What is it like to operate in a four-man team for months at a time behind enemy lines, to infiltrate Argentinian defences on the Falklands, to "take out" an IRA active service unit and to storm a terrorist-held building in the heart of London and free hostages? This book looks at what it means to take part in such action. Using first-hand accounts, this book examines every facet of the world's most highly trained and deadly special forces unit. In addition, the reader gets a unique insight into the minds of the men who wear the Winged Dagger badge. Includes the most notable actions the regiment has been involved in the last 30 years: the siege-busting operation at Princes Gate in May 1980; the Pebble Island raid, which led to the destruction of Argentinian aircraft in a daring night-time raid; the intelligence-gathering missions behind the lines on the Falklands; the spectacular Longhall ambush of May 1987; and the controversial Gibraltar ambush of 1988, which led to the neutralization of an IRA active service unit.

SAS at Close Quarters: Great Battles of the SAS

Engineering & Transportation

Crawford, Steve

Engineering

Pan/Macmillan

A study of how trained soldiers kill and wound, and an insight into how human beings can be turned into deadly fighting machines. The skills described in the book can be primitive as well as ultra-modern: martial arts, such as aikido, and barehanded fighting.

Deadly Fighting Skills of the World

SIDGWICK JACKSON

Deadly Fighting Skills of the World is the most in-depth study yet of how trained soldiers kill and wound, and a complete insight into how human beings can be turned into deadly fighting machines. These skills can be primitive as well as ultramodern. Far Eastern elite troops train in the historic martial arts: the South Korean Tiger Division is expert in the lethal skills of punching and kicking. Western special forces can fight with their hands, using them to defeat heavily armed assailants, and can kill without a sound. They can improvise weapons from materials at hand. But they also have access to the most sophisticated weaponry: hand-held anti-tank guns which can transform a tank into a blazing hulk. They know the latest techniques of ambush, how to assassinate heavily guarded political opponents, and how to rapidly destroy key installations. All the above and much more is in this exceptionally interesting book, made more graphic by 100 diagrams and 80 photographs.

History

Military

St. Martin's: Griffin

The SAS Encyclopedia

Reference

SIMON SCHUSTER (TRADE DIVISION)

Ninety of the most important armored fighting vehicles of World War II are profiled with archival photographs; design, development, and service histories; and full specifications tables listing designation, type, length and height, crew, armaments, engine, range and speed, hull and turret armor, and trench-crossing abilities. In addition to legendary tanks like the Sherman, T-34, Panzers, Tigers, and Cromwells, there are also lesser-known Italian, French,, and Japanese vehicles.

Tanks of World War II

MBI Publishing Co.

Take the controls of the most incredible warplanes in the skies today! Crawford checks you out in the extraordinary B-1 and B-2 stealth bombers, the fabulous F-16 Fighting Falcon, the furious F-15 Eagle, and the tenacious F-14 Tomcat for an information-packed review of their awesome capabilities. Details of the Tornados, Mirages, Harriers, and the new Eurofighter Typhoons that headline NATO's airborne defense network are also examined.

Twenty-First Century Warplanes: The World's Most Potent Military Aircraft

Zenith Pr

Climb aboard the world's most technologically advanced surface warriors. Vivid color photographs feature cruisers, destroyers and frigates tasked with combat operations against hostile submarines, surface ships and aircraft, missiles and targets ashore. Take a land-lubber's look at the U.S Navy's awesome vessels - Ticonderoga class guided missile cruisers, Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyers, Spruance class destroyers, and Oliver Hazard Perry frigates. High-seas adventure from cover to cover!

Twenty-First Century Warships: Surface Combatants of Today's Navies

Lethal firepower and an impressive array of modern capabilities take you into the front lines of battle! The spearhead of today's battle groups, tracked vehicles are fully equipped with global positioning systems, inertial position navigation systems, and single channel ground/airborne radio systems to allow them to respond rapidly to ever-changing tactical situations. See these sophisticated systems on full alert commanding today's fighting tanks and infantry vehicles.

Tracked Firepower: Today's Armored Fighting Vehicles

Turner, Jason

Twenty-First Century Submarines includes the undersea vessels currently in use with navies around the world, such as the American Ohio class nuclear-powered submarine.

21st Century Submarines (Twenty First Series)

Twenty-First Century Small Arms contains the most important weapons currently in use by infantry forces around the world. Developments in engineering and materials have increased the lethality of small arms, resulting in individual soldiers being able to carry weapons that are both lightweight but able to lay down large amounts of firepower against enemy troops at long ranges.

Twenty First Century Small Arms: The World's Great Infantry Weapons (Twenty First Series)

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SAS at Close Quarters: Great Battles of the SAS

Deadly Fighting Skills of the World

Deadly Fighting Skills of the World

The SAS Encyclopedia

Tanks of World War II

Twenty-First Century Warplanes: The World's Most Potent Military Aircraft

Twenty-First Century Warships: Surface Combatants of Today's Navies

Tracked Firepower: Today's Armored Fighting Vehicles

21st Century Submarines (Twenty First Series)

Twenty First Century Small Arms: The World's Great Infantry Weapons (Twenty First Series)