The cover
The Unseen Arsenal Files
Volume One
Four True Stories of American Military Power
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| Pages | 230, illustrated throughout |
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| Page size | 7 by 10 inches |
| Format | Illustrated PDF with clickable contents, and an EPUB e-reader edition |
| Download | Two files: the PDF, about 63 MB, and the EPUB, about 33 MB |
| Inside | 56 full-page maps, diagrams and fact sheets, and more than 150 photographs from the archives |
| Printing | Allowed for your own use |
From the first page
A film has forty minutes and a narrator who cannot stop. A book can take its time. Here you will find each story told in full, with the names, ranks, ages and hometowns of the people in it, the dates and the numbers set out where you can find them again.
What is inside
Four files, forty-two chapters
Each file is a complete story in short chapters, with full-page features between them. Here is everything in Volume One.
File 01
Plant 42
The factory America won't let you photograph. Palmdale, California, 1935 to today.
- An Emergency Strip in the Sand
- Why the Desert
- Faster Than Anything
- The Bomber That Was Cancelled
- Enterprise
- The Two That Didn't Come Home
- The Airplane You Weren't Allowed to See
- Skunk Works Comes to the Desert
- Thirty-Seven Hours
- Raider
- The Next Secret
Full-page features
- Where this file takes you: the map
- Born in Palmdale: the family album
- SR-71 Blackbird fact sheet
- Six orbiters, one desert
- B-2 Spirit fact sheet
- Where the B-2 has gone
- Inside the fence: how it works
- The fleet: 132 planned, 21 built, 19 left
- The raid of April 18, 1942
- Ninety years in the desert: timeline
File 02
Prime Chance
How Iran's secret minelayer was caught. The Persian Gulf, 1987 to 1988.
- The Tanker War
- The First Convoy
- The Night Stalkers
- The Barges
- Lights Out
- Middle Shoals
- A Mine From 1908
- No Higher Honor
- One Day in April
- The Cost
- Remember the Fire
Full-page features
- Where this file takes you: the map
- The Little Bird fact sheet
- The mobile sea base
- How the M-08 mine works
- USS Samuel B. Roberts fact sheet
- 1944 and 1988: two ships, one name
- One day in April: the battle map
- By the numbers
- The night war, day by day: timeline
- Where they are now
File 03
Greenland
America's 85-year secret at the top of the world. Thule and Camp Century, 1941 to today.
- Before Pearl Harbor
- The Stepping Stone
- The Convoy to Greenland
- The Weather War
- The Ice Cutters
- A Hundred Million in Gold
- The Eye at the Top of the World
- The City Under the Ice
- HOBO 28
- What the Ice Gave Back
- The Return to Narsarsuaq
Full-page features
- Where this file takes you: the map
- Glacier Girl fact sheet
- 904 people aboard the Dorchester
- The Four Chaplains
- The Eastwind fact sheet
- Look at a globe: the polar map
- How Camp Century was built
- Project Iceworm
- HOBO 28, January 21, 1968
- A mile of ice: what the drill found
File 04
The Missing
The hunt for America's 80,000 missing men. Pearl Harbor to Arlington, 1941 to 2026.
- You Are Not Forgotten
- Eight Torpedoes
- The Sailor Who Would Not Let Go
- Heaven Can Wait
- Two Hundred Feet Down
- The Only Name in 55 Boxes
- The Unknown Who Had a Name
- 643 Families
- Keeping Faith
Full-page features
- Where this file takes you: the map
- How a missing man comes home
- Battleship Row, 7:55 a.m.
- USS Oklahoma (BB-37) fact sheet
- B-24 Liberator fact sheet
- Eleven men aboard
- Two hundred feet down
- One name in 55 boxes
- A promise, year by year: timeline
- How you can help bring a man home
Look inside
Twelve pages from the book
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