Customer Review: "Eye in the Sky" is an excellent book on the Discover/CORONA satellite program. What sets this book apart from other CORONA texts (including the declassified CIA history) is the chapter on the Soviet ZENIT program and its similarities to CORONA. This chapter alone is worth the cost of the book,... more info
Customer Review: In the Potsdam Declaration in July of 1944 President Truman's ultimatum to Japan was to surrender or face "prompt and utter destruction". Apparently Truman did not realize that all of Japan's major cities had already been utterly destroyed. Only a few medium sized cities were left intact because... more info
Customer Review: Roscoe Turner was my grandfathers cousin so naturally I have been very interested in this book. It has a lot of family pictures in it and I use it for genealogy as well as history. I have read the entire book and found it very interesting and well written with a ton of pictures. I would recomend... more info
Customer Review: Once upon a time, asteroids were "the vermin of the skies," as Peebles indicates. However, with the success of the NEAR mission and with concerns over the cataclysmic effects of asteroid impacts making their way even into popular culture, they are of great interest today.
Customer Review: Military memoirs are kind of a tricky category. The authors usually aren't professional writers, but that's often a bonus rather a drawback. Donald Engen's book is perhaps somewhat of an exception to this rule.
"Wings and Warriors" is well worth reading, but it required a bit of grit to make it... more info
Customer Review: This book has a hard time deciding if it is a scholarly work or a popular narrative. The style attempts to mix close analysis and an engaging storyline. These two elements are incompatible paragraph by paragraph, and bog each other down. The author changes references to major figures' titles, given... more info
Customer Review: I really enjoyed reading this book, and the included pictures do a great job of giving the reader an understanding of what a huge effort is was to build this bomber. The book isn't big or thick, which is actually refreshing, as so many aviation books tend to be behemouths that occupy way too much... more info
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