Aircraft (20th century Inventions)
Pilot's Handbook for Navy Models F8F-1,1B,1N F8F-2,2N,2P Aircraft
The Grumman F8F Bearcat (affectionately called "Bear") was an American single-engine naval fighter aircraft of the 1940s. It went on to serve into the...
Combat Aircraft (20th Century Weapons)
It was a little over eighty years ago that the first "heavier than air" flying machine actually to take off from the ground was built. A few years lat...
Browning Machine Gun. Model 1918 and Model 1919
The Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) was a family of United States automatic rifles (or machine rifles) and light machine guns used by the United States...
Science in the 20th century
The 20th century began slowly, to the ticking of grandfather clocks and the stately rhythms of progress. Thanks to science, industry and moral philoso...
The Rise of Modern China (20th Century Perspectives)
This book examines one of the most significant periods of political development in the 20th Century. Readers will learn: who Mao Zedong was; what the...