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  • Lexington-Class Aircraft Carriers 1927–46

    The US Navy's first fleet carriers

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 352 - New Vanguard
    This fully illustrated study explores the history of the Lexington class, the US Navy's first fleet carriers, from their battlecruiser origins to their service in World War II.The Lexington class began life as two of the six battlecruisers ordered for the US Navy in 1916. Laid down in 1920–21, they would have been the most powerful battlecruisers ever, if the Washington Naval Treaty had not ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • Berlin Airlift 1948–49

    The opening battle of the Cold War

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 66 - Air Campaign
    Richly illustrated throughout, this focused study reveals how the greatest airlift of the 20th century was sparked, organized, and flown, and why it succeeded.The Berlin Airlift was the first battle of the Cold War, and arguably its most decisive operation. As the Iron Curtain descended across Europe, the USSR blockaded free West Berlin in an attempt to force its surrender. Its only chance was a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Philippines 1941–42

    America's disastrous start to the Pacific War

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 62 - Air Campaign
    The weeks after Pearl Harbor saw Japan destroy the well-prepared US air forces in the Philippines**. Fully illustrated, this studies the Pacific War's little-known first major air campaign.**On December 7, 1941, the Japanese not only attacked Pearl Harbor,but also struck at US and allied bases throughout the Pacific, including the USA's biggest overseas territory, the Philippines. However, that ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Rabaul 1943–44

    Reducing Japan's great island fortress

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 2 - Air Campaign
    The story of how Allied air power took the great Japanese base of Rabaul out of the Pacific War with an innovative strategy of aerial siege, backed by the courage and capability of the pilots who flew against the heavily fortified island.In 1942, the massive Japanese naval base and airfield at Rabaul was a fortress standing in the Allies' path to Tokyo. It was impossible to seize Rabaul, or starve ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Kamikaze Campaign 1944–45

    Imperial Japan's last throw of the dice

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 29 - Air Campaign
    An illustrated history of how Japan devised and launched a new kind of air campaign in late 1944 – the suicidal assaults of the kamikaze units against the approaching Allied fleets.As summer changed to autumn in 1944, Japan was losing the war. Still unwilling to surrender, Japan's last hope was to try to wear down US resolve enough to reach a negotiated settlement. Extraordinary measures seemed ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Battle of the Atlantic 1942–45

    The climax of World War II’s greatest naval campaign

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 21 - Air Campaign
    This illustrated study explores, in detail, the climactic events of the Battle of the Atlantic, and how air power proved to be the Allies' most important submarine-killer in one of the most bitterly fought naval campaigns of World War II.As 1942 opened, both Nazi Germany and the Allies were ready for the climactic battles of the Atlantic to begin. Germany had 91 operational U-boats, and over 150 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Arctic Convoys 1942

    The Luftwaffe cuts Russia's lifeline

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 32 - Air Campaign
    A new history of the most crucial few months of the Arctic Convoys, when Germany's air power forced the Allies to retreat to the cover of winter.Between spring and autumn 1942, Germany was winning the battle of the Arctic Convoys. Half of PQ-15 was sunk in May, PQ-17 was virtually obliterated in July, and in September 30 percent of PQ-18 was sunk. The Allies were forced to suspend the convoys ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Nashville 1864

    From the Tennessee to the Cumberland

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 314 - Campaign
    A highly illustrated account of the often-overlooked Franklin–Nashville campaign during the American Civil War between the Confederate Army of Tennessee and the Union Army of Cumberland, which could have changed the result of the whole conflict.In September 1864, the Confederate army abandoned Atlanta and were on the verge of being driven out of the critical state of Tennessee. In an attempt to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Tokyo 1944–45

    The destruction of Imperial Japan's capital

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 40 - Air Campaign
    The full history of how the United States targeted and destroyed the Japanese capital from the air, in a ten-month long campaign by the US Army Air Force and the US Navy.In November 1944, the US Army Air Force launched a 111-plane B-29 strike against Tokyo, the first raid since the morale-boosting Doolittle Raid of 1942. From then until August 13, 1945, the United States would attack Tokyo 25 ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Chattanooga 1863

    Grant and Bragg in Central Tennessee

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 295 - Campaign
    A highly illustrated account of the Chatanooga campaign that opened the road to Atlanta, and marked Grant's first experience as a theater commander.Following the disastrous defeat at Chickamauga, Union forces were in disarray and the tactically vital Chattanooga was under siege and on the brink of falling. Secretary of War William Stanton ordered Ulysses Grant to send the Army of Tennessee to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • USN Submarine vs IJN Aircraft Carrier

    The Pacific 1942–44

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 139 - Duel
    Fully illustrated, this book pits US Navy submarines against the aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the height of World War II.Before World War II the world's navies envisioned the submarine as a tool to hunt and kill cruisers and capital ships (aircraft carriers and battleships). Instead, they became best known for their abilities as commerce raiders. Yet hunting capital ships ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • B-29 Superfortress vs Japanese Nightfighter

    Japan 1944–45

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 144 - Duel
    An illustrated study of the clashes between B-29s conducting night raids on Japan and the Japanese nightfighters protecting the Home Islands from 1944–45.The USAAF's B-29-led strategic bombing offensive against Japan succeeded when XX Bomber Command switched from high-level daytime precision bombing to low-level night time area bombing. The latter tactic required Superfortresses to attack their ... Read more

    $17.99 USD