Weapons & Equipment

This title features over 300 aircraft with 1200 wartime and modern identification photographs. It describes all the truly classic aircraft, such as...

An essential guide to the tanks that fought the greatest armored clashes of modern times, between Saddam Hussein's Soviet-supplied army and the adv...

An illustrated study of the British Army’s Anti-Aircraft (AA) Command’s performance against the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain and the Blit...

Henry Becquerel’s accidental discovery, in Paris in 1896, of a faint smudge on a photographic plate sparked a chain of discoveries which would unle...

A ground-breaking history of this global conflict including the errors and miscalculations made on both sides. Korea: War Without End examines the ...

Prolific munitions production keyed America's triumph in World War II but so did the complex economic controls needed to sustain that production. A...

This third volume in Moller's authoritative reference work describes muzzleloading percussion shoulder arms procured by the US government for issue...

The follow-on volume to Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 11 Bf 109D/E Aces 1939-41, this book charts the story of the myriad aces who flew the later mar...

The debate over cyber technology has resulted in new considerations for national security operations. States find themselves in an increasingly int...

Recent discoveries in psychology and neuroscience have improved our understanding of why our decision making processes fail to match standard socia...

This volume is the latest in a series of biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of the Army Research Laboratory (ARL). The cu...

International efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)—including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons—rest upon foun...

Too often, our focus on the relative handful of countries with nuclear weapons keeps us from asking an important question: Why do so many more stat...

This volume focuses on the little known official Army Air Force report commissioned by the Eighth Air Force's VIII Fighter Command (FC) in May 1944...

Medieval Italy was characterized by regular warfare among its numerous city-states, as well as internal strife within comunes as aristocratic facti...

The Canadian government's 1983 decision to allow U.S. cruise missile testing in this country resulted in intense political fallout. The controversi...

From the days of biplanes and open cockpits, the air forces of the United States have relied on the mastery of technology. From design to operation...

The Gloster Javelin was the UK's first line of night and all-weather air defence both at home and in RAF Germany. In the 1950s, when it replaced th...

The German Tiger I was the most feared battle tank of the Second World War. Its invincibility lay in its main 8.8cm gun and heavy defensive armour....

Longing for the Bomb traces the unusual story of the first atomic city and the emergence of American nuclear culture. Tucked into the folds of Appa...

Combining the power of the Packard-Merlin with a beautifully-designed airframe, the P-51D Mustang was a class above most other piston-engined fight...

The period covered in this volume was considered to be the 'glory years' for the Jagdwaffe fresh from the experience gained in the Spanish Civil Wa...

September 1940: In the midst of the Second World War, The Luftwaffe unleashed a series of devastating raids on Southampton, all but destroying its ...

The little boy did not cry or speak. He just stood there and stared at me intensely. With great effort I stood up and tested to see if I could walk...

'A useful contribution to an overcrowded field of history by giving deserved attention to the ordinary men and unsung machines that aren't usually ...

Illustrated throughout, this volume tells how, of the 325th FG’s 537 aerial victories, 202 were scored by its 27 aces.The 325th FG was activated un...

Author Chris McNab and photographer Patrick Bunce go above and below deck to discover how a supercarrier is built, examining its structure, systems...

From Richard Pike, author of Grub Street's bestselling Lightning Boys series, comes Hunter Boys, a fascinating insight into the experiences of thos...

In an international study, the Lightning was voted the fifth most popular military aircraft of all time. It has many thousands of devotees who are ...

The incredible untold World War II story of Australian hero BARNEY GREATREX - from Bomber Command to French Resistance fighter. A school and univer...

The appearance in July 1915 of the Fokker E I heralded a reign of terror over the Western Front that the Allies called the ‘Fokker Scourge’.The Fre...

A fully objective, balanced description and appraisal of the air battles over the hotly-contested airspace above the North Korea-China border, with...

A concise technical history of the German Albatros D.I and D.II type scouts.In 1916 German aerial domination had been lost to the French and Britis...

A definitive technical guide to the long-nosed Curtiss P-40 Warhawk variants.The initial version of the Curtiss P-40, designated by the manufacture...

Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, no state has unleashed nuclear weapons. What explains this? According to the author, the answer lies in a...