The Aerospace Encyclopedia of Air Warfare - Volume One 1911-1945

A comprehensive look at the history of air warfare from the pioneering days of WWI and its raging battles between aerial scouts such as the SE.5, Albatross, Camel, Fokker D.VII and SPAD, and the birth of strategic air power with German Gotha and British Handley-Page bombers. By the end of WWII air fighting had moved on with the advent of high speed, monoplane fighters such as the Spitfire, Bf-109, Thunderbolt and Mustang, to potent strategic bombing campaigns culminating with the intense B-29 raids which brought Japan to its knees and the advent of the atomic age.