Pictorial category: 1048 books
The Forgotten Army
A Burma Soldier's Story in Letters, Photographs and Sketches
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
The Forgotten Army consists of the letters, photos and sketches of a soldier fighting the Japanese in Burma that were sent home to the author's parents in Lancashire. Call-up documents, medical certificate, service pay book, discharge papers, letter index, family tree, news cuttings, leaflets, and...
by Phil H. Listemann
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
The English Electric Lightning was Britain’s supersonic interceptor of the Cold War era and the only all-British Mach 2 fighter aircraft. It was designed
developed
and manufactured by English Electric
which was subsequently absorbed by the newly-formed British Aircraft Corporation. The Lightning...
by Laura M. Lee, Brendan Mackie
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Located on Pea Patch Island, Fort Delaware was erected to defend local ports from enemy attack but never received or fired a shot in anger. The first earthen-work version, constructed during the War of 1812, was followed by a second 1820s plan incorporating a masonry star design with a network of drainage...
Swashbucklers and Black Sheep
A Pictorial History of Marine Fighting Squadron 214 in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
“A stunning portrait of incredibly courageous men and their awesome flying machines.”
—Alex Kershaw, author of The Few
Marine Fighting Squadron (VMF) 214 is the world’s most famous fighter squadron. Its second wartime squadron commander was the legendary Greg “Pappy” Boyington....
by Ronald Pawly
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
The legendary Dutch 'Red' Lancers – the 2nd Light Horse Lancers of Napoleon's Imperial Guard – were formed in 1810 after the emperor annexed Holland and its army to France. The former hussars of the Dutch Royal Guard got a handsome new uniform, a new weapon, and a hard-driving new colonel in Baron...
Marines in the Marianas, Volume 2
Tinian and Guam. A Pictorial Record
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
The American mid-1944 campaign in the Mariana Islands was an important strategic step that placed Tokyo and the rest of Japan’s industrial heartland within range of the new U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 very-long-range bombers. Once the islands were secured and the airfields were built, the army air...
Marines on Peleliu
A Pictorial Record
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
The American campaign in the western Pacific from the late summer 1944 to mid-1945 was a violent undertaking at every turn. The Japanese had been relentlessly pushed back throughout 1943 and 1944. Except for the western Caroline Islands, the Philippines, Formosa, a few islands near Japan, and Japan...
Wooden Warship Construction
A History in Ship Models
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid seventeenth century to the present day. As such they...
Mrs Adolf Hitler
The Eva Braun Photograph Albums 1912-45
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The year 2012 marks the centenary of Eva Braun's birth. This is the strange-but-true saga of her life, richly illustrated from her own personal photograph albums, as well as from other captured German archives. She married German dictator Adolf Hitler but 36 hours before their joint suicides in Berlin...
The Lafayette Escadrille
A Photo History of the First American Fighter Squadron
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
The Lafayette Escadrille was an all-volunteer squadron of Americans who flew for France during World War I. One hundred years later, it is still arguably the best-known fighter squadron ever to take to the skies. In this work the entire history of these gallant volunteers—who named themselves after...
by Tim McLelland
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Lavishly illustrated with period photography providing a pictorial history of Britain’s Cold War bombers
Exclusive first-hand accounts from pilots and aircrew provide a unique insight into flying and fighting in aircraft designed to take the fight to the Soviet Union
193 mono and 66 colour photographs...
USN Aircraft 1922-1962. Vol. 5
Type designation letter 'F' (Pt-2)
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
A pictorial study of the USN aircraft between 1922 and 1962. Over forty years, between 1922 and 1962, the USN and USMC used a designation system which began with biplanes and ended with jets, having been used through two major wars, WW2 and the Korean War. This system remained largely the same during...
by Bruce D. Heald Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2001
In the course of history, few human events have had so compelling an effect and left such a deep mark on the nation's soul as has the Civil War. New Hampshire in the Civil War presents a unique and concise pictorial chronicle of the state's volunteer regiments that served during the four very long and...
Fighting in Ukraine
A Photographer at War
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
The outcome of the Second World War was decided on the Eastern Front. Denied a swift victory over Stalin’s Red Army, Hitler’s Wehrmacht found itself in a bloody, protracted struggle from late 1941 that it was ill-prepared to fight.
Although many pictorial books have been published on Germany’s...