Schiffer Military Books

Never before has such a complete pictorial history of Tactical Air Command been put together. The planes, demonstration teams, and foreign units of TAC are covered in pictorial and textual detail from the the 1940s...

This book is a lavishly illustrated story of Curtiss Wright Corporation's 1950s and 1960s efforts in developing a vertical takeoff (VTOL) aircraft. The author, an insider who headed preliminary design work, gives a brief history...

Operational and technical history of Germany's World War II jet fighter aircraft.[AuthorName]By (author) Manfred Griehl[/AuthorName][AuthorBio][/AuthorBio][NumIllustration]over 100 b/w and color photographs, profiles, drawings[/NumIllustration][CoAuthor][/CoAuthor][SubTitle]Heinkel He 162[/SubTitle][ColorPattern]over 100 b/w and color photographs, profiles, drawings[/ColorPattern]

Technical history of Germany's World War II experiments with vertical takeoff aircraft, including the Natter and other rare and unusual types.[AuthorName]By (author) J. Miranda[/AuthorName][AuthorBio][/AuthorBio][NumIllustration]over 70 b/w and color photographs, profiles, drawings[/NumIllustration][CoAuthor][/CoAuthor][SubTitle]Vertical Takeoff Fighter Aircraft of...

Operational and technical history of Germany's World War II jet bomber and reconnaissance aircraft.[AuthorName]By (author) Manfred Griehl[/AuthorName][AuthorBio][/AuthorBio][NumIllustration]over 100 b/w and color photographs, profiles, drawings[/NumIllustration][CoAuthor][/CoAuthor][SubTitle]Arado Ar 234[/SubTitle][ColorPattern]over 100 b/w and color photographs, profiles, drawings[/ColorPattern]

A concise history pictorial of Richard Vogt's well known asymmetrical flying machine. Includes many never before published photographs and schematics.[AuthorName]David Myhra[/AuthorName][AuthorBio][/AuthorBio][CoAuthor][/CoAuthor][NumIllustration]over 140 black and white photographs, drawings[/NumIllustration][SubTitle][/SubTitle][ColorPattern]over 140 black and white photographs, drawings[/ColorPattern]

This new book tells the complete story of the famous 82nd Airborne Division from its formation in 1917, through its legendary World War II campaigns (Sicily, Normandy and Holland), Vietnam, Grenada, Nicaragua, Operation Desert Storm...

A detailed look at the aircraft proposed by Gotha to replace the Horten Ho 229, which had already been selected for series production by the RLM. Includes a comparison of the two aircraft, as well...

The Fi 103 V-1 was the world's first practical cruise missile. The manned V-1s, the Fi 103R - known as the "Reichenburg" - were developed as a measure to continue the use of the V-1s...

After completing a tour of duty (thirty-five missions) in B-17s, Bert Stiles transferred to a fighter squadron. Just four months later he was killed in action on an escort mission to Hanover, Germany, on November...

Baroness Kunigunde von Richthofen originally published Mein Kriegstagebuch (My War Diary) in 1937, at a time when tales of heroes of the First World War inspired the youth of a country being prepared for a...

The names Raoul Lufbery, Doug Campbell, Reed Chambers, Ham Coolidge, and the greatest American fighter ace of World War I, Eddie Rickenbacker, are those most closely associated with Uncle Sam's "Hat in the Ring" squadron,...