This is a fascinating and informative guide to over 120 of the most important military aircraft since 1945. Packed with over 2000 color and black and white photographs and artworks. Includes full dimensions, weights, performance and armament for each aircraft.

"Soaring high above the fields and cities of Europe and Asia as well as the vast expanse of the Pacific, Allied and Axis pilots engaged in a deadly battle for control of the skies in World War II. Whoever won the skies would win the war. Published in association with the National Museum of World War II Aviation, Storm of Eagles is a fully illustrated coffee-table book that brings together classic as well as never-before-seen wartime images. Compiled...

The award winning air to air photography of John Dibbs captures immaculately restored World War II aircraft complemented by a selection of archival, frontline images. The Second World War triggered the greatest technological leap in aviation since manned flight began. In the short space of six years, military aircraft were taken from open cockpit biplanes to fighters that were encountering compressibility problems associated with the sound barrier....