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Hirohitos Silent Hunters in Action. The Imperial Japanese Navy developed the submarine faster than any other country in the world As the author reveals, during the Second World War Japan deployed a number of unique submarines These included the Type B1 which carried a Yokosuka E14Y1 reconnaissance seaplane in a watertight capsule attached to the deck of the submarine The Japanese also developed the giant I-400 class submarines that carried thr...

The 'Wild West, ' or American Frontier as it is also known, developed in the years following the American Civil War. However, this period of myth-making cowboys, infamous gunslingers, not always law-abiding lawmen, and saloon madams, is as much the product of fiction writers and film makers as reality.

Without doubt it was one of the toughest jobs. Faced with ruthless criminal, trigger-happy gunslingers and assorted desperados, the lawmen of the Old West tried, and sometimes died, in their efforts to bring some semblance of order to their towns and communities.

If one aircraft was to represent the First World War, it could be the distinctive red Fokker Triplane of Manfred von Richthofen. With an astonishing eighty aerial victories, the Red Baron became a legend in his own, short, lifetime.

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With a wealth of illustrations, Terry Treadwell tells the story of this famous aircraft - The F-14 Tomcat.

Researcher for the RAF Escaping Society tells the story of the lesser known attempts to escape Prisoner of War camps during the Second World War.

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It seems surprising that anyone could dream of having aircraft-carrying submarines, but from the early days of the First World War, the two have been intrinsically linked.

The First World War was to introduce many innovative and novel ways of killing the enemy. It was the first truly modern war fought with modern equipment, and for the first time the newfangled aircraft were to play their part. Of the 57 nations involved in the First World War, only 14 had a naval air force of any description. The first aircraft were flimsy and fragile, but by late 1914 they had progressed from limited reconnaissance duties to a...

Of the 57 nations involved in the First World War, only14 had a naval air arm or a limited naval aviation capacity. Yet in only5 years, aviation became a major weapon in the armoury of naval warfare, with the first aircraft carriers making their appearance.

This book is part of the Images ofAviation series, which uses old photographs and archived images toshow the history ofvarious aviation companies and groups in Great Britain.

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Profusely illustrated history of German and Austrian Aircraft of the First World War.

For most prisoners of war, life was nothing like such films as The Great Escape, but for a few brave escapees, fact was more extraordinary than fiction. Using personal accounts, authentic reports from German guards, and debrief documents in the National Archives, this is the true story of the many exciting escape attempts from POW camps during the Second World War. Some were successful, others not, but in each case the inspired methods devised...

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