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The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour by Andrei Cherny Publisher Comments The Candy Bombers is the true tale of the ill- assorted group of castoffs and second-stringers who saved millions of desperate people from a dire threat. By feeding and supplying West Berlin by air for nearly a year, these brave men won the hearts of... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper 
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I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World by Trevor Paglen Publisher Comments They're on the shoulder of all military personnel: patches that symbolize what their unit does. But what if that's top secret? A fresh approach to secret government. It shows that these secret programs have their own culture, vocabulary and even sense of... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Spitfire in Combat by Alfred Price Publisher Comments Probably the most famous fighter aircraft of all time, the Supermarine Spitfire's distinctive shape and sound mark it out from most other aircraft of the World War II period. From the biplane era of the 1930s to the start of the jet age in 1944, the... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Duel #24: FW 190 Sturmbocke Vs B-17 Flying Fortress: Europe 1944-45 by Robert Forsyth Synopsis For the first time in the best-selling Duel series, Osprey Publishing presents the horrifying aerial clash between a fighter and a bomber. The Fw 190 was one of the best air superiority aircraft of World War II. When it first appeared over the Channel in... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck Synopsis A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great twentieth-century writers On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath-and at the height of the American war effort-John... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Aircraft of the Aces #90: Fiat Cr.42 Aces of World War 2 by Hakan Gustavsson Synopsis The Fiat CR.42, a logical development of the Fiat CR.32, was the last single-seat fighter biplane to be produced. It entered service with the Italian Regia Aeronautica in May 1939 before being exported to Belgium, Hungary and Sweden. Its combat debut... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Night Stalkers: Top Secret Missions of the U.S. Army's Special Operations Aviation Regiment by Michael J Durant Publisher Comments From the New York Times bestselling authors of In the Company of Heroes. In the world of covert warfare, Special Operations pilots are notoriously close- lipped about what they do. They don't talk about their missions to anyone outside their small... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Aircraft of the Aces #03: Wildcat Aces of the Pacific by Barrett Tillman Publisher Comments Arguably the most important piston-engined single-seat fighter design ever to see service with the US Navy and Marine Corps, the aesthetically inelegant F4F Wildcat achieved much acclaim during its bloody frontline career. Thrown into combat at Coral Sea,... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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Combat Aircraft #81: Israeli A-4 Skyhawk Units in Combat by Shlomo Aloni Synopsis The light and agile A-4 Skyhawk was the first modern American jet to be offered to the Israeli Air Force, marking the point where the US took over from France as Israel's chief military supplier. Deliveries began too late for the A-4 to fight in the Six... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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Hunt for Zero Point (03 Edition) by Nick Cook Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-281) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Hundred Feet Over Hell: Flying with the Men of the 220th Recon Airplane Company Over I Corps and the DMZ, Vietnam 1968-1969 by Jim Hooper Publisher Comments Forward air controllers in Vietnam were acknowledged as having perhaps the most dangerous aviation role of the war. Flying at speeds well below the top end of most family cars, they spent hours over hostile terrain in flimsy, propeller-driven Cessna O-1... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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A Separate Little War: The Banff Coastal Command Strike Wing Versus the Kreigsmarine and Luftwaffe 1944 - 1945 by Andrew D. Bird Publisher Comments Every day for nine months from September 1944 to the end of the war, young British, Commonwealth and Norwegian airmen flew from Banff aerodrome in northern Scotland in their Mosquitoes and Beaufighters to target the German U-Boats, merchantmen and... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Aircraft of the Aces #13: Japanese Army Air Force Aces 1937-45 by Henry Sakaida Publisher Comments Little has been published in English on the Japanese Army Air Force (JAAF), let alone its most successful fighter pilots - no less than 150 of them achieved ace status during eight years of near-constant war, and they are all listed in this volume. From... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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Carrier by Tom Clancy Publisher Comments Bestselling author Tom Clancy returns to the military hardware his fans love with this behind-the-scenes tour of the U.S. Navy's crown jewel, the aircraft carrier. Illustrations.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Cats and Dumbos: WWII's Fighting Pbys by Mel Crocker Publisher Comments The colorful, humorous, and sometimes miraculous story of the U.S. Navy's ugly-duckling seaplane the Catalina Patrol Bomber, in the words of those who flew her.... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Tupolev Bombers by David Donald Publisher Comments With the end of World War II and the dawn of the nuclear age, the world's new superpowers (while allied for the defeat of Germany) entered a period of hostility marked by sharply opposing ideologies, proxy wars and the continuing threat of nuclear... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover
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In the Clouds Above Baghdad: Recollections of the R. F. C. in Mesopotamia During the First World War Against the Turks by J. E. Tennant Synopsis War in the air over the Middle East Mesopotamia, 'the land of the two rivers', is deemed the birthplace of civilisation. Now modern day Iraq, it has known warfare throughout the millennia that man has inhabited it. By the first years of the twentieth... (read more) Your price: $18.25 New - Trade Paper
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Duel #23: USN F-4 Phantom II Vs VPAF MiG-17/19: Vietnam War 1965-72 by Peter Davies Synopsis The Vietnam War placed unexpected demands upon American military forces and equipment, which had been focused on the probability of tactical nuclear warfare. The principal US naval fighter, the McDonnell F-4 Phantom, had originally been designed to... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Lightning Strikes Twice: The English Electric Lightning Story by Martin W. Bowman Publisher Comments Introduced into RAF service in December 1959, the English Electric Lightning was and still is one of the most iconic of British fighter aircraft. When it entered service it was literally streets ahead of the competition. With a rate of climb and top... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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Pearson's Peacekeepers by Michael K. Carroll Book News Annotation Carroll (military and strategic studies, U. of Calgary) tells the behind the scenes story of Canadian statesman Lester Pearson (1897-1972) and his efforts to tame what had become an anarchic United Nations during the Cold War era and maintain peace... (read more) Your price: $98.95 New - Hardcover
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