Weapons and equipment

Shot down and killed in April 1944, Lionel Anderson, a low flying Mosquito intruder pilot, was part way through his second tour of operations.

Gordon Mellor served as a navigator with RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War, and ETA is the firsthand account of a conflict that tests not only his initiative and resilience, but also the ability to survive amidst the extreme dangers of a Nazi occupied Europe.

Originally published in 1956, former Second World War prisoner-of-war Calton Younger’s No Flight from the Cage received critical acclaim.

This a story of pioneers, intrepid aviators, adventurers, tycoons and innovators.

Royal Air Force veteran Wing Commander Richard Pinkham DFC presents the extraordinary and graphic account of his experiences flying 62 World War Two bombing operations.

Bernard Green managed to survive both the First and Second World War – just.

In the final, desperate months of World War Two, at a time when the German war machine was considered by the Allies to be an almost spent force, Adolf Hitler unleashed a new weapon against England and western Europe that fell from the silence of the Earth’s upper atmosphere and the edge of space.

'Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.

One of the problems pervading the study of medieval Islamic technology is the lack of surviving technical treatises.

One of the problems pervading the study of medieval Islamic technology is the lack of surviving technical treatises.

Nuclear-armed adversaries India and Pakistan have fought three wars since their creation as sovereign states in 1947.

While much has been written about the Nazis' panzers, comparatively little is known about the armored vehicles in service with the other Axis armies.

Saudi Arabia, with its US alliance and abundance of oil dollars, has a very different economic story to that of Iran, which despite enormous natural gas reserves, has been hit hard by economic, trade, scientific and military sanctions since its 1979 revolution.

International Arms Trade has always been a powerful and multi-functional constituent of world politics and international diplomacy.

The Iranian nuclear crisis has dominated world politics since the beginning of the century, with the country now facing increasing diplomatic isolation, talk of military strikes against its nuclear facilities and a disastrous Middle East war.

Since the Revolution of 1978/79, which eventually brought to power Ayatollah Khomeini and his circle of conservative, though politically active, clerics, the relationship between Iran and the USA has represented one of the world's most complex and hostile international entanglements.

In the wake of the 1979 Iranian revolution, relations between states in the Middle East were reconfigured and reassessed overnight.

From Tunisia to Egypt and from Israel to Iran, the debates surrounding the concept of democracy in the Middle East are never straightforward.

The Winchester Rifle, the iconic gun made in New Haven, Connecticut, and sold in its hundreds of thousands around the world, mirrors American expansion at a key period in the young country's history.

The Winchester Rifle, the iconic gun made in New Haven, Connecticut, and sold in its hundreds of thousands around the world, mirrors American expansion at a key period in the young country's history.

Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), terrorism and the 'war on terror' are major features of international relations and global concern.

'Underhand and damned un-English' was the view of submarines in Edwardian Britain.

Air power has come to be seen as a country's first line of defence; in the First World War views were vastly different.

The seventeenth-century Ottoman-Habsburg frontier was the scene of chronic conflict.

The history of Pakistan's nuclear program is the history of Pakistan.

In this thoughtful social history of New Mexico's nuclear industry, Lucie Genay traces the scientific colonization of the state in the twentieth century from the points of view of the local people.

Winner of the Western History Association's Robert G.

Despite familiar images of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan and the controversy over its fiftieth anniversary, the human impact of those horrific events often seems lost to view.

Same Colt!

In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises.

This volume's contributors offer a new critical language through which to explore and assess the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions of drone technology and warfare.

The debate over cyber technology has resulted in new considerations for national security operations.

International efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)-including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons-rest upon foundations provided by global treaties such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).

Exploring how the United States manages its still-powerful nuclear arsenalArms control agreements and the end of the Cold War have made the prospect of nuclear war a distant fear for the general public.

Since 1945, the United States has manufactured and deployed more than 70,000 nuclear weapons to deter and if necessary fight a nuclear war.

Following the cataclysmic losses suffered in World War I, air power theorists in Europe advocated for long-range bombers to overfly the trenches and strike deep into the enemy's heartland.

Following the cataclysmic losses suffered in World War I, air power theorists in Europe advocated for long-range bombers to overfly the trenches and strike deep into the enemy's heartland.

After the United States declared war against Germany in April 1917, the US Army established the Tank Corps to help break the deadlock of trench warfare in France during World War I.

The noted historian offers "e;a compelling sociohistorical account of an often overlooked yet critical"e; WWII explosive twice as powerful as TNT (Choice).

During the early years of World War II, American ships crossing the Atlantic with oil and supplies were virtually defenseless against German U-boats.

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This history of American armored warfare through the twentieth century "e;boasts some of the best available analysis of mobile war as practiced by the US"e; (Publishers Weekly).

The tank revolutionized the battlefield in World War II.

World War II submariners rarely experienced anything as exhilarating or horrifying as the surface gun attack.

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World War II submariners rarely experienced anything as exhilarating or horrifying as the surface gun attack.

Same Colt!

Intrigued by hints of ';the bigger man' behind the war personality of Gen.

For modelers and WWIl enthusiasts, a collection of scale drawings of German combat vehicles.

This fully illustrated volume presents an authoritative and highly detailed study of WWII's lesser-known armored fighting vehicles.