Product Description: This taut thriller provides the behind-the-scenes reality of the national security system at work --the CIA, the Oval Office, the Pentagon, and the National Security Council -- and is must-reading for fans of Tom Clancy and W.E.B...read more

Provides a detailed analysis of the U.S. Navy and gives the history, specifications, and tactical role of naval ships and aircraft

Product Description: "A unique and valuable look at the war."—General James Doolittle, USAF. An authoritative and comprehensive survey of the World War II era, this reference features over 2,400 entries. Subjects range from battles, soldiers, and military activities to politics, culture, and the Holocaust...read more

Hyman G. Rickover was not long removed from his Jewish roots in Poland when he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922. After a respectable career spent mostly in unglamorous submarine and engineering billets, he took command of the U.S. Navy’s nuclear propulsion program and revived his career, being retired—involuntarily—some thirty years later in early 1982. He was not only the architect of the nuclear Navy but also its builder. In the process, he erected a network of power and influence that rivaled those who were elected to high office, and that protected him from them when his controversial methods became objectionable or, as critics would suggest, undermined the nation’s vital interests. Authors Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar, whose full-length biography of Rickover (in manuscript in 1981) was consulted by the Reagan Administration during the decision to remove him from active duty, are eminently qualified to write an essential treatment on the controversial genius of Admiral Rickover.

Product Description: The closest we've ever come to the end of the world""DEFCON-2 is the best single volume on the Cuban Missile Crisis published and is an important contribution to the history of the Cold War. Beyond the military and political facts of the crisis, Polmar and Gresham sketch the personalities that created and coped with the crisis...read more

A detailed description of the events, issues, and personalities involved in the lead up to the Cuban Missile Crisis and the fateful thirteen days in October is examined in an incisive analysis of one of the pivotal events of the Cold War.

Chronicles the history of international espionage, from ancient times to the present day, includes new information on the Cold War based on recently revealed information, profiles of famous spies, and espionage agencies

Product Description: On the morning of April 10, 1963, the world's most advanced submarine was on a test dive off the New England coast when she sent a message to a support ship a thousand feet above her on the surface: experiencing minor problem . . ...read more

A century of military flight is highlighted in these pages, from the first attempts to use biplanes as weapons and the first experiments with landing planes on warships in 1910 through the stealth aircraft and pilot-less bombers employed by the U.S. Air Force today. (Military History)

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Product Description: Book by Allen, Thomas B., Polmar, Norman

The author recreates the worst sub disaster in history, following the American submarine on its fateful test dive off the New England coast--a mission that ended on the bottom of the Atlantic ocean with all 129 crewmen dead.

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Product Description: Conceived prior to World War I to accommodate the invention of the torpedo, PT, or patrol, boats came into their own during World War II. There, they were not only used to great effect by the U.S. Navy as torpedo launchers and attack vessels in all theaters of operation, but PT109 gained fame as the vessel skippered by a young John F...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)