Schiffer Military Books

The Last Mission of Lady Jane II

By Lisa A. Vans

$24.99

On March 18, 1945, the B-17G "Lady Jane II" lifted off from her base at Deenethorpe, England; she never returned. The story is one of deep tragedy and survival, of sacrifice, and of the love...

Boeing 747

By Wolfgang Borgmann

$29.99

A fascinating history of one of Boeing’s most iconic aircraft More than half a century ago, the Boeing 747 took to the air for the first time. It's considered the first large-capacity civilian airliner....

Vickers Wellington

By Ron Mackay

$19.99

The Vickers Armstrong Wellington, affectionately dubbed the “Wimpy” after the hamburger-scoffing cartoon character, lays claim to two distinctions within RAF WWII annals. The first related to its geodetic structure, with a cloth covering that proved...

Abyssinian Conquest

By Philip Jowett

$60.00

In 1935, Fascist Italy invaded Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), one of just two independent states in Africa at the time. Italy first invaded Ethiopia in 1895 and was driven out by the army of Emperor Menelik...

Crazyhorse

By Daniel M. McClinton

$35.00

Experience aerial combat at the controls of the fearsome AH-64 Apache attack helicopter during the Operation Iraqi Freedom “Surge.” Author Dan McClinton was an Apache pilot with the US Army’s 1st Cavalry Division through three...

The US Air Force Air Rescue Service

By Wayne Mutza

$49.99

This definitive work on air rescue operations of the US Army Air Force and US Air Force takes the reader from the birth of the service during World War II, through the Korean and Vietnam...

M50/M50A1 Ontos

By David Doyle

$24.99

Designed to counter the threat of a massed Soviet armored assault, the M50 Ontos showed its merit in the jungles and streets of Vietnam. Ontos grew out of Project Vista, the secret study of possible...

Douglas DC-9

By Wolfgang Borgmann

$29.99

With their unmistakable silhouette, the Douglas DC-9 family of twin-engine passenger jets was a familiar sight on many of the world’s airfields well into the 1990s. Douglas initiated development of the DC-9 at the beginning...

P-61 Black Widow

By David Doyle

$19.99

The complete history of the P-61 "Black Widow," one of the most advanced and most sinister-looking fighter aircraft of the Second World War. The striking P-61 Black Widow was the first purpose-built American night...

USS Saratoga (CV-3)

By David Doyle

$24.99

USS Saratoga and her sister ship USS Lexington were the two largest aircraft carriers in the world until 1944. The keel of the battle cruiser USS Saratoga (CC-3) was laid by New York Shipbuilding in...

USS Lexington (CV-2)

By David Doyle

$24.99

When commissioned on December 14, 1927, USS Lexington and her sister ship, USS Saratoga , were the world’s largest aircraft carriers. The Lexington-class carriers, as the ships were known, were the results of an effort...

M10 Gun Motor Carriage

By David Doyle

$24.99

Based on the M4A2 and M4A3 Sherman tank chassis, and fitted with a 3-inch M7 gun, the M10 was numerically the most important US tank destroyer of WWII. The M10 was built in response to...

Awaiting the Sun

By Bil Paul

$24.99

The Aleutians were the only North American territory to be invaded and occupied during the war. The fighting for these remote islands off the Alaskan mainland lasted for more than a year and claimed more...

US Half-Tracks

By David Doyle

$19.99

Based on an adaptation of the White Scout Car, the US half-track vehicles of WWII combined the cross-country ability of a fully tracked vehicle with the road performance of a medium truck. A myriad of...

USS Kidd (DD-661)

By David Doyle

$19.99

USS Kidd (DD-661) is the only Fletcher-class destroyer preserved in WWII configuration. With 175 total ships launched, the Fletchers were the most numerous and most impactful class of destroyers in the US Navy during the...

Panther Tank

By David Doyle

$19.99

Featuring sloping armor and armed with a powerful 75 mm gun, Germany’s Panther tank was developed as a counter to the Soviet T-34. Entering production in 1943, the Panther was intended to become Germany’s standard...

Vampir

By Rolf Fischer

$24.99

The memoirs of Rolf Fischer, a night-fighting machine gunner in World War II. Rolf Fischer was born near Bremen, Germany in 1927. At age 15, he and his classmates were called up to serve...

Black Lion One

By Donald E. Auten

$29.99

An exciting look at what it takes to command a US Navy Fighter Squadron. This historical biography of John Monroe “Hawk” Smith, Navy fighter pilot, is a gripping account of valor, sacrifice, and adventure...

The Porsche Tiger and Ferdinand Tank Destroyer

By Michael Fröhlich

$79.99

A detailed, technical history of the WWII tank and tank destroyer designs of automotive icon Ferdinand Porsche. Ferdinand Porsche was an Austrian engineer born in 1875. In the interwar period, Ferdinand founded an automotive...

B-25 Mitchell, Vol. 2

By William Wolf

$19.99

A photographic history of the B-25 medium bomber: late-war G through J, F-10, and PBJ models (Volume 2 of 2) This second of two volumes on the North American B-25 Mitchell covers the late-WWII...

Turbulent Journey

By Reiner Decher

$29.99

This untold story of early jet development, surviving the collapse of the Reich, and starting over in America is recounted by Reiner Decher, whose father Siegfried was an engineer on the team that designed...

Trawniki Guards: Foot Soldiers of the Holocaust

By Josh Baldwin

$29.99

WWII ended, legal reckoning began. At least 100 former Trawniki guards were investigated, arrested, and tried in the postwar period, mostly in the Soviet Union. Dozens were sentenced to death and executed. Others received 25...