In 1960, SAC's B-52s began a nonstop, eight-year, nuclear-armed patrol. Fully illustrated, this study explains how one of the Cold War's most challenging operations was conceived and flown.

An authoritative history of the hypersonic career and lasting influence of America’s Mach 6 rocket plane, packed with photos and spectacular new artwork, which will appeal to the many aviation…

The General Dynamics F-111 was one of the most technically innovative designs among military aircraft, introducing the variable-sweep wing, terrain-following radar, military-rated afterburning turbofan engines and a self-contained escape module…

The second of two titles on the US Navy’s Phantom II MiG killers of the Vietnam War, this volume covers the numerous actions fought over North Vietnam during the Linebacker…

A detailed look at the deadly battle between US Navy F9F Panther jet fighter-bombers and communist anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) defenses that proliferated throughout the Korean War.

From Vietnam to Desert Storm, this book tells the story of the United States’ seemingly indestructible heavy bombers, and the Soviet-designed missile system that attempted to bring them down.

This volume charts the successes of the navy fighter crews as they encountered MIG’s, missiles and AAA over the jungles of North Vietnam. It is packed with first-hand accounts from…

There are some stories that require as much courage to write as they do art. Peter Ho Davies’s achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of fatherhood is just such a story…The…