Highly illustrated history of airborne forces warfare during the Second World WarCovers Allied and Axis airborne forces on every battlefront during the conflictOver 400 photographs and other illustrations, plus extracts from wartime documents and reportsDescribes all the major uses of airborne force...

Highly illustrated history of airborne forces warfare during the Second World WarCovers Allied and Axis airborne forces on every battlefront during the conflictOver 400 photographs and other illustrations, plus extracts from wartime documents and reportsDescribes all the major uses of airborne forces from Unternehmen Weserbung Norway and Denmark, 1940 to Operation Herring Italy, 1945Looks at the increasing use of paratroops as ground forces after the battle of CreteFourth volume in Pen Swords studies of the arms that made up the armies of the Second World War