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Cuban MiGs | The Defenders of Castro’s Air Force
29,95 €The Fuerza Aérea Revolucionaria (FAR), one of the most powerful and little-publicised air forces in the Americas, had Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) fighters as its main fighter aircraft, both in the defence of Cuban territory against the threat of US invasion and in support of Cuban leaders efforts to export their revolutionary ideals.
The book casts an unprecedented look at the introduction and utilisation of all MiG models in Cuban service, since their arrival before the Cuban Missile Crisis, to current times, going through all of the conflicts in which Cuba was involved, from incidents with the Dominican Republic (Operación Pico) and the Bahamas, to its entanglements in wars in Vietnam, Syria, Guinea, Southern Yemen, Angola, Ethiopia and Nicaragua, and the recent apprehension of ‚export goods‘ to North Korea in the Panama Canal.
The story of military aviation in Cuba before the arrival of the MiGs is also briefly presented, from the beginning of their air corps and its role in the political crises that affected the country, in Castro’s Revolution and the ill-fated attempted invasion at the Bay of Pigs, contextualising the times when they happened.
This is the result of extensive research using Cuban publications, documents, interviews with former pilots, historians and contributions by veteran Cuban airmen both in exile and residing in their homeland. The book is richly illustrated with over 170 photographs and colour profiles detailing the history of all twenty models of MiG fighters operated by Cuba from 1962 to the present.
With colour pictures, drawings, tables and maps. -
Cuore Patria Volo 2° Gruppo Caccia A.N.R. 1943-1945 Storie Vissute di Piloti E Aerei
98,00 €The very thoroughly done history of the 2nd fighter squadron and their airplanes (Messerschmitt Bf 109) of the Italian Airforce 1943-1945.
In total 1.150 pictures and 110 colour illustrations, 170 documents, 48 color profiles (12 G55 and 20 Bf 109G), 26 pages with technical drawings/plans, 14 pictures from built models.
The 2nd edition comes out in a box set of 2 volumes and, compared to the previous one, has been updated in the graphics, expanded by 224 pages, and has over 300 new photos!! -
Das deutsche Flugzeugträgerprojekt Graf Zeppelin entsteht
35,00 €For the first time, the author details the development process of the aircraft carrier project in Germany in the thirties and compares the results achieved with the foreign aircraft carriers of the time. The construction of the Graf Zeppelin is described in detail and evaluated. He also elaborates on the aircraft provided for the carriers and their subsequent use. The work developed over decades of research.
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Das Flurschaden-Geschwader – Die Chronik des Kampfgeschwader 51 EDELWEIß im Zeitraum 01.01.1944 bis Kriegsende
88,00 €This book describes the history of Kampfgeschwaders 51 Edelweiß, literally the crop damage-wing in the space of time from 1.1.1944 until WWIIs end. Whether in action over Eastern England in long range night hunting missions with its Me 410s, or in night fighter bomber missions over the Normandy beach head with Fw 190s, the reader is close to the action.
By higher command, the Me 262-jet-fighter was used as fast bomber. This chronicle also reports of the tremendous effects those missions had, where the units nickname refers to.
Beside the actions carried out by Einsatzkommando (literally: service command I./KG 51, also called Einsatzkommando Schenck), the reader learns all about the conversion from the Me 410 to Me 262 jets and the missions, which where carried out with this revolutionary aircraft type, as well as the fight of parts of the second squadron (2. Staffel) until the bitter end in the Prague region.
The story of the previously unknown Erprobungsschwarm Me 262 des Generals der Schlachtflieger (literally: testing and evaluation squadron of the General of ground attack/fighter bomber units) is also reported.
For the first time a list with the serial-numbers of the Me 262s in service with KG 51 is published in this book. 31 pages with contemporary photographs are included.
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Das Gokstadschiff und seine Boote
29,80 €This book combines historical and technical details of a Viking ship found in Norway some 100 years ago, detail drawings of its components and scale plans.
This book is devided into 3 parts. Part 1 describes the historical background of a Viking ship (and some smaler boats), found in Norway about 100 years ago, its technical details, as well as the building of a replica of the ship found and the the experiences made with sailing with the replica.
The 2nd part presents 40 tables, that show numerous components of the original Viking vessel. The book closes with detailed 1:50 scale plans of the Viking ship and 1:20 scale plans of the smaler boats. -
Das Heinkel-Flugzeugwerk Oranienburg, Bd. 2: Ausgewählte Zuliefer- betriebe / kriegsbedingte Auslagerungen. Eine Dokumentation
19,85 €On 195 pages, the author documents selected suppliers of the Heinkel Group primarily from the region, which turned to arms production with high expectations in the shadow of the large armaments factory. In addition to smaller medium-sized companies, however, such as Märkische Metallbau Oranienburg and Ikaria-Werke Velten are also the focus of the considerations.
On the basis of numerous eyewitness accounts, a wealth of documents and archival materials, including construction and site plans of the former factory facilities, the author has developed a selected documentation in over 12 years of research and processing, supplemented by a large number of pictures and tables. -
Das Jagdflugzeug Messerschmitt Bf 109. Technik / Eigenschaften / Leistung / Stückzahlen / Bewährung
74,95 €The subject of this extensive book is the description of the technical development of all types of the Bf 109 as well as their performance and flight characteristics as well as the respective engines and their technical characteristics (for example spark plug ventilation and and the negative effects of bad fuel, because of the not sufficent octane rating).
In addition, the delivered quantities of the individual series of the Bf 109 are subjected to an in-depth examination.
Finally, the day-to-day-use in the individual periods with its different requirements is examined, also by way of comparison with other contemporary models.
The Focke Wulf 190 and the Supermarine Spitfire serve primarily as a reference.
The presented results are based on sources that are quoted exactly, so that they can be understood or serve as a starting point for the reader’s own research.
In addition, the presentation deals critically with the literature on this topic.
A must have for aicraft-enthusiasts, but not 3especially for modellers because of the low number of pictures!!
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Das kurze Leben des U-Bootkommandanten Eberhard Hoffmann Von d. Gorch Fock u. d. Kreuzer Karlsruhe zum Untergang des U 451
34,00 €From sailor to submarine commander.
The life of a young man from sailor in 1933 to submarine commander in 1940 can be traced on his voyages above and below the sea.
Eberhard Hoffmann’s handwritten logbooks take us on the maiden voyage of the popular Gorch Fock to the Baltic Sea and on a world-round trip with the cruiser Karlsruhe.
The cruiser’s goodwill tour led through the Suez Canal to Sri Lanka, on to Australia, Hawaii, along the west coast of the USA, through the Panama Canal, to New York and back home.
On both ships he undergoes the hard training as a sea cadet. His military career continued with the coastal reconnaissance aircraft and ended in the war with the rank of corvette captain.
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Das vergessene As. Der Jagdflieger Gerhard Barkhorn
62,00 €Despite the fact that Gerhard Barkhorn scored a total of 301 victories while flying with Jagdgeschwader 52 on the Eastern Front, making him the second most successful fighter pilot of the Second World War after Erich Hartmann, today he is almost forgotten. This book describes Barkhorns wartime experiences with JG 2 on the Channel, JG 52, JG 6 and finally JV 44. Excerpts from original combat reports enable the reader to feel the drama of the events that happened back then. Barkhorns career in the postwar Bundeswehr is also examined.
Published in this book for the first time are numerous color slides taken by Barkhorn during his service with JG 52, as well as many black-and-white photos. It also contains color side-views of every aircraft flown by Barkhorn. It is a book that examines all aspects of the fighter ace.
155 pictures, 35 of them in colour, 8 maps, illustrations: 15 full-page colour profiles of the planes flown by Barkhorn (of Claes Sundin). -
DAWA Sonderheft 16: Militärmuseen in Deutschland
27,50 €This new enlarged edition of the museum guide contains all German military museums, which can be visited with all data you need to find the locations.
Further you will find all informations about the museum exhibits and many color pictures of them. Very useful for visitors! -
De Havilland Vampire in RAF and Overseas Service Wingleader Photo Archive Number 8
26,80 €This series is unique in that it will be able to provide large format ORIGINAL photos up to full A4 landscape format width, which is at least 50% larger than any standard book can deliver. Combined with the specialist knowledge of a team of historians and contributors, each book should provide unbeatable and accurate references for any modelling or painting project.
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Dem Kessel von Halbe entkommen! Der Weg des Panzeroffiziers Joachim Senholdt. Aufklärungs-Abteilung 8, Panzer-Rgt 204
72,00 €For the present book, the extensive original material of the tank soldier Joachim Senholdt, who was a private at the beginning of the war and experienced the end of the Third Reich as a first lieutenant in 1945, was evaluated. The authentic material was provided by the son and has rarity value due to its completeness. For that reason it is possible to draw a line from the invasion of the Sudetenland at the end of 1938 to the end of the war in the Halbe cauldron in April 1945 and the subsequent flight to the west. It becomes unmistakably clear how the war became more and more brutalized as the duration progressed, costing more and more victims and becoming more and more hopeless.
As a reader, one follows Joachim Senholdt as he invades the Sudetenland, takes part in the attack on Poland, rolls across the Belgian border in the Ardennes on 10 May 1940 and fights against the Soviets with Senholdt’s tank regiment in the desolate, flat steppe landscape of the Kerch peninsula.
One experiences the summer offensive of 1942 in the southern section of the Eastern Front, the breakthrough of the Soviet front in December 1942, which leads to the encirclement of Stalingrad, and the destruction of Senholdt’s division in the winter of 1942/43.
In the end, Senholdt fought as head of the Sturmgeschütz Company of the I./Panzer-Regiment Brandenburg in April 1945 on the Oder front and in the cauldron of Halbe. His weeks-long escape from the cauldron to the West, continuously persecuted by the Soviets and constantly in mortal danger, represents the last part of the book.
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Denmark’s CV9035 Infantry Fighting Vehicle.
32,95 €The Combat Vehicle 90 (CV90) was designed in Sweden in the mid-1980s/early 1990s. The CV9035DK has now been in Danish Army service for more than a decade. The aim of this publication is to primarily focus on the comprehensive and intensive use of the small number of Danish vehicles serving abroad.
This includes trials and early gunnery training in Sweden, climate tests in South Africa, participating in NATO exercises in Norway, Lithuania and Spain, gunnery competitions in Germany, and years of combat deployment to Afghanistan.
It concludes with the vehicles current international role as part of the Enhanced Forward Presence by NATO in Estonia.
Many photos have been contributed by crew members themselves.
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Denmark’s Leopard 2A7DK
24,95 €Denmark has been a user of the Leopard 2 main battle tank since 2004, when the Leopard 2A5DK entered service. Now, a new chapter in the story of the Leopard 2 in use with the Danish Army is being written. With the introduction of the Leopard 2A7DK, Denmark has become a member of an exclusive club of users of the latest Leopard 2 variant.
With the introduction of the Leopard 2A7DK, their existing vehicles with, for instance, better armament and better armour. However, the most significant effect of the upgrade comes from internal systems with a digital infra-structure. Also, a New Operating Concept will allow future integration for a number of years.
Approx. 180 colour photos. -
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Der Einsatz deutscher Sturzkampfgruppen in Südosteuropa und in Nordafrika. Die I. Gruppe Sturzkampfgeschwader 3 im Jahr 1941
59,00 €The book documents the history of the Sturzkampfgruppe I./3, also called the Grazer Group, in 1941 and represents all 129 group missions flown in the attacks against Greece and Yugoslavia, the Mediterranean and North Africa in 1941. The study also looks at the other groups that were used in the Balkans in 1941.
458 b/w pictures, 97 maps as well as 26 tables. -
Der Flugplatz Schwarze Heide im 2. Weltkrieg. Nr. 53 d. Schriftenr. d. Vereins f. Orts- u. Heimatk. Kirchhellen
15,00 €In this book of the series, the history of the field airfield at the Kirchheller Heide (western part of Bottrop in the Ruhr area) from 1939 to 1945 is presented. On the basis of German, American and English archives, as well as on the basis of the photo album of the airfield commander Heinrich Waltermann, the units and aircraft stationed there are discussed as well as the individual expansion stages of the airfield.
Throughout illustrated with b/w pictures. -
