Through The Eyes Of The Worlds Fighter Aces The Greatest Fighter Pilots Of World War Two Reissue Robert Jackson by Robert Jackson 9781783460885, 1783460881 instant download after payment.

The book opens with the first Polish Aces during the German invasion and continues on with Finland's pilots in the Winter War against the Soviets. There follows the battle for France with the experiences of the RAF, Luftwaffe and French Aces and then the legendary Battle of Britain. 

North Africa became a critical area, together with the heroic defense 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 battle for air supremacy over Leningrad and the Russian seaports. 

When Japan entered the fray in 1941 their first aces flew over Singapore, Java, Sumatra and Australia, while 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 Hitlers V-1s, whilst in the east Soviet aces battled in the skies 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 bomb we meet the Japanese aces flying in desperate defense of their homeland as it comes under sustained air attack for the first time in its history.