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9781472819390 | Osprey Pub Co, April 18, 2017, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Developed from the underperforming twin-engined Manchester, the Avro Lancaster was the RAF's most successful heavy bomber of World War II, forming the backbone of Bomber Command during the large-scale night bombing campaign against occupied Europe.
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9781472818744, titled "Nakajima B5n âkateâ and B6n Jill Units" | Osprey Pub Co, April 18, 2017, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Entering service during the Sino-Japanese War, the Nakajima B5N (code-named “Kate”) excelled and went on to achieve surprising and dramatic successes in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Product Description: Seeing action on every front of the war, the aces of the Junkers Ju 88 were some of the most valuable pilots in the Luftwaffe. Although designed as a fast medium bomber, the Ju 88's highly versatile design meant that it was also used as a heavy day and night fighter...read more
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9781472808400 | Osprey Pub Co, March 21, 2017, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Seeing action on every front of the war, the aces of the Junkers Ju 88 were some of the most valuable pilots in the Luftwaffe.
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9780764352430 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, February 28, 2017, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This is the most detailed historical photographic account of all individual Israeli and American F-15 and F-16 aerial combat victories.
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9780764352393 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, February 28, 2017, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: During the height of the Cold War, the United States started to develop and expand its air defense capabilities to knock down Russian Air Force nuclear-armed bombers flying over the North Pole, across Canada, and into the northern United States to attack US military targets and major cities.
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9781472818713 | Osprey Pub Co, February 21, 2017, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Boasting pilots who had been blooded in the Spanish Civil War, Jagdgeschwader 53 (JG 53) “Pik As” or “Ace of Spades” achieved great success in the skies over France and Britain in 1940.
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9781472816870 | Osprey Pub Co, February 21, 2017, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Following the devastating raids on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, lightning advances by Japanese forces throughout the Pacific and the Far East, and a desperate battle by the Allied command in the Dutch East Indies, it became evident that an attack on Australia was more a matter of “when” and not “if.
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9780993181320 | Har/dvd edition (Upfront Entertainment, February 1, 2017), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This book and DVD set provides a fascinating account of the epic conflict on land, sea and air, from the darkest days of the war to the spectacular sea battles that broke the Japanese advance and the struggle to liberate Asia and the Pacific which followed.
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9781621575061 | Regnery History, July 31, 2017, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: *A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!
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9780764352324 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, January 28, 2017, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In 1935, the intent of the Army Air Corps was to build a potential intercontinental bomber, a âGuardian of the Hemisphereâ; they granted Donald Douglas a contract to build the worldâs largest bomber.
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9781410491374 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, August 10, 2016), cover price $31.99 | About this edition: Traces the pivotal achievements of the elite female science recruits at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where in the mid-20th century they transformed rocket design and enabled the creations of the first American satellites.
9780316338929 | Little Brown & Co, April 5, 2016, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: "If Hidden Figures has you itching to learn more about the women who worked in the space program, pick up Nathalia Holt's lively, immensely readable history, Rise of the Rocket Girls.
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9780316338905 | Back Bay Books, January 17, 2017, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: "If Hidden Figures has you itching to learn more about the women who worked in the space program, pick up Nathalia Holt's lively, immensely readable history, Rise of the Rocket Girls.
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9780857334015 | Haynes Pubns, January 15, 2016, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The RAF's rugged twin-rotor Chinook support helicopter has been involved in most of the UK's military operations stretching back to the Falklands Conflict, Northern Ireland and in both Gulf Wars, to peacekeeping in Bosnia, operations in Kosovo, the evacuation of Sierra Leone, and most recently its high profile missions in Afghanistan.
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9781682470053 | Naval Inst Pr, January 15, 2017, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Less than five years after naval aviation led the forces that defeated Imperial Japan that very organization was in serious trouble.
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9780760350317 | Voyageur Pr, December 20, 2016, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A comprehensive history with descriptions of the world's most significant aircraft employed as "eyes in the sky.
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9780764352195 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, December 28, 2016, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Yugoslavia experienced the terror of the Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber from the first days of war in April 1941, to the end in 1945.
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9780760350324 | Voyageur Pr, December 1, 2016, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The stories behind more than 50 secret projects undertaken by the famed Lockheed Martin Skunk Works on behalf of the US Armed Forces, DARPA, and the CIA - all illustrated with official Skunk Works photography and commissioned artworks.
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9780823274383 | Revised edition (Fordham Univ Pr, December 1, 2016), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free is a rare gift detailing the experience of Lt.
9780823223664 | Fordham Univ Pr, July 30, 2005, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Describes the childhood, military training, and post-war civilian life of African American pilot Alexander Jefferson, who was gunned down by Germans in 1944, survived for months in prison camps, and was freed by American forces.
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9781472814548 | Osprey Pub Co, November 22, 2016, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Hawker's charismatic Tempest V entered RAF service just in time to be the most successful counter to the V1 flying bomb assault on southern England in the summer of 1944.
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9781472814579, titled "He 162 Volksjäger Units" | Osprey Pub Co, November 22, 2016, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: With the Third Reich on the brink of defeat, Hitler's instructions to his designers were clear.
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9780253022943 | Indiana Univ Pr, November 1, 2016, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Drawing upon a wealth of previously untranslated documents, Broken Wings tells how a European nation built an entire air force in secret.
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9788854410756 | White Star Editions, November 1, 2016, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: From the Gumman Hellcat and Boeing Flying Fortress to the Sopwith Camel, Mitsubishi Zero, and Ilyushin Sturmovik, Combat Aircraft presents the 40 most famous aircraft in history.
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9781591146414 | Naval Inst Pr, November 1, 2016, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The Aces of World War I were knights of the sky, obeying an unwritten code of noblesse oblige.
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9780760349526 | Voyageur Pr, November 1, 2016, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Plunge into the action, and marvel at ten of the best and best-known World War II fighter aircraft!
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9780764351778 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, October 28, 2016, cover price $49.99 | About this edition: This book showcases a comprehensive catalog of restored WWII color Kodachrome slides.
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9781476774855 | Simon & Schuster, October 25, 2016, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: From the authors of the New York Times bestselling The Heart of Everything That Is and Halsey’s Typhoon comes the dramatic, untold story of a daredevil bomber pilot and his misfit crew who fly their lone B-17 into the teeth of the Japanese Empire in 1943, engage in the longest dogfight in history, and change the momentum of the War in the Pacific—but not without making the ultimate sacrifice.
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9781508227250 | Unabridged edition (Simon & Schuster, October 25, 2016), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: From the authors of the New York Times bestselling The Heart of Everything That Is and Halseyâs Typhoon comes the dramatic, untold story of a daredevil bomber pilot and his misfit crew who fly their lone B-17 into the teeth of the Japanese Empire in 1943, engage in the longest dogfight in history, and change the momentum of the War in the Pacificâbut not without making the ultimate sacrifice.
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