Pictorial category: 1048 books
Area 51 - Black Jets
A History of the Aircraft Developed at Groom Lake, America's Secret Aviation Base
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Area 51’s most important military aviation developments are profiled in an illustrated format.
When most of us think of Area 51, we think of aliens, UFOs, and controversial government cover-ups. It’s easy to forget that, since the mid-1950s, the United States’ famed extension of Edwards...
Togus, Down in Maine
The First National Veterans Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1998
Togus, located 4.5 miles east of Augusta, Maine, was formerly part of the town of Chelsea. After the Civil War, Congress enacted laws and established a system of facilities that collectively became known as �National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.� The critical need to establish an eastern...
A Guide to Civil War Washington, D.C.
The Capital of the Union
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
An in-depth account of the Civil War people and events that left their mark on the city at the heart of the Union, shaping its historic legacy.
When the first shots of the Civil War were fired in 1861, Washington, DC, was a small, essentially Southern city. The capital rapidly transformed as it...
by Mark Lardas
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
The USS Texas was built when dreadnought battleships were kings of the seas. It was the world's most powerful battleship when first commissioned in 1914, and for over a century it fought many battles. Some took place while the Texas served as a warship in the US Navy in World Wars I and II. Since becoming...
History's Greatest Battles
Masterstrokes of War
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
Great battles mark history's turning points, occurring as they do where cultures and ideologies clash.
While some battles have been won by the superior force, others have been won by a sheer dogged refusal to surrender in the face of overwhelming odds. Superior weaponry has sometimes brought...
Untold Valor
The Second World War in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Military author Rob Morris spent three years tracking down and interviewing veterans of the war in the Pacific, focusing on men who had undergone extreme combat, imprisonment, and/or or sinking. Each stand-alone chapter tells the reader, through the eyes of one to three survivors, what is was like...
How to Ride Off-Road Motorcycles
Key Skills and Advanced Training for All Off-Road, Motocross, and Dual-Sport Riders
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Off-road riding is one of motorcycling's most popular pursuits and also one of its best training grounds for improving street-riding skills. Off-road riding takes many forms, from motocross and enduro racing, to dual-sport day trips, to trail riding, to adventure tours. No matter the specific pursuit,...
by Car and Driver
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The Chevrolet Corvette is a treasured American icon and one of the world’s most popular sports cars. The experts at Car and Driver, who have tested nearly every version of this sleek machine, have now compiled and curated over 50 years of articles, reviews, and news about the Corvette, from the...
Dickey Chapelle Under Fire
Photographs by the First American Female War Correspondent Killed in Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
"It was dawn before I fell asleep, and later in the morning I was only half-awake as I fed a fresh sheet of paper into the typewriter and began to copy the notes from the previous day out of my book. But I wasn't too weary to type the date line firmly as if I'd been writing date lines all my...
by Massimiliano Afiero
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
April 1941: SS motorcyclists in Belgrad, SS cavalry units on the Eastern Front, Autumn-Winter 1941-42, Laurits Jensen - Free Corps Denmark, The French volunteers of the N.S.K.K. Motorgruppe Luftwaffe, The SS-Division Wiking in the Caucasus: Autumn 1942, Foreign volunteer legion stamp propaganda in the third reich.
by Jon Pressnell
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2015
The lot of the motorist has changed greatly over the last hundred years. In the early twentieth century, only the most wealthy could afford a motor car and there were very few rules and regulations. Now most British people own a car and are protected by air bags and crumple zones, but also hemmed...
by James Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
“A photographic history of the Nazi party’s building works in Munich and in the Berchtesgaden and Obersalzberg . . . These postcards are fascinating” (HistoryOfWar.org).
Hitler’s Alpine Headquarters looks at the development of the Obersalzberg from a small, long established farming...
Phil Cross: Gypsy Joker to a Hells Angel
From a Joker to an Angel
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
"Phil's new book Gypsy Joker To A Hells Angel is based on 44 years as a Hells Angel. Photos & stories are a must read for all motorcycle riders" - Sonny Barger
In the early 1960s, a young Navy vet, motorcyclist, amateur photographer, and rebel named Phil Cross joined a motorcycle...
by Marion M. Piccolomini
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Regiments from Chester County fought bravely in all theaters of World War II, while locals at home took extraordinary measures to support the Allies. West Chester resident G. Raymond Rettew developed a process to mass produce vitally needed penicillin while a peaceful farm transformed into the bustling...