Product Description: This engaging title provides readers with a comprehensive overview of how battleships have been used in military combat around the world. The title begins with a discussion of battleships, their importance and use in battles, and how this has changed over time...read more

Product Description: Part of the Weapons of War series, this book features more than 150 color and black & white illustrations and photographs as well as detailed specifications on submarines from 1940 to the present.Submarines 1940–Present brings together the most important submarines from the beginning of World War II to the present in a single, handy volume arranged in alphabetical order...read more

Product Description: Experience a journey filled with timeless principles and practical applications. Along the way, you will discover • spiritual growth; • fairness; • attitude; • leadership; and • missional purpose. Take your journey to the limit, leaving the rest area in your rearview mirror and move on! "In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight...read more

Product Description: For decades, Memphis wrestling was an integral part of the Bluff City's popular culture. Performers inspired love and hatred, passion and rage. "Legends of Memphis Wresting" includes bios on unforgettable stars such as Sputnik Monroe, Al and Don Greene, Jimmy Valiant, Tommy Rich, Austin Idol, Bill Dundee, Jerry Lawler, and many others...read more

Product Description: This book examines the fight against worldwide Islamic terrorism, waged by the United States and its allies. Battles and campaigns, such as those in Afghanistan and Iraq, are covered in detail, with detailed information boxes listing key information...read more

Product Description: Organized by year, this easy-to-use reference collection gives students side-by-side comparable facts on battles, war plans, and important key leaders in military history. Historical photographs and quotes augment the main text, which goes into detail about life changing events such as the Korean War and the testing of the atomic bomb...read more

Product Description: Organized by year, this easy-to-use reference collection gives students side-by-side comparable facts on battles, war plans, and important key leaders in military history. Historical photographs and quotes augment the main text, which goes into detail about life changing events such as the Korean War and the testing of the atomic bomb...read more

Product Description: What are the greatest songs of all time? To make his determination, Steve Crawford listened to thousands of songs in a broad range of musical genres including pop, rap, alternative rock, country, punk rock, soul, western swing, jump blues, heavy metal, dance, and folk...read more

Troops of the 82nd Airborne Division look over the wreckage of one of their gliders during Operation Market Garden; two soldiers lie dead. A Marine Corps howitzer crew opens fire on a cave full of Japanese soldiers on Tinian. Three German soldiers, caught operating as spies during the Battle of the Bulge, face a U.S. Army firing squad. Weary Marines get a brief rest amid the utter devastation of Tarawa. All such World War II photographs demand further explanation.Each book in the series “The Stories Behind the Photos” takes sixty stunning black-and-white photographs and tells their stories in two-page spreads. Accompanying each photo is a reduced version containing call-out numbers keyed to the caption’s text. This detailed 200-word caption tells the full story of what’s happening in the photograph, how it fits with the subject matter, and what happened next to the individuals shown. Simple but at the same time very effective, each book in the series combines the broad sweep of military events with unique human interest stories. “The Stories Behind the Photos” series will appeal to military buffs and casual readers alike.

Product Description: On June 22, 1941, preceded by a massive artillery and aerial bombardment along the entire 2,000-mile border, three million Axis troops and 3,330 tanks smashed into the Soviet Union. Adolf Hitler believed the campaign would be over in four months...read more

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