History Books Air and Tank warfare

[misanthrope0 195]

What are you most favorite boon on these subject?

 

For instance Fire In The Sky by Eric M. Bergerud is an extensive treatment of the air war in the Pacific, would love to find same for the air war in Europe and in Russia.

Edited May 11, 2015 by misanthrope0

[TheIronDukeLuke 158]

For Japanese aviation history the two part series by Ikuhiko Hata, Yasuho Izawa and Christoper Shores are decent. Japanese Naval Fighter Aces and Japanese Army Fighter Aces give you alot of detail as well as aircraft specifications translated from the original japanese blueprints. 

For Amercican aviation history The Black Sheep by Bruce Gambel,which is about legendary VMF 214 in the pacific, is fantastic though it does not have a ton of specification and details about planes and such. 

For British aviation history The Few and With Wings like Eagles are great reads which focus on the battle of britain. They have alot of similar information, they are about the same subject after all, but fantastic reads nonetheless. 

For German Aviation history the two part series The German Aces Speak is great, probably the best military history books I have ever read. It is a compilation of intervies with various German aces and is incredibly enlightening. 

For Russian Aviaition I dont have anything really, I am looking for good books on the subject.

 

Dont have too much on tanks, primarily an aviation buff :kamikadze: .

[Sodanjumala 589]

Osprey has good enough books. As modeller, I really love those uniforms & heraldy books.

[MaxRocktanski 107]

For air war in the Pacific, as you pointed out, Fire in the Sky.

 

Two others on a fairly specific topic: The First Team and The First Team in the Guadalcanal Campaign (both by John Lundstrom) deal with US Naval and Marine aviation at the start of the war, during the carrier battles of 1942, and in the Solomons. A bit pricey but incredibly detailed - down to which pilot flew which plane during a particular combat patrol, etc. Also has some interesting info on the tests done with a Zero captured in the Aleutians and how the Americans used that knowledge.

 

Crimson Sky: The Air Battle over Korea by John Bruning. 

Edited September 25, 2015 by MaxRocktanski

[Cairn_67 537]

For Air Warfare my favorite books include:

Jane's

Spitfire History

The Complete Book of Fighters

Reach for the Sky

Dam Busters

The Osprey Series (esp. Griffon Aces, Mosquito Aces, Late Mark Spitfire Aces, Arab-Israeli Air Wars)

The RAAF: An Illustrated History

An Illustrated History of the RAF

 

For ground combat (infantry and tanks), my favorite books include:

The Eve of Destruction

Ghost Force

Ultimate Special Forces

Lion Hearts

D-Day

The Edge of the Sword

[*ChameleonLord 2,390]

The Encyclopedia of Aircraft of WW II, General Editor Paul Eden.  Panzers on the Eastern Front: General Erhard Raus and his Panzer Divisions in Russia 1941 - 1945, Edited by Peter G. Tsouras (This one is excellent as there are maps of engagement areas and it is one of the main reasons why I do not complain about the small maps... most the maps of his Panzers engagements are to the same sort of scale).  Stackpole Military History Series (Pick anyone book out of that series and you will find that you crave another!)

Edited September 25, 2015 by *ChameleonLord