Author: Bill Yenne
Publisher: Zenith Press
Keywords: war, world, factory, aircraft, american
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-10-15
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0760323003
ISBN-13: 9780760323007

Few, if any, industrial phenomena have been as dramatic as the United States mid-20th-century shift from peacetime manufacturing to wartime production. While the years 1939 to 1945 saw explosive growth in the manufacture of every type of armament imaginable, none was more emblematic of the industrial climate than the proliferation of aircraft factories. Zeroing in on the crux of the American military-industrial complex at a critical moment, this volume documents the production of legendary fighters and bombers by companies like Boeing, North American, Curtiss, Consolidated, Douglas, Grumman, a

Author: Geza Szurovy
Publisher: Zenith Press
Keywords: classics, motorbooks, airlines, american, classic
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-11
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0760316562
ISBN-13: 9780760316566

Classic American Airlines vividly retells the alluring history behind America’s greatest airlines: United, American, TWA, Eastern, Pan Am, Delta, Northwest, and Republic, among others. Individual profiles contain photographs of the aircraft used through the years and the variety of color schemes that adorned them. Airline advertisements, route maps, timetables, and other memorabilia add flavor to this nostalgic airline history.

Authors:Thomas C. Reed, Danny B. Stillman,
Publisher: Zenith Press
Keywords: bomb, proliferation, history, political, express, nuclear
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-01-02
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0760335028
ISBN-13: 9780760335024

This is a political history of nuclear weapons from the discovery of fission in 1938 to the nuclear train wreck that seems to loom in our future.  It is an account of where those weapons came from, how the technology surprisingly and covertly spread, who is likely to acquire those weapons next and most importantly why. The authors’ examination of post-Cold War national and geopolitical issues regarding nuclear proliferation and the effects of Chinese sponsorship of the Pakistani program is eye opening. The reckless “nuclear weapons programs for sale” exporting of technology by Pakistan

Authors:Guy Norris, Mark Wagner,
Publisher: Zenith Press
Keywords: series, color, enthusiast, jetliners, airbus
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1999-10-03
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 076030677X
ISBN-13: 9780760306772

Since introducing the A300 in 1974, Airbus Industrie has launched several successful aircraft and survived an industry that has dwindled to two Western manufacturers. The acclaimed avionic duo of Guy Norris and Mark Wagner trace the history of all Airbus models and show how the European consortium went toe-to-toe with Boeing and revolutionized the industry. Also covered are the high-capacity A3XX currently in development and Airbus’ 300-600ST super transporters. The aircraft are captured in flight and from dramatic vantage points inaccessible to most enthusiasts. Paint schemes featured a

Author: Geza Szurovy
Publisher: Zenith Press
Keywords: airport, american
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2003-08
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0760312427
ISBN-13: 9780760312421

"If an airport is defined as ‘a place set aside primarily for the purpose of conducting regular, sustained flights,’ it can be safely said that America’s first airport was Huffman Prairie Flying Field, established by the Wright brothers eight miles outside of Dayton, Ohio, in 1904." —from Chapter 1, "Pick a Pasture" Where once stretched little more than quiet open fields and gravel roads, the modern airport sits like an elaborate palace on the American landscape, steadfastly awaiting the arrival and departure of the traveling masses. The American Airport chronicles the history of A

Author: Bill Yenne
Publisher: Zenith Press
Keywords: company, boeing, story
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-10-17
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 076032333X
ISBN-13: 9780760323335

In the early years of the 20th century William Edward Boeing summed up his new company’s mission: "To let no new improvement in flying and flying equipment pass us by." And sure enough, in the century since, nothing and no one has outflown Boeing. The Story of the Boeing Company, plane-maker to the world, unfolds on a fittingly grand scale in this book that is at once the history of one company and the story of an industry. Aviation author Bill Yenne follows Boeing from its modest beginnings in 1916 as Pacific Aero Products, with a single two-seater floatplane, to its present lofty position

Author: Colonel Thomas X. Hammes USMC
Publisher: Zenith Press
Keywords: century, war, stone, sling
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-02-17
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0760324077
ISBN-13: 9780760324073

“4GW (Fourth Generation Warfare) is the only kind of war America has ever lost. And we have done so three times â€" in Vietnam, Lebanon, and Somalia. This form of warfare has also defeated the French in Vietnam and Algeria, and the USSR in Afghanistan…As the only Goliath left in the world, we should be worried that the world’s Davids have found a sling and stone that work.” â€" Chapter 1, The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century The War in Iraq. The War on Terror. These types of “asymmetrical” warfare are the conflicts of the 21st century â€" a