Pictorial category: 1048 books
The Few: Fight for the Skies
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
In this new pictorial history from Philip Kaplan, the perspectives of both RAF and Luftwaffe airmen are considered within the wider context of one of the most iconic and pivotal conflicts of modern history.
The Blitz, primarily the bombing of London and the major cities of Britain by the German...
Great Push The Battle of the Somme 1916
Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In 1916, Sir Douglas Haig, commanding the BEF, began his great offensive to drive the invaders off the ground they had been occupying for over a year and a half. The ‘Great Push’, as the offensive was advertised to the nation, began 1 July 1916. A glossy picture magazine was produced to inform...
With Rommel in the Desert
Tripoli to El Alamein
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Prior to the outbreak of war in September 1939, the German Army had focused exclusively on the operational, organizational and training preparations needed to wage war in continental Europe. The threat of an Italian collapse in North Africa in early 1941, however, prompted Hitler to reinforce his...
Hot Rod Empire
Robert E. Petersen and the Creation of the World's Most Popular Car and Motorcycle Magazines
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
†‹Hot Rod Empire details Robert E. Petersen's creation of Hot Rod Magazine in the 1940s and the Petersen Publishing empire that grew to the mainstream juggernaut we know today.
The end of World War II marked the release of pent-up war-years energy and the desire to live. For many this meant...
Normandy
A Graphic History of D-Day, The Allied Invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Normandy depicts the planning and execution of Operation Overlord in 96 full-color pages. The initial paratrooper assault is shown, as well as the storming of the five D-Day beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. But the story does not end there. Once the Allies got ashore, they had to stay ashore....
Things That Go - Buses Edition
Buses for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Enjoy the sound of buses racing along the highway through this ingenious multi-sensory tool. When a child goes over picture books, he sees with his eyes, listens with his eyes, smells the pages with his nose and touches them with his hands. It's a multi-sensory experience that makes complex concepts become simpler. Buy a copy today!
by Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various...
Uniformi Napoleoniche (Francia e Italia)
Napoleonic uniforms of France and Italy
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 25, 2015
Gli Italiani con Napoleone sono il soggetto di questa bella raccolta di figurini dell’artista piemontese. Dedicati alle repubbliche figlie della rivoluzione, la nascita del tricolore, il Regno Italico ed anche il Regno di Napoli di Murat. In appendice, completano la trattazione alcuni interessanti reggimenti di cavalleria orientale al servizio dell’Impero napoleonico.
Florida in World War II
Floating Fortress
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Few realize what a vital role World War II and Florida played in each other's history. The war helped Florida move past its southern conservative mentality and emerge as a sophisticated society, and thousands of military men were trained under Florida's sunny skies. Here are stories from some of the...
Fighting in the Shadows
Untold Stories of Deaf People in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This visually rich volume presents Harry G. Lang’s groundbreaking study of deaf people’s experiences in the Civil War. Based on meticulous archival research, Fighting in the Shadows reveals the stories of deaf soldiers and civilians who lived through this transformative period in American history....
The Loss of the Titanic: I Survived the Titanic
I Survived the Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
A grieving world has already recognised Lawrence Beesley as the chief recorder of the Titanic wreck. The sports master at an English public school, who was going West for a tennis tournament, he had no special qualifications for performing the task that fell to him alone out of nearly a thousand survivors...
Another Great Day at Sea
Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
From a writer “whose genre-jumping refusal to be pinned down [makes him] an exemplar of our era” (NPR), a new book that confirms his power to astound readers.
As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance...
The River
A Memoir of Life in the Border Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
"Ask anyone what they love most about Winzer, and they seem always to tell you it's the people, the family and friends webbed around each of us. True. But for me the town is also, and perhaps mainly, the larger-than-life characters who ghost around in my imagination and my memory: rumrunners...
Nebraska POW Camps
A History of World War II Prisoners in the Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
During World War II, thousands of Axis prisoners of war were held throughout Nebraska in base camps that included Fort Robinson, Camp Scottsbluff and Camp Atlanta. Many Nebraskans did not view the POWs as "evil Nazis." To them, they were ordinary men and very human. And while their stay was not entirely...