Drawings, photographs, and text describe a variety of fighter planes, both U.S. and foreign, in use in World Wars I and II, including Britain's Sopwith Camel, the German Fokker and Messerschmitts, the American Curtiss series and the Lockheed Lightning.

Originally published as part of the author's: The world's greatest aircraft. London : Grange Books, 1997. Includes index.