Military Science

At the end of the 1870-1 Franco-Prussian war, the French Navy began to reconstruct its fleet, replacing old generation warships with steam-powered and iron-hulled men-of-war. However, the process was slow and erratic since priority was initially given to...

The name Kummersdorf is inextricably linked with a wide variety of German weapons, vehicles and equipment. Kummersdorf was involved in every stage of military technical development: research, development, testing and the mass employment of military...

Warships named HMS London have been associated with some of the most controversial episodes in British naval history, from the bungled sea battle that lost King George III his American colonies, to the shambles of Gallipoli in WW1 and the notorious...

Many books have been written about the Hawker Hunter, one of the world's great jet fighters. The majority, however, have tended to concentrate on the aircraft's extensive service career. Superbly illustrated with both colour and black-and-white...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873203989Author Roy TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 156mm...

In Bullets Not Ballots, Jacqueline L. Hazelton challenges the claim that winning "hearts and minds" is critical to successful counterinsurgency campaigns. Good governance, this conventional wisdom holds, gains the besieged government popular support,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783981690828Author Volker RuffFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Volker RuffPublisher Volker Ruff

"Tomcat Alley" contains over seven-hundred images depicting the venerable F-14 Tomcat, bureau number by bureau number. Each U.S. Navy Tomcat is traced from date of delivery through February 1998. After a brief introduction, informative captions provide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905414116Author Tony ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dalrymple and Verdun PublishingPublisher Dalrymple and Verdun PublishingWeight(grams)...

The RAF and Commonwealth air crews were bound by regulations and discipline during WWII. Survival was by no means a certainty, with casualties becoming a part of everyday life. The evolution of non-established clubs was recognised and regarded as an...

**Endorsements: ** 'Fascinating and meticulously researched.' The Spectator 'The connection between weapons and industrial design is strong at Porsche. This is the subject of an engrossing new book, Professor Porsche's Wars.' Stephen Bayley, Octane ...

This autobiography was originally written in 1946 by eight-victory WWII Fighter Ace, Jack Ilfrey. This new edition has been expanded with many new photographs (many never before published), a special color photo section, and three detailed aircraft...

A detailed account, based on fieldwork and interviews, of how Women, Peace and Security norms are militarized and put at the service of operational effectiveness. International organizations and governments want to increase women's participation in...

The first official German stormtroop unit was authorized on 2 March 1915 when the Supreme Command of the field army ordered the VIII Corps to form a detachment for the testing of experimental weapons and the development of approximate tactics that could...

This is the story of Kent's Garden Airfield, so called because of its location on an escarpment, overlooking Hythe and Romney Marsh. An airfield born out of necessity during the First World War. Following 1918 many record breaking flights began at...

In war, do mass and materiel matter most? Will states with the largest, best equipped, information-technology-rich militaries invariably win? The prevailing answer today among both scholars and policymakers is yes. But this is to overlook force...

Long-ranged maritime reconnaissance aircraft were a part of British wartime strategy since the First World War, in the form of flying boats. During the Second World War, the flying boats were increasingly replaced by land-based aircraft, such as the...

An historic and nostalgic look at the role of the Land Rover in the emergency services over the last 70 years. Land Rover products have been used by the emergency services almost from the moment the first model left the factory in 1948. The agility and...

A Vertical Empire provides a description of the British rocketry and space programme from the 1950s to 1970s, detailing the Medium Range Ballistic Missile Blue Streak and its conversion to a satellite launcher as part of the European Launcher Development...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783981690811Author Volker RuffFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Volker RuffPublisher Volker RuffWeight(grams) 920gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 303mm * 15mm

This four volume set by Thomas M. Johnson, a leading collector and authoritative researcher, has been compiled to serve as a useful and authoritative reference on the daggers of Nazi Germany, and have been designed to aid not only the beginning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635615036Author R P HunnicuttFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Originally setting out to write the very book that he would have wanted to own as a young infantryman, the author penned On Tactics as a remedy for navigating the chaotic and inchoate realm of tactical theory. Challenging centuries-old conventional...

From when the Empress Jingo-kogo led an invasion of Korea while pregnant with the future Emperor Ojin, tales of female Japanese warriors have emerged from Japan's rich history. Using material that has never been translated into English before, this book...

The Panavia Tornado was designed as a multi-role combat aircraft to meet the needs of Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. Since the prototype flew in 1974, nearly 1000 Tornados have been produced in a number of variants serving as a fighter-bomber, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547369Author Aaron BatemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

In 1805, Bavaria allied itself with France and Bavarian troops served with Napoleon during the 1809 campaign against Austria, and participated in the Russian campaign of 1812, before eventually abandoning the Emperor's cause in 1813 prior to the battle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955594052Format PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Lee ArcherPublisher Panzerwrecks LimitedDimensions(mm) 210mm * 280mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9785401352538Author U S GovernmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Stanford Inversiones SpaPublisher Stanford Inversiones SpaWeight(grams)...

A History of Artillery traces the development of artillery through the ages, providing a thorough study of these weapons. From its earliest recorded use in battle over a millennium ago, up to the recent Gulf War, Balkan, and Afghanistan conflicts,...

In the mid-1950s faced with worrying advances in Soviet missile technology, the United States sought to develop an IRBM to act as a stop-gap until the Atlas ICBM became operational. Intense inter-service rivalry followed before the US Air Force gained...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048736Author Jens BjeringFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903953181Author Alan CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Woodfield Publishing LtdPublisher Woodfield Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

Wolfgang Luth was one of only seven men to win Germany s highest combat decoration. He operated in almost every theatre of the undersea war from Norway to the Indian Ocean and he was the second most successful German U-boat ace in World War II. Luth is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833033017Author Jacqueline MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 780gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 156mm * 19mm

Over the last 20 years, the role of unmanned aircraft systems in modern warfare has grown at an unprecedented rate. No longer simply used for intelligence, data collection or reconnaissance, drones are routinely used for target acquisition and to strike...

While World War II raged, pioneering aircraft and engine designers were busy developing the world's first practical jet-powered research aircraft to test and prove the new technology. This book examines the aircraft that paved the way for Germany's Me...

The P-8A Poseidon, a variant of the Boeing 737 series of airliner, takes over the role of antisubmarine warfare from the P-3 Orion, itself a derivative of an airliner, the Lockheed Electra. The P-8A brings new capabilities, endurance, and crew...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809815Author Robert ForsythFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

The Republic Aviation Corporation F-84 series, the Thunderjet, Thunderstreak, and Thunderflash was the United States Air Forces' first Post World War II jet fighter. As a somewhat sad result of this, it has been ignored by most aviation historians and...