Warfare & Defence

In the hundreds of books written about battleships, the authors tend to draw down the curtain on the careers of these great vessels in September 19...

This fully illustrated study details Germany and Italy''s failed development of World War II aircraft carriers, and the naval aviation ships that t...

''The authors are to be congratulated on a book which merits usage in the national curriculum.'' - International Journal of Nautical ArchaeologyTHE...

The largest procurement program in the Department of Defense (DOD), the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), also called the Lightning II, is a strike ...

The Spitfire and the Lancaster were the two RAF weapons of victory in the Second World War, but the glamour of the fighter has tended to overshadow...

This book describes the operations of the Soviet air force along the Finnish-Soviet front during the Winter War of 1939-1940. The Winter War bega...

The construction of large oceanic submarines in the Empire of Japan was related to two basic facts. The first was the achievements in the Atlantic ...

Faced with an increasingly formidable anti-ship cruise missile threat from the Soviet Union in the early days of the Cold War, and with the recent ...

The nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Nimitz is the oldest carrier in the US fleet. Commissioned in 1975, CVN-68 is named after famed navy admiral C...

No less than Dwight Eisenhower described Andrew Jackson Higgins as the man who won the war for us, referring to the landing craft he perfected. Tho...

The history of the carrier that launched Jimmy Doolittle's daring raid on Tokyo and saw combat at Midway and Santa Cruz The USS Hornet (CV-8),...

US Combat Aircraft Colours over Vietnam 1964 1975 covers all fixed wing combat aircraft operated by US military during the Vietnam War 1964 1975...

The battleship USS New York served the Navy from 1914 until just after WWII. New York was famously sent to reinforce the British Grand Fleet during...

The four battleships of the Iowa class, the crowning achievement of U.S. battleship construction, had exceptionally long careers and each in their ...

A fully illustrated study of the Soviet Navys biggest and most powerful surface combatants of the Cold War. Heavily armed and formidable, guided m...