Pictorial category: 1048 books
by Alejandro de Quesada
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
Nazi Germany's MP 38 and MP 40 submachine guns are among World War II's most recognizable weapons. Portable and with folding stocks, both were widely issued to airborne troops and became the hallmark of Germany's infantry section and platoon leaders. A million were produced during the conflict –...
by David Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
ABC’s of Tanks and Other Fighting Vehicles explores the history of armored combat vehicles from the past to present, from the well-known to the obscure. Done in the style of a children’s ABC book, with a unique vehicle selected for each letter, and its technical data and historical over view...
by Ronald Pawly
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
The army commanded by the Duke of Wellington at Quatre-Bras and Waterloo included two infantry divisions and three cavalry brigades of the newly-unified Netherlands (or 'Dutch-Belgian') army. The part played by these troops in the two battles, under experienced officers many of whom had seen long...
by Ian Sumner
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The French army of the First World War withstood the main force of the German onslaught on the Western Front, but often it is neglected in English histories of the conflict. Now, though, keen interest in the war in general and in the part the French played in it has prompted a fresh appreciation of...
A History of Georgia Forts
Georgia's Lonely Outposts
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
A look at military fortifications over the centuries, with photos included.
The state of Georgia has a long tradition of building stalwart military fortifications—going all the way back to the early sixteenth century, when it was part of a much larger region of the Southeast claimed by Spain...
by Christian McBurney, Brian L. Wallin, Patrick T. Conley
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Rhode Island's contribution to World War II vastly exceeded its small size. Narragansett Bay was an armed camp dotted by army forts and navy facilities. They included the country's most important torpedo production and testing facilities at Newport and the Northeast's largest naval air station at...
by Lionel D. Wyld
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
Known throughout the world as "The City by the Sea," Newport, Rhode Island, has a long history of maritime activity. Since the Colonial period, Newport has been recognized as both an important seaport for the mercantile trade and a harbor of inestimable value for naval vessels. I n 1869, the U.S....
Monty's Northern Legions
50th Northumbrian and 15th Scottish Divisions at War 1939–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
This is the story of two British Army infantry divisions that were very highly regarded by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, and whose gallant roles in the Second World War deserve to be much better known.
50th Northumbrian or Tyne-Tees Division was recruited from Durham, north and east...
by Michael D. White
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2008
The epic of the Port of Los Angeles was initiated more than 150 years ago by a handful of visionaries and entrepreneurs who exploited both fortunate and outrageous circumstances to transform a tidal mudflat into the world's largest man-made harbor. Phineas Banning and archrival Augustus Timms were among...
T-90 Standard Tank
The First Tank of the New Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
In the wake of the T-72 tank's poor performance in the 1991 Gulf War, the Kremlin instructed the Russian tank industry to drop the discredited T-72 designation in favour of the T-90 Vladimir. The T-90 was in fact a further evolution of the T-72 family, but the name change represented an important...
Up the Micks!
An Illustrated History of the Irish Guards
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
The unique history of The Micks – the Irish Guards – is chronicled in over 1000 images, starting with their formation in 1900 and taking the reader through to the recent war in Afghanistan. It is the story of a remarkable family regiment that continues to
Spyplanes
The Illustrated Guide to Manned Reconnaissance and Surveillance Aircraft from World War I to Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
A comprehensive history with descriptions of the world's most significant aircraft employed as "eyes in the sky."
For as long as there has been sustained heavier-than-air human flight, airplanes have been used to gather information about our adversaries. Less than a decade after the...
Philadelphia
The World War I Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
In 1914, Philadelphia was the third largest city in the United States with a population of just over one and a half million people. It was fitting, therefore, that during World War I, Philadelphia mobilized itself for the war effort perhaps more than any other large American city. Nicknamed the �Workshop...
Chiang Kai-shek Versus Mao Tse-tung: The Battle for China 1946–1949
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
A vivid portrait of the final years of the civil war between the Chinese Nationalists and Communists, including many previously unpublished photos.
This volume in the Images of War series is the first photographic history of the Chinese Civil War, fought between Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists...