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Based on historic events, and frighteningly relevant to today's headlines -- a taut thriller about one American diplomat’s year of living dangerousl...
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
In this new pictorial history from Philip Kaplan, the perspectives of both RAF and Luftwaffe airmen are considered within the wider context of one of ...
The Plane That Turned the Tide of World War Two
If it looks right, it will probably fly righta tired old saying among airmen, but one that persists. Think if you will of the handful of aeroplanes th...
This book examines the reality behind the myths of the legendary German fighter aces of World War II. It explains why only a small minority of pilots ...
A Lighter Legend
Throughout the 1930s the Zippo Company in Pennsylvania prospered on the growing success of its stylish, charismatic little cigarette lighter. The ligh...
A Century of tank Warfare
The tank is such a characteristic feature of modern warfare that its difficult to imagine a time when its presence wasn't felt on the battlefield in s...
Allied Prisoners of War in Hitler's Germany
Philip Kaplan presents us here with a riveting account of the Allied experience behind enemy lines, detailing the trials and tribulations experienced ...
Heavy Metal at War
From monster to master, discover the history of the tank in this heavily illustrated book. When the first tank weapon appeared on the killing fields o...
Celebrating a Century of Naval Flying
Naval aviation arrived early in the last century in the form of balloons and airships employed by the British Royal Navy for reconnaissance, and inter...
Don Gentile & John Godfrey World War Two Flying Aces
American volunteers Don Gentile (pronounced Jen-tilly) and John Godfrey flew together as leader and wingman respectively, with the USAAF 4th Fighter G...
The Largest Aeroplanes Ever Built
In the history of aviation there have been many attempts to produce aircraft of extraordinary proportions to expand the limits of technology and creat...
A Transport Revolution
The legendary Douglas DC-3 airliner was a technological breakthrough that changed the course of both civilian and military aviation. In the 1930s, pas...
This new addition to the Images of War series takes as its focus the early Big Gun battleships that saw development and deployment during the First Wo...
An Icon of the Skies
“An amazing tribute to the people who designed, built and flew it—a comprehensive history of one of the most beautiful aircraft ever manufactured....
This new addition to the Images of War series is sure to prove welcome, illustrating as it does the preparatory stages of the iconic Battle of Britain...
The first aircraft carriers made their appearance in the early years of World War I. These first flattops were improvised affairs built on hulls that ...
This book examines the reality behind the myths of the legendary RAF fighter aces during the Battle of Britain. The accounts of the experiences of fig...
The Last Battleships
The big-gun battleship served as a symbol of the ultimate power of the world's greatest navies beginning late in the nineteenth century and continuing...
The pilots and combined bombing forces of the Second World War are revered for a host of reasons. Their bravery when cast against the odds, their resi...
In this title, 'Legend', the wartime and post-war history of a significant surviving veteran of that war, the C-47A N1844A is traced, along with the p...
In World War Two, the most effective fighting units were usually small submarine crews, infantry platoons, commandos, and bomber crews. Of these it co...
80 Delightful Hurdles for Reasonably Agile Minds
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The past 86 years since 1917 have seen the tank develop from a primitivexperimental weapon devised to break the deadlock of trench warfare on theester...
Beginning with a pictorial essay on battleship construction in the 1930s and 1940s, this new book looks at the various design facets of the last great...
Carrier Aviation and Naval Aviators?A History and Celebration
See the excitement and danger of life on an aircraft carrier like never before. How does it feel to sit aboard a thirty-ton jet and be hurled over a s...
ñThe Merchant Seaman never faltered. To him we owe our preservation and our very livesî - The Right Hon. Alfred Barnes, Minister of War Transport.??...
Following nearly two years of planning and exacting preparation, Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of the Nazi-dominated European continent, was...
Battle of Britain Legend: Adolph Malan
“I do not think that [Adolph] Malan could join a squadron without improving it, however good it was . . . he was the best pilot of the War.” —Ai...
The U-Boat War 1939-1945
In the early years of the Second World War, the elite force of German submariners known as the Ubootwaffe came perilously close to perfecting the unde...
The Battle of the Atlantic was the dominating factor all through the war. Never for one moment could we forget that everything happening elsewhere, ...
Submarine Warfare from World War II to the Present?An Illustrated and Oral History
See the secret and dangerous world of submarine life and warfare like never before. From the ingenious but impractical designs of seventeenth-century ...
Guarding the American Bombers Over Europe in World War II
Spitfire, Mustang, Lightning, Thunderbolt… in the darkest days of World War II, these legendary fighters escorted lumbering heavy bombers over enemy...
The Fighter Pilot Experience - From World War I and World War II to the Jet Age
Take someone with superior intelligence, unusual strength, perfect vision, catlike reflexes, exceptional marksmanship, and nerves of steel – and you...
This new collection of archive imagery from Philip Kaplan offers a gripping, graphic view of the routine repeated each day and night, from the summer ...
From the late nineteenth century until the middle of World War II, the massively armed and armored battleship was the ultimate weapon of the world and...
Dealing Out Punishment from the Air
Discover the wartime experiences of the bomber boys in World War II. Flying bombers during World War II was a harrowing ordeal. Unlike the fighter joc...
Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts
Not long ago, the world was awash with venture capital in search of the next Yahoo! or Amazon.com. No product, no experience, no technology, no busine...
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril - Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Churchill, as a former First Lor...
Merchant Sailors at War, 1939-1945
The ships and men of the Allied merchant navies. Without the British Merchant Navy, the American Merchant Marine and the Canadian Merchant Navy, Brita...
From the 17th century inventors through the nuclear powered submarines of today, this heavily illustrated volume traces the history of the silent forc...