From a former pilot and military expert comes a superbly illustrated and technically detailed look at an iconic fighter plane: the B-17 Flying Fortress. Designed in the mid-1930s, the Boeing B-17 became a mainstay of Allied bombing raids against Nazi Germany. Unremitting and crushing attacks by hordes of these planes helped bring the Third Reich to its knees and drove the German high command to consider ever-more-desperate antidotes...