The must-have reference on the submachine guns produced at the Erfurter Maschinenfabrik.Volume 3 of a monumental three-part illustrated history of ...

Lockheed developed the F-104 Starfighter in the late 1950s. The plane was designed to be an all-weather interceptor. Speed, climb, and altitude all...

The General Dynamics F-111 was one of aviation history's most promising planes when it came out in the early 1960s. Despite a rocky service career,...

The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor entered service in 2005, and production ended in late 2011. Despite the appearance of many new designs in the inter...

A concise pictorial guide to the F-4 Phantom, featuring over 200 images.The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II first flew in the 1950s, entered US mi...

This is an action-filled, illustrated history of 17 history-making aircraft, bringing to life the stories of their creation and of the men who flew...

Masquerading as a civilian airliner during the mid-1930s, the Heinkel He 111 medium-range bomber saw its first combat in 1936 with Germany’s Condor...

A bombshell dropped onto Honolulu docks in 1933 -- by ominous coincidence, on 7 December. It was merely a crate of Japanese pulp fiction titled Acc...

A pictorial guide to Akagi and Kaga, two early Japanese aircraft carriers that were sunk at the Battle of Midway. Akagi and Kaga were the second an...

A detailed, highly illustrated history of the Kaman H-2, including more than 300 images.Kaman developed the Seasprite for the US Navy, specifically...

An authoritative account of the rise and fall of American sea power between 1897 and 1947 and the definitive biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. K...

The Lockheed Constellation is the definitive postwar prop airliner. The type was developed during the Second World War by a  talented and famous de...

Based on the M4A2 and M4A3 Sherman tank chassis, and fitted with a 3-inch M7 gun, the M10 was numerically the most important US tank destroyer of W...

In many ways, the M26 Pershing was the most advanced and most powerful tank fielded by the US military during the Second World War. The prototype T...

The M42 Duster was a tracked antiaircraft vehicle developed by Cadillac for the US Army in the early 1950s. The vehicle adapted the Bofors 40 mm AA...

The M48 Patton entered production in 1952 and remains in service with several major militaries today, a great testament to the design and how it ha...

The M60 was deployed by the US military from 1960 until it was phased out and replaced with the M1 Abrams during/after Operation Desert Storm. More...

This book explores the mechanical details and military use of the M911 C-HET and M1070/M1070A1 HETS and their associated trailers. These vehicles a...

Reborn in 1951, the Myasishchev design bureau made its mark by creating the M-4 strategic bomber. Yet, this subsonic aircraft was soon made obsoles...

A pictorial guide to the Imperial Japanese Navy's Nagato-class battleships, Nagato and Mutsu. The Nagato-class battleships, Nagato and Mutsu, were ...

More than 1,000 images of the boldest aircraft nose artworks of the 5th Air Force during WWII; includes contextual information on individual artist...

Through the utilization of source material from a dozen archives in four countries, author Soraya Kuklinska has produced the definitive biography o...

Designed by Jack Northrop and Vladimir Pavlecka in response to a secret Army Air Corps request, the P-61, dubbed the Black Widow, became not only A...

Featuring sloping armor and armed with a powerful 75 mm gun, Germany’s Panther tank was developed as a counter to the Soviet T-34. Entering produc...