Weapons category: 1025 books
Axis Armoured Fighting Vehicles of the Second World War
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
During the Second World War the Axis powers, most prolifically the Germans, deployed a vast array of armored fighting vehicles to support their tanks and infantry. These included tank destroyers, reconnaissance vehicles, flame-thrower vehicles, and self-propelled artillery pieces.
Armored tank...
by Andrew Tharp, Anthony DiCristofano, Richard Babin
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
The famed samurai sword (nihonto) represents the pinnacle of bladed weaponry in the Japanese warrior’s arsenal. This book addresses the sword’s intrinsic historic, monetary, military, and artistic values.The seven chapters for this particular anthology were selected from materials published in...
The History of the Panzerwaffe
Volume 1: 1939–42
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
The Germans transformed armoured warfare from a lumbering and ponderous experiment in World War I into something that could decide the outcome of conflicts. This technical and operational history is the definitive guide to the legendary Panzerwaffe, from its very infancy to the days when it made Europe...
by A. Ulanov, D. Shein, Dana Lombardy
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
In 2012, the company that created World of Tanks, the phenomenal worldwide massive, multi-player online game, started publishing a series of books in Russian that utilized Soviet documents and archival materials that had never before been seen by outsiders or published in any language about the design,...
The Role of the Soviet Union in the Second World War
A Re-examination
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
This book investigates several controversial issues regarding the role of the Soviet Union and the performance of the Soviet government and Red Army, to which the author provides some provocative answers. The primary question explored by the author, however, regards the effectiveness of both the Red...
Operate Your Rifle Like a Pro – U.S. Army Official Manual
With Demonstrative Images: Various Types of Trainings Designed for M16A1, M16A2/3, M16A4 & M4 Carbine - Combat Fire Techniques, Night Fire Training, Moving Target Engagement, Short-Range Training…
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
This illustrated e-book is meticulously edited and formatted to the highest digital standard. It provides detailed and clear guidance for the training on the 5.56-mm M16-rifle series (M16A1/A2/A3/A4) and M4 carbine. The edition offers you the core knowledge, all necessary information and shows the...
Redlegs
The U.S. Artillery from the Civil War to the Spanish American War, 1861–1898
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This volume in the popular G.I. series illustrates a much-neglected aspect of American military history – the U.S. Army artillerymen, named redlegs after the red stripes on their trousers. The photographs, most of them rarely seen in other sources, range from the Civil War and the campaigns against...
Drones
Media Discourse and the Public Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Drones: Media Discourse and the Public Imagination starts with a basic premise: technology shapes and is shaped by the stories we tell about it. Stories about drones—at once anxious and hopeful, fearful and awe-inspired—are emblematic of the profound ambivalence that frequently accompanies the...
A Gunner's Great War
An Artilleryman's Experience from the Somme to the Subcontinent
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
“A graphic and moving account of an artilleryman’s experience on the Western Front. An interesting book for those who like artillery and WWI” (English Heritage).
If the First World War had not happened when it did, Channel Islander Clarence Ahier would almost certainly have led a mostly unremarkable...
by Bruno Mugnai
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
In this issue: General History of the Dacians and their wars in the Ancient World (part two). Four Centuries of Italian Armours (12th-15th century)(part one). The Venetian Army and Navy in the Holy League War, 1684-99(part seven). The ‘Italian Vendee’: Anti French Uprisings and Civil War...
by Simon Dunstan
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
The concept of the Main Battle Tank emerged from the Centurion Universal tank that was developed at the end of World War II. Development of its successor began as early as 1951. The Chieftain incorporated significant innovations including a reclining driver position and two-piece ammunition for greater...
British Battle Tanks
Post-war Tanks
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2020
This book, the last in a four-part series on British Battle Tanks covering the whole history of British armoured warfare, concentrates on those vehicles that have served following the end of World War II up to the present day.
Starting with the Centurion, the title explores those types that...
by Ryan K. Noppen
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
This is the story of Germany's commerce raiders of World War I, the surface ships that were supposed to starve the British Isles of the vast cargoes of vital resources being shipped from the furthest reaches of the Empire. To that end pre-war German naval strategists allocated a number of cruisers...
Decorated Roman Armour
From the Age of the Kings to the Death of Justinian the Great
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
From the time of the Bronze Age, the warriors of all tribes and nations sought to emblazon their arms and armour with items and images to impress upon the enemy the wealth and power of the wearer. Magnificently decorated shields were as much a defensive necessity as a symbol of social status. Equally,...