The Most Dangerous Enemy

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July 2010 $40.00 US $44.00 CAN

On its 70th Anniversary

the Battle of Britain comes

to life.

The Most Dangerous EnemyAn Illustrated History of the Battle of Britain

Stephen Bungay

July 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-3936-7

$40.00 US$44.00 CAN

9.7 x 11.55 in

246 x 293 mm

272 pages, HC25 color & 100 b/w photos,

15 diagrams, 10 mapsUS & Canadian rights onlyHistory/Military/World War IICt. Qty. 12

Following its original publication in narrative form ten years ago, StephenBungay’s The Most Dangerous Enemy has been acclaimed as thedefinitive history of the Battle of Britain, a book whose authority andcomprehensiveness far exceeded all previous accounts. To commemorate the70th Anniversary of the Battle this classic work has been reconceived in alarge-format, fully illustrated version. With over 150 photographs, maps, anddiagrams, a lively design, and numerous sidebar features, the book brings thestory to life in a new and exciting way. Archival photographs of the planes,pilots, and key military leaders, many of which have never been published, areaccompanied by fascinating three-dimensional diagrams illustrating dogfightsand battle tactics on both sides.

The Most Dangerous Enemy

July 2010

Heart For the Fight

September 2010 $28.00 £20.00 $30.00 CAN

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A truly All American

Marine at war and in

the Ultimate Fighting

Championship.

Heart for the FightA Marine Captain’s Journey from Assault Platoon Leader

to Mixed Martial Arts Cagefighting Champion

Brian Stann and John R. Bruning

September 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-3899-5

$28.00 US£20.00 UK$30.00 CAN

5.75 x 8.75 in

146 x 222 mm

320 pages, HC16 b/w photosAll rights available

Biography & Autobiography/MilitaryCt. Qty. 12

This is the story of a kid from the wrong side of Scranton who made it tothe Naval Academy, played linebacker for the Navy football team for fouryears, became a Marine officer, graduated first in his infantry officer class,led his men in two intense combat tours in the Anbar Province, receivedthe Silver Star for gallantry, and now has emerged as one of the mostinteresting figures on the mixed martial arts (MMA) professional circuit.

Naked In Da Nang

September 2010 $17.99 £14.99 $19.99 CAN

Darkly humorous and full

of action, author Mike

Jackson takes you on a

flight over Vietnam that

you will never forget.

Naked in Da NangA Forward Air Controller in Vietnam

Mike Jackson and Tara Dixon-Engel

September 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-3916-9

$17.99 US£14.99 UK$19.99 CAN

6 x 9 in

152 x 229 mm

304 pages, PB34 color & 14 b/w photos

All rights availableHistory/Military/Vietnam WarCt. Qty. 26

FACs (forward air controllers) in Vietnam flew low and slow, searchingfor signs of an elusive enemy. Often they trolled themselves as bait for theNVA troops to try to shoot down. When a friendly unit made contact,having a FAC overhead made their day, because the FACs controlled thebomb-, rocket-, and napalm-laden fast movers, fighter jets, and attackaircraft whose ordnance often made the difference between life and death.They were regarded by many of their air force and naval aviator brethrenas insane, suicidal, or both. In addition to the perils of enemy fire whichranged from lucky AK-47 shots to .51 caliber machine guns and SA-7shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, they had to watch out to keep frombeing blown up in a B-52 Arc-Light strike or knocked down by friendlyartillery.

Patton’s Third Army

In World War IIPage 9

September 2010 $50.00 £35.00 $55.00 CAN

The heavily illustrated

wartime exploits of the

men who served under

“Old Blood and Guts.”

Patton’s Third Army in World War IIAn Illustrated History

Michael Green and James D. Brown

September 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-3691-5

$50.00 US£35.00 UK$55.00 CAN

10.75 x 12.25 in

273 x 311 mm

300 pages, HC48 color & 403 b/w photos, 13 mapsWord Count: 75,000All rights availableHistory/Military/World War IICt. Qty. 6

Patton was champing at the bit to lead the D-Day invasion, butEisenhower placed him in command of a decoy unit, the First U.S. ArmyGroup. Nearly seven weeks after D-Day, Patton finally got his chanceto take Third Army into battle. He began a ten-month rampage acrossFrance, driving through Germany and into Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakiaand Austria. Along the way Third Army forces entered the Battle of theBulge, breaking the siege of Bastogne. It was a turning point in the war,and afterward the Third Army pushed eastward again. Archival photos alongwith frequent quotes complete the portrait of Patton as well as his men asthey fight their way across the Third Reich.

Patton’s Third Army

In World War II

September 2010

Hitler’s Master of the

Dark ArtsPage 13

October 2010 $30.00 £20.00 $33.00 CAN

Heinrich Himmler’s

stranger-than-fiction

Nazi cult.

October 2010Hitler’s Master of the Dark ArtsHimmler’s Black Knights and the Occult Origins of

the SS

Bill Yenne

ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-3778-3

$30.00 US£20.00 UK$33.00 CAN

7.25 x 9.25 in

184 x 235 mm

320 pages, HC12 color & 50 b/w photosWord Count: 103,000All rights availableHistory/Military/World War IICt. Qty. 12

At the heart of the evil of Nazism was Hitler’s “witch doctor,” HeinrichHimmler, and his peculiar and deadly organization with the mundanename Schutzstaffel, literally “protective squadron.” Undoubtedly youknow them better as the feared SS, the very essence of Nazism. Theirthreatening double lightning bolt is perhaps the most dreaded symbolof the Third Reich. The facts of the SS’s origins are truly stranger thanfiction. If you thought Raiders of the Lost Ark was an inspired Hollywoodfiction, think again. Hitler’s Master of the Dark Arts reveals the hidden“truths” of the SS in full and morbidly fascinating detail.

Hitler’s Master of the

Dark Arts

October 2010

The Nuclear Express

October 2010 $19.99 £14.99 $21.99CAN

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An authoritative history

of what may be the most

serious issues in global

security.

The Nuclear ExpressA Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation

Thomas C. Reed and Danny B. Stillman

October 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-3904-6

$19.99 US£14.99 UK$21.99 CAN

6 x 9 in

152 x 229 mm

400 pages, PB15 b/w photos, 5 maps, 3 diagrams

All rights availableHistory/Modern/20th CenturyCt. Qty. 20

This is a political history of nuclear weapons from the discovery of fissionin 1938 to the nuclear train wreck that seems to loom in our future. Itis an account of where those weapons came from, how the technologysurprisingly and covertly spread, and who is likely to acquire thoseweapons next and most importantly why. The authors’ examinationof post Cold War national and geopolitical issues regarding nuclearproliferation and the effects of Chinese sponsorship of the Pakistaniprogram is eye opening. The reckless “nuclear weapons programs for sale”exporting of technology by Pakistan is truly chilling, as is the on-againoff-again North Korean nuclear weapons program.

PredatorPage 15

November 2010 $28.00 £ 20.00 $30.00 CAN

An up close and personal

look into the previously

top-secret world of the

Predator UAV at war.

Predator: The Remote-Control Air WarOver Iraq and AfghanistanA Pilot’s Story

Major Matthew Martin and Charles W. Sasser

ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-3896-4

$28.00 US£20.00 UK$30.00 CAN

5.75 x 8.75 in

146 x 222 mm

320 pages, HC16 color photosWord Count: 81,000All rights availableBiography & Autobiography/MilitaryCt. Qty. 12

The Nintendo generation has taken to the battlefields of Iraq andAfghanistan where remote controlled aircraft are killing America’senemies and saving American lives. Matt Martin is considered a top gunin the world of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). For nearly four years,he has flown hundreds of missions on two warfronts in a new kind ofcombat that, until recently, was largely classified Top Secret. He and hisfellow Predator pilots have been actively involved in virtually every facet ofthe War on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan: tracking Osama bin Laden;capturing top al-Qaeda leader al-Zarqawi; fighting with the U.S. Marinesin Fallujah; and rescuing aid workers kidnapped in Afghanistan by theTaliban. This is Matt Martin’s story and that of his aircraft, the 27-footlong Predator.

War in the Pacific Skies

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November 2010 $27.99 £20.00 $29.99 CAN

Aerial combat as can only be portrayed by a

master artist.

War in Pacific Skies

Charlie Cooper and Ann Cooper,

Illustrations by Jack Fellows

November 2010

ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-3932-9

$27.99 US£20.00 UK$29.99 CAN

11 x 9.625 in

279 x 244 mm

192 pages, PB w/flaps100 color & 100 b/w photosWord Count: 38,000All rights availableTransportation/Aviation/HistoryCt. Qty. 12

War in Pacific Skies covers the most famous air engagements in WWII’sPacific Theater of Operation in an exquisite and beautiful fusion ofart and history. Paintings by acclaimed aviation artist Jack Fellows aresupplemented by color maps, previously unpublished photographs, original artwork, and personal accounts. Climb in to the cockpit of some of America’s most heralded war birds: the P-38 that carried Richard Bong to his 40 kills and fly along with Paul Tibitts in the “Enola Gay” as it makes its final approach on Hiroshima.

War in the Pacific Skies

November 2010

The Space Shuttle

February 2011 $40.00 US £25.00 UK $44.00 CAN

Page 20

Every mission! A full

retrospective

of all 134 flights.

The Space ShuttleCelebrating Thirty Years of NASA’s First

Space Plane

Piers Bizony

February 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-3941-1

$40.00 US£25.00 UK$44.00 CAN

10.5 x 11.25 in

267 x 286 mm

300 pages, HC900 color photosWord Count: 15,000 All rights availableScience/Astrophysics & Space ScienceCt. Qty . 12

This superbly designed and lavishly illustrated book marks a specialmoment in history: the final mission of the space shuttle. Noted space andscience author, Piers Bizony, has put together a retrospective that coversall 134 space shuttle missions, including the final flight of the shuttle,which is scheduled for September 2010. In addition to covering everyspace shuttle mission, the book also covers the development and design ofthe space shuttle, as well as the technical specifications of the vehicle anddetails of its major assemblies and subassemblies. A full double-gatefoldprovides a large-scale technical drawing of the space shuttle.

The Space Shuttle

February 2011

The German Wars

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February 2011 $29.00 £20.00 $32.00 CAN

The German way of

War from the Franco-

Prussian War through

World War II.

The German WarsA Concise History, 1866-1945

Michael A. Palmer

February 2011

ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-3780-6

$29.00 US£20.00 UK$32.00 CAN

5.75 x 8.75 in

146 x 222 mm

272 pages, HC16 b/w photosWord Count: 76,000All rights availableHistory/Modern/GeneralCt. Qty. 14

The German Wars: A Concise History, 1866-1945 outlines the historyof European warfare from the Wars of German Unification to the endof the World War II. The title aside, the book is not another historyof the German military; it takes a much broader approach looking atpolitical, social, economic, and military developments across Europe, andthe United States during the period. The “German War” part of the titleis there because Germany plays the central part in the story. Howeverthe key element threading its way through this volume is the IndustrialRevolution.

Burt Rutan’s

Race to SpacePage 17

November 2010 $30.00 £20.00 $33.00 CAN

More than forty wondrous

creations by Space Ship

One designer and aviation

visionary, Burt Rutan.

November 2010Burt Rutan’s Race to SpaceThe Magician of Mojave and His Flying

Innovations

Dan Linehan

ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-3815-5

$30.00 US£20.00 UK$33.00 CAN

9.5 x 11.125 in

241 x 283 mm

160 pages, HC200 color & 15 b/w photosWord count: 49,000All rights availableTransportation/Aviation/CommercialCt. Qty. 14

“Burt told Popular Mechanics, ‘If we make a courageous decision likethe goal and program we kicked off for Apollo in 1961, we will see ourchildren or grandchildren in outposts on other planets.’ Fortunately, weneed not rely solely on governments for expanding humanity’s presencebeyond the Earth.”—Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Burt Rutan’s Race toSpace chronicles how Burt Rutan has brought the world to the brink ofaffordable private space travel in the first complete visual record of hishundreds of designs, world records, and elite honors. Included are themore than forty aircraft and spacecraft that have successfully flown withthe help of his fellow pioneers, from innovative designers to courageoustest pilots.

Burt Rutan’s

Race to Space

November 2010