Weapons & Equipment

Sharpen your knowledge of swords with Kristen B. Neuschel as she takes you through a captivating 1,000 years of French and English history. Living ...

Autocannon is a comprehensive history of the development of automatic cannon and their ammunition from the end of the nineteenth century up to the ...

In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill rewrites the military history of nineteenth-century Japan. In fifty years spanning the collapse of the To...

The M16 rifle is one of the worlds most famous firearms, iconic as the American weapon of the Vietnam Warand, indeed, as the U.S. militarys standar...

Delivering the heaviest possible munitions onto the enemy and his strongpoints serves a number of military functions: it destroys protective positi...

Designed by a motorcycle racer turned small-arms engineer, George Patchett, the submachine gun that eventually became known as the Sterling was dev...

Battlefield Forensics for Persian Gulf States provides an illustrative reference of various weapons, toolmarks, headstamps, and other traits in ord...

The scenes are familiar ones; the young Brylcream Boys sat at dispersal waiting for the haunting call of Scramble , lounging in their shirt slee...

With the invasion of Russia by Germany in 1941, Britain gained a new ally and a responsibility to provide material for the new front. More than fou...

In the nineteenth century the War Office showed little interest in developing large heavy artillery for its land forces, preferring instead to equi...

The New Kingdom of Egypt marks the apogee of military organisation and preparedness. Beginning the era under foreign occupation, the Egyptians buil...

The Gladiatoria group of German fencing manuscripts are several editions of a treatise on armoured foot combat, specifically aimed at duel fighting...

For this book, Chris Ransted has researched some of the lesser known events and personalities relating to the early years of Explosive Ordnance Dis...

This magnificent book tells the story of the evolution of swords, how they were made, how they were used, and the people that used them. It doesn''...

World War I was the Golden Age of the railway gun. Even though at the start of the conflict none of the armies possessed any railway artillery piec...