The Crimson Empire's new sky dreadnoughts cannot be stopped by the arsenal of the Free Realms. A new, untested strike fighter has been rushed to the front lines, and a young band of pilots must quickly train for a one-way mission to bring down the steel in the sky. The fate of the world rests in the hands of the STRIKE LEADER.

Across the vast desert of Gronn, the Lost Knight is hunted by a huge, unstoppable engine of death. LandMasters of the Kotaran Tribes rule the wastelands. Sir Jarrett thought himself beyond the war, but he has made far too many enemies. He cannot hide, he cannot win, but now the Lost Knight must turn and face an iron assassin, though he may die.

There is blood in the sky. Blood and fire. Nothing can stand against the ironclad airships of the Crimson Empire. They are the mightiest sky dreadnoughts ever devised, and the Free Realms crumble before them. A brave young band of pilots must rise to meet a storm of steel, but courage is not enough. The fate of the world rests in the hands of the STRIKE LEADER.

The Free Realms are crumbling under the Crimson Empire's mighty sky dreadnoughts. A small band of Free pilots have gathered for a desperate mission, but their bravery and skill is not enough. They must use an untested, secretly developed fighter to strike back against these terrifying ironclads, or be crushed forever by tyranny.

Blasting off the pages of Steam Wars: First Empire comes the pulse-pounding adventures of top pilot Zora Gearjammer! Downed by an enemy ace, Zora survives to find the legendary Star Ember, which can power any known device. Now she must race against time with it to prevent her emperor's execution and unite an Empire on the verge of civil war. The enemy has a plan -- and she's the kink.

Long ago in ANOTHER galaxy farther away... Rod Espinosa, the creator of Courageous Princess, strikes back, bringing a new hope with a tale of stalwart steampunk sovereign! The empire has sent its best assassins to kill the last of the warriors of light. But they are in for a rude surprise when they take on one light warrior too many!

Collects material from Steam Wars: Strike Leader #2 and 3, and Steam Wars: First Empire #3. Continuing the story of the rise of the First Empire! The Red Princess Trian's new war machines threaten to crush the Old Kingdoms forever. Young Princess Hana answers an ancient calling that will reveal her destiny and her fate. The Free Realms gather a band of young pilots for a mission against the mighty Crimson Sky Dreadnoughts with a new strike fighter that has never seen combat! A full-color, 72-page collection of an epic story brilliantly gold with absolutely stunning visuals!

The new Sci-Fi Cosplay Credit Union is throwing a block party, with debt-reduction incentives to those who bring family members to join. Britanny therefore reluctantly invites Gina, despite knowing she'll never hear the end of it. But behind the scenes, someone is paying a visit to the SFCCU chief Ben Palpatine, and he's altering the deal for the sisters. For their sake, they should pray he doesn't alter it any further!

Some sixty years after the Far Eastern War ended, this innovative new collection brings together five distinguished UK-based scholars and five from Japan to reappraise their respective country's leadership in the Malaya and Burma campaigns. This leadership is analyzed on various levels, ranging from the grand strategic to operational. The Japanese contributors examine the reasons for their forces, brilliant advances in 1941-42, whereas the British writers have to account for the disastrous defeat, characterized by the poor leadership of senior commanders such as Bennett and Percival. Between 1943 and 1945, the tables were turned dramatically, so the failure of Japanese command decisions then comes under critical scrutiny and the British have to explain how defeat was transformed into victory. Above all, this volume should stimulate interest in different methods and styles of military leadership in view of the contrasting approaches of the British and Japanese in the Second World War.

This book approaches the World Wars and the decades between them as a single unit in modern history. It is impossible to understand either the cause or conduct of the 1939–45 war without an appreciation of the issues not wholly answered in the conflict of 1914–18. Bridging the World Wars was the establishment, revision, and ultimate collapse of the Versailles settlement and the League of Nations system between 1919 and 1939. The 1919 settlement was contested in the 1920s by Fascist Italy and began to unravel irreparably in 1931 with Japan’s incursion into Manchuria. The strategic thought of the interwar years is therefore especially instructive in assessing the prosecution of WWII, as the military ventures of these two revisionist powers pointed toward future developments even before Germany thrust a new way of war upon Eastern and Western Europe. Meanwhile, Britain, France, and the United States began an incremental conversion to new approaches to war in the air and on the sea in particular. The interwar decades are best understood as a period of calibrated rearmament by all the powers based on assumptions about the probability of a future war and the nature of its prosecution.