Weapons
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Gun: A Visual History
$22.99 Add to cartWatch a 700-year history unfold, from the medieval “hand-gonne” to today’s technologically advanced assault weapons.
Discover how gun design influenced warfare, from the 15th century when the arquebu- Author: DK
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0756695732
- Language: English
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German Field Artillery of World War II
$20.00 Read moreAn illustrated study of the big guns of Hitler’s army – the Wehrmacht’s field artillery, its capabilities and its role in German fighting units of World War II.
Often overshadowed in military history- Series: New Vanguard #325
- Author: Zaloga, Steven J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1472853970
- Language: English
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Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1975-90: The Ultimate Generation of Cold War Heavy Armor
$20.00 Read moreA comprehensive, illustrated account of the new generation of advanced tanks to emerge during the last 15 years of the Cold War, showcasing major improvements in armor protection, gunsights, and fire
- Series: New Vanguard #323
- Author: Zaloga, Steven J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1472853806
- Language: English
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Battleships of World War I & World War II: 1914-45
$27.99 Read moreA highly illustrated guide to the main battleships of the 20th century.
For centuries, battleships provided overwhelming firepower at sea. They were not only a major instrument of warfare, but also a- Series: Technical Guides
- Author: Martindale, E. V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1838862943
- Language: English
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Visual History of World Military Machines: Inside the World’s Most Incredible Combat Machines
$19.99 Read moreDiscover the incredible combat machines that have graced the skies, land, and sea of the world’s most famous conflicts. A fascinating account of the history and development of dozens of legendary mili… [more below]
- Series: Visual History
- Author: Harris, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1497104017
- Language: English
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The Colt M1911 .45 Automatic Pistol: M1911, M1911a1, Markings, Variants, Ammunition, Accessories
$24.99 Read moreThe Colt M1911 is one of the most well-known and popular military weapons of the 20th century. Designed by John Browning, this pistol, with its legendary reliability and firepower, represents the deve… [more below]
- Series: Classic Guns of the World #4
- Author: Huon, Jean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0764358251
- Language: English
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The Way of Archery: A 1637 Chinese Military Training Manual
$39.99 Read moreThe Way of Archery provides a detailed introduction to practicing archery in the traditional Chinese military style. It explains the basics of how to shoot using the Asian thumb ring: proper posture, … [more below]
- Author: Tian, Jie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0764347918
- Language: English
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Achtung-Panzer!: The Development of Tank Warfare
$36.40 Add to cartThis is one of the most significant military books of the twentieth century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsible
- Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
- Author: Guderian, Heinz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0304352853
- Language: English
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Polonium in the Playhouse: The Manhattan Project’s Secret Chemistry Work in Dayton, Ohio
$26.95 Add to cartAt the height of the race to build an atomic bomb, an indoor tennis court in one of the Midwest’s most affluent residential neighborhoods became a secret Manhattan Project laboratory. Polonium in the … [more below]
- Series: Trillium
- Author: Thomas, Linda Carrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 21 2018
- ISBN10: 0814254047
- Language: English
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Dam Busters: The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
$20.00 Add to cartThe night of May 16, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from an RAF airfield in Lincolnshire, England, each with a huge nine-thousand-pound cylindrical bomb strapped underneat… [more below]
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122787
- Language: English
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Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake
$28.95 Add to cartIn the mid-1950s a small group of overworked, underpaid scientists and engineers on a remote base in the Mojave Desert developed a weapon no one had asked for but everyone in the weapons industry desi… [more below]
- Author: Westrum, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1591149819
- Language: English
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By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions; 10th anniversary edition
$24.00 Add to cart“Like swordplay itself, By the Sword is elegant, accurate, romantic, and full of brio–the definitive study, hugely readable, of man’s most deadly art.”–Simon Winchester
With a new Preface by the au- Series: Modern Library Paperbacks
- Author: Cohen, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 05 2003
- ISBN10: 0812969669
- Language: English
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The Gun
$20.99 Add to cartIn a tour de force, prize-winning New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapid-fire arms from the American Civil War, through … [more below]
- Author: Chivers, C. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0743271734
- Language: English
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Ak-47: The Weapon That Changed the Face of War
$15.95 Add to cartNo single weapon has spread so much raw power to so many people in so little time-and had such a devastating effect–as the AK-47 assault rifle. This book examines the legacy of this world-changing we… [more below]
- Author: Kahaner, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0470168803
- Language: English
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Thompson Submachine Gun Caliber .45 M1928A1
$15.95 Add to cartOriginally invented by Brig. General John T. Thompson in 1918, the Thompson Submachine Gun was envisioned as a “one-man, hand-held machine gun” that would bring an end to WWI’s entrenched stalemate. T
- Author: Department, The War
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1937684199
- Language: English
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The Book of the Sword: With 293 Illustrations
$19.95 Read more“The history of the sword is the history of humanity.” With these words, British author, Victorian scholar, and world traveler Richard Burton begins his eloquent and exceptionally erudite history of t
- Series: Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor
- Author: Burton, Sir Richard F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0486254348
- Language: English
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The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth
$24.99 Add to cartThe Civil War’s single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so we’ve been told for years. Noted historian Earl J. Hess forcefully challenges that claim, offering a new, clear-eyed, an… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Hess, Earl J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 11 2016
- ISBN10: 0700623833
- Language: English
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Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World
$18.99 Add to cartWhen Chinese alchemists fashioned the first manmade explosion sometime during the tenth century, no one could have foreseen its full revolutionary potential. Invented to frighten evil spirits rather t… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0465037224
- Language: English
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Critical Mass: How Nazi Germany Surrendered Enriched Uranium for the United States’ Atomic Bomb
$24.95 Add to cartOn May 19, 1945, eleven days after the surrender of Nazi Germany in Europe, a U-boat was escorted into Portsmouth Naval Yard, New Hampshire. News reporters covering the surrender of U-234 were ordered… [more below]
- Author: Hydrick, Carter Plymton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1634241177
- Language: English
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The Complete SAS Survival Manual
$14.95 Read moreThe essential survival training of the British Special Air Service–with 360 color illustrations–on shelter, fire, foraging, hunting, and more.
Whether you are a sportsman, survivalist, prepper, or h- Author: Davies, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 25 2011
- ISBN10: 1616082828
- Language: English
