Product Description: Featuring the diary entries of the airmen involved, a unique account of the epic battle for Malta as experienced by fighter pilots of Number 185 Squadron. In 1943, after helping to win the air war over Malta, the unit took part in the Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy taking the fight to the enemy by bombing and strafing targets in support of Allied ground forces...read more

Product Description: Today many of the Greek islands of the Dodecanese are popular tourist resorts. However in 1943 they were the scene of the last successful German invasion of the Second World War. The islands had been occupied by the Italians since 1912 but, Italian Armistice of September with the downfall of Benito Mussolini, Winston Churchill seized the opportunity to open a new front in the eastern Mediterranean...read more

Product Description: Through vivid eyewitness accounts from British, German, and Italian veterans, along with many photographs (some never before published), follow the dramatic events of Churchill's doomed attempt to open up a new front in the Eastern Mediterranean...read more

Product Description: An inside look at the shadowy world of the mercenary soldier, from the Congo in the 1960s to recent operations in West Africa, South America, and the Balkans. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: US Air Force men during the '60s...a car trip in Western Europe involving two US Army women and an eight-year-old boy...a glimpse into the alarming and disgusting world of insane street people...Fly inside a B52 as it is struck hard leaving North Vietnam...read more

Product Description: From 1940 to 1942, supremacy of the skies above Malta was bitterly fought over by aircraft of the RAF, Luftwaffe and Regia Aeronautica. The RAF eventaully gained the upper hand, but not before the loss of hundreds of aircraft on all sides...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Based on interviews with mercenaries of many nationalities, this text investigates the shadowy world of soldiers of fortune. It reveals how white mercenaries came to play a key role in the struggle for the Congo and how the end of the war in Vietnam coincided with the start of the war in Rhodesia, attracting a new generation of freelance soldiers...read more

Product Description: Three leading photo journalists take the reader amongst the wretched conditions on the front line of the battles and skirmishes which afflict the modern world. Thus scenes from Eritrea, the former Yugoslavia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, South West Africa/Namibia, Lebanon and Angola provide a permanent record of the traumas whilst their text, based on personal visits to the places described, provides the atmosphere of the situation as well as historical and political background...read more