Search Results: Authors starting with J from Viceroy Books

Osceola, Wisconsin, U.S.A.: Zenith Press, 2004. New book, 302 pages. In Vietnam, Forward Air Controllers (FAC's) flew low and slow, searching for signs of an illusive enemy. Often they trolled themselves out as bait for the NVA troops to try to shoot down. When a friendly unit made contact, having a FAC overhead made the ground troops day, because the FAC's controlled the bomb, rocket, and napalm laden "fast movers" - fighter jets and attack aircraft whose ordinance made the difference between life and death. In addition to the perils of enemy fire which ranged from AK-47 shots to .51 caliber michineguns and SA-7 shoulder fired missiles, they had to avoid being blown up in B-52 Arc-Light strike or friendly artilley barages. This was Mike Jacksons life for 366 days. In spring 1972 he hugged the DMZ, fighting back against the massive NVA attack that became known as the Easter Offensive. He was also part of the around the clock team of FAC's who managed the rescue of BAT-21,… Read More

United Kingdom: Airlife Pub Ltd, 2003. New book, 96 pages, 86 photos, 14 colour profiles. 'The Wooden Wonder' - the nickname of one of the finest and most elegant aeroplanes to have been developed during WW2. This book is the perfect introductory source book, for the general reader, enthusiast and modeller alike wishing to find a succinct yet detailed introduction to the design and history of the Mosquito. Why was the aircraft conceived? Who were the people who designed it and who became famous for flying it? What were its virtues and vices? There are a host of illustrations that show variations of colour schemes used in different operational theatres of combat and rare photos taken when the heat was on. . Soft Cover. As New. Illus. by Windle, Dave. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

United Kingdom: Airlife Pub Ltd, 2004. New book, 96 pages, 69 photos, 17 colour profiles. In the first three years of Word War Two, the word Stuka became synonymous with terror. Across the face of Europe, troops and civilians alike quailed under the banshee wail of the Junkers 87 dive bomber as it plummeted towards its target. By 1943 the Stuka's day as a dive bomber was virtually over but it came into its own as a tank buster on the Russian front, where it fought to the bitter end. This book tells the story of the Junkers Ju 87 Stuka, the units that operated it in its many campaigns, and the men who flew it into combat.. Soft Cover. As New. Illus. by Windle, Dave. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Schiffer Pub Ltd, 1999. New book, 88 pages. Detailed look at the Convair B-36 Peacemaker intercontinental bomber and covers production, different models and service history. Includes 150 photos, illustrations and scale drawings, plus specifications.. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

United Kingdom: Carlton, 2000. New book, 191 pages. Queen of Geat Britain and of an empire on which the sun never set, Victoria gave her name to an age that came to represent progress, expansion and industrialisation. She ruled for an unprecedented 64 years, coming to the throne in 1837 at the tender age of 19 and dying in 1901. This book looks at every aspect of this remarkable era including politics, art, science and society. Deborah Jaffe has written an illuminating and incisive overview of Victorias life and reign, looking at why, a century after her death, her influence still endures, illustrated with two hundred sumptuous images, this is a fascinating tribute to one of the greatest British monarchs.. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.: Naval Inst Pr, 2004. New book, 408 pages, slight shelf wear to cover. This contraversial book was first published in 1817 in response to the exaggerated and false accounts then circulating in America and Britain regarding the apparent recent successes of the United States Navy over the Royal Navy in supposedly equal combats. William James applied himself to assembling the facts and proved that, despite the 'powder puff' history of American writers - 'no American ship of war has, after all, captured a British ship of war, of the same force; but that the reverse has occured, and might have occured again, and again, had the Americans been willing to fight, as they are still to boast.' The distinguished naval historian Andrew Lambert here presents this key text whole with a new introduction, while the appendices, which contain a wealth of correspondence and eyewitness accounts of the many famous actions of the ware, are reproduced in full. Hard Cover. As… Read More

Novato, California, U.S.A.: Presidio Pr, 1997. New book, some shelf wear to cover, 456 pages. This book gives a day by day account of the political games, power plays, entangling treaties, alliances, ignorance, miscalculation, chauvinism, and pride which led up to the start of WW1. Told from all sides of procedings, it provides an immensely effective audit of how and why the Old Worlds aristocratic leaders failed to keep the peace during the summer of 1914.. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Novato, California, U.S.A.: Presidio Pr, 1997. New book, some shelf wear to cover, 456 pages. This book gives a day by day account of the political games, power plays, entangling treaties, alliances, ignorance, miscalculation, chauvinism, and pride which led up to the start of WW1. Told from all sides of procedings, it provides an immensely effective audit of how and why the Old Worlds aristocratic leaders failed to keep the peace during the summer of 1914.. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Mushroom Model Publications, 2003. New book, 77 pages. The Mitsubishi A5M, the Japanese Imperial Navy's first metal monoplane fighter, was the creation of Jiro Horikoshi, father of the legendary A6M "Zero". Labelled "Claude" in the Allies' code, the A5M was a transitional fighter which marked in significant step in the development of the Japanese Navy's air force during the early 1930s. This book contains a full technical history of the aircraft and all its variants from its prototype development and test flights in 1935 to its production and introduction in the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937 to 1940. It is illustrated with photographs, colour drawings and technical plans. * Rarely documented aspect of World War Two aviation history. * Superb colour illustrations of camouflage and markings, rare b+w archive photographs. * Essential reading for aviation enthusiasts & scale aero-modellers. More than 40 colour profiles. . Soft Cover. As New. Illus. by Szeremeta,… Read More

Mushroom Model Publications, 2003. New book, 77 pages. The Mitsubishi A5M, the Japanese Imperial Navy's first metal monoplane fighter, was the creation of Jiro Horikoshi, father of the legendary A6M "Zero". Labelled "Claude" in the Allies' code, the A5M was a transitional fighter which marked in significant step in the development of the Japanese Navy's air force during the early 1930s. This book contains a full technical history of the aircraft and all its variants from its prototype development and test flights in 1935 to its production and introduction in the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937 to 1940. It is illustrated with photographs, colour drawings and technical plans. * Rarely documented aspect of World War Two aviation history. * Superb colour illustrations of camouflage and markings, rare b+w archive photographs. * Essential reading for aviation enthusiasts & scale aero-modellers. More than 40 colour profiles. . Soft Cover. As New. Illus. by Szeremeta,… Read More

Mushroom Model Publications, 2009. New book, 264 pages, 61 colour profiles, 200+ line drawings, many photos. Japanese Special Attack (Kamikaze) aircraft are well know, but not very well described in the literature. This book is the first in English on this subject. Details are provided of a wide selection of historic machines and fascinating colour schemes, as well as full technical details.. Soft Cover. As New. Illus. by Szeremeta, Zygmunt; Wolowski, Krzysztof. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

North Clarendon, Vermont, U.S.A.: Tuttle Pub, 1998. New book, 367 pages. Since its founding in 1945, the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan has been a haven for working journalists. Club members, who include several Pulitzer Prize winners, have personally witnessed and reported on some of the most momentous events of the last half century; the end of WW2 and the occupation of Japan; the revolution in China; the Korean War; Vietnam and the student riots of the 1960's; the Cold War; Japans economic miracle and the subsequent collapse of the 'bubble' economy; the death of Emperor Hirohito, and much more.. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Harper Collins, 2005. New book, 175 pages. In this book, Lisa Jardine explores the historical ramifications of the first assassinations of a head of state with a hand gun. The shooting of Prince William of Orange in the hallway of his Delft residence in July 1584 by a French Catholic - the second attempt on his life - had immediate political consequences: it was a serious setback for the Protestant cause in the Netherlands, as it forces fought for independence from the Catholic rule of the Habsburg empite. But, as Jardine brilliantly illustrates, its implications for those in positions of power were even more far reaching, as the assassination brutally and irrevocably heralded the arrival of a lethal new threat to the security of nations: a weapon that could be concealed and used to deadly effect at point-blank range.. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Atlantic, 2002. New book, some shelf wear to jacket. This book ranges from Winston Churchill's accession to the premiership in 1940 through to the emergence of New Labour in 1994 - via the Suez fiasco, the Profumo affair, the three-day week, the winter of discontent, the Falkland war and Black Wednesday - to identify precisely how significant these famous episodes really were. It combines vivid portraits of the dramatis personae with sharp, often controversial, analysis of the unfolding crisis.. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Atlantic, 2002. New book, some shelf wear to jacket. This book ranges from Winston Churchill's accession to the premiership in 1940 through to the emergence of New Labour in 1994 - via the Suez fiasco, the Profumo affair, the three-day week, the winter of discontent, the Falkland war and Black Wednesday - to identify precisely how significant these famous episodes really were. It combines vivid portraits of the dramatis personae with sharp, often controversial, analysis of the unfolding crisis.. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Ad Hoc Publications, 2006. New book, 320 pages, numerous photos, slight rubbing wear to cover. This book, originally published in 1919, is a record of the author's period of command of the Royal Navy's largest and most prestigious warships during the first two and a half years of the Great War. The Grand Fleet was created on the day war was declared, and was essentially the Home Fleet by another name, its purpose to establish and maintain a blockade against the German High Seas Fleet - and if the opportunity arose, bring it to battle and annihilate it - at the same time as acting as a deterrent to any notion the enemy might have had to invade the British Isles.. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: MacMillan, 2004. New book, 186 pages. Roosevelts presidency was one of the most eventful in US history. He took office in the midst of economic crisis: the stock market had crashed, the banking system had collapsed and millions of Americans were unemployed. Galvanising the nation with his 1933 inaugural address, Roosevelt demonstrated an optimism and resolve that garnered huge support for the programmes that he called the New Deal. When he died some twelve years later, on the eve of victory in WW2, he had overseen an incomparable mobilisation of American industrial effort, might and will power. Roosevelt was the dominant president of the twentieth century and helped the United States become the most influentual power. This book enables the reader to comprehend how he accomplished this and why he still stands tall in our estimation today.. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

United Kingdom: Phoenix Press, 2002. New book, 384 pages. This is the absorbing and illuminating biography of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.Generally unpopular among his fellow courtiers, detested by the people as a whole, and lampooned by the writers of the day, Dudley's influence on his royal mistress was constant and incalculable from the beginning of her reign until his death in 1588.. Trade Paperback. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: MacMillan, 2004. New book, 186 pages. Roosevelts presidency was one of the most eventful in US history. He took office in the midst of economic crisis: the stock market had crashed, the banking system had collapsed and millions of Americans were unemployed. Galvanising the nation with his 1933 inaugural address, Roosevelt demonstrated an optimism and resolve that garnered huge support for the programmes that he called the New Deal. When he died some twelve years later, on the eve of victory in WW2, he had overseen an incomparable mobilisation of American industrial effort, might and will power. Roosevelt was the dominant president of the twentieth century and helped the United States become the most influentual power. This book enables the reader to comprehend how he accomplished this and why he still stands tall in our estimation today.. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philedition, 2015. New book. 34 pages. After the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbour the Pacific based squadrons of RNZAF began to receive modern US warplanes. Under the command of Squadron Leader T.J. McLean de Lange, No.25 Squadron was created on 31 July 1943, as the RNZAF’s sole SBD Dauntless dive bomber squadron. In March 1944, No.25 began operations on Guadalcanal; objective Rabaul. In eight weeks 530 sorties were flown for the loss of only five aircraft. However, due to the outdated nature of the Dauntless, the Squadron was disbanded at the end of May and surviving pilots transferred to RNZAF Corsair squadrons. Unlike most RNZAF squadrons, each Dauntless was allocated to an individual crew, so most sported large personal markings of which most have been represented in this short book. No.5 in the Allied Wings series is 36 pages long and richly illustrated of 30 photos plus 12 colour profiles.. Soft Cover. As New. Illus. by Laird, Malcolm. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.