Fully illustrated, this book pits US Navy submarines against the aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the height of World War II.

Ellington Field was one of 32 training airfields authorized by Congress in 1917. During World War I, it became one of the most highly regarded training fields in the United…

To reach the Port of Houston’s Turning Basin, a ship must travel 50 miles along a narrow and twisting channel that passes through Galveston Bay, the San Jacinto River, and…

Although it is sometimes called a town without a history, Houston actually possesses the kind of sprawling past that includes a frontier port, a moon landing and a supermarket that…

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.

Approximately 200,000 African Americans fought for the Union during the Civil War. Through first-hand accounts, this title examines the journey of the African American from slave to soldier to free…

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…

This is the David-and-Goliath story of how RAF Coastal Command battled with outdated aircraft against the deadly U-boat fleet during the crucial first years of World War II.