Weapons & Equipment

Aircraft of World War II details the design and specifications of 75 of the most important warplanes used during the conflict, from the venerable F...

The concept of strategic assault of a Nation’s industrial and military base by air was heralded by Britain as far back as the immediate period befo...

The international reporting of military expenditure data for African states is poor in many respects. Figures that are published are often at varia...

[The United States and Biological Warfare] is a major contribution to our understanding of the past involvement by the US and Japanese governments ...

This interdisciplinary book analyses the origins of biological warfare planning and preparation up to the end of World War II. In the period betwee...

The first B-29 flew over Tokyo on 1 November 1944. It was a photographic reconnaissance aircraft ironically named ‘Tokyo Rose’. The Ki.44 fighters ...

Plucked from every background, and led by an N.K.V.D. Major, the new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on 16th October 1941 to go to war had m...

With sweeping changes in the Soviet Union and East Europe having shaken core assumptions of U.S. defense policy, it is time to reassess basic quest...

Most observers who follow nuclear history agree on one major aspect regarding Israel's famous policy of nuclear ambiguity; mainly that it is an exc...

The British designed and built the Harrier, the most successful vertical take-off-and-landing aircraft ever made. Combining state-of-the-art fighte...

This book provides a rounded biography of Franz (later Sir Francis) Simon, his early life in Germany, his move to Oxford in 1933, and his experimen...

Bousquet's book considers the impact of key technologies and scientific ideas on the practice of warfare and the handling of the perennial tension ...

"Shopping for Bombs" presents the first detailed account of the emergence of Pakistan's nuclear hero A.Q. Khan as the world's leading black market ...

The recent controversy over Iran's nuclear programme represents an early and important test for a distinctively European approach to addressing con...

The Nuclear Borderlands explores the sociocultural fallout of twentieth-century America's premier technoscientific project--the atomic bomb. Joseph...

With the United States producing almost 90,000 AFVs during World War II, American tanks made up the bulk of those deployed by the western Allies, a...