John Martin: 366 books
Computer Animation Complete
All-in-One: Learn Motion Capture, Characteristic, Point-Based, and Maya Winning Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A compilation of key chapters from the top MK computer animation books available today - in the areas of motion capture, facial features, solid spaces, fluids, gases, biology, point-based graphics, and Maya. The chapters provide CG Animators with an excellent sampling of essential techniques that...
Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1942-1944
El Alamein, Tunisia, Algeria and Operation Torch
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Despatches in this volume include the despatch fo the campaign from Alamein to Tunis, by Field Marshal the Viscount Alexander of Tunis. Deputy Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces North Africa; despatch on operation in the Western Desert December 1940 to February 1941, by General Sir Archibald P. Wavell,...
Western Front 1914-1916
Mons, Le Cataeu, loos, the Battle of the Somme
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914, to the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the fighting on the Western Front in France and Flanders never stopped. There were quiet periods, just as there were the most intense, savage, huge-scale battles.
The war on the...
Bomber Harris
Sir Arthur Harris' Despatches on War Operations 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The bombing campaign conducted against Germany and German-occupied Europe in the Second World War was, and remains, one of the most controversial operations of the entire war. Much of Bomber Command's effort was what was defined as 'area' bombing, in which whole cities or districts were targeted....
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Despatches in this volume include Air Operations in Burma and Bay of Bengal 1 January to 22 May 1942 by General Wavell, the despatch on air operations in South-East Asia November 1943 to May 1944, by Air Chief Marshal Sir R.E.C. Peirse, the despatch on air operations in South-East Asia from June 1944...
The Battle for Burma 1943-1945
From Kohima & Imphal Through to Victory
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Despatches in this volume include that on operations in Burma and North-East India between November 1943 and June 1944, by General Sir George J. Giffard; the despatch on operations in Assam and Burma between June 1944 June and November 1944, by General Sir George J. Giffard, Commander-in-Chief; the...
The BEF in France 1939-1940
Manning the Front Through to the Dunkirk Evacuation
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the British force in Europe from 1939–1940 during the Second World War. Commanded by General Lord Gort, the BEF constituted one-tenth of the defending Allied force.
The British Expeditionary Force was started in 1938 in readiness for a perceived threat...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
At 07.30 hours on 1 July 1916, the devastating cacophony of the Allied artillery fell silent along the front on the Somme. The ear-splitting explosions were replaced by the shrill sound of hundreds of whistles being blown. At that moment, tens of thousands of British soldiers climbed out from the...
The Boer War 1899-1902
Ladysmith, Megersfontein, Spion Kop, Kimberley and Mafeking
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic, the First Boer War (1880–1881) was a rebellion by the Boers (farmers) against British rule in the Transvaal that re-established their independence. The engagements that it...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The fighting in the Gallipoli or Dardanelles campaign began in 1915 as a purely naval affair undertaken partly at the instigation of Winston Churchill, who, as First Lord of the Admiralty, had entertained plans of capturing the Dardanelles as early as September 1914. It was the Royal Navy that bore...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Dispatches in this volume include those relating to the sinking of the German battleship Graf Spee in the Battle of the River Plate in 1939, the loss of the battleships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse in the Far East, the sinking of the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst in 1943, the attack on...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Despatches in this volume include those covering the Battle of Matapan in 1941, Fleet Air Arm operations in 1940, the Battle of Sirte in 1942, the action with the Italian Fleet off Calabria (Central Mediterranean) in 1940, the engagement between British and Italian forces off Cape Spartivento (Central...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Despatches in this volume include that on the Conquest of Sicily from 10 July 1942 to 17 August 1943 by Field-Marshall Viscount Alexander of Tunis; the despatch on the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean; despatch on...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914, to the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the fighting on the Western Front in France and Flanders never stopped. There were quiet periods, just as there were the most intense, savage, huge-scale battles.
The war on the...