In the summer of 1940, the most important battle in the history of air warfare was fought between the British Royal Air Force and the German Luftwaffe in the skies over southern Britain. Only after...więcej »
Designed in the mid-1930s, originally to protect the coasts of the US from hostile warships, the Boeing B-17 went on to become a mainstay of Allied bombing raids against Nazi Germany. Unremitting a...więcej »
Warplanes of World War II provides a detailed look at 50 key aircraft in service between 1939 and 1945. Warplanes profiled include fighters, bombers, fighter- bombers, ground attack and other aircr...więcej »
The Luftwaffe – the German Air Force – played a crucial role in the Wehrmacht’s blitzkrieg tactics, providing both air cover and air artillery for Germany’s panzer troops on...więcej »
Germany’s navy, the Kriegsmarine, played a critical role in the Third Reich’s attempt to restrict the flow of supplies, men and materiel from the United States to Britain in the early y...więcej »
A rusting antiaircraft fort in the North Sea. A German submarine base in France. A Flak tower in a Viennese park — more than 70 years after the end of World War II, its legacy can still be se...więcej »
Aircraft of World War II details the design and specifications of 75 of the most important warplanes used during the conflict, from the venerable Fairey Swordfish biplane, through legendary aircraf...więcej »
Illustrated with detailed artworks of combat aircraft and their markings,Aircraft of World War I: The Essential Aircraft Identification Guide is a comprehensive study of the aircraft that fought in...więcej »
mall Arms: 17th Century to the Present Day profiles 35 of the greatest personal weapons of the past 100 years, from handguns such as the Cold .44 Magnum and Beretta 93R to classic rifles such as th...więcej »
Modern Small Arms looks in detail at 300 of the most widely used pistols, rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and other small arms of the last 100 years. It includes famous small arms such as the...więcej »
From the crude, unreliable tanks that first appeared on the Western Front during World War I to today’s high-tech machines, Tanks and Military Vehicles features 300 of the most important and ...więcej »
Counting from 50 down to the very best all-time tank at number 1, Top 50 Tanks features the greatest armoured fighting vehicles from World War I to the present day. The book includes tanks from eve...więcej »
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. - Samuel Johnson From plagues and poverty to financial scandals, serial killers to public execut...więcej »
From ships left high and dry after the retraction of the Aral sea to Titanic at the bottom of the Atlantic, from a rusting railway graveyard in Bolivia to abandoned World War II cars in a Swedish f...więcej »
A rusting antiaircraft fort in the North Sea. A German submarine base in France. A Flak tower in a Viennese park — more than 70 years after the end of World War II, its legacy can still be se...więcej »
Counting from 50 down to the very best all-time tank at number 1, Top 50 Tanks features the greatest armoured fighting vehicles from World War I to the present day. The book includes tanks from eve...więcej »
Ranked from 50 to 1, the Top 50 Military Aircraft selects the greatest military aircraft of all time, from World War I to the present day. From Fokker biplanes to World War II fighters such as the ...więcej »
Fast, glamorous and extravagant, a supercar encapsulates the romance, power and freedom of the motor car in one beautifully-designed package. Supercars looks in detail at 75 of the most celebrated ...więcej »
Ships contains 300 mercantile and military vessels arranged in chronological order, from ancient times to the present day. Every type of vessel from every part of the world is featured, from Phoeni...więcej »
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. - Samuel Johnson From plagues and poverty to financial scandals, serial killers to public execut...więcej »