Alfred Price

The rapid evolution of radio and radar systems for military use during World War II, and devices to counter them, led to a technological battle that neither the Axis nor the Allied powers could afford to lose. The result was a continual series of thrusts, parries and counter-thrusts, as first one side then the other sought to wrest the initiative in the struggle to control the ether. This was a battle fought with strange-sounding weapons: Freya', Mandrel', Boozer' and Window'. It was a battle characterized by the bravery, self-sacrifice and skill of those who took part in it. When it was first published in 1967, Instruments of Darkness came to be regarded as a standard reference work on this intriguing subject.

German daylight raids on Britain began in the summer of 1940. They were expected and the country had been preparing for quite some time. Searchlights were in place, Fighter Command had been expanded, and anti-aircraft guns were being manufactured. It was from these first preparations that Britain developed tactics to counter the many air raids over the following years. This book shows how Britain prepared for air raids in the run up to the war and details all the tactics that were developed during the war to counter the many aerial attacks. Among the defence systems covered are anti-aircraft guns, barrage balloons and the RADAR system.

Estos emocionantes relatos sitúan virtualmente al lector en la carlinga de los más diversos y míticos aviones de combate durante algunas de las más famosas batallas aéreas de la Historia y también en combates menos conocidos. Desde la pionera epoca de la Gran Guerra, donde podremos si tuarnos en las operaciones de combate de los campos de Francia, pasando por episodios como la decisiva Batalla de Inglaterra o a la perdida terrible de mas de 300 aviones en combate aire-aire en un solo dia durante la invasion alemana de la Union Sovietica. La fun cion vital de la fuerza aerea en Vietnam y las Malvinas o el papel de los aviones de reconoci miento en la guerra moderna se describen junto con los ataques de precision a objetivos selectivos durante la Guerra del Golfo en Iraq. Este libro no solo descubre como las tacticas de la guerra aerea han cambiado a traves de cada uno de los principales conflictos modernos, sino que practicamente traslada al lector al centro de los combates, junto a los pilotos que los protagonizaron.. Este trabajo de Alfred Price es un compendio de dos de sus mas famosos libros sobre batallas aereas: Sky Warriors y Sky Battles. Parte I Batallas en el cielo