Military engineering

Marine Auxiliary Machine: Sixth Edition explains the correct operation and maintenance of marine auxiliary machinery.

An expert account of the development, role, and capabilities of the S-300 and S-400 air defence missile systems, key strategic weapons in Putin's Russia.

The Maginot Line was one of the most advanced networks of fortifications in history.

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European Security: Nuclear or Conventional Defence?

Focusing on these and other thematic issues, Bohdan Kordan assesses the policy and practice of civilian internment in Canada during the Great War and provides a clear yet critical statement about the complex and troubling nature of this experience.

Ob Revolverschüsse auf Reichskanzler Bismarck und Kaiser Wilhelm I.

This book reveals the impact of communications on the military operations of the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War.

The technological characteristics of drones, together with the law, have been instrumental in expanding warfare in time and space in the counter-terrorism context.

In Chemical Heroes Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "e;supersoldiers"e; capable of withstanding extreme trauma.

How War, Pornography, and Fast Food Have Shaped Modern TechnologyGuns, Germs, and Steel meets the age of technology in this rollicking history of how our pursuit of lust, gluttony, and rage has led to our greatest technological advancements.

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This is the absorbing story of the development, combat use and legacy of the influential sidearms used by the armed forces of the Soviet Union.

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.

Ship Stabilizers: The Design and Operation in Correcting the Rolling of Ships presents the working principles and operation of various types of gyrocompasses and automatic pilots.

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.

The evolution of the battleship through centuries of war, told by a nautical expert and author of The Mighty Hood.

Proliferation, Plutonium and Policy/Institutional and Technological Impediments to Nuclear Weapons Propagation provides a comprehensive account of the political and technological aspects of nuclear weapons proliferation.

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.

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First comprehensive study of English artillery in the late Middle Ages, bringing out its full impact on areas beyond the military.

Capture the esprit de corps of the Marines in action during the Vietnam War.

Providing new chapters, homework problems, case studies, figures, and examples, Ballistics: Theory and Design of Guns and Ammunition, Second Edition encourages superior design and innovative applications in the field of ballistics.

Technical artist and military historian George Bradford has been producing detailed drawings of armored fighting vehicles for over thirty years.

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A Vertical Empire describes the work in rocketry and space research carried out in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s.

An exploration of how so-called ordinary people can disrupt violent conflict and forge peace.

The Civil Wars single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so weve been told for years.

This is the absorbing story of the development, combat use and legacy of the influential sidearms used by the armed forces of the Soviet Union.

First established in 1940, the Sturmgesch tz assault guns were purpose-built vehicles intended to support the infantry during the phase of attack and breakthrough of enemy positions.

A short history and many stories from veterans (including photos).

Few historians have looked beyond the Teapot Dome scandal and examined the naval policies of President Warren Harding and his secretary of navy, Edwin Denby.

In Minefield six Falklands/Malvinas war veterans who once faced each other across a battlefield now face each other across a stage.

Best Nonfiction of 2020 -- Kirkus ReviewsOne of the most lauded historians of our time returns to the Second World War in this magnificent retelling of the awe-inspiring raid on German dams conducted by the Royal Army Forces 617 Squadron.

Attack aircraft carriers, battleships, destroyers, frigates, light and heavy cruisers, and patrol crafts.

During the past decade, armed drones have entered the American military arsenal as a core tactic for countering terrorism.

Marine Engineering Series: Marine Control Practice deals with the instrumentation and its associated control systems that are found onboard ships.

In Defence of Canada: Appeasement and Rearmament is a companion and sequel to Eayrs' In Defence of Canada: From the Great War to the Great Depression (Toronto 1964).

Discover the spiritually incisive strategies for peacefully resolving conflictin this masterpiece of military strategy.

The United States Space Force, the sixth branch of the armed forces, will soon play a leading role in American foreign policy and will be necessary to protect its economic, political, and social interests at home and abroad.

The history of the sword, the author writes in his introduction, is the history of humanity.

The second volume of a series of books dealing with effect of the atmosphere on electromagnetic propagation.

The third book in Professor Christian Potholm's war trilogy (which includes Winning at War and War Wisdom), Understanding War provides a most workable bibliography dealing with the vast literature on war and warfare.

This nontechnical overview of developments in nuclear arms control describes how the United States and the Soviet Union arrived at their present positionsand where they might go from here.