Weapons category: 1025 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this study examines the shifts in Taiwan's independence policy since 1991 to determine whether Taipei has been more restrained at times of military vulnerability. The objective is to determine whether Taipei's...
Hitler Strikes North
The Nazi Invasion of Norway and Denmark, 9 April 1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A detailed account of Germany’s groundbreaking Operation Weserübung, the first three dimensional—land, sea, air—strategic invasion in history.
The German invasion of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 brought a sudden and shocking end to the “Phoney War” in the West. In a single day, multiple...
by Andrius Genys
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2014
This e-book is a great reference guide on light military vehicles and light trucks. It covers vehicles from all around the world and provides photos and basic information with specifications. It is easy to read and will be useful for people interested in military hardware. It is a great first step...
by Paul Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
The Wehrmacht used reconnaissance and support vehicles widely in the Second World War and this book sets out to show the full range of both categories using over 200 rare images and descriptive text and captions in true Images of War Series fashion.
Both tracked and wheeled vehicles were employed...
Hitler's Tank Destroyers
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Dedicated German antitank vehicles made their first major appearance in the Second World War as combatants developed effective armored vehicles and tactics. Some were little more than stopgap solutions, mounting an antitank gun on a tracked vehicle to give mobility, while others were more sophisticated...
by Daniele Zumbo
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 16, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 16, 2012
Educare alla pace non deve essere una soluzione astratta al problema, ma deve trovare della finalità concrete in ognuno di noi: ogni uomo, donna, bambino deve trovare in sé la convinzione profonda che si può raggiungere l’equilibrio e l’ordine tra i vari Paesi anche senza l’uso della forza o delle armi.
Gun Digest’s Choosing Concealed Carry Revolvers eShort
Revolvers vs. semi-autos & how to choose the best concealed carry revolver.
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
In this excerpt from the Gun Digest Book of the Revolver, Grant Cunningham compares revolvers with semi-autos, details the pros and cons of each and helps you choose the best revolver for CCW.
British Battle Tanks
British-made tanks of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Plagued by unreliable vehicles and poorly thought-out doctrine, the early years of World War II were years of struggle for Britain's tank corps. Relying on tanks built in the late 1930s, and those designed and built with limited resources in the opening years of the war, they battled valiantly against...
British Battle Tanks
World War I to 1939
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
When British soldiers charged across the Somme in September 1916 they were accompanied by a new and astonishing weapon – the tank. After a stuttering start armoured behemoths such as the Mark IV, Mark V and Whippet played a crucial role in bringing World War I to an end.
Marking the centenary...
by David Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2019
The NVG covers all seven Marks of Churchill gun tank with variations and the curious self-propelled gun of 1941/42, but not the so-called 'Funnies' or the armoured recovery vehicle variants.
It will begin with the prototype tank A20, which has not been covered in any detail before, then go...
Armies of the Hellenistic States 323 BC - AD 30
History, Organization and Equipment
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
This book provides a complete and detailed analysis of the organization and equipment employed by the armies of the Hellenistic States. After Alexander the Great’s death in 323 BC, his immense Macedonian empire was divided between his ambitious generals, who in turn formed their own monarchies across...
by Prahlada Ramarao
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
The Indian journey to become a missile power was enabled by a team of dare devils at the Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL). The book traces the origin and development of India's missile related infrastructure and missiles till 1982 until Dr. Abdul Kalam arrived at the scene. The fascinating...
Operation Big
The Race to Stop Hitler's A-Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
‘We ourselves were almost awestruck, not so much at the power of the Bomb, for this we had expected, but because the Americans had used it with so little notice.’ R. V. Jones, head of wartime British Scientific Intelligence Marcial Echenique, a Cambridge professor, recently became curious when...
Trust, but Verify
The Politics of Uncertainty and the Transformation of the Cold War Order, 1969-1991
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Trust, but Verify uses trust—with its emotional and predictive aspects—to explore international relations in the second half of the Cold War, beginning with the late 1960s. The détente of the 1970s led to the development of some limited trust between the United States and the Soviet Union, which...