Weapons category: 1025 books
by Richard Hammerfell
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
“Gunsmithing for Professionals” takes the art of weapon crafting to a whole new level. Follow this incredible step-by-step guide for smoothing, timing, tuning, tampering with metal, rebarreling, adding sights, making replacement parts, and much much more. Turn your old junk pistol into an incredible...
By the Sword
A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
**“Like swordplay itself, By the Sword is elegant, accurate, romantic, and full of brio—the definitive study, hugely readable, of man’s most deadly art.”—Simon Winchester
With a new Preface by the author**
Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President...
Build Your Own AK (Vol. II)
Building the Parts Kit
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Got an AK Parts Kit? This ebook shows you how to build it right! The AK-47 and its variants are world-renowned for being simple, rugged and nearly indestructible. But if you wanted to build your own Kalashnikov rifle there was no good single source of construction information—until now.
This...
How Carriers Fought
Carrier Operations in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
In November 1921 the first purpose-built aircraft carrier was launched by the Japanese, followed a year later by the launch of the British Hermes. The conversion of battlecruisers into aircraft carriers after World War I required the consideration of issues including handling aircraft on the flight...
Infamous Aircraft
Dangerous designs and their vices
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
Many aircraft, some famous and some rare, gained a reputation for being difficult to fly and sometimes downright dangerous. This book looks at some of the worst culprits over a period spanning World War One to the age of supersonic flight. The following aircraft are included.
BE.2 - The RFC...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
These detailed accounts of Luftwaffe combat operations are taken from the extensive series of interviews conducted with higher echelons of the German Fighter Force by the USAAF very shortly after the end of the Second World War.The new generation of German fighters such as the Me.262 was at the forefront...
Catch That Tiger
Churchill's Secret Order That Launched the Most Astounding and Dangerous Mission of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
With exclusive access to private diaries and dozens of photographs, this is the incredible story of one of the most dangerous and thrilling secret missions of World War II
Unleashed by Hitler in 1942, the German Tiger tank was by far the most powerful tank ever built at the time—the 60-ton...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
The Tiger I is the most famous tank in history. In the right hands it enjoyed spectacular successes, but the Tiger I was also plagued by an array of technical and design flaws which made it a death trap for novice and unwary crews. This unique overview draws on a wide variety of primary accounts of...
The Pentagon's Brain
An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Pulitzer Prize Finalist **and t**he definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51
No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and...
Gun Digest’s Where Can You Carry a Concealed Weapon? eShort
Learn where you can and can’t carry a handgun.
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
In this excerpt from the Gun Digest Book of Concealed Carry, Massad Ayoob teaches the importance of knowing where you can - and can't - carry a concealed handgun.
by John Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Deborah is a British First World War tank that rose from the grave after taking part in one of the most momentous battles in history. In November 1917 she played a leading role in the first successful massed tank attack at Cambrai. Eighty years later, in a remarkable feat of archaeology, the tank’s...
by David J. Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
David Silverman argues against the notion that Indians prized flintlock muskets more for their pyrotechnics than for their efficiency as tools of war. Native peoples fully recognized the potential of firearms to assist them in their struggles against colonial forces, and mostly against one another, as arms races erupted across North America.
by Leroy Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
In 1990 the Beretta M9 replaced the venerable Colt 1911 as the main pistol of choice for the US Army, and it has seen widespread use in Iraq and Afghanistan. Written by a leading pistol expert who currently trains US Special Forces in the use of this weapon, this book is an honest appraisal of the...
The Complete Book of the SR-71 Blackbird
The Illustrated Profile of Every Aircraft, Crew, and Breakthrough of the World's Fastest Stealth Jet
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
The ultimate SR-71 book which profiles the history, development, manufacture, modification, and active service of all 50 models in the SR-71 program. At the height of the Cold War in 1964, President Johnson announced a new aircraft dedicated to strategic reconnaissance. The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird...