The Essential Guide To Modern FirearmsHow to identify firearms from modern service weapons to older guns still encountered today. Includes pistols, revolvers, sub-machine guns, bolt-action rifles, automatic rifles, and machine guns.

Jane's Guns Recognition Guide

Hogg, Ian.

Reference

Harpercollins

This full-colour, third edition features all new photographs and additional information on firearms today.The new format allows for a greater range of firearms, making it easy to distinguish the key features of the weapons.ForewordPistolsRevolversSubmachine GunsBolt Action RiflesAutomatic RiflesMachine GunsManufacturers’ IndexBrand Name Index

Jane's Guns Recognition Guide - 3rd Edition

Collins Reference

Since the publication of the first edition in 1996, Jane's Guns Recognition has sold over 65,000 copies worldwide and this edition ensures it remains the international best-selling firearms handbook. 
This book does exactly what it says on the cover!
This is the most comprehensive guide to identifying guns, for anyone who is likely to come into contact with any firearm that is in use today, covering modern service weapons to older guns still found today.
With color photography and detailed specifications from the world famous Jane's Information Group resources, you will be able to recognize any gun with confidence and accuracy.
Jane's Gun Recognition Guide also features details of manufacturers as well as listing all the brand names and markings you may come across around the world.

Jane's Guns Recognition Guide 4e

Gander, Terry J.

Furnishes illustrated data on all of the currently deployed nuclear weapons, including operation, effective range and destructive power, and tells which countries have such nuclear capacity

Nuclear War in the 1980's

History

Chant. Christopher

Military

Introduced in the second half of the 19th century, the machine gun has become one of the most lethal weapons in battle. This work explains how machine guns work and how they are employed, details the well-known guns of the past century, and demonstrates their various adaptations away from battle.

The Grim Reaper: The Machine-Gun and Machine-Gunners

Americas

Trans-Atlantic Pubns

fortification is the oldest military science, and the this splendidly illustrated book tells the story of fortification from the days when prehistoric men tool cover behind ramparts of earth, to the days when the allied air forces blasted rocket-propelled bombs into hitler's submarine pens and the concrete defences of the atlantic wall

Fortress : A History of Military Defense

St Martin's, 1977

Traces the history of the use of fortifications to defend territory from the mud walls of prehistoric times through medieval castles to present-day missile silos

The History of Fortification

Science & Math

Technology

St.Martin's Press

An account of the men and machines in anti-tank warfare from World War I to the present day. This book provides clear explanations of how anti-tank weapons work, backed up with action extracts.

Tank Killers

Pan Books, Ltd.

This engaging title provides readers with a comprehensive overview of how artillery has been used in military combat around the world. The title begins with a discussion of artillery, its importance and use in battles, and how this has changed over time. This section is followed by almanac-style entries that highlight featured types of artillery throughout history, including specifications and performance statistics, and contributions in battle.

Artillery

Batchelor, John.

Ballantine Books, Inc.

A treatise of 1887 dismissed hand grenades as relics; mortars, too, received small praise. yet both were to be resurrected with devasting effect. Within thirty years more hand grenades would be hurled in one week than in the whole of history prior to 1887, and few weapons became so feared and hated by their victims as mortars.

Grenades and Mortars (Weapons Book no. 37 )

Ballantine, 1974

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