European Swords (Shire Library)

History

STEPHEN BULL

Military

Shire, 1994

Written by a well-known expert on arms and armor, this highly illustrated book covers the infantry weapons used during the two World Wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Falklands War, and the Gulf War. It also looks at the development of portable anti-armor and anti-air weapons, and examines the use of weapons by criminals and by law enforcement agencies. A final chapter looks at the role of weapons in leisure and sport. This invaluable reference book is much more than a technical directory of facts and figures. Rather, it is an examination of how weapons were developed to meet new requirements, and how their characteristics affected combat. The story of the twentieth century has been shaped by warfare, and the story of warfare itself has been shaped by the weapons in this book.

20th-Century Arms and Armor

Harry G. Summers

World

Checkmark Books

Details the personal equipment and weapons of the German Army, from the Picklehaube to the steel helmet.

World War One: German Army (Brassey's History)

Brasseys Uk Ltd

World War Ii: The Last War Heroes

Osprey

The Secret Agent's Pocket Manual: 1939-1945

Conway

Most wars have had some element of espionage & subterfuge, but few have included as much as the Second World War, where the all-embracing nature of the conflict, new technology & the battle of ideologies conspired to make almost everywhere a war zone. This book discusses this topic.

The Secret Agent's Pocket Manual (Pocket Format)

Europe

Lord Derby, Lancashire's highest-ranked nobleman and its principal royalist, once offered the opinion that the English civil wars had been a 'general plague of madness'. Complex and bedevilling, the earl defied anyone to tell the complete story of 'so foolish, so wicked, so lasting a war'. Yet attempting to chronicle and to explain the events is both fascinating and hugely important. Nationally and at the county level the impact and significance of the wars can hardly be over-stated: the conflict involved our ancestors fighting one another, on and off, for a period of nine years; almost every part of Lancashire witnessed warfare of some kind at one time or another, and several towns in particular saw bloody sieges and at least one episode characterised as a massacre.Nationally the wars resulted in the execution of the king; in 1651 the Earl of Derby himself was executed in Bolton in large measure because he had taken a leading part in the so-called massacre in that town in 1644. In the early months of the civil wars many could barely distinguish what it was that divided people in 'this war without an enemy', as the royalist William Waller famously wrote; yet by the end of it parliament had abolished monarchy itself and created the only republic in over a millennium of England's history. Over the ensuing centuries this period has been described variously as a rebellion, as a series of civil wars, even as a revolution.Lancashire's role in these momentous events was quite distinctive, and relative to the size of its population particularly important. Lancashire lay right at the centre of the wars, for the conflict did not just encompass England but Ireland and Scotland too, and Lancashire's position on the coast facing Catholic, Royalist Ireland was seen as critical from the very first months. And being on the main route south from Scotland meant that the county witnessed a good deal of marching and marauding armies from the north. In this, the first full history of the Lancashire civil wars for almost a century, Stephen Bull makes extensive use of new discoveries to narrate and explain the exciting, terrible events which our ancestors witnessed in the cause either of king or parliament. From Furness to Liverpool, and from the Wyre estuary to Manchester and Warrington...civil war actions, battles, sieges and skirmishes took place in virtually every corner of Lancashire.

The Civil Wars in Lancashire, 1640-1660

Carnegie

German Assault Troops of the First World War

Spellmount

The Civil War in Lancashire

Lancashire County Books

The hostage rescue at the Iranian Embassy in London on May 5, 1980 established Britain’s Special Air Service as the world’s premier special forces unit. While that single incident has had a tremendous influence on the world’s SWAT teams and counter-terror units, urban operations is but one of many SAS capabilities. All members of the regiment are trained in airborne and amphibious landings, can operate in virtually any terrain and climate, speak several languages and have a thorough knowledge of the world’s firearms and explosives. 
As with all British units, their traditions are important to the SAS. The origins of the unit, thoroughly covered here, go back to the desert raiders of World War II and continue through later operations in Malaya, Aden, the Falklands and the Persian Gulf. All of the weapons, equipment, and active operations of the Special Air Service are described in detail with the aid of numerous color and black-and-white photos, paintings and drawings.

SAS: Special Forces in Action (Classic Soldiers)

Military Illustrated

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