Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands on 7 December 1941, had severely damaged the United States Pacific Fleet but had not destroyed it, for the fleet's aircraft carrier force had been at sea when the Japanese struck. This meant that, despite the overwhelming success of Japanese military forces across the Pacific, US carrier-based aircraft could still attack Japanese targets. After the Battle of the Coral Sea in early May 1942, in which both sides had lost one carrier, the comm...
In The Union Cavalry Comes of Age, award-winning cavalry historian Eric J. Wittenberg provides a long-overdue challenge to the persistent myths that have unfairly elevated the reputations of the Confederate cavalry's "cavaliers" and sets the record straight regarding the evolution of the Union cavalry corps. He highlights the careers of renowned Federal officers, including George Stoneman, William W. Averell, Alfred Pleasonton, John Buford, and Wesley Merritt, as well as lesser-known characters...
English, Canadian, ANZAC & Indian armies in the great war (Ww1&2, #5)
by Luca Stefano Crisrini
Tiger Tank Owners' Workshop Manual
by David Fletcher, David Willey, Mike Hayton, Mike Gibb, Darren Hayton, Stevan Vase, and David Schofield
Aircraft that no radar can detect., that no missile can strike - it sounds like science fiction, but in fact it is a technological fact. This magnificently illustrated book describes the aircraft and the technology behind the most significant developments in aerial warfare since the jet engine and the atomic bomb. It penetrates the cloud of secrecy, misinformation and speculation to provide a detailed survey of the principles of 'stealth' and of the current and future uses of this 'wizard' techn...
When World War II began, the Wehrmacht had fifteen mountain divisions and a multitude of small units, including some Austrian units that had been incorporated into the German army after the Anschluss. These mountain units would operate in hostile environments on all fronts during World War II. Due to their training, equipment and adaptability, the Gebirgstruppen would be deployed to fight in almost every theater. In the last years of the war they would see action in North Africa, Italy, the Balk...
Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war vol.21 (Soldiers, Weapons & Uniforms Nap, #26)
by Vasilevich Viskovatov Viskovatov and Luca Stefano Cristini
Spitfire, Mustang, Lightning, Thunderbolt in the darkest days of World War II, these legendary fighters escorted lumbering heavy bombers over enemy territory, providing protection, drawing cover, and taking on everything Germany's Luftwaffe could throw at them. Escort Pilot is the lavishly-illustrated celebration of these unique heroes, painstakingly researched and beautifully designed. It conjures up the lost world of these daring US, British, and other Allied pilots. Readers witness gripping...
Camp Robinson and the Military on the North Shore
by Ray Hanley and MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military Hi
"The first fully illustrated history of the world's most famous fighter squadron, Greg "Pappy" Boyington's Black Sheep"--Provided by publisher.
In the aftermath of the Civil War, New Mexico Territory endured painful years of hardship and ongoing strife. During this turbulent period, a U.S. military officer stationed in the territory assembled an album of photographs, a series of still shots taken by one or more anonymous photographers. Now, some 150 years later, Hardship, Greed, and Sorrow reproduces the anonymous officer's ""souvenir album"" in its totality. Offering an important glimpse of the American Southwest in the mid-1860s, th...
Himmler's Nazi Concentration Camp Guards (Images of War)
by Ian Baxter
Luftwaffe Flak and Field Divisions, 1939-1945 (Images of War)
by Hans Seidler
Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war vol.22 (Soldiers, Weapons & Uniforms Nap, #27)
by Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov, Luca Stefano Cristini, and Mark Conrad
Kursk was a crucial battle on the vast Eastern Front and a battle in which Hitler's elite, the Waffen SS, distinguished itself as never before. In this magnificent series of photo histories, Remy Spezzano presents rare and previously unpublished images detailing the uniforms, equipment and weapons of the Waffen SS divisions employed to stem the tide in 1943.
In the 12 years that the National Socialist Party was in power in Germany, upwards of 15,000 concentration and labour camps were established in the Greater Reich and the occupied countries to incarcerate all who were deemed enemies of the state.�Contents includes: GERMANY Dachau, Oranienburg, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Ohrdruf, Flossenburg, Neuengamme, Ravensbruck, Niederhagen/Wewelsburg, Bergen-Belsen, Mittelbau-Dora-Nordhausen, Arbeitsdorf.�AUSTRIA Mauthausen. BELGIUM Breendonk, Mechelen: Case...
Motorbikes were widely used by all sides in WW2 due to their agility, adaptability and speed. A precious few survive today as rare collectors' items. The author, who is the Photo Archivist at the IWM has unearthed images of all the major marques. Famous British names (Triumph, Norton, Matchless, BSA, Velocette, James and Rudge) feature along with the bigger American machines from Indian and Harley-Davidson. German bikes have their own chapter with classics such as NSU, Zundapp and BMW and includ...