Aerial Combat - The World's Great Air Battles

Robert Jackson, 1976

Aerial Combat traces the story of air warfare from the early days of WW1 to the present time. It records the history of air fighting from the duels over Flanders, when young men fought and died for mastery of the sky and became legends, through the grim days of the Second World War, when the outcome of air battles decided the fate of nations, to the jet battles of the conflicts that follow, in Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East. The vivid text is complemented by over 140 photographs and maps to give a clear and comprehensive picture of the first fifty years of aerial combat...