Weapons

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490990255Author Martina SpragueFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743271738Author C J ChiversFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm...

Israel has made a unique contribution to the nuclear age. It has created a special "bargain" with the bomb. Israel is the only nuclear-armed state that does not acknowledge its possession of the bomb, even though its existence is a common...

The Book of SwordsBook InformationISBN 9781439132821Author Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc.Format PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Baen BooksPublisher Baen Books

The Visser Collection, collected over a period or more than thirty years, was the finest and largest concentration of small arms, fabricated in the Low Countries. This collection has been meticulously described in two monumental volumes, which were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978810112Author Ahmed Al-RawiFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 152g

In March 2012, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics requested that the Defense Science Board develop recommendations for technology investments that would enable the Department of Defense to maintain capability...

The M16 rifle is one of the world’s most famous firearms, iconic as the American weapon of the Vietnam War—and, indeed, as the U.S. military’s standard service rifle until only a few years ago. But the story of the M16 in Vietnam is anything but a...

Originally published in 1941, this book of military ordnance was written in order to bring information to the non-military public during the time of uncertainty that marked the beginnings of the United States’ involvement in World War II. This volume was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197672358Author Kenneth PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

This book examines emerging defense technologies such as directed energy weapons, nanotech devices, and bioscience applications that have the potential to dominate international relations in the future, just as nuclear weapons and space...

An essential guide offers a comprehensive collection of edited and annotated arms-control documents, dating from the late-19th century to the present day. Sometimes successful and sometimes not, arms-control agreements are strenuously negotiated by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935700838Author War DepartmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Periscope Film, LLCPublisher Periscope Film, LLCWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)...

Amply illustrated with pen & ink drawings, and including a glossary of key terms, this volume, originally published in 1955, traces the history of firearms and the pioneers who made that history, step by step, to the fringe of a complex modern...

This book covers the design and use of the Tiger I armored fighting vehicle.Book InformationISBN 9780887403521Author Horst ScheibertFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 0g

Warfare truly entered the industrial age with the invention and adoption of the machine gun. Armed with a machine gun, one or two men could potentially hold off a whole company of enemy soldiers, and inflict terrible losses while doing so. The Machine...

This highly illustrated volume covers the variety of armored cars used by Czech forces during World War I, and the Russian Civil War, as well as its post-WWI use in Italy and Slovakia. Along with details of armored car design, manufacturers,...

Supported by genuine historical cases, this book argues that certain new technologies in warfare can not only be justified within the current framework of the just war theory, but that their use is mandatory from a moral perspective.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510709607Author Dr Ian JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 224mm...

This book covers the use and design of the Russian T-34 battle tank.Book InformationISBN 9780887404054Author Horst ScheibertFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 0g

On December 16, 1958, a Thor intermediate-range ballistic missile became the first rocket launch from Vandenberg AFB, California. Established from the remnants of a WWII and Korean War training base named Camp Cooke, the USAF selected the location to...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781489566751Author Martina SpragueFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781981288847Author Joe BerkFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492109860Author Martina SpragueFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493622955Author F M SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594163906Author Joseph G BilbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250905710Author John BainbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

This book is a reprint edition of the late John Laidacker's personal study of early .22 cartridge handguns from 1855-1875. Laidacker's primary aim was to offer a quick reference to the collector, and his commentary on the wide variety of types,...

Face au peloton d'execution qui allait le fusiller le 17 aout 1946 a 7 h 05 a Alencon, Bernard Jardin, tres pale, prononcait d'une voix assez faible ses derniers mots : " Vive le national socialisme ", puis avant que les balles ne fusent, il...

Sparta was a small city which consistently punched above its weight in the affairs of classical Greece, happily meddling in the affairs of the other cities. For two centuries her warriors were acknowledged as second to none. Yet at only one period in its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788170492207Author Ramesh PhadkeFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Manas PublicationsPublisher Manas Publications

Cyberwars in the Middle East argues that hacking is a form of online political disruption whose influence flows vertically in two directions (top-bottom or bottom-up) or horizontally. These hacking activities are performed along three political...

Concerns about CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, Nuclear) weapons have featured prominently in both political debates and media reporting about the ongoing threat from al Qaeda since 9/11. This book provides a chronological account of al Qaeda's...

Covers the development and use of the Tiger family of armored fighting vehicles.Book InformationISBN 9780887401879Author Horst ScheibertFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 0g

When it first appeared on the battlefield in July 1941, the Soviet T-34 was the best tank in the world - superior even to the latest German tanks. It became the most important tank of the war, a vehicle that was instrumental in the defeat of Nazi Germany...

Since 1914 the art and increasingly science of warfare has become ever deadlier. Tanks have become more mobile and more protected, artillery has come to dominate battlefields and even ordinary infantrymen are now equipped with body armour and lightweight...

Trust, but Verify uses trust-with its emotional and predictive aspects-to explore international relations in the second half of the Cold War, beginning with the late 1960s. The detente of the 1970s led to the development of some limited trust between the...

Volume 1: Headgear, Clothing, and FootwearVolume 2: Weapons and AccoutermentsThe definitive two-volume survey of military clothing and equipment during the final years of the U.S.-Indian warsBuilding on the success of his best-selling The U.S. Army in...

New data surrounding the procurement and modifications of arms produced by the national armories, and under federal contract procured by the individual states and by individual members of militias, is presented here for the first time. This information,...