At the height of the Cold War it was Britain’s V-Force and its Valiant, Vulcan and Victor bombers that carried the UK’s nuclear deterrent from the mid Fifties until the end of the Sixti...
To counter the threat from a Soviet 'blue water' navy, a large investment was made in the years from 1945 until the 1960s, to develop maritime patrol aircraft. For years the Air Staff and Ministrie...
In the years after WWII, aircraft used for special missions appeared in the world’s leading air forces, including the Soviet Union. The first airborne early warning and control aircraft was t...
This book charts the history of the US airlifter from its origins in World War II to today’s transport giants. In doing so, it reveals and describes numerous designs which never saw the ligh...
A greatly expanded edition, with over 60 pages of new material, of the definitive book on these unusual and exciting aircraft. Brings the Ekranoplan story up to date whilst consideri...
At the start of the American Civil War, neither side had warships on the Mississippi River, which was a vital strategic artery. In what would prove the vital naval campaign of the war, both sides f...
The golden age of sailing and boating comes alive in this selection of photographs curated from the unparalleled archive of this great American sport.The Rosenfelds’ photographs o...
On over 400 pages, editor Michael Köckritz, author Jürgen Lewandowski and photographer Michel Zumbrunn get up close and personal with the Ferrari phenomenon: its beauty and sex appeal, it...
An engaging and authoritative overview of the evolution of ring design from the Middle Ages to today, illustrated with over 170 rare and luxurious examples.Rings are powerfully evocativ...
The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of t...
The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief ...
Since 1883, four generations of the Beken family have dedicated themselves to marine photography, creating the most artistic images of sailboats ever shot and even receiving a Royal Warrant of Exce...
René Staud, the grand seignior of automotive photography, has published a new illustrated book. In his coffee-table book "Black Beauties", the automotive photographer devotes himse...
An illustrated account of the dramatic engagement between the Luftwaffe's Me 163 units and Allied bombers during the closing years of World War II.In the summer of 1944, US Army Air For...
A comprehensive. illustrated account of the wartime Italian battle fleet, from its ships and technology to command structure, logistics, codebreaking and more.In the 1920s, the Italian ...
The first book to cover the full history of the RAF's air war against Hamburg, one of the most important target cities in Germany.The city of Hamburg became synonymous with the destruct...
A fully illustrated new assessment of the German tank force that won its greatest victory in France during 1940.The German conquest of France in 1940 was arguably the Wehrmacht's greate...
An illustrated account of how the USAAF's might was challenged by the Jagdflieger and their heavily armed, and armoured, Fw 190A-8 Sturmjäger.Developed from one of the finest fight...
Album jest zwieńczeniem wieloletniej pracy artystycznej Piotra Górki. Znajdują się w nim reprodukcje obrazów olejnych, na których autor przedstawia głównie historię Pols...
During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage, applied to both the vertical and horizontal surfaces of their ships, in order to reduce visibility by blending in with the se...