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Since the end of World War Two and the increasing threat of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical [NBC] warfare during the Cold War, equipment designers have focused on building NBC protection and decontamination into the British soldier's webbing equipment. ...

For over a century and a half, since the Uniform Regulations of 1856 were introduced, identification of rank amongst officers in the Royal Navy, its branches and its reserves has not been restricted to a single, or even small number, of insignia. Rank...

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British Ordnance Muskets identifies and analyses in detail 18 ordnance muskets from the 1830s and 1840s. As well as providing the history and details of the muskets of this important period when the Ordnance transitioned from flintlock to percussion...

By the first weeks of 1945 the Eastern Front had been pushed back to the Carpathian mountain passes in the south and Warsaw on the Vistula River in the centre while in the north the German army was fighting in East Prussia. The Wehrmacht's armoured and...

For many of us, the very expression Concentration Camp is inextricably linked to Nazi Germany and the horrors of the Holocaust. The idea of British concentration camps is a strange and unsettling one. It was however the British, rather than the Germans,...

The period covered in this book is one of the most famed and glorious for the British Army and the infantry were its backbone. Gabriele Esposito examines how the foot regiments were reformed and evolved to absorb the lessons of defeat in America and...

Early in the Second World War in Western Europe the German victors regularly photographed and posed with destroyed or abandoned Allied armour. During their invasion of France the Germans left 4,500 smashed French tanks in their wake, and these were a...

For a Finn, the puukko is the most important tool and at the same time the most feared weapon. You could almost say the puukko has the same importance for a Finn as the samurai sword has for the Japanese. It is a 2,000-year-old mystical weapon that has...

In this companion volume to his photographic history of Soviet tanks and armoured vehicles, Anthony Tucker-Jones provides a visual guide to the vast array of aircraft, warships and missiles the Soviet armed forces deployed at the height of the Cold War...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493078646Author Dean BoormanFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Globe Pequot PressPublisher Globe Pequot Press

A gloriously illustrated volume that looks at the remarkable armor of a key Habsburg commander and its relationship to contemporary Renaissance fashion This sumptuously illustrated book celebrates a curious masterpiece of German Renaissance art--the...

Modern Body Armour traces the development of individual ballistic protection from the multi-layer silk garments and metal plates used during World War One and through to the Korean War and Vietnam, to the state-of-the-art armour currently used in Iraq...

This book starts the reader on a journey through time, with a short history of folding knives, leading to the evolution of the first switchblade. Progressing through time, wonderful photos illustrate the descriptions of switchblades. Throughout the book,...

This book is a color celebration of the pocket knives of the United States military, and features both U.S. and foreign-made models. It is a historical chronology beginning with the first folders of the early 1800s and ending with the high-tech knives of...

The fourteenth century witnessed a late medieval arms race; an era that began with knightly combatants armed in mail-and ended with them dressed head-to-toe in the complete plate armour that is commonly associated with knights. Although well documented...

To understand Japanese sword polishing is to understand the Japanese sword. Down through the years, the great sword connoisseurs in Japan have been sword polishers. A swordsmith can spend a large amount of time forging a classic sword, but refining and...

Humans have made and collected toy soldiers from time immemorial. They amuse and comfort us, awaken our curiosity, turn aggressiveness into creativity. In _The History of Toy Soldiers_,Luigi Toiati, himself an avid collector and manufacturer of toy...

Sturmpanzer IV Brummbar (SdKfz 166, Sturmgeschutz IV fur 15cm StuH 43) was a German self-propelled assault gun. Work on the design began in 1942 with a goal of creating a vehicle well suited for the demands of urban warfare. The gun was based on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884452550Author Col Frank FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Medals of Ameica PressPublisher Medals of Ameica PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780091850579Author John C. HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Senate BooksPublisher Tiger Books InternationalWeight(grams) 336g

This comprehensive guide to the appreciation and appraisal of the blades of Japanese swords still offers an English translation of a definitive Japanese text on the subject. Taking the practical historical approach, it discusses each tradition, examining...

The world's first operational jet fighter in its variety of types.About the AuthorHeinrich Hecht (www.heinrichhecht.de) has ranked among the world's most renowned sailing photographers for more than twenty years. He uses a 17 x 6 panoramic camera with a...

This book is a comprehensive collector's guide to Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) civilian contractors' private-purchase and service-issue clothing, equipment, and weapons as they were worn and used in the field...

This guide showcases knives used by America's clandestine military in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. It provides the collector and others interested in the period a way of identifying honest SOG (Studies and Observations Group) specimens and...

Cobra! is a comprehensive, meticulously researched and fully documented history of Bell Aircraft Corporation and their piston engine fighters built during the Great Depression and through World War II. While the story centers on techincal aspects of the...

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon's army retreated from Moscow under appalling conditions, hunted by three separate Russian armies, its chances of survival apparently nil. By late November Napoleon had reached the banks of the River Berezina - the last...

This book examines the development of the various styles of military head-dress badge from 1751, when the use of private crests and badges was forbidden, to the introduction of 'cap badges' in 1894. From that date, every style of badge for each regiment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948724739Author Don SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948724753Author Don SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948724746Author Don SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578282985Author Daniel M McClintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Dangerpig LLCPublisher Dangerpig LLCWeight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801142625Author Donna PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Amplitudo LtdPublisher Amplitudo LtdWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783755100348Author United States OssFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint GoPublishPublisher GoPublishWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948724760Author Don SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 244mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941324042Author Carroll C HollowayFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Copano Bay PressPublisher Copano Bay PressWeight(grams) 526g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998508672Author Matthew H GoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Boardman BooksPublisher Boardman BooksWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990915393Author Norman OlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Phoca Press, LLCPublisher Phoca Press, LLCWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 273mm * 210mm...

The patch is a customized emblem designed specifically for a particular organization. An emblem is often displayed on patches, decals, plaques, and other memorabilia. Pride and comraderie in the crew is a direct result of the patch as a daily reminder...

This book is a grand, full-color celebration of the great North American air shows. Philip Handlemans camera captures the great variety of civilian and military aircraft from around the world, as well as the many personalities and participants at Tico,...