Weapons

One of the most versatile fighting vehicles in the British army and many other forces for a quarter of a century, the Universal Carrier - more popularly known by its original title of Bren Gun Carrier - was developed as a fast and agile infantry-support...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626548619Author R P HunnicuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 580Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982129217Author Nathan GorensteinFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

Having made its debut in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, anti-aircraft artillery was used extensively in the First World War. It was, however, not until the Second World War that anti-aircraft artillery truly came into prominence, shooting down more...

Discover how fifty great firearms influenced and helped shape our world.World history has always been interwoven with developments in firearms technology and so is peppered with legendary guns. Since the invention of gunpowder, nations have raced to...

In its last decades, the apartheid regime was confronted with an existential threat. While internal resistance to the last whites-only government grew, mandatory international sanctions prohibited sales of strategic goods and arms to South Africa. To...

The Soviet T-35A is the only five-turreted tank in history to enter production. With a long and proud service history on Soviet parade grounds, the T-35A was forced to adapt to the modern battlefield when the Second World War broke out. Outclassed and...

The armour clashes in May 1940 were the biggest the world had yet seen, as the sweeping German advances of that period came to epitomize Blitzkrieg. The Wehrmacht's Panzer III was well matched by the French Somua S35 tanks, the two representing very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543316Author Mark WolvertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The world's heavy mobile fighting vehicles are described and illustrated in this volume of the "Vital Guide" series. The book includes specifications of crew, armament, ammunition, dimensions, weight, power-plant and performance.Book InformationISBN...

This spectacular collection of nearly 200 jewelled weapons and priceless accoutrements from the Indian subcontinent was assembled over many decades by Sheikh Nasser and Sheikha Hussah al-Sabah for The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait. Produced for...

For much of the Cold War, the British Armys main battle tanks (MBT) were first the Centurion and then the Chieftain. The question of the latters replacement became urgent when in 1980 MBT80 was cancelled. While the Royal Ordnance Challenger (originally...

Albrecht Durer is probably the most famous German artist of the Renaissance, if not of all time. His works are world-famous and he was a master in numerous artistic disciplines such as woodcut, copperplate engraving, drawing and painting. What is less...

Tanks features 52 of the best armoured fighting vehicles from World War I to the present day. Beginning with the prototype Mark V Male in 1917, the book ranges from World War I, World War II, through the Cold War and up to the highly sophisticated tanks...

Beginning with World War II, missiles transformed the art of war. For the first time, cities of warring nations were vulnerable to sudden, unannounced, long-distance attacks. At the same time, rockets made possible one of the great triumphs of the modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486254340Author Charles Hugh StevensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788496658394Author Gustavo Cano MunozFormat HardbackImprint Andrea PressPublisher Andrea Press

Through historic photos, this volume traces the development, production and deployment of this iconic piece of military equipment from the drawing boards to the Cold War battlefields of Europe.Book InformationISBN 9781526743602Author David DoyleFormat...

Andy Singleton has been modelling and painting most of his life and has been a professional commission figure painter for some years now. Here he shares his experience and tips of the trade with those collecting figures for the North African campaigns in...

This comprehensive, full-color guide features dozens of images of slings from various cultures, both ancient and contemporary. Slings had great significance in many cultures, particularly in the Andes, and were often used as both prehistoric weapons and...

This magnificent book traces the history of firearms and edged weapons in Greece and the Balkans during the Ottoman era. The early developments of firearms in the later Middle Ages coincided with the Ottoman occupation of these regions, and over the...

A comprehensive and up-to-date study of the combat and logistics vehicles which formed part of the German contingent that fought in the Spanish Civil War alongside the rebels. The Panzer I, which so surprised the world in the Polish campaign and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070357Author Rene ChartrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

In 1938 the US Chief of Infantry requested that the Ordnance Department develop a carbine to be used by service and support troops, artillerymen, machine-gun crews, tankers, mortar crews and other troops not needing the power of the M1 Garand rifle. The...

Expert author Michael Green has compiled a full inventory of the tanks developed and deployed by the Allied armies during the six year war against Nazi Germany and her Axis partners. There were four categories of tank: Light, Medium, Heavy and Super...

In December 1994, Ukraine gave up the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world and signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, having received assurances that its sovereignty would be respected and secured by Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom...

The assault guns and tank destroyers deployed by the Wehrmacht during the Second World War are not as famous as tanks like the Tiger and Panther, but they were remarkably successful, and they are the subject of Anthony Tucker-Jones's wide-ranging...

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A wide-ranging study of the significance of swords throughout the whole Anglo-Saxon period, offering valuable insights into the meaning of and attitude towards swords. Swords were special in Anglo-Saxon England. Their names, deeds and pedigrees were...

Appropriate for anyone who wants to take on a leadership role in the military or law enforcement-or even business-based on Paul Howe's unique insight as a Special Operations soldier. Leadership and Training for the Fight is the perfect guide for anyone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501166396Author Jim RasenbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635617467Author R P HunnicuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

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...

This is the first in a planned series of 4-5 photo study volumes documenting the full restoration of a WW2 Panther tank at the Wheatcroft Collection. The Wheatcroft Collection is the second largest private Armour collection in the world. Dedicated to the...

'I hope these new mechanic meteors will prove only playthings ... and not be converted into new engines of destruction to the human race.' - Horace Walpole, 1785Walpole's words were prophetic; within only eleven years the balloon had proved its worth at...

During the Second World War, an American behavioural psychologist working with pigeons discovered that the birds could be trained to recognise an object and to peck at an image of it; when loaded into the nose-cone of a missile, these pecks could be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937684921Author Missile and Munitions Center and SchoolFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Periscope Film, LLCPublisher Periscope Film,...

The ČZ handgun models 50 and 70 are available to Western collectors today but were both developed and produced behind the Iron Curtain. In the years since the release of his Cold War Pistols of Czechoslovakia, author James D. Brown has continued his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911704065Author Peter SamsonovFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media Group

This exceptional book with no equivalence in French shows all the German military decorations instituted in Germany between 1935 and 1945 in the form of precise notes, accompanied by high quality photographs by Joerg-M Hormann, then the civilian...