Weapons category: 1025 books
by Gordon Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
In this, the first of a five volume series covering the capital ships of the German Navy of World War II, Gordon Williamson examines the design, development and operational use of the battleships used by the Kriegsmarine. The 'Schlesien' and 'Schleswig-Hostein' were used mostly as training ships until...
Hitler’s Tank Killer
Sturmgeschütz at War 1940 – 1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Sturmgeschütz III was originally designed as an assault weapon, but as war progressed it was increasingly used in a defensive role and evolved into an assault gun and tank destroyer. By 1943 its main role was providing anti-tank support to the units in its area of operation. This consequently led...
by Gordon Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
After the end of World War I, the German Navy came up with the concept of the Panzerschiffe, or Pocket Battleship, as a method of circumventing treaty limitations on the size and types of ship Germany was permitted to build. New, more modern production methods, where welded construction prevailed...
by Gordon Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
By the outbreak of World War II, Germany had done much to replace the Kaiser's High Seas Fleet, which was scuttled following their surrender at the end of World War I. Forced to build anew, the Kriegsmarine possessed some of the most technically advanced warships in existence. Although the heavy units...
by Artem Drabkin
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2006
The Soviet T-34 medium tank was one of the most famous and effective fighting vehicles of the Second World War. Along with the German Tiger and the American Sherman, it was a milestone in tank design that changed the course of the conflict. Much has been written about the technical history of the...
by Paul Strong, Sanders Marble
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
A year-by-year examination of key WWI battles and how the ongoing advances in artillery shaped strategy, tactics, and oprations; includes battlefield maps!
World War I is often said to have been an artillery war, yet the decisive role artillery played in shaping military decisions—and therefor...
British Aerospace Hawk
Armed Light Attack and Multi-Combat Fighter Trainer
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
For many years the world’s finest aerobatic team, the RAF’s Red Arrows, have thrilled millions with their demonstrations of this fine aircraft's agility and maneuverability. Black Hawks can also be seen in the valleys of Wales, flying ground-hugging flight paths along the valleys. These are the...
Spitfire
Portrait of a Legend
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world will move forward into broad, sunlit uplands,' said Churchill. The future...
Manhattan Project
The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
This book chronicles the top-secret Manhattan Project -- the U.S. effort to develop, test, and use an atomic bomb - and the project's legacy. This story is told through unique first-hand accounts, oral histories, and contemporary documents.
The Manhattan Project features first-hand material...
Now It Can Be Told
The Story Of The Manhattan Project
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious,...
Red Cloud at Dawn
Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed First Lightning, exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. The startling event was not simply a technical experiment that confirmed the ability of the Soviet Union to build nuclear bombs during a period when the United States held a steadfast monopoly;...
Critical Mass
How Nazi Germany Surrendered Enriched Uranium for the United States’ Atomic Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
On May 19, 1945, eleven days after the surrender of Nazi Germany in Europe, a U-boat was escorted into Portsmouth Naval Yard, New Hampshire. News reporters covering the surrender of U-234 were ordered, contrary to all previous and later U-boat surrender procedures, to keep their distance from crew...
Target Hiroshima
Deak Parsons and the Creation of the Atomic Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
For better or worse, Navy captain William S. "Deak" Parsons made the atomic bomb happen. As ordnance chief and associate director at Los Alamos, Parsons turned the scientists' nuclear creation into a practical weapon. As weaponeer, he completed the assembly of "Little Boy" during the flight to Hiroshima....
Stalkers and Shooters
A History of Snipers
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
Now in paperback! From the author of the Navy SEALs Oral History series-an intimate look at the world's most efficient and deadly warriors.
Snipers have a rich history. This fascinating book follows their tasks and techniques from the Revolutionary and Civil Wars through both World Wars, to...