First Team And the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter ...
 WWII Aviation Wonks - Lundstrom is your man If you are a casual reader of World War II books, this is NOT the book for you, but if you are a wonk, then you'll love this book and John Lundstrom's companion book which covers the time period of Pearl Harbor ... [... more]
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The Masting and Rigging of English Ships of War, 1625-1860
The only reference you need The author is (I believe) the curator of the ship model collection in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Having spent his life studying these contemporary models, he is in an ideal position to write the definitive book ... [... more]
$59.95
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Cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni (Anatomy of the Ship)
Truely a stylish ship This cruiser, sunk by the HMAS Sydney (not sidney as it says in the book), is a truely stylish vessel. The detail again for this series is outstanding, even down to the sidearms worn by the sailors. I think the thing that really got ... [... more]
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On Hallowed Ground: The Last Battle for Pork Chop Hill
Foreword by Gen. Robert W. Sennewald, USA (Ret.) Evoking all the powerful emotions of a frustrating, bitter, bloody, stalemated Korean War, Bill McWilliams takes readers into the trenches and bunkers of Pork Chop Hill with the men of the 7th Infantry ... [... more]
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Rigging Period Fore-and-aft Craft
The rigging of period ship models is arguably the most complex and daunting task for the modeler. An eighteenth-century man-of-war boasted mile upon mile of rigging, over 1,000 blocks, and acres of canvas. To reduce the rigging in scale and yet retain an ... [... more]
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Nothing Less Than Full Victory: Americans at War in ...
At the onset of World War II, the U.S. Army was a third-rate ground force of 145,000 with some generals who still believed in the relevance of horse cavalry. Its soldiers were untrained, its doctrine out of date, and its weapons hopelessly obsolete. Four ... [... more]
$32.95
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Japanese Naval Vessels at the End of World War II
An Outstanding Reference Work A Fantastic reference work detailing the remains of a great navy. Many fantastic drawings drawn from the mind of Fukui, From Major Warships through to barges, harbour tenders and workboats this book covers everything. ... [... more]
$47.95
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U-boat War Patrol: The Hidden Photographic Diary of U-564
Teddy Suhern's U-564 is among the most famous in the illustrious history of Germany's U-boats of World War II, and Suhren himself ranks in the top tier of U-boat commanders, admired both for his extraordinary successes and his infamously anti- ... [... more]
$28.95
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The U.S. Navy in the Korean War
This remarkable collection of works by some of the most authoritative naval historians in the United States draws on many formerly classified sources to shed new light on the U.S. Navy's role in the three-year struggle to preserve the independence of the ... [... more]
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The Dauntless Dive Bomber of World War Two
Popularly known as the Douglas Dauntless, the U.S. Navy's SBD dive bomber was well named. The Dauntless turned the tide of war in the Pacific with the destruction of four Japanese carriers at the Battle of Midway and made its mark in aviation history by ... [... more]
$19.95
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Flight of the Intruder
20th Anniversary Edition With a foreword by Ward Carroll and an added preface and epilogue by the author "Flight of the Intruder will join the classics…once begun, it cannot be laid aside."--John Lehman in the Wall Street Journal "Bristles ... [... more]
$26.95
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Sabres over MiG Alley: The F-86 and the Battle for Air ...
Combining hardware and personnel, design and operations, a former U.S. Air Force pilot and aviation historian focuses on the one clear American victory of the Korean War, the jet fighter battle between the F-86 and the MiG-15. Kenneth P. Werrell explains ... [... more]
$29.95
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