Weapons and equipment

A concise history of the development and use of incendiary weapons--flamethrowers, incendiary bombs, napalm, and more--by the American military in the twentieth century, with a focus on World War II.

A concise history of the development and use of incendiary weapons--flamethrowers, incendiary bombs, napalm, and more--by the American military in the twentieth century, with a focus on World War II.

An instructional history of the development, construction, and use of siege weapons.

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The Official U.

If the machine gun changed the course of ground combat in the First World War, it was the tank that shaped ground combat in World War II.

If the machine gun changed the course of ground combat in the First World War, it was the tank that shaped ground combat in World War II.

Panzers Forward collects photos of all varieties of German armor, from the smaller tanks of the early war to the gigantic Tigers that came later, on all frontsNorth Africa, Sicily and Italy, France, and of course the Eastern Front.

Featuring the collection of airplanes, art, photographs, and memorabilia of the National Museum of the U.

Featuring the collection of airplanes, art, photographs, and memorabilia of the National Museum of the U.

PRE-ORDER THE FASCINATING AND UNEXPECTED STORY OF THE ICONIC HARRIER JUMP JET, AND THE BRITISH ENGINEER WHO BUILT IT'Fascinating, insightful and revealing' - JOHN NICHOL, bestselling author of Spitfire and Blitz'An engineering marvel .

**A Guardian Best Science and Nature Book of 2025**From the award-winning science writer, a new history of the development of nuclear power and the extraordinary minds behind itHenry Becquerel s accidental discovery, in Paris in 1896, of a faint smudge on a photographic plate sparked a chain of discoveries which would unleash the atomic age.

Popularly known as the AK47 or just AK, the 7.

Autocannon is a comprehensive history of the development of automatic cannon and their ammunition from the end of the nineteenth century up to the present day.

Aimed at military model makers and wargamers who are interested in the armoured fighting vehicles of the United States as used throughout World War II, this book follows on from Modelling British World War II Armoured Vehicles by the same author.

Esta obra constituye una contribucion fundamental a la historiografia de las relaciones internacionales y la seguridad hemisferica en el Gran Caribe.

It's common knowledge that the Enigma cipher was broken at Bletchley Park, but less is known of the background: an exhilarating spy story of secret documents smuggled across borders, hair-raising escapes, Gestapo interrogations and betrayals.

PRE-ORDER THE ACTION-PACKED STORY OF THE WWII GROUP THAT BECAME OUR SAS, FROM ONE OF THE UK'S MOST STORIED SPECIAL FORCES OPERATORS History at its gripping, fascinating finest THE DAILY EXPRESS'A must read for any military enthusiast' JASON FOX Brilliant Stuff.

This book of selections from the distinguished journal International Security speaks to the most important question of our age: the deterrence of nuclear war.

Part I discusses the creation of the Commissariat a I'Energie Atomique and outlines its structure and function.

A newly discovered firsthand account of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath from one of the survivors a lost classic that brings unprecedented immediacy to our understanding of this world-changing event.

With sweeping changes in the Soviet Union and East Europe having shaken core assumptions of U.

The first volume of a ground-breaking and truly global trilogy on the Second World War, from an exciting, prize-winning academic.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThere is an invisible weapon among us.

Sharpshooters were the elite of the Union army.

Sharpshooters were the elite of the Union army.

Der Atomschutzbunker erzählt die Geschichte der Schweiz: von einbetoniertem Wissen, Macht und einem Raum, der vom Kalten Krieg bis heute nachhallt.

Explore more than 5,000 years of mechanised conflict around the globe from the earliest chariots and warships to the supersonic fighters and bombers of the modern era.

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The Official U.

The M16 rifle is one of the world's most famous firearms, iconic as the American weapon of the Vietnam Warand, indeed, as the U.

The M16 rifle is one of the world's most famous firearms, iconic as the American weapon of the Vietnam Warand, indeed, as the U.

The A-10 is the Air Force's unlikely success story, an airplane designed to support the Army, and one that ground troops came to venerate.

The A-10 is the Air Force's unlikely success story, an airplane designed to support the Army, and one that ground troops came to venerate.

A warning to humankind from one of the world s greatest physicists'What drives these pages is the guilty conscience of my profession, theoretical physics.

Former tank commander Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE offers a gripping and unique account of the evolution of tank warfare, in collaboration with The Tank Museum.

A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in AsiaA Telegraph Book of the Year 2025 'A short but quietly devastating book, in which Overy adds new perspectives to a subject that has often been approached from a narrowly American angle.

'We thought we had lived through the terror of a nuclear war, but something far more ominous was brewing in the Soviet Union - a biological Armageddon from which no one would escape.

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 'Monumental and highly readable.

'Few historians write with Serhii Plokhy s authority, clarity or global vision.

'Punchy.

Is your security strategy keeping pace with innovation and business growth?

Is your security strategy keeping pace with innovation and business growth?

A powerful post-nuclear holocaust novel described by the author as, 'my cry against the monstrous weapons men have made'.

*A New Statesman Best Summer Read*'A book to underline endlessly, to carry around until battered, and then to tell all your friends to buy because you're too reluctant to give up your own copy.

Did Hitler's use of unproven exotic weapons cost him the war?

Foremost military historian Richard Holmes offers us a compelling and at times terrifying account of what it means to be a contemporary soldier.

(This ebook contains a limited number of illustrations.

One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want.

El régimen internacional de no proliferación nuclear tiene el propósito fundamental de alejar al mundo de la amenaza de las armas nucleares, impidiendo su propagación a otros Estados y el incremento de los arsenales.