Annapolis; (2001): Naval Institute Press. First American Edition. Quarto. 224pp., The author gives insight into the difficulties faced by warship designers in an age of rapid technological change, and sets out the valid strategic and technical reasons that lay behind such seemingly reactionary policies as the fitting of sails in... More
(Annapolis 1992): Naval Institute Press. First American Edition. Quarto. 256pp., Illustrated with photographic images and drawings depicting the anatomy of the ship with diagrams which are accurate, usually exciting and totally comprehensive, offering ship buffs, historians and model-makers a novel insight into the technicalities of each ship type covered. The... More
New York; (1971): Doubleday and Co. First Edition. Quarto. First printing. 128pp. illustrated in color by John Weal. This is the first accurate and comprehensive coverage of the background, development, technical evolution and operational career of what is probably the most famous single-seat fighter ever developed throughout the history of... More
(Annapolis, 1987): Naval Institute Press. Quarto. 176pp., with 175 photographic images, line drawings, maps and diagrams tells the full story of each vessel from the drawing board to her ultimate destruction. This book is a design and operational history of Germany's Cruiser ships, the most complete and authoritative study of... More
College Station; (1993): Texas A & M University Press. First Edition. Quarto. 141pp., Number 45, Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University. Introduction by John Reilly. Foreword by Wilson E. Dolmann III, Orion Knox, and Sue Winton Moss. Battleship Texas is the lone survivor... More
Annapolis; (1992): Naval Institute Press. First American Edition. Thick Quarto. 416pp., with an introduction by Norman Friedman, illustrated with plans and photographic images. During the first World War, when the standard reference yearbooks were heavily censored, the allied navies depended on a series of "Confidential Books" compiled, issued and regularly... More
(Annapolis, 1989): Naval Institute Press. First American Edition. Quarto. . 192pp., Illustrated with photographs and drawings by Tom Walkowiak. A unique compilation of technical data on the four ships of the Iowa class and a study of the designing changes and construction progress of the two ships that were cancelled... More
Annapolis; (1984): Naval Institute Press. First Edition. Octavo. 135pp., The first six months of naval operations during World War I are significant for what they reveal of initial British and German reactions to the challenge of war. Furthermore, those months represent the beginning of modern naval warfare. An important feature... More
New York (1980): Jane's Publishing. First American Edition. Quarto. . 256pp., This is the complete history of the Heinkel He111, the remarkable warplane from its origins in 1935 as an airliner, baptism of fire in Spain, right through the war years and beyond. Packed with photographs, tables and documents, it... More
Annapolis; (2013): Naval Institute Press. First American Edition. Quarto. The authors chart the rise of the large industrial conglomerates that were key to the success of building large big gun ships and they look at their fast moving technical changes and analyzes the politics of funding this vast national effort... More
(London; 2006): Conway Maritime Press. First Edition. Quarto. 287pp., illustrated maps and photographic images in color and in black and white. The author examines every aspect of the Royal Navy, both ashore and at sea, during the Second World War, and casts a lucid eye over the strengths and weaknesses... More
(Cornwall, 1993): Crecy Books; (1993). Thick Quarto. Revised and updated. 590pp., illustrated with photographic images. Intended as a companion volume to the successful "Bomber Squadrons of the R.A.F. published by Mcdonald's some years ago, this book records the salient features of the fighter histories of two hundred and forty-one squadrons... More
(Annapolis; 1982): Naval Institute Press. First English Translation. Quarto. 3rd printing..284pp. translated by Antony Preston and J.C. Brown, with over 500 illustrations, This authoritative book is a detailed reference guide to the ships of the Imperial Japanese Fleet, which came into being with the establishment of modern Japan in 1869... More
(Barnsley, England; 2016): Seaforth Publishing. First Edition. Quarto. First printing. 256pp., While some of the First World War era capital ship material has recently become available in the works of Garty Staff and Norman Friedman, no attempt has been made to reduce a English-language monograph covering the full sweep of... More
(London, 2002): Conway Maritime Press. First Edition. Quarto. 2nd printing. 256pp., illustrated with photographic images and drawings of plans. The Fairmile boats with which this book is largely concerned-the A and B Cass MLs, the C Class MGBs and the D Class MTBs and MGBs formed a considerable part of... More
(Annapolis; 2012): Naval Institute Press. First American Edition. Quarto. 352pp., The author is one of America's best known naval analysts and historians, and has written over thirty books. The British cruisers were expected to protect British trade in wartime and to run enemy commerce off the sea. Illustrated by photograph... More
(Annapolis; 1990 and 1991): Naval Institute Press. First Edition in English. Quarto. Revised and expanded by Dieter Jung and Martin Maass. Illustrated with drawings by Erich Groner, Peter Mickel, Franz Mrva. Volume 1: 243pp., Volume II: 240pp. Groner published his first work in 1936 under the title "Die Deutschen Kriegsschiffe... More
(Great Britain, 1997): Hikoki Publications. First Edition. Quarto. 272pp., Illustrated by photographs. Many times, some of the less publicized operational groups within the force haves so far been more or less ignored or "forgotten" . However, the public now has the opportunity to gain a comprehensive insight into the growth... More
London; (1966): Seeley Service and Co. First Edition. Thick Quarto. 539pp., (4)pp. illustrated ads. With a foreword by Admiral of the fleet, The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Contains 175 photographs and 100 folding large scale ship building plans which can be obtained only through this book. A full chapter is... More
(Widewing Publications, Georgia; 1994). First Edition. Quarto. 417pp. This chronicle has managed to definitively document and illustrate the story of a struggling Seversky Aircraft Corporation with accuracy and quality photographic coverage heretofore unattainable. The definitive tale of that aircraft's evolution in one and a half decades is told in thoroughly... More
Missoula, Montana; (1994): Pictorial Histories Publishing. First Edition. Quarto. First printing. 548pp. illustrated with several photographic images. This volume includes background on the design, development and manufacture of the aircraft, operational by the USAAF. USN, USMC, USCG and Allied air forces, and numerous maps, data tables, drawings and appendices. Bound... More
Annapolis, (2012): Naval Instute Press. First American Edition. Quarto. 432pp., Breyer was one of Germany's best known naval writers. After service in the war in the Kriegesmarine, he worked on maritime publications where he was able to use his drafting skills. This is the ultimate photographic album of the German... More
Annapolis; (1987): Naval Institute Press. First Edition. Quarto. 2nd printing. 463pp. with ship plans by Alan Raven and A.D. Baker III. This is the first book to cover the entire development of U.S. battleships, from the Maine and Texas of 1886, through the Montana lass of World War II, right... More
(Wisconsin; 1990): Motorbooks International. Quarto. First motor books edition. 508pp.. The 8th Air Force was the largest air striking force ever committed to battle. A day-by-day operational record, it covers more than a thousand actions in which the Eighth's units participated between June 1942 and May 1945. Illustrated with several... More
New York; (1979): Putnam's. First Edition. Octavo. 351 pages. Inscribed to his friends: "To Charlie and Wilma Pankis, with every good wish." Mark. Not only one of the most remarkable items on the FBI in the last half of the 20th Century, but by the number two man, Mark Felt... More