Aviation & Space
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Sunburst
$41.95 Add to cartThis acclaimed sequel to the Peattie/Evans prizewinning work, Kaigun, illuminates the rise of Japanese naval aviation from its genesis in 1909 to its thunderbolt capability on the eve of the Pacific w… [more below]
- Author: Peattie, Estate Of Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 159114664X
- Language: English
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Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia
$32.95 Add to cartFlying Camelot brings us back to the post-Vietnam era, when the US Air Force launched two new, state-of-the art fighter aircraft: the F-15 Eagle and the F-16 Fighting Falcon. It was an era when debate
- Series: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
- Author: Hankins, Michael W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501760653
- Language: English
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Eastern Front 1945: Triumph of the Soviet Air Force
$25.00 Read moreA detailed, illustrated account of the air campaign that accompanied the Red Army’s final push towards Berlin, in which massed Soviet air power defeated the Luftwaffe’s high-tech Me 262 jets and Miste
- Series: Air Campaign #42
- Author: Hiestand, William E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1472857828
- Language: English
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Race of Aces: Wwii’s Elite Airmen and the Epic Battle to Become the Master of the Sky
$21.99 Add to cartThe astonishing untold story of the WWII airmen who risked it all in the deadly race to become the greatest American fighter pilot.
In 1942, America’s deadliest fighter pilot, or “ace of aces” — the l… [more below]- Author: Bruning, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0316508632
- Language: English
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Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II
$19.00 Add to cartThe vivid and largely untold story of the dramatic Allied air campaign against Germany that was a turning point in World War II and ultimately crucial to the success of D-Day and the Allied invasion o
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 080214778X
- Language: English
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
$18.95 Add to cartTed W. Lawson’s classic Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo appears in an enhanced reprint edition on the sixtieth anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Japan. “One of the worst feelings about that time,” Ted W.
- Series: Brassey’s Aviation Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lawson, Ted W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1574885545
- Language: English
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The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey
$20.99 Add to cartA fascinating and authoritative narrative history of the V-22 Osprey, revealing the inside story of the most controversial piece of military hardware ever developed for the U.S. Marine Corps.
When the- Author: Whittle, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 17 2011
- ISBN10: 1416562966
- Language: English
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Stranded in the Sky: The Untold Story of Pan Am Luxury Airliners Trapped on the Day of Infamy
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Taking Mr. Exxon and The Death of an Heir comes the untold story of four luxury airliners trapped in the Pacific Ocean on and after the Day of Infamy.
In the first week of December 1… [more below]
- Author: Jett, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1684429366
- Language: English
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The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown
$22.95 Add to cartJesse Leroy Brown was born in 1926 to sharecroppers in the segregated South. An outstanding student and top athlete, he set his sights on becoming a Navy pilot despite the resistance of his family and… [more below]
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Taylor, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1591148529
- Language: English
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The Tuskegee Airmen: An Illustrated History: 1939-1949 with a Comprehensive Chronology of Missions and Events
$28.95 Add to cartMany documentaries, articles, museum exhibits, books, and movies have now treated the subject of the Tuskegee Airmen, the only black American military pilots in World War II. Most of these works have … [more below]
- Author: Caver, Joseph D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1588382443
- Language: English
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All-American Boys
$29.95 Add to cartEDITORIAL REVIEW: *The All-American Boys* is a no-holds-barred candid memoir by a former Marine jet jockey and physicist who became NASA’s second civilian astronaut. Walter Cunningham presents the ast… [more below]
- Author: Cunningham, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1876963247
- Language: English
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Bombing Hitler’s Hometown: The Untold Story of the Last Mass Bomber Raid of World War II in Europe
$28.00 Read moreOne of WWII’s final untold stories, this visceral account of the white-knuckled bombing mission American airmen carried out on Hitler’s hometown of Linz, Austria is now told for the first time through… [more below]
- Author: Croissant, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0806543027
- Language: English
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Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942-1945
$20.99 Add to cartWHIRLWIND is the first book to tell the complete, awe-inspiring story of the Allied air war against Japan–the most important strategic bombing campaign inhistory. From the audacious Doolittle raid in… [more below]
- Author: Tillman, Barrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 1416584412
- Language: English
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Topgun: An American Story
$29.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
If you loved the movie, you will love the real story in the book. — Fox & Friends
On the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Topgun Navy Fighter School, its founder shares the r… [more below]- Author: Pedersen, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0316416266
- Language: English
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SAAB 35 Draken: Flying with the European Air Forces
$33.00 Read more“Finally, the level of detail is EXACTLY what most modelers are looking for– clear, close-up photos for scratch-building hydraulics, cockpits and little bits and bobs that many other books overlook.”… [more below]
- Series: Duke Hawkins
- Author: Deboeck, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: February 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9464776013
- Language: English
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Chickenhawk
$20.00 Add to cartA true, bestselling story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma of the Vietnam War
More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since i- Author: Mason, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 492
- Publish Date: March 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035711
- Language: English
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Hogs in the Sand: A Gulf War A-10 Pilot’s Combat Journal
$31.95 Add to cart“I am awed by my destructive power. With a small squeeze of the gun trigger under my right index finger, I can rip the turret off a thirty-ton battle tank and throw it 200 feet across the desert, whil… [more below]
- Author: Wyndham, Buck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: August 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1646631609
- Language: English
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Red Phoenix Rising: The Soviet Air Force in World War II
$27.99 Add to cartChoice Outstanding Academic Title
A groundbreaking account of the Soviet Air Force in World War II, the original version of this book, Red Phoenix, was hailed by the Washington Post as both “brilliant- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Hardesty, Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 070063293X
- Language: English
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What’s Your Call Sign?: The Hilarious Stories Behind a Naval Aviation Tradition
$29.99 Read moreWhat’s Your Call Sign? is filled with cleverly written and funny stories behind the seemingly mean-spirited nicknames naval aviators use to address each other as terms of endearment. As such, these st… [more below]
- Author: Taggart, Ben Lobo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764366386
- Language: English
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The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
$19.00 Add to cartThe thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation’s desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Ja… [more below]
- Author: Kleiner, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0399564152
- Language: English
