Amber Books imprint: 107 books
by Darman, Peter
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
The Survival Handbook takes you through all the things you need to know about surviving disasters and staying alive in the wild, such as where to find water in the desert; how to build shelters from locally-available materials that will keep out the wind and rain but will also be ventilated; what plants...
SAS Training Manual
How to Get Fit Enough to Pass a Special Forces Selection Course
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Twice a year, 150 anxious recruits gather at SAS headquarters in the UK, their minds focused on one objective: to become SAS soldiers in one of the world’s most elite regiments. Yet between arriving and receiving the famous winged dagger badge, stands nearly four months of the toughest military selection...
Survival First Aid
How to treat injuries and save lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Survival First Aid covers everything you ned to know about administering urgent medical attention in situations where there is no prospect of immediate professional medical help. To show you how to deal with such emergencies and potentially save someone's life, this comprehensive and indispensible guide...
The World's Greatest Small Arms
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Small arms have developed hugely since the introduction of the machine gun in the 1870s. Magazine-fed rifles, submachine guns, automatic pistols and, later, assault rifles and personal defence weapons have changed the face of infantry warfare, offering a range of weaponry designed for both the specialist...
by Craig Cheetham
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
Fast, powerful cars with aggressive styling, head-turning looks and rumbling exhaust notes are the ultimate street performers. This book celebrates the best of these strutting machines, providing a detailed look at over 60 classic American muscle machines from Ford, Dodge, Chevrolet, Buick and Chrysler....
The World's Greatest Military Aircraft
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Ever since man first took to the air, combat aircraft have been at the cutting edge of aviation technology, resulting in some of the greatest and most complex designs ever built. The World’s Greatest Military Aircraft features 52 of the most important military aircraft of the last hundred years.The...
Extreme Unarmed Combat
Hand-to-Hand Fighting Skills From The World's Elite Military Units
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Duck punch, cover block and knee strike. Boxing, wrestling and Ju-Jitsu. Gameplan, lines of attack and final disengagement. If you can’t take flight, you’re going to have to fight. Extreme Unarmed Combat is an authoritative handbook on an immense array of close combat defence techniques, from fistfights...
Pistols and Revolvers
From 1400 to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Matchlock, wheel lock, flintlock and caplock; .44 or 9mm; revolver and automatic the history of pistols and revolvers is a fascinating journey through the development of hand-held firearms technology.From early hand cannon of the late 14th century to the latest automatics and machine pistols, Collector’s...
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Discover the Stories behind Camelot, Excalibur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Quest for the Holy Grail
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Here lies entombed the renowned King Arthur in the island of Avalon. Inscription found at Glastonbury in the late 12th century King Arthur most probably never existed and if he did we know precious little about him, and yet he is one of the most famous Britons, while Excalibur and Camelot are perhaps...
Sporting Guns
Weapons, Skills and Techniques for Competitive Shooting Sports
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Whether you are hunting small game or caribou, clay pigeon shooting or target pistol shooting, SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Sporting Guns is a comprehensive introduction to the major gun types used for sport. Wildfowling, clay pigeon shooting, Cowboy Action Shooting, hunting game, target shooting, tracking...
Drones
An Illustrated Guide to the Unmanned Aircraft that are Filling our Skies
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Little more than ten years ago drones were barely used, but now more than 50 countries have them in service and they are not only changing how wars are fought but how crops are sprayed, how underwater pipelines are monitored and even how sports events are filmed. If it’s too risky to send a manned...
by Parkyn, Jonathan
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2012
"Whoever said that the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered a kitten with an automatic weapon." General Douglas "Furball" MacArthur From Norwegian forest cats sporting Uzis on shoulder straps to a Japanese Bobtail taking aim with a Martini-Henry rifle and Bengal cats with their...
by Owen Booth, John Walton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The military engagements and campaigns of World War II are emblazoned on mankind’s memory: from the Blitzkrieg attacks that smashed the Polish army in 27 days, and conquered Norway in a day, through the savage and sustained fighting of Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern Front, to the dropping of the...
by Innes, Brian
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Bodies of Evidence is an informative examination of the science of criminal investigation. It is packed with intriguing case histories involving a variety of forensic evidence and chronicles the role of those who have made the most significant contributions to the fields of toxicology, serology, fingerprinting, forensic ballistics and psychological profiling.This is a text-only ebook edition.