While the PP and PPK were intended for police work, the Walther P 38 was produced for the Germany military; all three pistols have garnered a formidable international reputation since the 1930s.The innovative Walther PP (Polizeipist...Loe edasi...
The sequel to The English Longbow, this volume completes the history of English military archery. It investigates the final century of the bow as the most important weapon in the English army, reaching its apogee under Henry VIII before facing and fa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: State House Press / McWhiney Foundation Press, ISBN-13: 9781649670274)
Few topics have fascinated American readers more than the Civil War. Occurring as it did at the beginning of a new industrial age, it fostered a wide variety of strange and innovation contraptions that shaped the course of the conflict. Texans we...Loe edasi...
A nuclear historian gives a new, surprising account of one of the most controversial actions in history—how the United States deployed the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II—and the fallout that continues to haunt us...Loe edasi...
Surveillance, assassination, and war by proxy--all ingredients for an unending disaster that never seems to end for those exposed to the wrath of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Despite the prevalence of these and other malign acts, few observers...Loe edasi...
No book will ever come closer than this to providing an inside overview of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover’s nuclear propulsion program. The author, an Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) historian assigned to the admiral’s office, spent years observing the pro...Loe edasi...
