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6/18/2009 - F6F Hellcat at War
"A new addition to Zenith’s outstanding ‘At War’ series, F6F Hellcat at War is bound to get any naval aviation buff’s blood stirring. Over 100 photos, many in color, present the complete history of this legendary carrier-launched warbird from its initial design and development in the mid-1940s by Grumman Aircraft Corporation at its Long Island factory to its successful combat career in the Pacific…
"Through compelling accounts, previously unpublished photos, and detailed engineering drawings, Graff does an excellent job of tracing the Hellcat’s lineage and manufacture, then its roles as one of the most feared fighters of the war." —WWII History, September 2009.
6/1/2009 - One Giant Leap: Apollo 11 Remembered
"The first two-thirds of this pictorial history of the Apollo 11 moon mission, which took place in July 1969, includes text by Bizony (The Man Who Ran the Moon: James E. Webb, NASA, and the Secret History of Project Apollo) and pictures from the mission. The final third is a selection of mostly color photos taken before, during, and after the flight. Via analytical and penetrating text, Bizony puts Apollo 11 and the entire space race in historical context. He compares the first moon mission to the United States’ current planned crusade and finds that the Apollo program was one of the greatest engineering achievements of all time. The new moon program will take much longer to complete, a demonstration of the space race urgency of the 1960s and NASA’s remarkable ability to fulfill its first moon landing. Engineers in the current program are examining hardware from the Apollo program to get design ideas. Verdict The selection of pictures is outstanding. Readers will recognize many of them yet will still be enthralled. Recommended for space buffs." —Library Journal, June 1, 2009.
6/1/2009 - Piercing the Fog of War: Recognizing Change on the Battlefield
"We don’t want to fight the last war again, so how do we meet the challenge of the new war? What is the balance between experience and innovation? Steed, a U.S. Army officer who has taught battlefield tactics, offers a template to recognize game-changing innovation and provides historical examples in which a commander altered the battlefield to defeat a superior, complacent enemy, e.g., at Little Bighorn and more recently at Grozny (1996). For serious readers in military history." —Library Journal, June 1, 2009.
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