A chronicle of Aroostook County’s Cold War military buildup, its peak, and the decline that followed. The end of World War II set the stage for an accumulation of arms...
Historian, Kevin Wright, and his wife, Deborah Powell, moved into the eighteenth-century Steuben House at New Bridge Landing in 1981 as part of his employment in the NJDEP. They, together...
Beautifully illustrated with over 200 photographs, giving extensive insight into the Essex-class carrier Read the stories of some of the crew who served aboard her between 1943 and 1970 A...
On a crisp fall day in October of 1862, a precocious seventeen-year-old boy went into a bookshop in his hometown of Hagerstown, Maryland, and purchased a composition book. Into his...
"No chapter in the annals of the most important battle of America's national epic has been more celebrated than the key struggle for possession of the rocky hill at the...
Many unpublished dispatches between high commands Contains many photographs and unpublished first-hand accounts Explanations in the events that took place The fighting on July 1 1863 built the foundation to...
Thousands of immigrants from the southern Italian region of Calabria came to the Chicago-area in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. As many as 8,000 of them served in the U.S....
Foreword by Ted Alexander, the head historian of Antietam National Battlefield Contains many photographs of the soldiers who fought at Antietam, including flags flown by Hood’s Texas Brigade during the...
Many of the accounts have not been published since the early 20th century in newspaper articles Previously unpublished photographs and vivid personal accounts Dramatic paintings of Hood’s Texans and other...
Daly was born in Western Pennsylvania and spent most of his professional life as a leading medical practitioner in Pittsburgh. He served on both sides in the Civil War, hunted...
A once-remote auxiliary air station that sprung from the mud flats of old Princess Anne County near the whistle stop of Oceana, from which it gets its name, Naval Air...
Berthed today at NAUTICUS, the National Maritime Center, the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) was the last authorized of the four Iowa-class battleships, the largest American dreadnoughts ever built. Wisconsin saw action...
Plenty of tales of heroism have been shared about the Second World War, but few illustrate the anxiety and injustices endured on U.S. soil. Dick is a fatherless boy and...
Never-before-seen and rare advertisements during the war in jaw-dropping colour An overlooked part of US military history and home propaganda throughout World War II As the US sent troops to...
For fifty years, Blytheville was home to a fleet of one of the most versatile pieces of machinery in history. From the Cuban Missile Crisis, through the Vietnam War and...
The residents of a small town in Connecticut were surprised to learn a Pro-Nazi organization was building a Hitler-styled youth camp in their midst. The German-American Bund secretly purchased 178...
A vital contribution to the re-evaluation of the legacy of the American Civil War Comes at a time of widespread reassessment about the roles and status of people of African...
Confederates from Iowa were as unusual as slaves in Dubuque. David Connon shares the intensely human stories of Iowa Confederates in the Civil War. Seventy-six of these men entered the...
American Prisoner of War CampsAmerican Prisoner of War Camps in Washington and Oregon describes the impact of the large number of prisoners of war on the populations of Washington and...
Over the past thirty-five years, a small team of explorers have surveyed the southern basin of Lake Michigan in search of World War II US Navy aircraft. The aircraft were...
During the crucial three days of combat at Gettysburg, the most nightmarish place on the entire battlefield was appropriately named the Devil's Den. This jumble of huge boulders situated at...
Howard Hughes, the movie mogul, aviation pioneer and political hound dog, has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle and reclusiveness. Companies responsible for major technological...
U-boats penetrated Boston Harbor to lay military-grade mines Admiral Canaris and daredevil Otto Skorzeny trained a young American; other teams were inserted by U-boat in the Hamptons, Long Island, opposite...
The real story of the nerve gas disaster at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah, on 13 March 1968 The battle at Fire Support Base Rifle on 11 February 1970, a story...
‘The guys would come into the glider like a bunch of piss-ants, skittering around, real cocky like. But they settled down in the glider. Some got airsick and they began...
Historically rich in detail with previously unpublished photographs from private archives Emphasises little-known and unique experimental and modified military aircraft for the purpose of research and experimentation in support of...
Faced with worrying advances in Soviet missile technology, in the mid-1950s the United States sought to develop an IRBM to act as a stop-gap until the Atlas ICBM became operational....
The untold story of 142 German and one Italian submarines, which patrolled the waters around Bermuda The Axis powers sank eighty Allied ships, one of them naval, for the loss...
Thunderbolt to War gives a remarkable personal insight into the structure and operations of a leading USAAF Fighter Squadron in Britain during the Second World War. This theme is explored...
Every major government’s military makes plans for waging wars, hoping that they never have to be employed. In the early part of the last century the US government prepared a...
Weston Birch (Bert) Hall carved out his place in history with an almost devilish delight. Much of what has been written about him, including his own two autobiographies, has proven...
Contains many unpublished ey ewitness accounts A sixty-year history of a unique 600-acre patch of East Anglia Superbly illustrated with previously unseen black and white photographs Stunning images of battle-damaged...
Soldiers with Spanners: The Ground Crews’ View During the Second World War is unique in that it tells in pictures the story of the men in the USAAF’s 2nd Air...
During the Second World War, thousands of American servicemen were uprooted from the US and deposited in rural England and immediately thrust unceremoniously into the frontline of the largest conflict...
The 712th Tank Battalion landed in Normandy three weeks after D-Day and spent eleven months in combat. The men had to adapt quickly to their new role on the frontline...
