The symbol of Blitzkrieg in the air is detailed here in 200 colour profiles, illustrating a career which began as a terror plane in Spain and ended up as a tankbuster in the Russian sky.

A multirole jet fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force, the F-16 has been in service for an incredible 36 years, with no sign of retiring. At a time when other planes retire to museums, General Dynam...

Not for sale in Poland! The monograph tells the story of the French armour beginnings, covering the first and second French tanks ever produced, the Schneider CA and the St. Chamond, and describes their combat use as well as the development of doctr...

This is the remarkable story of a German soldier who fought throughout World War II, rising from conscript private to captain of a heavy weapons company on the Eastern Front. William Lubbeck was 19 when he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in August 19...

Drawing on hundreds of newly available, top-secret KGB and party Central Committee documents, historian Matthew E. Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. Joseph Stalin used the killing as the pretext to unleash...

Among the magnificent gems and jewels left behind by the great Islamic empires, emeralds stand out for their size and prominence. For the Mughals, Ottomans, and Safavids green was – as it remains for all Muslims – the colour of Paradise, reserved for...

The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. Rumours of their orgies, recruitment of prostitutes, extensive libraries of erotica, extreme rituals, and initiation ceremonies circulated widely at the time, only to become more sen...

For sale in CIS only! With more than 35 years experience of jihadist activism, Abu Mus'ab al-Suri remains the foremost theoretician in the global jihadist movement today, despite his capture in Pakistan in late 2005. After having participated in the...

This new collection is devoted to the planes used during the five last decades by the USN and USAF. With this first volume, Frederic Lert presents the career of the one of the US Navy's most legendary planes, the F-14 Tomcat, Tom Cruise's mount in th...

For sale in CIS only! Ioan Lewis details the history and culture of the Somali people, providing a unique window into this little-known culture and its increasingly public predicaments. He provides insight into the complex social, historical, and cu...