Francis K. Mason Bücher

Although it's reputation was never that of the Spitfire, the Hawker Hurricane matched the best aircraft of Britian's enemies just at the moment of her greatest crisis. It was on the Hurricane that the greatest burden of responsibility rested to withstand the onslaughts by Germany, Italy and Japan and to buy time for survival while the arsenels of the West could forge the weapons of vistory. "The Hawker Hurricane" is fully illustrated with over 200 photographs, maps, diagrams and includes comprehensive appendices of Hurricane test flights, production and service.

A concise dictionary of the most important military leaders in history, featuring detailed capsule biographies of 200 individuals from antiquity to the modern age. Included are military leaders known for their sheer genius (Genghis Khan, Frederick the Great, Napoleon); strategic ability (Wellington, Lee, Rommel, Eisenhower); incompetence or villainy (Custer, Budenny, Benedict Arnold); and administrative or theoretical mastery (Clausewitz, Liddel-Hart). Still others are included for their innovativeness (T. E. Lawrence), notoriety (Jeanne d'Arc, El Cid) or because, as with certain medieval figures, their careers are a particularly apt reflection of their times. Written by two respected authorities in the field, it is both an ideal reference for military historians and a uniquely entertaining and browsable text for general readers.

A history of the German air assaults on Great Britain, 1917-18 and July-December 1940,: And of the development of Britain's air defences between the World Wars