Author: Leo Marriott

Masters of the continent, the Nazis realized that they would have to defend their gains, and once the United States entered the war, redoubled thei...

In this the highly illustrated second volume of his history of US naval aviation, Leo Marriott takes the reader through the extraordinary developme...

In his previous book on early jet fighters Leo Marriott traced the history of the revolutionary aircraft produced by the British and Americans imme...

The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theatre of operations. Land campaigns depended on ...

In a companion volume to his Early Jet Fighters: British and American 1944-1954, Leo Marriott describes, using over 200 archive photographs, the fi...

In almost 200 archive photographs Leo Marriott traces the course of the development of British and American jet fighters during the first pioneerin...

Just after its seventieth anniversary, the Battle of the Bulge has lost none of its impact. The largest battle fought by US troops on the continent...

The speed of the German Blitzkrieg in 1940 and the relative ease with which they brushed aside Allied defenses meant four years of occupation. But ...

The Washington Naval Treaty of 1921 and subsequent treaties in the 1930s effectively established the size and composition of the various navies in ...

Of the five beaches attacked on 6 June, Omaha saw the sternest fighting. Well-placed defenders on the high ground and extensive beach defenses did ...

With their 70th anniversary just around the corner, the D-Day landings have lost none of their impact. Even today the vestiges of Hitlers Atlantic ...

Operation Tonga began at 22:56 on the night of 5 June, when six Halifax heavy bombers took off from Tarrant Rushton towing six Horsas carrying a co...

While the 6th Airborne Division had landed in France on D-Day and covered itself in glory, its counterpart, the 1st Airborne Division, had last see...