Weapons and equipment

Tank War, the new supplement for Bolt Action, gives players the option to expand their games to a whole new level armoured warfare.

For the first time ever, compare the British and German World War II big guns duelling with each other and harrying shipping in the Channel.

Portugal was both the first and the last of the huge European colonial powers.

World War I was Britain's last moment as the world's naval superpower, and its Grand Fleet was then the most powerful ever seen.

Includes hundreds of period photos covering all the details of the trucks, vans and trailers vital to maintain the communications of the U.

The Allied invasions of Sicily and the Italian mainland had been met with tenacious resistance by the Germans but the defense consisted for the most part of armored units that were little different to those the British had faced in North Africa.

The birth of the mighty Roman Navy was anchored in the Romans' extraordinary ability to absorb and perfect the technology of other states and empires.

A first look at gunpowder's revolutionary impact on China's role in global historyThe Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West.

In the early 14th century, a new weapon entered the arsenals of European armies.

First full investigation in English into the role played by chivalric ideology, and its violent results, in late medieval Castile.

This volume reveals the little-known story of the 90-year presence of American forces in China until the fall of Peking in 1941.

From the Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures to the XM320 grenade launcher, this comprehensive guide profiles nearly every weapon currently in use by the U.

Fully illustrated, this book pits US Navy submarines against the aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the height of World War II.

From humble beginnings, in the course of three centuries the Portuguese built the world's first truly global empire, stretching from modern Brazil to sub-Saharan Africa and from India to the East Indies (Indonesia).

An in-depth, illustrated history and technical study of this iconic weapon of the Middle Ages.

In 1979 a new and horrible image of technological barbarism was born.

Introduced to the British Army in 1983, Challenger Main Battle Tanks have served operationally in the Balkans and both Gulf Wars, where their firepower, protection and shock action were instrumental to the success of British forces.

In 1960, President Kennedy warned of a dangerous future, rife with nuclear-armed states and a widespread penchant for conflict by the end of the century.

The first American armoured cars began to emerge around the turn of the century, seeing their first military use in 1916 during the Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa.

How two charismatic, exceptionally talented physicists came to terms with the nuclear weapons they helped to createIn 1945, the United States dropped the bomb, and physicists were forced to contemplate disquieting questions about their roles and responsibilities.

A detailed, illustrated study of the Ukrainian armed forces, their weapons, dress and equipment from the First to the Second World War and beyond.

How two British World War I-era planes came to be found many decades later in India and returned to their former glory.

In July 2005, the National Academies released the report Strengthening Long-term Nuclear Security: Protecting Weapon-Usable Material in Russia.

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

In 1940, the U.

Despite the huge pressure of fighting on three fronts, ever-worsening shortages of manpower and equipment, and Allied command of the skies, Germany's decimated divisions fought on with impressive skill and determination.

The Pzkpfw Ill was the most effective tank available to the German army in North Africa during the battles of 1941.

Going into WWII, the prevailing strategy of the US command was that tanks were not to be used to engage enemy tanks in combat.

The scope of Britain's wartime Middle East Command stretched far beyond the Libyan desert where the 8th Army's most famous battles were fought.

The cornerstone of chemical and biological defense strategy is protection (i.

A Vietnam War helicopter pilot shares arresting accounts of flying troops into hot LZs and medevacking the wounded under fire.

This new edition of a classic work on British battleships is the most sought after book on the subject.

The German Navy of World War II was small in number, but contained some of the most technologically advanced capital ships in the world.

Examines US foreign policy toward rogue states armed with weapons of mass destruction.

On the 27 June, 1862, with the American Civil War already a year old, General Robert E.

In World War II a number of German Army units and divisions were classed as lites, and were distinguished by special insignia of various kinds.

In July 2005, the National Academies released the report Strengthening Long-term Nuclear Security: Protecting Weapon-Usable Material in Russia.

While small in numbers, the Belgian Army played a vital role in World War 1 that is often overlooked.

This illuminating book examines and refines the commonplace "e;wisdom"e; about cyber conflict-its effects, character, and implications for national and individual security in the 21st century.

Builders of the Pyramids and most ancient of all the powers of the biblical world, the Egyptians remain one of history's most fascinating and enigmatic peoples.

Preceding and simultaneously with the conquest of England by Duke William, other ambitious and aggressive Norman noblemen (notably the Drengot, De Hauteville and Guiscard families) found it prudent to leave Normandy.

A concise technical history of the German Albatros D.

During the 1980s, millions of ordinary individuals around the world mobilized in support of nuclear disarmament.

For better or worse, Navy captain William S.

How gunpowder technology exploded heroes, heroics, and war stories from 1400 to 1700, and how German writers tried to glue them back togetherGuns have been linked with masculinity since their earliest days on European battlefields, and surviving treatises on gunpowder from the early fifteenth century describe in detail the kinds of strong, sober, and God-fearing men who could be trusted to use this new weapon.

With cyber security law being increasingly contentious, organisations require expert assistance to operationalise matters and uphold a necessarily robust security framework.

This book examines the technology and strategy that defined the outcome of the battles between the King Tiger and the IS-2.

Entering service during the Sino-Japanese War, the Nakajima B5N (code-named 'Kate') excelled and went on to achieve surprising and dramatic successes in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.