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  • Texas Shipwrecks

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series series Images of America
    The Texas coastline and offshore waters are flat, shallow, featureless, and filled with shoals. Texas waters are subjected to extreme weather, not just hurricanes and tropical storms but also northers and seasonal gales. This, combined with two centuries of naval warfare off Texas waters, produced many shipwrecks of all sorts, from Spanish treasure fleets to simple working boats. The ships of ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battleship Texas

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series series Images of America
    The USS Texas was built when dreadnought battleships were kings of the seas. It was the world's most powerful battleship when first commissioned in 1914, and for over a century it fought many battles. Some took place while the Texas served as a warship in the US Navy in World Wars I and II. Since becoming a museum ship and war memorial in 1948, it has fought a longer and more difficult struggle as ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lexington-Class Aircraft Carriers 1927–46

    The US Navy's first fleet carriers

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 352 - New Vanguard
    This fully illustrated study explores the history of the Lexington class, the US Navy's first fleet carriers, from their battlecruiser origins to their service in World War II.The Lexington class began life as two of the six battlecruisers ordered for the US Navy in 1916. Laid down in 1920–21, they would have been the most powerful battlecruisers ever, if the Washington Naval Treaty had not ... Read more

    $17.29 CAD

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  • Berlin Airlift 1948–49

    The opening battle of the Cold War

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 66 - Air Campaign
    Richly illustrated throughout, this focused study reveals how the greatest airlift of the 20th century was sparked, organized, and flown, and why it succeeded.The Berlin Airlift was the first battle of the Cold War, and arguably its most decisive operation. As the Iron Curtain descended across Europe, the USSR blockaded free West Berlin in an attempt to force its surrender. Its only chance was a ... Read more

    $21.19 CAD

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  • Philippines 1941–42

    America's disastrous start to the Pacific War

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 62 - Air Campaign
    The weeks after Pearl Harbor saw Japan destroy the well-prepared US air forces in the Philippines**. Fully illustrated, this studies the Pacific War's little-known first major air campaign.**On December 7, 1941, the Japanese not only attacked Pearl Harbor,but also struck at US and allied bases throughout the Pacific, including the USA's biggest overseas territory, the Philippines. However, that ... Read more

    $21.19 CAD

  • Battle of the Atlantic 1942–45

    The climax of World War II’s greatest naval campaign

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 21 - Air Campaign
    This illustrated study explores, in detail, the climactic events of the Battle of the Atlantic, and how air power proved to be the Allies' most important submarine-killer in one of the most bitterly fought naval campaigns of World War II.As 1942 opened, both Nazi Germany and the Allies were ready for the climactic battles of the Atlantic to begin. Germany had 91 operational U-boats, and over 150 ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • B-29 Superfortress vs Japanese Nightfighter

    Japan 1944–45

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 144 - Duel
    An illustrated study of the clashes between B-29s conducting night raids on Japan and the Japanese nightfighters protecting the Home Islands from 1944–45.The USAAF's B-29-led strategic bombing offensive against Japan succeeded when XX Bomber Command switched from high-level daytime precision bombing to low-level night time area bombing. The latter tactic required Superfortresses to attack their ... Read more

    $19.89 CAD

  • USN Submarine vs IJN Aircraft Carrier

    The Pacific 1942–44

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 139 - Duel
    Fully illustrated, this book pits US Navy submarines against the aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the height of World War II.Before World War II the world's navies envisioned the submarine as a tool to hunt and kill cruisers and capital ships (aircraft carriers and battleships). Instead, they became best known for their abilities as commerce raiders. Yet hunting capital ships ... Read more

    $19.89 CAD

  • U-Boat vs Royal Navy Capital Ship

    1939–45

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 150 - Duel
    This insightful illustrated study investigates how the Royal Navy lost two battleships and three aircraft carriers to German U-boats during 1939–42.During World War II, over half of Britain's capital ship losses were due to U-boats, as Germany's submarines sought to deplete the Royal Navy's powerful surface fleet. Featuring specially commissioned artwork and mapping alongside archive photographs, ... Read more

    $19.89 CAD

  • Battle of the Atlantic 1939–41

    RAF Coastal Command's hardest fight against the U-boats

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 15 - Air Campaign
    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.At the start of World War II, few thought the U-boat would be as devastating as it proved to be. But convoys and sonar-equipped escorts proved inadequate to defend the Allies' merchantmen, and the RAF's only offensive weapon ... Read more

    $21.19 CAD

  • Tokyo 1944–45

    The destruction of Imperial Japan's capital

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 40 - Air Campaign
    The full history of how the United States targeted and destroyed the Japanese capital from the air, in a ten-month long campaign by the US Army Air Force and the US Navy.In November 1944, the US Army Air Force launched a 111-plane B-29 strike against Tokyo, the first raid since the morale-boosting Doolittle Raid of 1942. From then until August 13, 1945, the United States would attack Tokyo 25 ... Read more

    $21.19 CAD

  • Bonhomme Richard vs Serapis

    Flamborough Head 1779

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 44 - Duel
    The clash between the American Bonhomme Richard and the British HMS Serapis during the American Revolutionary War is perhaps the most famous single-ship duel in history.This epic battle between two very similar ships – and crews – off the coast of Britain in September 1779 created two naval heroes: in victory, John Paul Jones became a figure that all future American naval officers would aspire to ... Read more

    $19.89 CAD