The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to discover that what appeared to be a falling star was, in fact, a metallic cylinder landing from Mars. In The W

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's

An important new history of air and sea power in World War II and its decisive role in Allied victory.

Presents twenty-six real-life accounts of aerial warfare, including "The Hero's Life" by Captain Eddie V. Rickenbacker and "The Flight of Enola Gay" by Gordon T