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...
(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...
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...
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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Michael Joseph Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780241767122)
War came to North Africa in June 1940. But it was over a year before a newly-formed SAS went into action. Until then, the fight belonged to an elite, top secret band of brothers called the Long Range Desert Group.They were Britain’s fi...Loe edasi...
Illustrated throughout, this uncovers the hundreds of British and French warships in the Dunkirk evacuation, whose actions have been overshadowed by the fame of the Little Ships.In this book, nav...Loe edasi...
Through World War II the US Army worked on projects for new heavy tanks, which are charted in this illustrated study of the M6 and the never-built T14, T28, and Pershing-derived designs....Loe edasi...
This fully illustrated study pits Germanys Panzer I against the Soviet T-26 in the Spanish Civil War. This fully illustrated study pits Germanys Panzer I against the Soviet T-26 in the Spanish Civil War.In 1936, as...Loe edasi...
Packed with illustrations, this is the first history of MarinegruppenkommandoSüd, Germanys southern naval command that fought a fast and furious war at the far end of the Mediterranean....Loe edasi...
An illustrated account of the action-packed combat missions carried out by the Luftwaffes powerfully armed Junkers Ju 88C day and nightfighters ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Michael Joseph Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780241767139)
PRE-ORDER THE ACTION-PACKED STORY OF THE WWII GROUP THAT BECAME OUR SAS, FROM ONE OF THE UKS MOST STORIED SPECIAL FORCES OPERATORS A must read for any military enthusiast . . . insightful and inspirational JASON FOX A heart...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781836742166)
The future of the image in the age of AI, by the celebrated artistWe once looked at pictures. Then, with the advent of computer vision and machine learning, pictures started looking back at us. Now, something even stranger is happening...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Sona Books, ISBN-13: 9781917259637)
In the Worlds Greatest Military Aircraft, climb into the cockpit of the worlds earliest combat aircraft, from the French Voisin III to the German Albatross D.VA, as well as some of Britains early forays into flight. Go nose-to-nose with the iconic f...Loe edasi...
This engrossing history explores the creation, development and actions of the Special Duties squadrons, which carried spies, political figures and documents in and out of Occupied Europe.In 1940, Winston Churchill famously set in mo...Loe edasi...
The 2026 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual featuring original research on the history, development and service of the worlds warships.For nearly 50 years, Warship has been providing scholars and enthusiasts wi...Loe edasi...
A unique approach to describing life at sea in the Royal Navy. A unique approach to describing life at sea in the Royal Navy.Despite the introduction of modern-day technology, Ships and Submarines of the Royal Navy st...Loe edasi...
A lively exploration of the poisoners, tricksters, stingers, stinkers and invaders of the plant and fungal worlds and how their lives intertwine with ours. “Peter Marren is a master storyteller and gifted with an inimitable gallows...Loe edasi...
British Defence Policy and Nuclear War (1964) examines the reasons advanced to justify an independent British nuclear deterrent, as well as looking at the worldwide context of nuclear weapons and strategies. It also assesses whether the pol...Loe edasi...
Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six decades? And what led to the spectacular collapse of the Soviet Union?In this comprehensive guide to the most wid...Loe edasi...
Scientific advances in biological and chemical sciences can offer significant benefits to humanity, but these discoveries may also result in the proliferation of novel classes of weapons and new uses for such weapons. This book explores the curren...Loe edasi...
This book explores how enduring meta-narratives shape international security policies, disarmament efforts, and arms control practices. Zooming-in on dominant political myths, this book critically examines their role in legitimizing and sustaining g...Loe edasi...
A highly illustrated study of the T-72 main battle tank and variants, detailing its history from the Cold War Soviet Army though to the current War in Ukraine. A highly illustrated study of the T-72 main battle tank and variant...Loe edasi...
An illustrated history of the torpedo boats of Italys fast coastal forces, from their raids on enemy battleships in World War I to the dashing campaigns of World War II. An illustrated history of the motor torpedo boats of Italy...Loe edasi...
This book studies the role, representation, and materiality of weapons, focusing on what they mean to communities and individuals in various cultural, social, political, and religious settings.Drawing on a range of case studies from across...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Fonthill Media Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781781559277)
While not as famous as the Avro Lancaster, the Handley Page Halifax was developed to the same specification as the Lancaster’s predecessor, the Avro Manchester, and suffered similar engine-related issues. While not as famous as the Avro Lanca...Loe edasi...
As the Second World War loomed, the Territorial Army was doubled and 2nd Battalion, The London Rifle Brigade was formed. This title was short lived and 8th Rifle Brigade joined the newly raised 11th Armoured Division in the spring of 1941. Three yea...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...
Jarosaw Dobrzyski, Janusz wiatlo, Marcelo Ribeiro, Mads Bangsø
Sari: White
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-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...
(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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781648433641)
Entrepreneurship in aviation took flight during the 1920s, though at the beginning of the decade it was struggling for survival. After World War I, the market was oversaturated with war surplus airplanes, commercial transport a mere dream, and, with...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...
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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Michael Joseph Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780241767122)
War came to North Africa in June 1940. But it was over a year before a newly-formed SAS went into action. Until then, the fight belonged to an elite, top secret band of brothers called the Long Range Desert Group.They were Britain’s fi...Loe edasi...
Illustrated throughout, this uncovers the hundreds of British and French warships in the Dunkirk evacuation, whose actions have been overshadowed by the fame of the Little Ships.In this book, nav...Loe edasi...
Through World War II the US Army worked on projects for new heavy tanks, which are charted in this illustrated study of the M6 and the never-built T14, T28, and Pershing-derived designs....Loe edasi...
This fully illustrated study pits Germanys Panzer I against the Soviet T-26 in the Spanish Civil War. This fully illustrated study pits Germanys Panzer I against the Soviet T-26 in the Spanish Civil War.In 1936, as...Loe edasi...
Packed with illustrations, this is the first history of MarinegruppenkommandoSüd, Germanys southern naval command that fought a fast and furious war at the far end of the Mediterranean....Loe edasi...
An illustrated account of the action-packed combat missions carried out by the Luftwaffes powerfully armed Junkers Ju 88C day and nightfighters ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Michael Joseph Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780241767139)
PRE-ORDER THE ACTION-PACKED STORY OF THE WWII GROUP THAT BECAME OUR SAS, FROM ONE OF THE UKS MOST STORIED SPECIAL FORCES OPERATORS A must read for any military enthusiast . . . insightful and inspirational JASON FOX A heart...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781836742166)
The future of the image in the age of AI, by the celebrated artistWe once looked at pictures. Then, with the advent of computer vision and machine learning, pictures started looking back at us. Now, something even stranger is happening...Loe edasi...
The first comprehensive and exhaustive history of the design, construction and operation of Soviet nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs), with a complete and up to date analysis of accidents suffered by these vessels. This is the history of a grou...Loe edasi...
The Pentomic Army: The U.S. Army and the Nuclear Battlefield in the 1950s-60s by Robert F. Williams, describes the U.S. Armys ill-fated 1956–1962 Pentomic transition. This radical reorganization aimed for nuclear battlefield adaptability and institu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Sona Books, ISBN-13: 9781917259637)
In the Worlds Greatest Military Aircraft, climb into the cockpit of the worlds earliest combat aircraft, from the French Voisin III to the German Albatross D.VA, as well as some of Britains early forays into flight. Go nose-to-nose with the iconic f...Loe edasi...
This engrossing history explores the creation, development and actions of the Special Duties squadrons, which carried spies, political figures and documents in and out of Occupied Europe.In 1940, Winston Churchill famously set in mo...Loe edasi...
The 2026 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual featuring original research on the history, development and service of the worlds warships.For nearly 50 years, Warship has been providing scholars and enthusiasts wi...Loe edasi...
A unique approach to describing life at sea in the Royal Navy. A unique approach to describing life at sea in the Royal Navy.Despite the introduction of modern-day technology, Ships and Submarines of the Royal Navy st...Loe edasi...
A lively exploration of the poisoners, tricksters, stingers, stinkers and invaders of the plant and fungal worlds and how their lives intertwine with ours. “Peter Marren is a master storyteller and gifted with an inimitable gallows...Loe edasi...
From Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature: a devastating human history of the Chernobyl reactor disaster, now in an emotive new translation.First there is the voice of the firefighter’s wife, w...Loe edasi...
An incisive exploration traces how antinuclear activists reshaped the discourse around nuclear weapons, turning established narratives on power into debates over peril. Their persuasive arguments swayed public opinion and policy, paving the way for...Loe edasi...
British Defence Policy and Nuclear War (1964) examines the reasons advanced to justify an independent British nuclear deterrent, as well as looking at the worldwide context of nuclear weapons and strategies. It also assesses whether the pol...Loe edasi...
This stunning book offers a unique photographic exploration of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom, captured by Robbie Shaw during his time as an Air Traffic Controller in the RAF. The F-4 Phantom, first flown in 1958, became a versatile warplane, exce...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Air World, ISBN-13: 9781526787279)
Flying at 70,000 feet, carrying nuclear weapons at Mach 3+ for thousands of miles, the North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie was not merely going to redefine military aviation, but the very nature of warfare itself. Flying at 70,000 feet, ca...Loe edasi...
Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six decades? And what led to the spectacular collapse of the Soviet Union?In this comprehensive guide to the most wid...Loe edasi...
At dawn on 22 June 1941, along an 1,800-mile-long invasion front, three million German soldiers on the frontier of the Soviet Union unleashed the largest offensive in military history Operation Barbarossa. Spearheading this titanic clash was Field...Loe edasi...
In 1912, TOM Sopwith transitioned from running a flying school to manufacturing aircraft, leveraging his nautical interests to create designs purchased by Britains Royal Navy. The onset of the First World War solidified the Sopwith Aviation Companys...Loe edasi...
