Weapons

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802825961Author Craig AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Key Publishing LtdPublisher Key Publishing Ltd

Developed to replace the Model 1892 Krag-Jorgensen rifle, the Model 1903 Springfield was a five-shot bolt-action rifle that introduced the .30-06 cartridge - the standard US round until the introduction of the 7.62mm NATO cartridge - and gave the US...

Pre-cursor to modern Stealth technology, a jet powered version flew in February 1945.Book InformationISBN 9780887403576Author H.P. DabrowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 408g

This definitive overview of the development and use of artillery makes the complex artillery systems of today understandable, while at the same time showing how they have evolved and how they are likely to change in the future. The author, until recently...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312368326Author The Diagram GroupFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

This book tells the story of the last sword ever designed by a major power for its army to use as a weapon, not as an article of a dress uniform. The sword was the U.S. Model 1913 Cavalry Saber; the designer was George S. Patton, then a lieutenant on the...

Vikings at War is a sumptuous depiction of how the Vikings waged war: their weapons technology, offensive and defensive warfare, military traditions and tactics, their fortifications, ships and command structure. It also portrays the Viking raids and...

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 9781626548794Author R.P. HunnicuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & Media

In November 1921 the first purpose-built aircraft carrier was launched by the Japanese, followed a year later by the launch of the British Hermes. The conversion of battlecruisers into aircraft carriers after World War I required the consideration of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937684976Author War DepartmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Periscope Film LLCPublisher Periscope Film LLCWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985460785Author Richard StiennonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint It-Harvest PressPublisher It-Harvest PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Explore the scientific crescendo of the Manhattan Project through newly contextualized and never-before-seen photographs from Los Alamos National Laboratory's legacy collections-some just declassified. Twenty-one days before the world learned of the...

From the very first handguns of the fifteenth century to modern machine guns and rifles, Small Arms Visual Encyclopedia is a highly illustrated volume that examines all the significant small arms of the world, featuring more than 1000 of the world's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685624248Author Edward ChukukereFormat HardbackPage Count 578Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLC

The Revolutionary period was marked by upheaval for France and its army. The early Republic's military comprised former Royal Army members and revolutionary volunteers, reflecting diversity in their uniforms. Despite the chaos, records were meticulously...

Since World War I, weapons of war have become increasingly more sophisticated as industrialization and computerization have taken hold in weapons design and manufacture. Tanks & AFVs is a directory of more than 1000 of the finest tanks, jeeps, trucks,...

In the summer of 1943, Hitler set his sights on a decisive blow that he believed would turn the tide of war on the Eastern Front. That blow would be dealt at Kursk - site of a huge Soviet salient measuring some 120 miles wide and 75 miles deep, and the...

In 1943, US bomber crews based in the UK were tasked with a 25-mission tour of duty. Most crews never made it past their fifth. The Luftwaffe owned the skies over Europe and the men of the Eighth Air Force were paying the price and strategic bombing was...

When the German war machine launched its attack against the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, Adolf Hitler had given priority first to the capture of Ukraine, which was against the advice of his generals. In order to secure Ukraine quickly and effectively...

In the case of military muskets and rifles the bayonet was, and still is, an integral part of the 'weapon system'. There are many excellent books covering the history of the bayonet in its myriad varieties adopted and used by the armed forces of the...

Written by a noted authority, this fully illustrated study describes and depicts the machine guns equipping Soviet and Russian troops after 1945. Following the USSR's victory in World War II, the Soviet armed forces adopted a succession of new or...

The German Wehrmacht: Equipment, Weapons, Uniforms and Insignia offers a highly illustrated record of the German soldier in the Second World War. Starting with the early victories in Poland in 1939 and concluding with the desperate final defences of...

Few topics have fascinated American readers more than the Civil War. Occurring as it did at the beginning of a new industrial age, it fostered a wide variety of strange and innovation contraptions that shaped the course of the conflict. Texans were among...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781963102789Author B James JohncoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Defiance Press & PublishingPublisher Defiance Press & PublishingWeight(grams)...

How did technical advances in weaponry alter the battlefield during the reign of Queen Victoria? In 1845, in the first Anglo-Sikh War, the outcome was decided by the bayonet; just over fifty years later, in the second Boer War, the combatants were many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804516645Author Aaron Stephan HamiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804517222Author Bill NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804517215Author Wen Jian ChungFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The armouries were among the most significant visual and symbolic manifestations of the nobility's elevated social position, alongside palaces, chapels, cabinet rooms, and libraries. The study of Aristocratic Culture necessitates a focus on arms,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815756255Author Thomas L. McNaugherFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

A detailed, illustrated guide to the Czech vz. 50 police pistol and the modernized vz. 70 version. The CZ handgun models 50 and 70 are available to Western collectors today but were both developed and produced behind the Iron Curtain. In the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515532Author Stephen TurnbullFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804514429Author Stephen Ede-BorrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The first book to present the amazing swords and armor belonging to the most famous Samurai in Japanese history!Paul Martin, a world-renowned scholar of Japanese swords, takes us on a journey of discovery of samurai culture through an examination of...

This volume provides an analytical framework for the international arms-transfer system and offers important insights into that system as it is being transformed by the development of the defence-industrial landscape. Breaking new ground by situating...

For better or worse, Navy captain William S. ""Deak"" Parsons made the atomic bomb happen. As ordnance chief and associate director at Los Alamos, Parsons turned the scientists' nuclear creation into a practical weapon. As weaponeer, he completed the...

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...

The first self-loading rifle to see widespread military use, the robust M1 Garand survived the tests of battle from World War II to Vietnam, and it remains a favorite among competition shooters and collectors to this day.In this heavily illustrated,...