Warfare & Defence

A comprehensive study of the training aircraft used to transition the United States military into the jet age. At the end of World War II, high-per...

The history and development of Northrop's Flying Wings, from the innovative XB-35A to the B-2A Spirit. This is a pictorial history of Jack Nor...

The scrapping of the Nimrod programme has been one of the most controversial events in the military aviation world for many a year. For most of its...

The story of how the Super Hornet and Growler came into existence is the focus of this new book. The F/A-18E/F has its roots in the late-1980s Horn...

The delta-wing design of the subsonic bomber Avro Vulcan was years ahead of its time in terms of design when the Ministry accepted the proposal in ...

This is the most detailed historical photographic account of all individual Israeli and American F-15 and F-16 aerial combat victories. Included wi...

In this book, the Spitfire, Lancaster, Messerschmitt, Mustang and Flying Fortress are shown in 500 photographs and illustrations. It is a visual gu...

This book provides a concise historical survey of the various types of aircraft used by the United States Army Air Corps, Army Air Forces, and A...

12 pages of 1/72 and 1/48 scale plans for the early F to H variants of the P-38, the twin-boomed American fighter aircraft of World War II.

A beautifully presented, two-volume collection, uniquely chronicling the story and history of the most recognizable aircraft of World War II and th...

A beautifully presented, two-volume collection, uniquely chronicling the story and history of the most recognizable aircraft of World War II and th...

When de Havilland proposed, in 1938, an unarmed bomber constructed almost entirely from wood, few would have thought it could become one of the mos...

Plucked from every background, and led by an N.K.V.D. Major, the new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on 16th October 1941 to go to war had m...

The Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik became the aerial representative of the Soviet response to the German invasion on the Eastern Front during the Second ...

More than forty years after its cancellation, the BAC TSR2 is still a controversial aircraft. Years ahead of its time, it was abruptly cancelled by...

The author of this book, Ernst A. Lehmann, was close to the Zeppelin story from its early days and had great faith in the ever increasing success o...

Since World War I, nose art has adorned military aircraft around the world. Intended for friendly rather than enemy eyes, these images--with a wide...

A visual history of USS Intrepid, one of the most visited museum ships in the world! USS Intrepid, the Fighting I, was one of America's longes...

A wargaming ruleset for epic pre-WW1 battles in the sky. Its the dawn of the 20th Century and the Great Powers turn to war. Since the development ...

The Norman Friedman Illustrated Design History series of U.S. warships books has been an industry standard for three decades and has sold thousands...

With war against Germany looming, Britain pushed forward its carrier program in the late 1930s. In 1938, the Royal Navy launched the HMS Ark Royal,...

A comprehensive look at World War II-era Fubuki class destroyers, giving readers an understanding of why and how the Imperial Japanese Navy took th...

The Norman Friedman Illustrated Design History series of U.S. warships books has been an industry standard for three decades and has sold thousands...