Cawthorne, Nigel

Zeroes in on the most lethal special-ops encounters of all time.

Diagrams, illustrations, and text describe the design and construction of a commercial airliner.

Presents career profiles of one hundred military leaders chosen by the author as the greatest in history, arranged chronologically from Leonidas of Sparta to Colin Powell, and includes quotations, anecdotes, fact boxes, and illustrations.

Find despots and dictators throughout the ages from ancient through modern times including Henry VIII, Alexander the Great, Napoleon and Hitler.