A detailed examination of carriers and carrier operations in WWII, looking at the tools behind the major carrier battles and their evolution throughout the war.
This book tells the story of the various Allied operations and schemes instigated to keep Spain and Portugal out of WWII, which included the widespread bribery of high ranking Spanish officials and the duplicity of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Abwehr.
A memoir of the Vietnam War written as a series of short stories.
An up-to-date view of Operation Market Garden making full use of modern research. With over 500 illustrations including many maps, aerial photography and then and now images.
The CIA's most valuable spy has been compromised. Only an unconventional secret Army unit has any chance of safely extracting him from East Berlin. The Cold War is about to turn hot.
A concise history of the United States Marine Corps, charting its changing expeditionary force strategies, and the conflicts in which it has fought.
How the determination of young pilots transformed the Corsair from an aircraft considered too dangerous to fly from carriers into a successful carrier fighter.
Delving behind the headlines of history, this book showcases twenty brave Americans who showed exceptional leadership in the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, and the World Wars, but who are now all but forgotten.
Fully illustrated, exceptionally detailed account of the development and deployment of the M4 Sherman in World War II.
First in a trilogy of books comprising a general history of war in the Asia Pacific, from the origins of enmity between Japan and China, through Japan’s ascendancy in the early years of World War II.
The first modern biography of Bertram Ramsay, the man who masterminded the Dunkirk evacuation and the D-Day landings.
The vivid and engaging biography of Tony Beasley, a telegraphist working on submarines during the Cold War.