This new book explores the history and development of early flying headgear throughout the pioneering nations in military and sport aviation, from ...

The case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who allegedly attempted to ignite an explosive device on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on December 2009, ref...

This guidebook takes readers on a tour of the Academy, to experience no only its spectacular physical setting, but to gain a broader understanding ...

This volume is the first to explore U.S. visor hats of the 1930s-1950s in detail. Fully illustrated in superb full-color photographs, the variety o...

This book focuses on voting practices, election reform and local election officials who are critical to the administration of federal elections and...

This book provides details about new and exciting ways of administering elections so that each jurisdiction can chart the future of its own system ...

The Vought F7U Cutlass would be host to the following first time achievements for any naval aircraft: the first swept wing jet propelled fighter to...

Told in anecdotal form, Vulture\s Row tells a fascinating story about an important period covering nearly one half of the entire history of U.S. na...

The French Vautour was designed to serve as an attack aircraft, bomber and nightfighter. Israel purchased all three versions and was the only natio...

Illustrated study showing the military and civilian off-road capabilites of this German vehicle produced in the 1970s-1980s, including many detail ...

This is part one of a comprehensive two-volume reference that shows all the camouflage uniforms of the Waffen-SS. Using predominately modern color ...

This is part two of a comprehensive two-volume reference that shows all the camouflage uniforms of the Waffen-SS. Using predominately modern color ...

The units of the Waffen-SS were some of the most successful and influental combat formations produced by any country in this century. Their abiliti...

This book continues with the overview of the Waffen-SS units that fought during WWII. It follows each unit as it was raised and then where it fough...

This book continues with the overview of the Waffen-SS units that fought during WWII. It follows each unit as it was raised and then where it fough...

In American Samoa, the first minimum wage increase raised the wages of about three-quarters of workers at private sector employers. By 2016, the mi...

The report on Kurt Waldheim's activities on the Balkans during World War II attracted political attention when its conclusions became known in 1988...

This second book of the Edwin Cole Bearss memoir begins with his first days in a 40-year career in the National Park Service. Beginning as the Park...

Adopted by the German Wehrmacht at the end of 1939, more than 1.2 million P.38s were manufactured up to 1945. Designed by the Walther company from ...

Many students have come to the study of war and peace from a background heavily influenced by media exposure and political commitment. Some tend to...

War describes a situation of armed conflict between two or more parties. There are several ways in which we can classify wars. The major division i...

Suicidal behaviour is a critical problem in the military, among civilians during a war and among returning war veterans. Millions of people around ...

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost the United States in many ways. For the American Armed Forces, the human toll has been profound: as of 2...

Daniel MacMillan never saw the battlefields of Passchendaele or Vimy Ridge. A farmer in the tiny New Brunswick community of Williamsburg, he experi...

Under the Constitution, the war powers are divided between Congress and the President. Among other relevant grants, Congress has the power to decla...

Two separate but closely related issues confront Congress each time the President introduces armed forces into a situation abroad that conceivably ...

This book discusses and assesses the War Powers Resolution and its application since enactment in 1973, providing detailed background on various ca...

Covers the history and combat career of aircraft carriers and shipboard aircraft from their conception into the future.

Warfighters takes a first-hand look at how the U.S. Air Force creates its most elite, highly trained aircrews, and provides an inside look at the U...

In this second installment in the Warfighters series, author/photographers Rich Llinares and Chuck Lloyd provide an in-depth look at the United Sta...

This book describes the delivery of 8000 aircraft to Russia over a little known airway that extended from the U.S. through Northwestern Canada to N...

In this age of high fuel prices and concern with continuing availability of oil, scientists are working on a number of approaches to alternate fuel...

On 16 September 2013, Aaron Alexis, a Navy contractor employee with a Secret security clearance, shot and killed 12 U.S. Navy civilian and contract...

Watson’s Whizzers is the complex story of the meticulously planned and executed disarmament of the Luftwaffe after its defeat in the spring of 1945...

This revised and expanded second edition covers USN and USMC squadrons that operated the Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber as the PB4Y-1 in ...