Weapons category: 1025 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 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...
Standard Catalog of Military Firearms
The Collector's Price and Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
The trusted guide to collectible military firearms!
Standard Catalog of Military Firearms, 7th edition, contains more than 2,000 models of military firearms manufactured between 1870 and today. With more than 1,600 photos and expanded descriptions--including coverage of bayonets, magazines, clips...
Brotherhood of the Bomb
The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
The fascinating story of the men who founded the nuclear age, fully told for the first time
The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the human conflict between Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence,...
by David Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
ABC’s of Naval Weaponry sets sail with the historical vessels and weapons that made naval power what it is. From ancient war ships, to the age of sail, to iron clads, to the modern age. Done in the style of a children’s ABC book, with a unique vessel or weapon selected for each letter, and its...
by C. J. Chivers
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
At a secret arms-design contest in Stalin’s Soviet Union, army technicians submitted a stubby rifle with a curved magazine. Dubbed the AK-47, it was selected as the Eastern Bloc’s standard arm. Scoffed at in the Pentagon as crude and unimpressive, it was in fact a breakthrough—a compact automatic...
Defending Space
US Anti-Satellite Warfare and Space Weaponry
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
The United States has been developing space for many years, and satellites provide the US Military with an unparaleled advantage over its adversaries. Constellations of both military and civilian satellites provide protection and support for military operations; deliver ballistic missile early warning;...
by Richard Hammerfell
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2014
One of the most complete collections of firearms information ever assembled, the Pistolpedia is a complete encyclopedia of handgun facts. This incredible text covers over 100 years of pistols, starting in the late 1850s up to today’s modern masterpieces. You’ll experience over 1,000 listings...
Knife Throwing
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
"Knife Throwing is the most authoritative guide on every aspect of the sport. From knives and knife throwing techniques to competition and advice, as well as profiles of pioneers and legends in the field, this book covers it all." —Bobby Branton, President of American Knife Thrower's Alliance...
by Herbert W. McBride
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
More than 70 years after it was first published, this book is still one of the all-time clazzics on the art of military marksmanship, and is required reading at the U.S. Marine Corps Sniper School. The author grew up learning to shoot in the backwoods of Indiana, and went on to compete nationally...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
The Sturmgeschütz rumbling forward into action is one of the iconic images of World War II. As mobile assault guns, the StuGs were essentially designed as infantry support weapons, but they also proved themselves as highly effective tank destroyers. Written by Emmy Award winning author Bob Carruthers...
Special Forces
A Guided Tour of U.S. Army Special Forces
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
They are sent to the world's hot spots-on covert missions fraught with danger. They are called on to perform at the peak of their physical and mental capabilities, primed for combat and surveillance, yet ready to pitch in with disaster relief operations. They are the Army's Special Forces Groups....
Drone Warfare
Killing by Remote Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Drone Warfare is the first comprehensive analysis of one of the fastest growing—and most secretive—fronts in global conflict: the rise of robot warfare. In 2000, the Pentagon had fewer than fifty aerial drones; ten years later, it had a fleet of nearly 7,500, and the US Air Force now trains more...
The Cold War
A Military History
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
In The Cold War: A Military History, David Miller, a preeminent Cold War scholar, writes insightfully of the historic effects of the military build-up brought on by the Cold War and its concomitant effect on strategy. Bringing together for the first time newly declassified information, Miller takes...
Firestorm
Allied Airpower and the Destruction of Dresden
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
On February 13 and 14, 1945, three successive waves of British and U.S. aircraft rained down thousands of tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs on the largely undefended German city of Dresden. Night and day, Dresden was engulfed in a vast sea of flame, a firestorm that generated 1,500-degree...