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  • Spitfires

    The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II

    by Becky Aikman ...
    "A bold and soaring work of history . . . whip-smart, deeply researched, and beautifully written.” -Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of King: A Life“A soaring narrative.”-Keith O'Brien, New York Times bestselling author of Fly GirlsThe heart-pounding true story of the daring American women who piloted the most dangerous aircraft of World War II through the treacherous skies of Britain.< ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Heroes of the Skies

    Since the dawn of aerial combat in the First World War, the heroism of the men who put their lives at risk in the air has known no bounds. There were no more heroic airmen than the fighter pilots and bomber crews of the Second World War - men who sacrificed their own lives in order to save their crew or who, although in extreme pain, managed to get their aircraft home rather than risk becoming ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Battle of Britain: Airfields of 11 Group

    by Peter Jacobs ...
    The Royal Air Force's 11 Group played a leading role in the Battle of Britain. It included the airfields at Tangmere, Westhampnett, Kenley, Croydon, Biggin Hill, West Malling, Horchurch, Hawkinge, Gravesend, Manston, Rochford, North Weald, Martlesham Heath, Stapleford Tawney, Debden and Northolt. The most famous of 'The Few' saw action in this vital airspace over southern England, London and the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Could Never Be So Lucky Again

    An Autobiography

    After Pearl Harbor, he led America’s flight to victoryGeneral Doolittle is a giant of the twentieth century. He did it all.As a stunt pilot, he thrilled the world with his aerial acrobatics. As a scientist, he pioneered the development of modern aviation technology.During World War II, he served his country as a fearless and innovative air warrior, organizing and leading the devastating raid ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Come Fly the World

    The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

    by Julia Cooke ...
    Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men–era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted upRequired to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, ajet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between 5′3" and 5′9", between 105 and 140 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Scratch One Flattop

    The First Carrier Air Campaign and the Battle of the Coral Sea

    A study of the historic World War II naval battle, the first involving aircraft carriers and first in which neither warship was in sight of the other.By the beginning of May 1942, five months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the US Navy was ready to challenge the Japanese moves in the South Pacific. When the Japanese sent troops to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, the Americans sent the carriers ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imminent

    Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

    by Luis Elizondo ...
    INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERINSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLERINSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)—reveals long-hidden secrets with profound implications for not only national security but our understanding of the universe.Luis “Lue” ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sun Tzu in Space

    What International Relations, History, and Science Fiction Teach us about our Future

    Sun Tzu in Space provides a novel way of thinking about the future, connecting international relations, history, and science fiction to better understand some of the various paths for future human activities in space. Simultaneously, it provides a way to use science fiction to help students and the public learn about international relations and the cyclical nature of history. Author Gregory D. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • First to Jump

    How the Band of Brothers was Aided by the Brave Paratroopers of Pathfinders Company

    **The U.S. Army Pathfinders. The vanguard of the Allied forces in World War II Europe. Countless times they preceded invasions and battles vital to bringing the enemy to its knees.Because before the front lines could move forward, the Pathfinders had to move behind enemy lines . . .**The first into combat, and the last out, their advance jumps into enemy territory were considered suicide missions ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • First Blue

    The Story of World War II Ace Butch Voris and the Creation of the Blue Angels

    Robert K Wilcox's First Blue presents the remarkable story of a true hero of American aviation during World War II.The U.S. Navy's Blue Angels are the most famous flight demonstration team in the world. While millions of aviation enthusiasts see their shows every year, the story of the man who formed the squadron has never been told. He is Roy Marlin "Butch" Voris, a World War II Ace and one of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • At the Edge of Space

    The X-15 Flight Program

    In At the Edge of Space, Milton O. Thompson tells the dramatic story of one of the most successful research aircraft ever flown. The first full-length account of the X-15 program, the book profiles the twelve test pilots (Neil Armstrong, Joe Engle, Scott Crossfield, and the author among them) chosen for the program. Thompson has translated a highly technical subject into readable accounts of each ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Into the Tiger's Jaw

    America's First Black Marine Aviator

    Series series Leatherneck Classics
    Like many 18-year-olds who sign up to serve with the U.S. Navy, Petersen was looking for adventure when he enlisted. The difference between him and the average kid of 1950, when he enlisted, was that Petersen was African American. At the time military opportunities were limited for blacks, so it was remarkable that Petersen, revealed here as an intense go-getter, was admitted to the highly ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Psychology of Intelligence Analysis

    In this seminal work, published by the C.I.A. itself, produced by Intelligence veteran Richards Heuer discusses three pivotal points. First, human minds are ill-equipped ("poorly wired") to cope effectively with both inherent and induced uncertainty. Second, increased knowledge of our inherent biases tends to be of little assistance to the analyst. And lastly, tools and techniques that apply ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Things Our Fathers Saw-Vol. 2-War In the Air

    The Things Our Fathers Saw, #2

    Series Book 2 - The Things Our Fathers Saw
    Featuring eight American veterans of the heavy bombers in the air war over Europe during World War II, explaining what it was like to grow up during the Great Depression as the clouds of war gathered, going off to the service, and into the skies over Europe, sharing stories of both funny and heartbreaking, and all riveting and intense. Includes photos and never before seen portraits.304 PAGES ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sukhoi Interceptors

    The Su-9, Su-11, and Su-15: Unsung Soviet Cold War Heroes

    The first 20 years of Sukhoi supersonic interceptor development from the Su-9 and Su-11 to the Su-15Charts the history of Sukhoi's early supersonic interceptors, including paper projects, as well as operational detailsThe Su-15 became the true guardian of the Soviet skies—and a symbol of the Cold War ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Three in Thirteen

    The Story of a Mosquito Night Fighter Ace

    **This “i****ncredibly engaging and deeply personal” story of World War II pilot Joe Singleton “****draws the reader into the dangerous world of night fighting” (**Manhattan Book Review).Joe Singleton was an unlikely hero. A junior manager at a paints and varnish company at the outbreak of war, he was surprised to discover he had a hidden talent for flying. Despite RAF Fighter Squadrons crying out ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bomber Boys

    Heroes Who Flew the B-17s in World War II

    True tales of heroism and the men who fought and died in the skies of World War II Europe.In World War II, there were all too many ways for a fighting man to die. But no theater of operations offered more fatal choices than the skies above Nazi-occupied Europe. Inside of a B-17 Bomber, thousands of feet above the earth, death was always a moment away. From the hellish storms of enemy flak and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot's Life From Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs

    A Fighter Pilot's Life From Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs

    In 1945 Second Lieutenant Jack Broughton graduated from West Point with the silver pilot wings of a newly commissioned member of the Army Air Corps. Nearly thirty years later, he retired as a full colonel in the United States Air Force, an entity that didn't even exist when he first learned to fly. Along the way Colonel Broughton saw duty in virtually every fighter aircraft the Air Corps and then ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • To Hanoi and Back

    The U.S. Air Force and North Vietnam, 1966-1973

    After nearly eighteen months of the largely unsuccessful bombing campaign called Operation Rolling Thunder, the US Air Force began to look for ways to overcome technological, geographical, and political challenges in North Vietnam and use limited air power more effectively. In 1972 the two Linebacker campaigns joined with other air operations to make a dramatic, although temporary, difference. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • A Question of Honor

    The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II

    A Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known story of the refugee Polish pilots who joined the RAF and played an essential role in saving Britain from the Nazis, only to be betrayed by the Allies after the war.After Poland fell to the Nazis, thousands of Polish pilots, soldiers, and sailors escaped to England. Devoted to liberating their homeland, some would form the RAF’s 303 squadron, known ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Viper Pilot

    A Memoir of Air Combat

    by Dan Hampton ...
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF 21ST-CENTURY AIR COMBAT, BY "ONE OF THE MOST DECORATED PILOTS IN AIR FORCE HISTORY" (NEW YORK POST)151 combat missions21 hard kills on surface -to -air missile sites4 Distinguished Flying Crosses with Valor1 Purple HeartFirst into a war zone, flying behind enemy lines to purposely draw fire, the wild weasels are elite fighter squadrons with the most ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Extraterrestrial

    The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

    by Avi Loeb ...
    New York Times Bestseller | Wall Street Journal Bestseller | Publishers Weekly Bestseller | Publishers Marketplace 2020 Buzz Book | Amazon Best Book of the Year | Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award“Provocative and thrilling ... Loeb asks us to think big and to expect the unexpected.”—Alan Lightman, New York Times bestselling author of Einstein’s Dreams ... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Leaving Orbit

    Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight

    Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known itIn the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake of high-profile disasters like Challenger, that dream has ended. In early 2011, Margaret Lazarus Dean traveled ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • People’s War, People’s Army; The Viet Cong Insurrection Manual For Underdeveloped Countries

    “Vo Nguyen Giap, Southeast Asia’s most successful Communist general, Minister of Defense and Commander in Chief of North Vietnam’s army, shares with Premier Khrushchev a conviction that the future holds many “just wars of national liberation.” This volume stresses the climate of Asia, Africa, and Latin American, torn today by anti-colonial, economic, and political upheavals. It is General Giap’s ... Read more

    $2.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus