from America, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, and North Korea.