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 definitive account of the rise and fall of Britains nuclear strike force- the Valiant, Victor and Vulcan RAF bombers - and Britains changing role through the Cold War....Loe edasi...
A lavishly illustrated celebration of the much loved workhorse of the US Navy – the F-14 Tomcat – and a unique insight into its crucial final operational tour over the skies of Iraq. The Last Catfight charts the combat experi...Loe edasi...
Former tank commander Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE offers a gripping and unique account of the evolution of tank warfare, in collaboration with The Tank Museum....Loe edasi...
From the international bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky, a sweeping oral history of the atomic bombs creation and deployment...Loe edasi...
Edwin Dado, Rene Janssen, Hamans, Marc Gouw, Kerry Malone
Sari: LUP NL ARMS
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Leiden University Press, ISBN-13: 9789087285036)
The nature of modern-day threats including those in the virtual dimension challenges traditional anti-access and area denial (A2/AD) strategies. But how should we advance A2/AD to defy these multifaceted threats? This edition of Netherlands Annual...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009712910)
In this innovative history of small arms, Maartje Abbenhuis demonstrates how the invention of ready-to-use rifle cartridges in the industrial era made death accessible to all, with revolutionary results. She explains how their lethality influenced p...Loe edasi...
Jarosaw Dobrzyski, Janusz wiatlo, Marcelo Ribeiro, Mads Bangsø
Sari: White
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Mushroom Model Publications, ISBN-13: 9788365958440)
US Combat Aircraft Colours over Vietnam 1964 – 1975 covers all fixed – wing combat aircraft operated by US military during the Vietnam War 1964 – 1975. Volume 1 covers aircraft operated by US Air Force, Volume 2 – by US Navy and Marines. US C...Loe edasi...
The aircraft carrier HMS Furious was perhaps the most crucial ship in the development of naval aviation. She was effectively the testbed for the carrier aviation which emerged in the First World War and grew to dominate the war at sea in the Second....Loe edasi...
The French produced some of the most striking and innovatory interwar cruiser designs. A large amount of new information about these ships has become available over the past twenty years in France, but this book is the first to make this accessible...Loe edasi...
From the moment Germany launched its invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, code-named Operation Barbarossa, Hitler was fixated on the capture of Moscow. Yet his fear of exposing the flanks of the German Central Front led to costly diversions no...Loe edasi...
Outside of the Spitfire, the Nimrod was without doubt the RAF aircraft most familiar to the general public thanks to its role in maritime rescue co-ordination. But this was not the Nimrods primary role.As the first jet-powered dedicated anti-submari...Loe edasi...
The combat superiority of the jet fighter as demonstrated towards the end of World War II presented the U.S. Navy with a significant problem. Carrier-based aircraft have additional and burdensome design requirements compared to those that do not have...Loe edasi...
North Koreas Nuclear Cinema examines why and how North Korea has transitioned to an image-based nuclear power in the changing context of a post-Cold War world. What exactly is the North Korean nuclear threat? Why is North Korea enga...Loe edasi...
On 16 July 1945, the Nuclear Age began with the explosion of the first atomic bomb and the words of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds. While the threat of mutually assured destruction kept a lid on a...Loe edasi...
This is the definitive history of the Russian submarine program since WWII.Submarines emerged as a particularly terrifying weapon after WWII, in no small part through the application of nuclear propulsion and the development...Loe edasi...
Ewer examines how British politics shaped the development of aviation in the first half of the twentieth century. He shows how aviation outcomes were shaped by political institutions, policy traditions, and cultural assumptions about the relations...Loe edasi...
