Through The Eyes Of The World's Fighter Aces: The Greatest Fighter Pilots of World War Two (2007) By Robert Jackson
 
This is the story of the fighter aces who flew throughout the war in many different operational theatres. The book opens with the first Polish Aces during the German invasion and continues with Finland's pilots in the Winter War against the Soviets. There follows the battle for France with the experiences of RAF, the Luftwaffe and French Aces and then the legendary Battle of Britain. North Africa became a critical area, together with the heroic defence of Malta and air battles over Greece and the Balkans that were fought in 1941.
 
The Eastern front opened with Operation Barbarossa, where German aces were created by the dozen, flying superior aircraft against an ill-trained Soviet air force and then in the north, when pilots battled for air supremacy over Leningrad and the Russian seaports.
 
When Japan entered the fray in 1942, their first aces flew over Singapore, Java and Sumatra, and the early US Marine aces earned their spurs at Guadalcanal.
 
Back in Europe, RAF fighter pilots were taking the war to the enemy, and in the southern theatre, the desert and Balkan air forces struck into the southern belly of the Reich. After D-Day, British and American fighter units supported the Allied land advance and also defended London against Hitler's V-1s, whilst in the east, Soviet aces battled over Berlin. In the closing stages of the war, Germany introduced its first jet fighter aces and then finally, in the days before the atomic bombs, we read of the Japanese aces flying in desperate defence of their homeland as it came under air attack for the first time.
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
282 Pages
In Good Condition