Product Description: Interweaving the stories of two families in colonial Africa, this novel explores parallel crises and hardships experienced from distinct cultural perspectives. Through the eyes of Richard and Kaunu, the Colony of Natal comes to life with an authentic sense of place and historical time, with the drastically changing circumstances of life in the British empire bringing their families inevitably to explosive conflict, with devastating consequences for both...read more

Product Description: Originally published in 1875, George Cary Eggleston's memoir, which proved immensely popular across the country, is a nostalgic, often amusing collection of essays based on the author's Civil War experiences. Eggleston describes life in Virginia before the war, offers glowing assessments of the men who filled the Rebel ranks and the women who stood behind them, satirizes the Confederacy's finances and its army's red tape, and recollects the war's end...read more

Product Description: A delicately woven coming-of-age tale, this moving story follows Isaak and Liesa as they grow up and fall in love in their small Griqua fishing village on the Tsitsikamma coast. As Isaak and Liesa struggle with important life decisions, the village goes through its own growing pains and fights for survival...read more

Product Description: Lincolns Herndon BY DAVID DONALD INTRODUCTION BY CARL SANDBURG 1948 ALFRED A KNOPF NEW YORK Copyright 1948 by ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages and reproduce not more than three illustrations in a review to be printed in a magazine or newspaper...read more

Product Description: Fielding one of the world's largest and most potent air forces, the US Navy operates a plethora of warplanes from the decks of its carriers - from state-of-the-art fighters, electronic jammers and surveillance platforms to training, tanking, rescue and on-board delivery assets...read more

Product Description: Attack aircraft have always played a vital role in supporting the troups on the ground and neutralizing ground-to-air threats. Modern Battlefield Warplanes profiles six aircraft/helicopters currently in service designed to fight over the battlefield -- America's A-10 Thunderbolt II, AH-64 Apache and AH-1 Cobra; the British/American AV-8B Harrier; and Russia's Ka-50 'Hokum', Mil-24 'Hind' and Su-25 'Frogfoot'...read more

Product Description: When the United States entered WWII it was ill prepared to meet the threat posed by Axis air forces equipped with modern fighting aircraft. That all changed as the American war machine rapidly geared up for the conflict and US aerospace companies rushed to develop and ready for service a range of state-of-the-art warplanes...read more

Product Description: 9x 12, 700 color photos, 300 b&w photosThis title contains in-depth profiles of the six operational 'Century Series' fighters developed during the Cold War: F-100 Super Sabre, F-101 Voodoo, F-102 Delta Dagger, F-104 Starfighter, F-105 Thunderchief and F-106 Delta Dart...read more

Features today's military aircraft, drawings of modern warplanes, descriptions of common military aircraft, world air force insignias, and brief inventories of the world's air forces

Product Description: Educational, entertaining, and stimulating to the senses, these authoritative and handsome encyclopedias present each of their subjects in rich detail. Packed with information, photographs, and illustrations, each book is organized around helpful themes...read more

Product Description: This book includes in-depth profiles of the four 'black' programs that led to development of the F-117 Stealth Fighter, B-2 Stealth Bomber, SR-71 Blackbird and U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane. Describes each aircraft in full, including development history, variants, service record, operators, specifications, weapons, avionics and mission systems...read more

Product Description: With the end of World War II and the dawn of the nuclear age, the world's new superpowers (while allied for the defeat of Germany) entered a period of hostility marked by sharply opposing ideologies, proxy wars and the continuing threat of nuclear confrontation...read more

Book Description: As Hitler unleashed his terrifying Blitzkrieg against the nations of Europe, the world was stunned by his air force -- the Luftwaffe -- with its vast array of latest-technology warplanes.And yet, six years earlier the German war machine hardly existed...read more

Product Description: This truly unique and fully up-to-date reference work covers every aircraft carrier currently in service and/or having served during the past 50 years. Arranged country by country, this new book features a detailed history of each nation's carrier development, procurements, and combat action, and includes: Entries for every aircraft type, its variants, missions, specifications, weapons and operators; Entries on every fixed-wing carrying vessel, specifications, key dates, and air wing details; Details of chains of command, orders of battle for current assets, and 'snapshots' of historic orders of battle; Descriptions of carrier operations, including deck systems and launch and recovery procedures...read more

Product Description: This truly unique and fully up-to-date reference work covers every aircraft carrier currently in service and/or having served during the past 50 years. Arranged country by country, this new book features a detailed history of each nation's carrier development, procurements, and combat action, and includes: Entries for every aircraft type, its variants, missions, specifications, weapons and operators; Entries on every fixed-wing carrying vessel, specifications, key dates, and air wing details; Details of chains of command, orders of battle for current assets, and 'snapshots' of historic orders of battle; Descriptions of carrier operations, including deck systems and launch and recovery procedures...read more

Product Description: Edited, with a New Preface, by Grady McWhiney, With a New Introduction by Joseph T. Glatthaar. During the Civil War centennial, four eminent scholars of the conflict--Bruce Catton, Charles P. Roland, David Donald, and T. Harry Williams--gathered at a Northwestern University symposium to debate and commemorate this transforming event in American history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Aviation enthusiasts will delight in this comprehensive reference: an easy-to-read guide to civil aircraft flown in every nation from the 1920s to the present. Includes more than 100 individual planes, from the giant Guppy cargo plane to the single-seat racing plane, from glamorous business jets to the classic Boeing 747...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Shows and describes non-jet military aircraft, including the Fokker triplane, Sopwith Camel, Spitfire, Messerschmitt, Mustang, and B-29 Superfortress