Rolling Thunder: Jet Combat from World War II to the Gulf War
- ISBN-10
- 0440236398
- ISBN-13
- 9780440236399
- Series
- Rolling Thunder
- Category
- Fighter plane combat
- Pages
- 420
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Dell Publishing Company
- Author
- Ivan Rendall
Description
Having served in the Royal Air Force, the author brings an insider's knowledge to this history of the jet fighter, beginning with its birth in battle during the last ways of World War II. Smoothly written . . . the most up-to-date history of the military jet.--The Washingtonian.
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