Amber: 786 books
by Lake, Jon
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
In the summer of 1940, the most important battle in the history of air warfare was fought between the British Royal Air Force and the German Luftwaffe in the skies over southern Britain. Only after a tightly-fought series of aerial battles did the RAF secure a narrow victory or did it? Although glamourised...
Armed Combat
Defending yourself against hand-held weapons
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Overhead block, upward stab, step-through lunge, bayonet slash; knife fighting, handgun shooting, sword play. If your enemy is armed, you need to know how to deal with him. SAS and Elite Forces Guide Armed Combat teaches a huge range of armed close combat techniques, including tips on fighting stances...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Although the Napoleonic Wars ended in 1815, the world entered a new era of conflict as the newly-industrialised European powers sought to contain the expansion of their neighbours on battlefields that spanned the globe, while the United States laid the groundwork for its future superpower status. The...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Early Modern era was a transformative period in the history of warfare. Armies became larger and increasingly professionalized, while gunpowder weaponry changed warfare forever with new firearms and artillery. The Early Modern Wars 15001775 the third volume in the Encyclopedia of Warfare Series...
Campaigns of WWII: Fall of the Reich
D-Day, Arnhem, Bulge and Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Combat Techniques is a comprehensive reference work on tactical procedures for infantry today. Illustrated with action photographs and detailed artworks, it provides a thorough insight into how the soldiers of today’s armies would fight in any combat scenario they encountered. The book covers all aspects...
Combat Techniques
The Complete Guide to How Soldiers Fight Wars Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Combat Techniques is a comprehensive reference work on tactical procedures for infantry today. Illustrated with action photographs and detailed artworks, it provides a thorough insight into how the soldiers of todays armies would fight in any combat scenario they encountered. The book covers all aspects...
Extreme Fitness: SAS & Elite Forces Guide
Military Workouts and Fitness Challenges for Maximising Performance
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Who’s going to guide you when your military boot camp class is over? What’s going to help you prepare for the next boot camp challenge? With the aid of superb line artworks, SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Extreme Fitness demonstrates to the reader how special forces soldiers are trained to reach and...
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...