Table of Contents

VOLUME ONE: Aircraft of the Cold War

1. Europe

2. Air Power at Sea

3. Strategic Bombers and Air Defence

4. Strategic Reconnaissance

5. The Middle East

6. Africa

7. Southern Asia

8. The Far East

9. Latin America

VOLUME TWO: Military Airpower 1990-Present

10. North America

11. Central America and South America

12. Western Europe

13. Eastern Europe

14. Central and Western Asia and the Middle East

15. South, East and Southeast Asia

16. Africa

17. Australasia

World Alliances

Glossary

Index

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Fully illustrated comprehensive study of the world's combat aircraft from the beginning of the Cold War to the present

About the Author

Thomas Newdick, an aviation and defence writer and editor, has researched and written numerous articles for various specialist magazines and journals examining military and civil aviation, twentieth-century military history, and defence technology. He has contributed to books such as The Encyclopedia of Military Jets, and is a regular contributor to Combat Aircraft and Aircraft Illustrated magazines. He is on the editorial staff of both Guideline Publications and Aeroplane. Tom Cooper, from Austria, is a military-aviation journalist and historian. Following a career in a worldwide transportation business - in which, during his extensive travels in Europe and the Middle East, he established excellent contacts - he moved into writing. An earlier fascination with post-Second World War military aviation has narrowed to focus on smaller air forces and conflicts, about which he has collected extensive archives of material. Concentrating primarily on air warfare that has previously received scant attention, he specializes in investigative research on little-known African and Arab air forces, as well as the Iranian Air Force. Cooper has published 18 books - including the unique 'Arab MiGs' series, which examines the deployment and service history of major Arab air forces in conflicts with Israel - as well as over 200 articles on related topics, providing a window into a number of previously unexamined yet fascinating conflicts and relevant developments.