Capitalizing on the great success of In the Cockpit–which featured fifty of the world’s most technogically and historically important aircraft–Collins Design has once again partnered with the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., to focus on the most significant aircraft of the World War II era. In the Cockpit: Inside History-Making Aircraft of World War II takes readers behind the controls of the extraordinary flying machines that played an essential role in determining the ultimate outcome of the devastating global conflict–from fighter planes like Germany’s Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9, Japan’s Kawanishi N1K2-Ja Shiden Kai, and the North American P-51D-30 Mustang to strategic bombers like the infamous Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, the plane that carried the atomic bomb to Hiroshima.

Printed in four-color, featuring close-up cockpit photography, archieval and artifact photos, fascinating text explaining the history and importance of each aircraft, and nearly fifty breathtaking spreads–as well as a twelve-page appendix highlighting the various key features of each plane’s control panel–here is a book that every aviation and military history buff will have to own!