Stephen Budiansky

Perilous Fight

by Stephen Budiansky

In Perilous Fight, Stephen Budiansky tells the rousing story of the underdog coterie of American seamen and their visionary secretary of the navy, who combined bravery and strategic innovation to hold off the...

Her Majesty's Spymaster

by Stephen Budiansky

Queen Elizabeth I and England's First Spymaster

Sir Francis Walsingham's official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was England's first spymaster....

The Bloody Shirt: Terror After the Civil War

by Stephen Budiansky

A gripping look at terrorist violence during the Reconstruction era

Between 1867, when the defeated South was forced to establish new state governments that fully represented both black and white citizens, and...

Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq

by Stephen Budiansky

No single human invention has transformed war more than the airplane—not even the atomic bomb. Even before the Wright Brothers’ first flight, predictions abounded of the devastating and terrible consequences...

Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare

by Stephen Budiansky

The exciting history of a small group of British and American scientists who, during World War II, developed the new field of operational research to turn back the tide of German submarines—revolutionizing...