A comprehensively illustrated history and analysis of 'The Hump' campaign in World War II, the hu...

This insightful illustrated study investigates how the Royal Navy lost two battleships and three ...

The Texas coastline and offshore waters are flat, shallow, featureless, and filled with shoals. T...

To reach the Port of Houston's Turning Basin, a ship must travel 50 miles along a narrow and twis...

The USS Texas was built when dreadnought battleships were kings of the seas. It was the world s m...

Four pipes and flush decks - these ships were a distinctively American destroyer design.Devised i...

This book examines the major warships of the Imperial Russian Navy which participated in the Russ...

As 1794 opened, Revolutionary France stood on a knife's edge of failure. Its army and navy had be...

This superbly illustrated study explores the epic clashes of British and German heavy cruisers at...

Approximately 200,000 African Americans fought for the Union during the Civil War. Initially, man...

By 1805 the 44-gun frigate was probably viewed as a failed experiment whilst the 38-gun frigate w...

In 1908 the most incredible naval arms race in history began. Flush with cash from rubber and cof...

The most successful commerce raider of the Civil War, the CSS Alabama almost single-handedly drov...

On April 17, 1863 Benjamin Grierson led a force of 1,700 Union cavalrymen across enemy lines into...

The summer of 1944 was the turning point of World War II. Operation Overlord, the landing at Norm...

The 'Original Six' frigates were commissioned by the new-born US Navy at a staggering cost of nea...

A fully illustrated history of how the US Navy destroyed Truk, the greatest Japanese naval and ai...

Texas Shipwrecks

Although it is sometimes called a town without a history, Houston actually possesses the kind of ...

In September 1864, the Confederate army abandoned Atlanta and were on the verge of being driven o...

The Space Shuttle is one of the oldest and most famous manned launch systems - the only launch ve...

Japan was closed to the world until 1854 and its technology then was literally medieval. Great Br...

Ellington Field

Throughout the first year of the war in the Pacific during World War II the USAAF was relatively ...

The cruiser Houston was the first warship named for the Bayou City, and the ship proved a favorit...

Although it is sometimes called a town without a history, Houston actually possesses the kind of ...

The air campaign that incinerated Japan's cities was the first and only time that independent air...

In 1910 the first aircraft was successfully launched from a small wooden platform on a stationary...

This illustrated study explores, in detail, the climactic events of the Battle of the Atlantic, a...

Despite his lack of formal military training, George Washington may be one of history's must unde...

The Battleship Texas

Famed as a classic naval duel, a one-on-one clash between two sailing frigates offered the victor...

In the Age of Fighting Sail (1650-1820), ambitious officers of the navies of many nations sought ...

When war broke out in 1812, neither the United States Navy nor the Royal Navy had more than a tok...

This is the David-and-Goliath story of how RAF Coastal Command battled with outdated aircraft aga...

People may associate Texas with cattle drives and oil derricks, but the sea has shaped the state'...

The most critical naval fighting during the War of 1812 took place, not on the high seas, but on ...

The clash between the American Bonhomme Richard and the British HMS Serapis during the American R...

The Destroyer Escort was the smallest ocean-­going escort built for the United States Navy - a do...

The Port of Houston

Following the disastrous defeat at Chickamauga, Union forces were in disarray and the tactically ...

Between 1550-1600, Europe witnessed a rapid evolution in the art of ship design which enabled saf...

The summer of 1944 was the turning point of World War II. Operation Overlord, the landing at Norm...

For three years of war the Union and the Confederacy had battled over the picturesque Shenandoah ...

In 1942, the massive Japanese naval base and airfield at Rabaul was a fortress standing in the Al...

Before the American Civil War most Native Americans or Indians lived in an area of the South know...

The Cruiser Houston

In this title, Mark Lardas explores the origins of American warships, primarily light and medium ...