Military Science category: 4493 books

In 1962 Dean Acheson famously described Britain as having lost an Empire but not yet found a role. Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than in the realms of nuclear weapons. An increasingly marginal world power, successive post-war British governments felt that an independent nuclear deterrent was...

Depuis 1870, les navires de guerre ne se sont pas moins modifiés que les paquebots à vapeur et les navires de commerce. Dans leur construction, on a renoncé à l’emploi du bois, pour adopter, successivement, le fer et l’acier. Les cuirasses de fer, destinées à protéger les navires contre...

Le mot artillerie est d’origine fort ancienne. Le vieux mot français artiller, dont la racine grammaticale est difficile à retrouver, signifiait l’homme d’armes préposé à l’emploi et à la garde des instruments divers qui servent à l’attaque ou à la défense des places ;...

This volume presents world-leading ideas and research that explores some of the most prominent topics relevant to detecting terrorism. The book is divided into six key themes: conceptualising terrorism, deception and decision making, social and cultural factors in terrorism, modelling hostile intent,...

The guide focuses on simple steps individuals can take to prepare for and respond to terrorist attacks with chemical, biological, radiological ("dirty bomb") and nuclear weapons. The guides contain both preparatory steps and specific response guidance. This includes what individuals will experience, what their goals should be, and what they should do during each type of attack

The story begins three hundred years after an unfortunate archeological discovery has unleashed a rage-virus plague outbreak that transformed the population of the Earth into infectious ghouls. These zombie-minded 'infected' hunt and kill natural humans on sight. In this future, the last remnants...

The atrocities of civil wars present us with many difficult questions. How do seemingly ordinary individuals come to commit such extraordinary acts of cruelty, often against unarmed civilians? Can we ever truly understand such acts of 'evil'? Based on a wealth of original interviews with perpetrators...

There are 50,000 out of 1 million sightings every year that are deemed credible by ufology researchers and experts. This mini-book is a compendium of scary UFO Incidents (in this author’s opinion) around the world that were either observed by or recorded by credible witnesses {except for the 1897...

Le 25 mai 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy avait promis la Lune aux Américains. Il connaissait exactement les capacités de ses techniciens, et il avait mis l’argent sur la table. Huit ans plus tard, Niels Armstrong (adieu, l’ami) foulait le sol de l’astre des nuits. A ce jour, personne...

The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone. The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side,...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • “A moving experience . . . a powerful cautionary tale.”—Whitley Strieber He was a survivor—a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war.   Fate touches him one chill winter’s day when...

**What if the South Had Won the Civil War?**The landmark alternate history novel by “one of the best American writers” (Ray Bradbury). In the world of this novel, said to be an inspiration for Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle, the Confederacy has triumphed and become an imperialist...

Book One of the John Carter of Mars collections, this edition contains the original text from the first, second, and third of Edgar Rice Burrough's world-famous novels. Originally published from 1917 and 1919, A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, and The Warlord of Mars are science-fiction classics, and the origin of Burroughs's legendary series.

Book Two of the John Carter of Mars collections, this edition contains the original text from the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh of Edgar Rice Burrough's world-famous novels. Originally published between 1916 and 1930, Thuvia, Maid of Mars; The Chessmen of Mars; The Master Mind of Mars; and A Fighting...