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| A Hundred Feet Over Hell: Flying With th |
| A Hundred Feet Over Hell is the story of a handful of young pilots who were there when they were needed, who took extraordinary risks to support those on the ground, who often made the difference bet... |
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| Gettysburg in 3D: A Look Back in Time: W |
| The glories and horrors of the one of the American Civil Wars deadliest battles come to life in this collection of rare original three-dimensional photographs. Here is the battle that marked the turn... |
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| Hope: A Collection of Obama Posters and |
| This book offers a striking and comprehensive visual chronology of posters created for Obama's run for the presidency. Most have been seen only by a limited number of viewers in the primary states. Ot... |
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| A Technical & Operational History of the |
| The aim of the Liberty was to standardize aircraft engine design. The theory was to have an engine design that could be built in several sizes and thus power airplanes for any purpose, from training ... |
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| The Alaska Bush Pilot Chronicles: More A |
| Readers of Flying the Alaska Wild marveled at Mort Mason's true tales of braving the elements at the extremes in a Piper Super Cub. But the bush pilot, adventurer, and raconteur was just beginni... |
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| The Battle of the Bulge: The Photographi |
| Among the most famous battles that American forces fought in World War II, the Battle of the Bulge helped define the U.S. soldier in the "Good War." The sheer scale of destruction--with almost as man... |
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| Black Flag: The Surrender of Germany's U |
| On the eve of Germanys surrender in May 1945, Grossadmiral Karl Dënitz commanded thousands of loyal and active men of the U-boat service. Still fully armed and unbroken in morale, enclaves of these m... |
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| Bloody Streets: The Soviet Assault on Be |
| On 16 April 1945 the Soviet Army launched the fourth largest offensive of WWII with the goal to capture Berlin in five operational days. Bloody Streets is a massive new work that uses previously unp... |
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| Boeing 787 Dreamliner |
| With the launch of its A380, Airbus made what looked like an unbeatable bid for superjumbo supremacy. But archrival Boeing responded: Not so fast. |
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| Codename 'Valkyrie': General Friedrich O |
| On 20 July 1944, the last in a series of assassination attempts against Hitler failed. In the aftermath, leading conspirators and thousands of supporters and sympathizers were arrested and executed. ... |
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| Concorde: A Photographic History |
| Concorde is the worlds most famous passenger transport aircraft and an icon of 20th century design. When British Airways and Air France withdrew their Concordes from revenue service in 2003 it marked... |
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| The Enemy I Knew: German Jews in the All |
| Even Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Prize winning survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, struggles with the question: Why didnt the Jews fight back? And finally, in view of the circumstances--even now, who ... |
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| Faster Than Sound: The Story of Superson |
| This is the fully revised and updated story of how British and American test pilots pierced the sound barrier in the late 1940s, support with many new photographs. Since then much has happened in the... |
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| Hitler's Army: The Men, Machines, and Or |
| Hitlers Army describes and analyzes every significant aspect of Germanys WWII ground forces including their creation, organization, weapons, equipment, training and tactics. This book also considers ... |
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| How America Saved the World: The Untold |
| In 1932, less than fifteen years after proving itself a world power in the Great War, the United States could muster its entire active duty army in Chicagos Soldier Field with room to spare. And yet... |
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| How to Airbrush Pin-Ups |
| How to Airbrush Pinups is a collection of ten sequences done by well-known and experienced airbrush artists. The human form, the human face, and skin tones, are three topics that beginning artists st... |
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| Infantry Attacks |
| Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army in World War II. Even when the legend surrounding his... |
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| The Last Confederate General: John C. Va |
| John Crawford Vaughn was one of the most famous men in Tennessee in the nineteenth century. He was the first man to raise an infantry regiment in the state--and one of the very last Confederate gener... |
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| Liberate and Leave: Fatal Flaws in the E |
| If you were to talk to those who experienced the Iraq War from the inside, the word you might hear most often is "surreal." Don Eberly, a senior official at USAID during the lead-up to the war, was ... |
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| Little-Known Wars of Great and Lasting I |
| Alan Axelrod identifies 18 smaller wars that led to great changes in history, from the Afghan Civil War that precipitated the rise of the Taliban to the Algerine War in 1815, seen as the first war on... |
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