Автор: Polmar Norman Polmar

The world entered the atomic age in August 1945, when the B-29 Superfortress nicknamed Enola Gay flew some 1, 500 miles from the island of Tinian and dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The & …

Submarines had a vital, if often unheralded, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War. Their crews carried out intelligence-collection operations, sought out and stood ready to destroy oppos …

In the post-1945 era, the aircraft carrier has remained a valued weapon despite the development of nuclear weapons, cruise and ballistic missiles, and highly capable submarines. At times, as in the e …

Aircraft Carriers is the definitive history of world aircraft carrier development and operations. Norman Polmar’s revised and updated, two-volume classic describes the political and technological fac …