This illustrated volume provides both the general enthusiast and historian with key information about the world's fighter aircraft. Covering aircraft from the pioneering days of air fighting in World War I through to modern day and includes aircraft such as the Spitfire, P-51 Mustang, MiG-15, Hunter, Harrier and F-14 Tomcat. Many of the photos are from the Photographic Archive of the Imperial War Museum and have been rarely published before.