The two previous volumes in this hugely popular series have covered Fighters 1939-1945 and Strategic Bombers 1935-1945. This new addition takes a close look at a varied range of aircraft types, principally described as ground attack and special purpose types, but which includes Kampfzerstorer (multi-purpose combat aircraft), multi-purpose and fast bombers, explosive-carrying aircraft intended to attack other aircraft, air-to-air ramming vehicles, bomb-carrying gliders and towed fighters, and airborne weapons and special devices (rockets, cannon, flame-throwers etc). As before, the technical descriptions and histories of about 140 aircraft types are brought to life by many specially created full-colour artworks, showing the projects, often in unit markings, as they might have appeared if they had come to fruition and/or if the war had continued beyond 1945. This series has proved indispensible for historians and notably for modellers, whose imaginations are well fired-up by these revelations.


Dieter Herwig & Heinz Rode
Hardcover 176pp 2003