Philip Kaplan: 32 books
Night and Day Bomber Offensive
Allied Airmen in World World II Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
For much of World War II England provided the only western European base from which the British and American air forces could take the war into Nazi-occupied Europe and Germany itself. The American Eighth and Ninth Air Forces struck enemy targets by day at great distances, often on raids of eight...
Grey Wolves
The U-Boat War, 1939–1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A visceral portrait of the men who fought and died beneath the surface of the Atlantic in one of the most critical battles of WWII.
In the early years of the Second World War, an elite force of German submariners known as the U-Bootwaffe came perilously close to perfecting the underwater battle...
by Philip Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
This book examines the reality behind the myths of the legendary German fighter aces of World War II. It explains why only a small minority of pilots - those in whom the desire for combat overrode everything - accounted for so large a proportion of the victories. It surveys the skills that a successful...
Big Wings
The Largest Aeroplanes Ever Built
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
In the history of aviation there have been many attempts to produce aircraft of extraordinary proportions to expand the limits of technology and create new performance standards. With few exceptions, the early attempts did not become the successes envisaged until post-World War II when such aircraft...
Mustang the Inspiration
The Plane That Turned the Tide in World War Two
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
If it looks right, it will probably fly right—a tired old saying among airmen, but one that persists. Think if you will of the handful of airplanes that most people would probably agree are the best-looking examples of all. The list is short but distinguished and the proof is in the enthusiastic...
With Wings as Eagles
The Eighth Air Force in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A lavishly illustrated tribute to the men and women behind one of the most important Allied offenses of WWII.
Beginning in 1942, the Eighth Air Force began precision bombing raids deep into Nazi Germany. Departing from bases in rural England, nearly 350,000 Americans joined their British colleagues...
Escort Pilot
Guarding the American Bombers Over Europe in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
“Anyone interested in a unique look at the American-Anglo air war effort after the Battle of Britain, would do well to read Escort Pilot**”** (New York Journal of Books).
Spitfire, Mustang, Lightning, Thunderbolt . . . in the darkest days of World War II, these legendary fighters escorted...
World War Two at Sea
The Last Battleships
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The big-gun battleship served as a symbol of the ultimate power of the world's greatest navies beginning late in the nineteenth century and continuing into the Second World War. So historically important was this vessel that the arms race between Britain and Germany to build navies with larger, more...
Two-Man Air Force
Don Gentile & John Godfrey World War Two Flying Aces
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2006
American volunteers Don Gentile (pronounced Jen-tilly) and John Godfrey flew together as leader and wingman respectively, with the USAAF 4th Fighter Group based at Debden near Cambridge in England. At the end of their missions with the 4th the two of them had accounted for over 58 enemy aircraft destroyed....
Skytrain
A Transport Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
The legendary Douglas DC-3 airliner was a technological breakthrough that changed the course of both civilian and military aviation. In the 1930s, passenger air travel was expensive, uncomfortable, and frequently unreliable. That began to change with the appearance of the handsome, thoroughly modern...
Lone Eagle
The Fighter Pilot Experience—From World War I and World War II to the Jet Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The author of With Wings as Eagles gets into the cockpit with generations of fighter pilots on an illustrated trip through military aviation history.
Take someone with superior intelligence, unusual strength, perfect vision, catlike reflexes, exceptional marksmanship, and nerves of steel and you...
Battleships: The First Big Guns
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This new addition to the Images of War series takes as its focus the early Big Gun battleships that saw development and deployment during the First World War. Iconic ships such as HMS Warspite and Malaya feature amidst this pictorial history that is sure to appeal to fans of the series, and naval...
The Bird Farm
Carrier Aviation and Naval Aviators?A History and Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
See the excitement and danger of life on an aircraft carrier like never before.
How does it feel to sit aboard a thirty-ton jet and be hurled over a ship’s bow at 140 miles per hour? And how does a deck crew coordinate its efforts to achieve such a feat every thirty seconds?
Offering...
U-boat Prey: Merchant Sailors at War, 1939-1942
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
“The Merchant Seaman never faltered. To him we owe our preservation and our very lives” - The Right Hon. Alfred Barnes, Minister of War Transport.
During the first stages of the Second World War, all forces were rallied in an attempt to support the Allied effort. With trade and supply routes...