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...
The Japanese strategy for the Philippines was to entrap the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet with an assault from the Surigao Strait Covering the northern part of the strait were U.S....
Historically rich in detail with previously unpublished photographs from private archives Emphasises little-known and unique experimental and modified military aircraft for the purpose of research and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...
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...
Historically rich in detail with previously unpublished photographs from private archives Emphasises little-known and unique experimental and modified military aircraft for the purpose of research and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...
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...
A unique perspective on the cost of war, both on the battlefield and at home Examines a little-known yet emotionally charged facet of one of history’s great battles Previously unpublished...
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...
This book covers the P/F-51Mustang and each of its many variants and spinoffs including the A-36 Apache, F-6 Photo Mustang, F-82 Twin Mustang and others. It discusses the Mustangs used...
The Other Ninth Air Force takes a detailed look at how the Artillery Air Section of a US Army Headquarters functioned during the Second World War in Europe. It relates...
Military author Rob Morris, Untold Valor: Forgotten Stories of American Bomber Crewmen over Europe in World War II and The Wild Blue Yonder and Beyond: The 95th Bomb Group in...
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress began life at the Boeing Aircraft Corporation in 1946 and was the answer that General Curtis LeMay was looking for: a huge bomber. The B-52 entered...
Like the P-51 Mustang and Supermarine Spitfire, the Douglas DC-3 is an iconic aircraft design. It has endured more than any other with several hundred still in use worldwide in...
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...
Suffolk became home for many American airmen during the War. They brought with them chewing gum and Coca-Cola. In return, the British taught the GIs the art of darts and...
Previously unpublished accounts of the last stand of the 110th Regimental Combat Team Many previously unpublished personal accounts and stories Includes unpublished eyewitness accounts of Luxembourg residents This comprehensive work...
Naval aviation special markings and nose art is a field that has been largely ignored, primarily due to the lack of coverage in mainstream aviation history publications. Using research into...
The full story of the American aeroplane building programme in book form for the first time Comprehensively illustrated, including some previously unpublished photographs Rich in detail, this will be of...
John T. Farnham, a sharpshooter in the Union Army, wrote a substantial diary entry nearly every day during his three-year enlistment, sent over 50 long articles to his hometown newspaper,...
