Weapons category: 1025 books
by Joe Kertzman
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Take it from one meticulous knifemaker, the bolsters of an art knife are the centerpieces. John Lewis Jensen takes it easy on novice makers and enthusiasts by concentrating solely on the bolsters of his fancy art knife named “Alchemy.” Jensen talks safety, materials, layering, grinding, sanding, drilling, tapping and attaching of the bolsters to the knife handle.
Gun Digest 2019, 73rd Edition
The World's Greatest Gun Book!
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
For more than 70 years, Gun Digest has been the No. 1 go-to source and research guide for firearms enthusiasts worldwide. Informative and entertaining articles by the top writers in the field cover every aspect of guns and shooting, including hunting, personal defense, target practice, gunmaking and...
by Jerry Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
There's a reason the Standard Catalog of Firearms is known industy-wide as the reference on firearms. This year we bring it to you in a volume dedicated strictly to handguns, our new must-have, the Standard Catalog of Handguns. Year in and year out, we bring you more of what you need in the world...
Fighting Ships of the Far East (1)
China and Southeast Asia 202 BC–AD 1419
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Fighting Ships of the Far East (1) adds enormously to the hitherto small corpus of knowledge about a fascinating and little known subject. Using detailed descriptions, accurate cutaway plates and reliable historical examples, this book covers the history of Chinese ship design and naval warfare from...
Fighting Ships of the Far East (2)
Japan and Korea AD 612–1639
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Over the centuries, naval relations between Japan and Korea appear to have alternated between peaceful trade and outright hostility. However, this impression can be misleading, as much of what passed for mercantile activity was in fact conducted by Japanese pirate fleets, who pillaged the coasts of...
by Major Scott E. Conley
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This paper examines the role of British intelligence operations during the American Revolutionary War as they apply to the British defeat at Yorktown. It begins with a brief history of British intelligence prior to the war, discusses strategic collection against the burgeoning French-American alliance,...
United States Military Helicopters
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The helicopter came on the scene too late to play other than a minor role in the Second World War but by the Korean conflict the Bell H-13 Sioux, OH-23 Raven, and Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw were in service.
It was in Vietnam that the US military helicopters really came into their own and the best...
Panavia Tornado
Strike, Anti-ship, Air Superiority, Air Defence, Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare Fighter-bomber
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The Tornado has been the backbone of the RAF within its many different theaters of operation. The aircraft started as a European venture between Germany, Italy and the UK, based on the original swing-wing technology invented by Barnes-Wallis. It has also been successfully exported to several Middle-Eastern...
by Massimiliano Afiero
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
In this issue: - Attack against the ‘Stalin Line’, - Karl Nicolussi-Leck, Italian Volunteer in the Waffen-SS, - The “MONTEROSA” Alpine Division of the R.S.I., - Spanish in the Waffen SS, - German perception of volunteers of the Muslim division of the SS, - A Swedish Hero: Gösta Hallberg-Cuula
Guns of the New West
A Close Up Look at Modern Replica Firearms
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2005
Revisit the Classics
Choosing the right guns for cowboy competition just got easier. Noted gunsmith and author David Chicoine puts today's most popular replica firearms to the test and shares his findings on the good, the bad and the ugly. Chicoine tests and evaluates handguns, rifles and shotguns...
by James D’Angina
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Unquestionably the most iconic Japanese fighter of World War II, the Mitsubishi A6M Rei-Sen, Type Zero fighter was used from the initial raid on Pearl Harbor up to the Kamikaze attacks at the end of the war. Facing off against the likes of the Wildcat, Corsair and even the Spitfire, the Zero gained...
First World War Uniforms
Lives, Logistics, and Legacy in British Army Uniform Production 1914–1918
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
View any image of a Tommy and his uniform becomes an assumed item, few would consider where and how that uniform was made. Over 5 million men served on the Western Front, they all required clothing. From August 1914 to March 1919, across all theaters of operations, over 28 million pairs of trousers...
General George Washington; Exemplar-in-Chief:
A Historical Analysis Of George Washington’s Influence On The Early Continental Army And Civil Military Relations
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
George Washington was an “Exemplar-in-Chief” who had an indelible influence on the nature and character of the early Continental Army, an influence that set the precedence and affected how the United States military would interact with civil authority under the new institution of a democratic...
by Major Haydn John White
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Leadership is an intensely studied subject, and a considerable number of models exist. By reviewing four leadership theories, two German, one British, and one American, a model developed that contained the enduring interrelated tenets of courage, judgment, determination, integrity, vision, and luck.
George...