Weapons and equipment

Story of one of the best and most battered armored divisions in the German armed forces.

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) contracted with the Naval Studies Board (NSB) of the National Research Council (NRC) to establish a committee to review ONR's Air and Surface Weapons Technology (ASWT) program.

World War I is often deemed to have been 'a war of artillery'.

An illustrated account of the clashes between the Luftwaffe's Me 262, the first operational jet fighter, and the USAAF's B-26 Marauder bomber during the final months of the war in Europe.

The Staghound was a unique World War II armored vehicle designed and manufactured in the US, but intended solely for the British army.

The End of Victory recounts the costs of failure in nuclear war through the work of the most secret deliberative body of the National Security Council, the Net Evaluation Subcommittee (NESC).

The Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria was the first 20th century conflict fought between the regular armies of major powers, employing the most modern means machine guns, trench warfare, minefields and telephone communications.

This series started in 1981 with the Erice Seminars when the danger of a nuclear East-West confrontation was menacing the world.

'Terrifying and timely, this is a book everyone should read and heed' - George Monbiot'Urgent, gripping and sobering, Six Minutes to Winter is a hair-raising wake-up call' - David Wallace-Wells'Powerful and insightful.

Global power is shifting to Asia.

By 1920 the Red Army of Russia fielded an overwhelming array of armored cars, armored trains and tank detachments.

Though the 'Scythian period' in the history of Eastern Europe lasted little more than 400 years, the impression these horsemen made upon the history of their times was such that a thousand years after they had ceased to exist as a sovereign people, their heartland and the territories which they dominated far beyond it continued to be known as 'greater Scythia'.

The Lee-Enfield is one of the 20th century's most recognisable and longest-serving military rifles.

In The Drone Age, Michael J.

In the summer of 1804, the eagle was chosen as the symbol of the French Army by Napoleon himself.

This highly illustrated new study tells the full story of the German light Panzers in World War II.

It is hard to convey the public impact of France's war to maintain her colonial grip on Algeria.

Since September 1962, hardly a week passed without a major armed confrontation or an outright war in Yemen.

The lightning Japanese offensives in East Asia in 1941/42 inflicted a series of costly defeats on the ill-prepared and badly supported British Commonwealth forces in Malaya and Burma.

An illustrated history of how the British fighter developed, both single- and two-seaters.

This second volume (see MAA 297) by Angus Konstam on the Russian Army of the Seven Years War concentrates on the cavalry, both the regular troops and irregular forces, considering their composition, nature and effectiveness.

A new illustrated study of the devastating, but little-known, Soviet armored blitzkrieg against the Japanese in the last weeks of World War II, and how it influenced Soviet tank doctrine as the Cold War dawned.

A narrative history of the nuclear tests conducted by the United States in the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1958.

Just weeks after Pearl Harbor, Darwin was mauled by a massive Japanese attack.

One of the key concerns of naval strategists and planners today is the nature of the Chinese geostrategic challenge.

This lavishly illustrated volume details the design, development and operational history of US-made tanks in British service in the Second World War.

One of the least understood of Napoleon's corps were the four regiments of Gardes d'honneur, raised in 1813 during the frantic rebuilding of the French cavalry after the huge losses in Russia.

In the summer of 1773 the 14-year old Horatio Nelson took part in an expedition to the Arctic, which came close to ending his naval career before it had begun.

Although the Pe-2 was widely used on the Eastern Front throughout the Great Patriotic War, only the most effective units in the Air Force and Naval Aviation were given Guards status.

The M113 is the most widely used and versatile armoured vehicle in the world.

The V 1, or Doodlebug or Flying-bomb came into use in June 1944 and, together with the V 2 Rocket, was Hitlers final hope in face of the advancing Allied forces sweeping across Europe towards Germany.

This book explains how and why the nuclear nonproliferation regime has been successful, even without the characteristics usually seen in effective institutions.

World War I was the Golden Age of the railway gun.

In the late 19th century, the new nation-state of Italy was eager to join her European neighbours in creating an international empire, and her eyes turned toward Africa as a source of potential colonies.

The third of three volumes examining the flags of the Napoleonic Wars (Men-at-Arms 77, 78 & 115).

An illustrated study of the fearsome multiple rocket launchers which are forever associated with the Soviet Red Army and modern Russia's armed forces.

As World War I ended, the victors were developing a powerful new generation of 'hyper-dreadnoughts' and battlecruisers.

Longing for the Bomb traces the unusual story of the first atomic city and the emergence of American nuclear culture.

The history of the American gun is intricately entwined with the history of America itself.

The M18 76mm Gun Motor Carriage was developed for the US Army's Tank Destroyer Command.

This illustrated history describes the clashes between the US against the hastily created Kamikaze units of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Air Forces, some of the last large scale aerial engagements of the Pacific War.

In the later years of the Second World War Germany was subjected to a tremendous onslaught by the bomber commands of both the RAF and USAAF, as well as being assaulted by land.

Just weeks after Pearl Harbor, Darwin was mauled by a massive Japanese attack.

In an effort to provide the US infantryman with more firepower to cover the range gap between the hand grenade and the light mortar, the 40mm M79 grenade launcher a shoulder-fired, single-shot weapon entered service with US forces in 1961.

A fully illustrated study of the German aircraft in the early years of World War 2.

In 1961 the first Armoured Fighting Vehicles appeared in the ever-expanding range of Airfix kits.

The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is probably the world's most advanced air superiority fighter/attack aircraft and is often seen thrilling air-show crowds around the world.

Intended as a progressive development of the twin-engined Bf 110 Zerst rer ('destroyer' or heavy fighter), the Me 210 first took to the air in September 1939.

RAF recruit Neville Cox is trapped in Soviet rocket development, facing espionage and a daring escape from KGB captivity.