Aviation & Space
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Lake Michigan’s Aircraft Carriers
$24.99 Add to cartThis is the story of the USS Wolverine and the USS Sable, two Great Lakes excursion ships converted for aircraft carrier training during WWII.
Through the duration of the war, the United States Navy qu
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Somers, Paul M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 05 2003
- ISBN10: 0738532088
- Language: English
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Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
$25.99 Add to cartA work of dazzling beauty…the rare coming together of historical scholarship and curiosity about distant places with luminous writing. —The New York Times Book Review
Since the Turks first shattere- Author: Goodwin, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312420668
- Language: English
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The Few: The American Knights of the Air Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the author of national bestsellers The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter comes “a rousing tale of little-known heroes” (Booklist).
The Few tells the dramatic and unforgettable story of eight you… [more below]- Author: Kershaw, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 28 2007
- ISBN10: 0306815729
- Language: English
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Black Cross Red Star Air War Over the Eastern Front: Volume 4, Stalingrad to Kuban 1942-1943
$49.99 Add to cartRegarded as the standard work on the air war over the Eastern Front during World War II, Christer Bergstr m’s unique Black Cross/Red Star series covers the history of the air war on the Eastern Front
- Series: Black Cross Red Star – Air War Over the Eastern Fr #VOL.
- Author: Bergström, Christer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: September 16 2019
- ISBN10: 9188441504
- Language: English
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Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident
$27.95 Add to cartThe true story that inspired the feature film Bridge of Spies
In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 incident, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of what- Author: Powers, Francis Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1574884220
- Language: English
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A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight
$25.99 Add to cartOne of the great untold stories of World War II finally comes to light in this thrilling account of Torpedo Squadron Eight and their heroic efforts in helping an outmatched U.S. fleet win critical vic… [more below]
- Author: Mrazek, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0316056537
- Language: English
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The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions
$16.99 Add to cart“A GRIPPING CLASSIC. Exhaustively researched, The Hunter Killers puts you directly into a Wild Weasel fighter cockpit during the Vietnam War. Dan Hampton lets you feel it for yourself as no one else c
- Author: Hampton, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0062375121
- Language: English
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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
$38.00 Add to cartDive into this “truly compelling” (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war–from the creator and host of the podcast
- Author: Gladwell, Malcolm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 0316309850
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Last Christmas: The Day the Entire Mighty 8th Air Force Entered the Battle of the Bulge
$24.95 Add to cartHitler’s Last Christmas: The Day the Entire Mighty 8th Air Force Entered the Battle of the Bulge provides an account of the history and results of the largest aerial bombing mission ever. The story be
- Author: Kilburg, Donald F., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1977206395
- Language: English
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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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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
