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SR-71: The Complete Illustrated History of the Blackbird, The World's Highest, Fastest Plane

de Richard H. Graham

 At the height of the Cold War in 1964, President Johnson announced a new aircraft dedicated to strategic reconnaissance. The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane flew more than three-and-a-half times the speed...

The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan

de James Scott

THE WAR BELOW is the riveting story of the submarine force that helped win World War II in the Pacific by ravaging Japan’s merchant fleet and destroying the nation’s economy.

Focusing on the unique stories...

The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost-From Ancient Greece to Iraq

de Victor Davis Hanson

Leading military historian Victor Davis Hanson returns to non-fiction in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals who single-handedly saved their nations from defeat...

Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home

de Maurice Isserman, Walter Iv Cronkite & Tom Brokaw

A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book. Walter Cronkite, an obscure 23-year-old United Press wire service...

Macarthur's War: The Flawed Genius Who Challenged The American Political System

de Bevin Alexander

Douglas MacArthur famously said there is no substitute for victory . . .  

As a United States general, he had an unparalleled genius for military strategy, and it was under his leadership that Japan was...

The First Household Cavalry Regiment, 1943-44: In the Shadow of Monte Amaro

de Garry O'Connor

In the Shadow of Monte Amaro provides a new focus on the famous First Household Cavalry Regiment, the way its mettle was tested to the maximum in action in the mountains of Italy. It reveals and explores this...

Rough War

de Walt Shiel & Walter J. Boyne

Rough War: Finalist in the 2012 USA Best Book Awards in the Military History category and Finalist in the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the Military category!

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"One of the most unusual...

Historical Dictionary of the Crusades

de Corliss K. Slack

The second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Crusades is an accessible one-volume overview of the medieval crusades to the Middle East between 1095 and 1291, with substantial information on crusades in...

The Merchant Navy

de Richard Woodman

This title tells the epic story of Britain's merchant shipping, carrying exotic goods from all quarters of the world. At one time, British ships carried half of the world's trade. It reveals how two world wars...

Saltwater Leadership: A Primer on Leadership for the Junior Sea-Service Officer

de Jr. , Robert O. Wray

Designed for busy junior officers in the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine, this primer teaches the basics of leadership in five sequential steps. It begins with a useful overview of major leadership...

Big Red: Inside The Secret World of a Trident Nuclear Submarine

de Douglas C. Waller

Taller in length than the Washington Monument, wider at its center than a three-lane highway, the 18,750-ton Trident nuclear submarine is the most complex war machine the United States Navy has ever produced:...

Submarine Stories: Recollections from the Diesel Boats

de Paul L. Stillwell

Culled from many never-before-published narratives and oral histories conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Naval Institute, Submarine Stories presents nearly five dozen first-person accounts from men who...

Honor, Courage, Commitment: Navy Boot Camp

de John F. Leahy

J. F. Leahy chronicles the transition of eighty-one men and women from civilians to sailors at the U.S. Navy Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Illinois. Granted unlimited and unprecedented access to the...

Battle Line: The United States Navy 1919-1939

de Thomas C. Hone & Trent Hone

A portrait in words and photographs of the interwar Navy, this book examines the twenty-year period that saw the U.S. fleet shrink under the pressure of arms limitation treaties and government economy and then...

Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson

de Steven Maffeo

In today's world of satellites and electronic spying it is hard to appreciate the difficulties involved two centuries ago in collecting and disseminating

secret intelligence in a time of war. This book provides...

Horrible Shipwreck!

de Andrew C. Jampoler

On August 25, 1833, the British convict transport Amphitrite, filled with more than one hundred women prisoners and their children, together with a crew of sixteen, left London for the convict colony in New...

USAF McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II

de Peter Davies & Adam Tooby

In many respects the most successful, versatile and widely-used combat aircraft of the post-war era the F-4 Phantom II was quickly adopted by the USAF after its spectacular US Navy introduction. It was so much...

Spanish Republican Aces

de Rafael Lopez & Julio Caeiro

At the start of the civil war, most young fighter officers joined the rebels (Nationalists). It was the high ranking officers, grupo or escuadrilla commanders, and the NCOs, sergeants and corporals who remained...

American Indian Tribes of the Southwest

de Michael Johnson & Jonathan Smith

This book continues Osprey's series of Men-at-Arms titles on the history, costume, and material culture of the native peoples of North America, which is organized into geographical regions, language groups,...

Fokker D.XXI Aces of World War 2

de Kari Stenman & Chris Davey

Entering service with the Dutch air force from early 1938, the aircraft was also built under license in Denmark and Finland. Production was also scheduled to commence in Spain too but Nationalist forces overran...