Weapons category: 1025 books
Panzerfaust vs Sherman
European Theater 1944–45
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2019
In the summer of 1944, across the battlefields of Normandy, US tanks were confronted with a dangerous challenge: the mobile and deadly Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck anti-tank weapons wielded by the German infantry. Having only occasionally encountered such weaponry before, the US tankers were ill-equipped...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this book provides a history of Marine artillery from early years through the Iraq and Afghanistan War.Marine artillery has forged a 110 year legacy of providing innovative, resilient, versatile, and evolving support...
Operation Barbarossa
the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation, Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
In June 1941 the German Wehrmacht launched Operation Barbarossa: the attack on the USSR and the largest land invasion in recorded history. The titanic battles that followed led to the greatest loss of life ever experienced in a military campaign. Since the end of WWII there has been intense discourse...
by Thomas Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
A thorough history of the weapons and tools our prehistoric ancestors used to survive, this book reveals a world that will fascinate anyone interested in outdoor skills, ancient weapons, or anthropology. Thomas Wilson explains the many types of arrowheads, spears, and knives used by the peoples of...
by John F. Graf
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
Readers will appreciate the value of Standard Catalog of Civil War Firearms because it combines historical, identification, and pricing information in one handy volume.
A great deal of advancement in metallurgy and weapons design occurred during the Civil War as people on both sides of the...
The Illustrated Directory of Knives, Daggers & Bayonets
A Visual Encyclopedia of Edged Weapons from around the world, including knives, daggers, bayonets, machetes and khanjars, with over 500 photographs
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
This comprehensive chronology takes you on a visual tour of sharp weapons throughout history: from the hand-held flints of the Stone Age, through to the civilian knives of modern times. There are intriguing blades from Africa and Asia, including the Japanese tanto and Sudanese throwing knives, the ceremonial...
Last of the Glow Worms
Memoir of a Nuclear Weapons Technician at the End of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
From the early 1950s until 1992, the U.S. Army deployed thousands of nuclear warheads throughout Europe as a deterrent to Soviet ambitions. The end of the Cold War saw the decommissioning of much of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and the phasing out of support personnel. This memoir by one of the Army’s...
Yatagan, Khanda, and Jamdhar: Swords and Sabers of Persia and India
Knives, Swords, and Bayonets: A World History of Edged Weapon Warfare, #6
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
The important role that edged weaponry played in early Persia is evidenced by the region’s long history of metallurgic science, the sword’s mention in poetry, and its use as a sidearm to cavalry employing lance, mace, and bow. Edged weaponry proved no less important to the Ottoman Turks, who depicted...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
This Worldwide Equipment Guide (WEG) describes the spectrum of worldwide systems and system trends in the Contemporary Operational Environment (COE), serving as an authoritative "encyclopedia" of weapons around the world. This is the newest edition revised in 2011. This handbook is one of...
Guns of the Old West
An Illustrated Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Firearms played an important role on the American frontier. Used to hunt animals for food and clothing, they also safeguarded one’s home against outlaws and other hostile elements. This definitive, scrupulously researched work describes and illustrates the many different weapons that opened up and...
by John Norris
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Mortars were used throughout the Second World War by all armies and in all theatres. Although a very simple weapon they could greatly enhance the firepower of infantry formations, giving them their own mobile artillery arm. They repeatedly proved their worth in both offensive and defensive situations,...
Cut And Thrust
European Swords and Swordsmanship
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Of all the weapons ever invented, none has the mystique of the sword. It remains a symbol of authority and strength even today, long after its day on the battlefield has passed. Swords feature in figures of speech, in statues and monuments, and in company logos. They are used in solemn ceremonies...
by Maria Caulfield
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
A book about the bloody Battle of Lewes, fought in 1264 that was a key victory for the rebels under Simon de Montfort who sought to limit the powers of the king.The sweeping victory of the rebels at Lewes had a profound effect on England. A Parliament was summoned that for the first time included...
Distant Thunder
The U.S. Artillery from the Spanish-American War to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2001
The twentieth century was a time of near total transformation of artillery and the U.s. Army has been at the forefront of artillery use and development throughout that century. American troops fighting the Spanish in Cuba during the Spanish-American War were equipped with the 1885-model field gun;...