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Throughout the 1930s the Zippo Company in Pennsylvania prospered on the growing success of its stylish, charismatic little cigarette lighter. The l...

Reducere. Gunbird Driver is a memoir of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a young pilot flying an armed UH-1E in Marine Observation Squadron 6. Par...

Tells one of the great, dark secrets of World War II: neutral Switzerland shot down US aircraft entering Swiss airspace and imprisoned the survivor...

DescriptionJohn Lambert was a renowned naval draftsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by model makers and enthusiast...

Readers with a penchant for real-life cloak-and-dagger stories won't be disappointed with this memoir. Dan Pinck's World War II adventures behind J...

Reducere. Regarded as the standard biography of World War II naval hero Adm. Raymond A. Spruance, this work is now available in trade paperback for the first...

Reducere. When first published in 1995, this book was hailed as an absolutely indispensable contribution to the history of the Pacific War. Drawing heavily f...

Reducere. Aimed at the general reader with an interest in World War II and the U.S. Navy, this book looks at the massive salvage effort that followed the att...

Reducere. The mission of the U.S. Navy's fast attack submarines during the Cold War was a closely guarded secret for many years, but this look back at the pe...

DescriptionThe technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as...

Reducere. While it is a constant throughout history that conflict has inspired and engendered great art, it is a much rarer event for art to impact directly ...

DescriptionIn almost 200 archive photographs Leo Marriott traces the development of British and American jet fighters during the first pioneering d...

This book tells the story of HMS New Zealand, a battlecruiser paid for by the people of New Zealand in 1909, and when Japan was perceived as a thre...

Reducere. On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines traces the history of the development of military staffs and ideas on the operational level...

Reducere. During World War II eighty-eight of the almost three thousand Liberty ships built in America were launched in Savannah, Georgia. Without Liberty sh...

Reducere. More than one million men and women have received the Purple Heart since its creation as an award "for military merit" in 1932. This book provides ...

War and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942-1944 repairs the fragmentary and incomplete history of events in the Philippine Islands between the sur...

As Anthony Tucker-Jones shows in this highly illustrated, wide-ranging history, for most of the Cold War the tank retained its pre-eminence on the ...

In his November 19, 2005 presidential address, President George W. Bush summarized U.S. military policy as, "Our situation can be summed up this wa...

Reducere. A classic and poignant treatment of Japan's struggle between recognition of the kamikaze's futility and the country's pride in having made the atte...

DescriptionThe technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as...

Reducere. The Struggle for Guadacanal, August 1942-February 1943, Volume 5 in the series, covers the six major engagements in the waters surrounding Guadalca...

Reducere. The first recorded engagement by a steam-powered warship took place on a river, when in 1824 the Honorable East India Company's gunboat Diana went ...

Reducere. When the China Clipper shattered aviation records on its maiden six-day flight from California to the Orient in 1935, the flying boat became an ins...

Reducere. An instant bestseller when it was first published in 1946, this memoir recounts the author's nearly forty years of service in naval intelligence, b...

DescriptionThe Knight's Cross (Ritterkreuz) was one of the highest decorations given for extreme acts of valor to all ranks of the German armed for...

Reducere. DescriptionSubmarines played a major role in the war at sea in the years 1939-45, and this major reference book describes all the classes of vessel...

Reducere. Representing five years of research, The Battlecruiser HMS Hood is easily the most comprehensive book ever published on this great warship. Bruce T...

On 4 June 1944 the German submarine U-505 became the first man-of-war captured by the US Navy in battle on the high seas since the War of 1812. Att...

Reducere. Admiral Stavridis, a leader in military, international affairs, and national security circles, shares his love of the sea and some of the sources o...

DescriptionThis book is the latest in a series based entirely on original draughts which depict famous warships in an unprecedented degree of detai...

DescriptionThe ninth HMS Vanguard bearing one of the most illustrious names in the Royal Navy with honors from the Armada to Jutland was the last a...

The subject of this volume is best known for the disaster of 22 September 1914 where Cressy and two sister-ships, Aboukir and Hogue, were sunk with...

Reducere. Tribals, Battles and Darings describes the three classes, each designed under different circumstances along destroyer lines but to general-purpose ...

Reducere. Despite a supreme belief, the Royal Navy of the early eighteenth century was becoming over-confident and outdated, and it had more than its share o...

Reducere. Elliot Carlson's award-winning biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written about the officer who headed Station Hypo, the U.S. Navy...

Reducere. Silver Medal winner for "Military Non-Fiction" category Military Writers Society of America 2008 AwardsThe Sons of the Republic of Texas Presidio L...

Reducere. DescriptionUSS Nevada (BB-36) was America's first modern battleship. When her keel was laid in 1912, kings and emperors still ruled much of the wor...

Reducere. This is the first-ever biography of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr., who served a key role during World War II in the Pacific. Recognizing the achie...

Reducere. A Navy Admiral's Bronze Rules uses case studies to explore the inherent risks of leadership and the tools available to those who nevertheless wish ...

Unlike the United States, which has preserved a number of battleships as museums or memorials, not a single British dreadnought survives in the cou...

Reducere. This book is the first comprehensive listing in English of the over 1400 warships that were added to the official French navy fleet list between 1 ...

Reducere. Honorable Survivor weaves John S. Service's extraordinary story into the fabric of a watershed moment in our history when World War II was ending, ...

Reducere. The result of more than fifteen years of research, Ironclad Down is a treasure trove of detailed information about one of history's most famous ves...

Reducere. After crushing Japanese naval power in the Pacific at Leyte Gulf, the U.S. moved to liberate the Philippines. Admiral Morison describes a series of...

Reducere. Marine Maxims is a collection of fifty principle-based leadership lessons that Thomas J. Gordon acquired commanding Marines over a career spanning ...

Reducere. "Like many 18-year-olds who sign up to serve with the U.S. Navy, Petersen was looking for adventure when he enlisted. The difference between him an...

Reducere. On December 7, 1941, as the great battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah lie paralyzed and burning in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pear...

Contributor(s): Author: Conrad WatersThe technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completi...

Reducere. To be equally enjoyed by professional aviators and aviation buffs with limited technical knowledge, this biography brings to life the legendary air...

DescriptionCruisers were the Navy's maids-of-all-work employed in a greater variety of roles than any other warship type. Smaller faster and far mo...

The Battle of Jutland, May 31-June 1, 1916, pitted Great Britain and Imperial Germany--the two largest fleets of World War I--against one another f...

Reducere. Churchill famously claimed that the only thing that had really frightened him during the war was the Battle of the Atlantic. Keeping open the lifel...

In Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History paroled prisoners, civilian passengers, guards, crewmember...

In November 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected president of the US. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev brandished nuclear diplomacy in an attempt to f...

Reducere. Because of his long experience with the formulation of military strategy in the United States, Admiral Wylie's analyses and opinions are well worth...

Reducere. From the late 1960s through the mid-1980s, a small band of military activists waged war against corruption in the Pentagon, challenging a system th...

DescriptionJens Mulller was one of only three men who successfully escaped from Stalag Luft III (now in ?aga? Poland) in March 1944--the break that...

DescriptionThe arduous development of a dedicated naval air arm for Germany's resurgent military was fraught with the kind of fierce interservice r...

Reducere. ``Required Reading`` Marine Corps Professional Reading ProgramBluejacket Paperback Book SeriesIn this riveting insider's chronicle, legendary Marin...

Reducere. While there have been other books about Aldrich Ames, Circle of Treason is the first account written by CIA agents who were key members of the CIA ...

DescriptionOn July 31, the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Maddox (DD-731) began a reconnaissance cruise off the coast of North Vietnam. On August 2, three...

Reducere. A pioneer in the field of deep-sea diving, George F. Bond helped develop the theory of saturation diving and the techniques and dive tables used by...

Reducere. The respected British military historian H. P. Willmott presents the first of a three-volume appraisal of the strategic policies of the countries i...

First published in 1994, this stirring autobiography of a fighter and test pilot takes readers full throttle through Carl's imposing list of firsts...

Reducere. The pursuit of German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic has long been considered one of the most exciting stories of World War II. This definit...

Winston Churchill was no stranger to storms. They had engulfed him in various ways throughout his long career and he had always turned to face them...

A biography of Charles Stark 'Doc' Draper, the moving force behind the development of the floated gyroscope, which also acts as a chronological acc...

DescriptionOne Nation Under Drones is an interesting and informative review of how robotic and unmanned systems are impacting every aspect of Ameri...

Published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, this new paperback edition brings back into print a book that became an essenti...