Weapons and equipment

Honorable Mention, Captain Richard Lukaszewicz Memorial Book AwardIn their initial effort to end the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger attempted to lever concessions from Hanoi at the negotiating table with military force and coercive diplomacy.

Belts, ammo pouches and bags, weapons holsters and cases, canteens, mess and first aid kit, packs, tools and bivouac equipment - a comprehensive illustrated guide to exactly what the World War II GI carried on the battlefield.

This is the absorbing story of the handguns credited to Nambu Kijiro, the principal personal-defence weapons of the Imperial forces.

The military policeman must be one of the least appreciated yet most indispensable military figures in modern history.

A fully illustrated new assessment of the German tank force that won its greatest victory in France during 1940.

A concise illustrated history of the Special Air Service's lightweight, heavily armed vehicles and their combat use.

A detailed and comprehensive study of the carrier formations of the Pacific War, including their origins, development and key battles from the Coral Sea, through Midway and Guadalcanal to the battle of the Philippine Sea.

This collection of essays, written by the some of the foremost historians in the field of Coast Guard history, highlights the wartime roles played by the United States oldest federal maritime service, from its inception through the last decade of the twentieth century.

During World War II, the US Marine Corps formed six tank battalions that battled through the harsh conditions of the Pacific Theatre.

Captain Claud Williams’ memoir tells, firsthand, what it was like to be a Light Car Patrol commander during the First World War, while Russell McGuirk’s commentary provides the historical background to the formation of the Patrols and follows their activities from the British raid on Siwa Oasis to desert exploration and survey work and the Kufra Reconnaissance Scheme.

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.

When the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyed Russia's battle fleet during the Russo-Japanese War, it marked the emergence of Japan as one of the world's major naval powers.

An illustrated account of the DH 2, the most successful 'pusher' fighter of World War I, against the Albatros D II, part of a long family of fighters that in many ways symbolized German aerial might in the conflict.

The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history.

During the final battles on World War II's Western Front, the legendary German Tiger I heavy tank clashed with the brand-new M26 Pershing fielded by the United States.

This book explains the origin and historical development of North Korean nuclear weapon dated from the aftermath of World War II.

Robert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from Rommel's Gazala offensive in 1942 through to the end of war in the desert in Tunisia in 1943.

Featuring more than 40 beautiful illustrations, this stunning work presents one of the world’s most influential fencing treatises.

During the 1980s, popular fear of World War III spurred moviemakers to produce dozens of nuclear threat films.

Technologically sophisticated and powerful, the crossbow has long enjoyed a popular reputation for villainous superiority because it could be used with little training as a weapon of assassination.

An illustrated combat history of the He 111, with its distinctive glazed nose, which came to symbolise the German mastery of the skies in the early war years, especially the Russian campaign.

This volume represents the final publication of the Olympias project, which saw the building of a full-scale reconstruction of a 170-oared Athenian trireme of the 4th century BC and its operation in five series of sea-trials in the Aegean Sea.

The tank revolutionized the battlefield in World War II.

Illustrated throughout, this book describes the action pilots of the Polish Air Force saw from the first day of World War 2 until the final victory in Europe.

The Nimitz class aircraft carrier is the ultimate symbol of the United States superpower status.

At a time when most handguns were limited to six rounds, the ten-shot Mauser caught the attention of the world for its unprecedented firepower and formidable high-velocity 7.

Although far better known for their exploits over the war torn skies of Germany and Italy, the USAAF's premier fighters, the P-47 and P-51, also made significant contributions to the victory against Japan from 1943 onwards.

The Chaco War was massive territorial war between Bolivia and Paraguay, which cost almost a 100,000 lives.

Through a reliance on nuclear weapons, President Eisenhower hoped to provide a defense strategy that would allow the U.

Arguably two of the finest piston-engined fighters ever built, the Tempest V and Fw 190D-9 raised the bar in terms of aircraft design and operational capability during World War II.

The birth of the US Navy's "e;Take Charge and Move Out"e; (TACAMO) mission which provides essential airborne communications to the US nuclear deterrence forces.

A comprehensive overview of the troops involved in the First World War campaigns in Southeastern Europe.

The B-2A 'Spirit' was an aircraft conceived to fight the Cold War but which has proved invaluable to both the 'New World Order' and more recently the 'War on Terrorism'.

More than 150 years have passed since the apocalypse that nearly destroyed the Earth.

Ever since the 15th century Switzerland had been exporting professional soldiers to serve as mercenaries for foreign monarchies.

For centuries, the crossbow had played a key role on the battlefields of continental Europe, with mercenaries from Genoa and Brabant in particular filling the ranks of the French army, yet on the outbreak of the Hundred Years' War they came up against a more powerful foe.

The development of this excellent and successful class of warship only became possible after the Anglo-German naval agreement of 1935 eased restrictions on the types of ship Germany could build; even then only five of the class were permitted: the Admiral Hipper, the Bl cher, the Prinz Eugen, the Seydlitz and the L tzow.

This highly detailed and well-illustrated single-volume work documents the evolution of warfare across history through weaponry and technological change.

The Matilda was the principal British infantry tank in the early years of World War II.

During the Napoleonic era, Russia possessed a vast force of cavalry, forming a greater percentage than that of most European armies.

The classic and “utterly engrossing” study of Stalin’s pursuit of a nuclear bomb during the Cold War by the renowned political scientist and historian (Foreign Affairs).

The Sherman Crab Flail tank was the powerful culmination of a series of mine-clearing flail tanks developed during World War II.

The T-26 was the first major Soviet armour program of the 1930s, beginning as a license-built version of the British Vickers 6-ton export tank.

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

Less well known than the Zulu of South Africa, the warriors of East Africa had just as fearsome a reputation.

The Bismarck is perhaps the most famous and notorious warship ever built.

This study looks at how the Soviet armed forces developed and deployed a range of machine guns that fitted with their offensive and defensive infantry tactics across six years of total war.

The last predreadnought battleships of the US Navy were critical to the technological development of US battleships, and they were the first tool of international hard power wielded by the United States, a nation which would eventually become the world's dominant political and military power of the 20th century.

Austria-Hungary did not have an overseas empire; its empire lay within its own boundaries and the primary purpose of its navy until the beginning of the twentieth century was the defense of its coastline.