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* How Top-Gun-trained pilots helped turn the tide of the Vietnam War * Back in print after six years * Reveals the impact of Top Gun pilots in modern aviation conflicts In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, when the US Navy's kill ratio dropped to a deadly 2:1, battle-hardened fighter pilots formed the Fighter Weapons School known as ...

How Japan's World War II race to build an atomic bomb fathered North Korea's nuclear threat.This revised and greatly updated third edition of Japan's Secret War is a groundbreaking, thoroughly sourced investigation into one of the least-known, yet highly significant episodes of World War II: Japan's frantic race to develop its own atomic bomb. We'll discover how that effort then evolved into North Korea's nuclear program and the looming threat...

The real Top Gun - the dramatic account of the US Navy's fighter pilots and how they took back the skies over Vietnam

The mission: Become the most skilled, highly-trained, and deadliest fighter pilots in the world. The place: TOP GUN In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, the U.S. Navy's kill ratio had fallen to 2:1 -- a deadly decline in pilot combat effectiveness. To improve the odds, a corps of hardened fighter pilots founded the Fighter Weapons School, a.k.a. TOP GUN. Utilizing actual enemy fighter planes in brutally realistic dogfights, the Top Gun inst...

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He was the most controversial American general in World War II—and also one of the most successful, courageous, and audacious. As a postwar administrator of defeated Germany, he sounded alarm bells about the dangers of Soviet encroachment into Europe. Politically, he was a lightning rod—an outspoken conservative who continually embarrassed his superiors with his uncensored, undiplomatic, and unrestrained comments to the press. He was General G...

THE SPY WHO KILLED KENNEDY?For years conspiracy theories have swirled around the Kennedy assassination. While most are easily dismissed, and some have been debunked thanks to diligent research, serious questions have remained.And those serious questions just got a whole lot more serious.In his stunning new book, Target: JFK, acclaimed investigative reporter Robert Wilcox presents shocking new information that casts the Kennedy assassination in...

Is the shroud of Turin—an ancient linen bearing the mysterious image of a man, purported to be Jesus of Nazareth—the ingenious work of an artist, or the true shroud of Christ? For centuries, this question has perplexed and enticed the most brilliant minds. Now, in The Truth about the Shroud of Turin: Solving the Mystery, journalist Robert K. Wilcox investigates every aspect of the shroud’s history, from the ancient Egyptian weave of the cloth ...