Schiffer Military Books

New for World War II Soviet collectors, this volume of Marshals’, Generals’ and Admirals’ parade uniforms is the first comprehensive book on the subject. With hundreds of beautiful, large format full-color photographs, detailed close-ups of...

This book contains the most complete history of the South Vietnamese Air Force that surviving records and accounts can convey. In many ways, this is an American story; since VNAF was organized, trained, equipped, and...

Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corporation’s (Convair) attempt to make a few design changes to its famous B-24 Liberator for the U.S. Navy in 1942 eventually evolved into the PB4Y-2 Privateer, a 70,000-pound patrol bomber equipped with state-of-the-art...

Finally a single volume detailing the SS officers that served in the largest and most infamous of Hitler’s concentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau. This volume begins with a brief history of this concentration camp and then details...

Amidst the many books written over the years about the Third Reich and German militaria, one subject has been largely overlooked – the subject of German military chaplains in World War II. Combining a large...

Finally, a wonderfully detailed reference history of personal items issued to the soldiers in Europe. Individual gear, toiletries, tobacco and personal effects from North Africa to the Rhine are covered in intimate detail. Over 400...

This book is the first to present every rocket aircraft flown in Germany and the rocket systems developed by Walter and BMW, as well as several of the most interesting projects drawn up by Germany’s...

A history of the world-famous Piper light planes from their origin as a brainchild of Clarence G. Taylor through the series of fabric-covered, high-wing, single-engine descendants that preserved the aircraft’s general profile. The ultimate success...

Under the emblem of the Edelweis, the soldiers of the German mountain corps fought on every front in the Second World War – in the tundra of Lapland, in the gorges of the Balkans, on...

Major Helmut Wick failed to return from a mission over the English Channel on 28 November 1940 and is listed as missing to this day. This fate ended a picture book military and flying career....

This book contains over 600 rare and never before published photographs of the British Soldier in World War I. The quality images selected were photographed in peace and wartime, in the studio and the field,...

Spencer Coil examines the uniforms and equipment used by the multiethnic Czarist Russian Forces during the turbulent reign of Czar Nicholas II. In addition to a remarkable selection of studio photos, stunning candid photos of...