Schiffer Military Books

$39.99

An illustrated overview of the steam vessels deployed by the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.  This is the first book-length study devoted to the vessels of the Confederate Navy, including all types used during the conflict: ironclads (both...

$29.99

This book is a must for anyone with an interest in missing caches of gold and the financial aspects of military history. In the closing days of World War II, the U.S. Government took into custody 370 tons of gold...

$69.99

This book describes the design, manufacture, covert shipment and use of the many ingenious evasion and escape devices provided to Allied troops during WWII. Following the fall of mainland Europe, hostile Allied actions against land-based Axis forces were generally limited...

$59.99

This two volume series serves as a unique window to view the U.S. Army’s entry onto the world stage. Faced with entry into the “Great War,” the country called upon its military leaders to prepare the Army for combat. What...

$59.99

This two-volume series serves as a unique window to view the U.S. Army’s entry onto the world stage. Faced with entry into the “Great War,” the country called upon its military leaders to prepare the Army for combat. What follows...

$59.99

During the times German soldiers weren’t involved in combat operations, they felt some return to a normal existence and a temporary break from the horrors of war. Relying on wartime British, American, and German references, this book sheds light on...

$69.99

At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union decorated 217 men of the US Navy, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine who had performed “heroic acts” during convoy and anti-submarine duties in the Atlantic. For the last decade,...

$29.99

Nearly 100 years ago, on October 4, 1918, on a muddy, poison gas-soaked hillside in France, the U.S. 26th Infantry Regiment jumped-off amidst a hail of shell fire and machine-gun fire to begin the final push to end World War...

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Historian Michael Enright provides a close-up account of Australian servicemen on the Western Front during WWI. Using many previously unpublished, first-hand materials, the author provides a fresh look at the Great War through the eyes of ordinary servicemen. The scene...

$45.00

This volume examines what the citizen soldiery of the New England states wore when they marched off to save the Union in 1861. An exhaustive search of thousands of newspapers yielded a myriad of reports and personal accounts from soldiers’...

$34.99

A visual celebration of the wide and colorful variety of the world’s light aircraft, old and new, organized from A to Z by manufacturer, this book illustrates more than 800 light aircraft types that are likely to be seen when...

$59.99

Israel acquired sixty-one Dassault Mystere IVA combat aircraft from France that were delivered to the Israeli Air Force from April to September 1956 and were issued to two units: Squadron 101 at Hatzor, in the south, and Squadron 109 at...

$45.00

The illustrated story of the U-boats and their crews in the port of Lorient, the most important U-boat base of World War II, from June 1940 to June 1941. This first volume (of a 4-volume series) on the German U-boats at...

$45.00

Volume two (of a four volume series) reveals the story of the seventy-eight German U-boats that passed through the port of Lorient from July 1941 to July 1942. The book explains the major phases in the Battle of the Atlantic...

$34.99

The untold story of Chinese and Americans standing side-by-side, fighting together and dying together on the highest, most rugged battlegrounds of WWII. In May 1942, the Japanese 15th Army conquered Burma and southwest China. Only a desperate defense by disorganized...

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Since the Titanic disaster of 1912, the horrors of major maritime casualties have prompted international conventions and domestic legislation, but the link between events and outcomes (which are often separated by many years) is rarely understood by those working in...

$50.00

SeaWise for Motor Yachts provides step-by-step, concise, reliable plans for emergencies at sea that require fast and effective action. Designed for functionality, it has two sides: an Emergency Action Guide with instructions for specific problems, from fire and floods to...

$50.00

SeaWise for Sailing Yachts provides step-by-step, concise, reliable plans for emergencies at sea that require fast and effective action. Designed for functionality, it has two sides: an Emergency Action Guide with instructions for specific problems, from fire and floods to...

$45.00

Presented here are the biographies of the 130 men of the Fallschirmjeritler's elite paratroopers, who won the Knight's Cross and its higher grades. These men fought on nearly every front during the Second World War, from their first action in...