Weapons category: 1025 books
The Projects of Skunk Works
75 Years of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The stories behind more than 50 secret projects undertaken by the famed Lockheed Martin Skunk Works on behalf of the US Armed Forces, DARPA, and the CIA - all illustrated with official Skunk Works photography and commissioned artworks. Hatched in June 1943 after a special request of the US Army Air...
by Leroy Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
In 1938 the US Chief of Infantry requested that the Ordnance Department develop a carbine to be used by service and support troops, artillerymen, machine-gun crews, tankers, mortar crews and other troops not needing the power of the M1 Garand rifle. The development of this new weapon was given an...
The Hand Gun Story
A Complete Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
A firearms expert “traces the history of the ‘one hand gun’ from its 14th century origins . . . surveying changing technology, techniques, and design” (Midwest Book Review).
Ideally suited for both attack and self-defense, handguns have gotten smaller and deadlier. But the earliest pistols...
Operation Damocles
Israel's Secret War Agaisnt Hitler's Scientists, 1951-1967
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The forgotten cloak-and-dagger history of the former Nazi scientists who were recruited by Egypt to develop long-range missiles capable of striking Israel
From 1951 to 1967 Egypt pursued a secret program to build military rockets that could have conceivably posed a threat to neighboring Israel....
by Patrick Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
In 1911, the history of firearms changed forever with the adoption of the greatest pistol ever designed, the Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911 - known today simply as the 1911. Now, in one fascinating, illustrated volume, authority Patrick Sweeney celebrates the 100th anniversary of the greatest fighting...
Tsuba
Japanese Sword Guards
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
"TSUBA-Japanese Sword Guards" 2012 book by Gary Murtha, containing information on over 65 tsuba making schools and groups, an artist index with information and kao and kakihan of nearly 2,000 artists and illustrations of over 60 b/w tsuba. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
Arms Canada
The Deadly Business of Military Exports
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
This 1987 book begins with a scene from the American invasion of Grenada: as politicians in Ottawa argued whether Canada had been misled or merely ignored over the invasion, the fighter aircraft, helicopters, and ships used in the operation employed key Canadian components.
Grenada was only...
The Black Powder Plainsman
A Beginner's Guide to Muzzleloading and Reenactment on the Great Plains
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
A guide for those curious about antique rifles, the lost art of muzzleloading, and the history of the Old West from an expert on black powder hunting.
The Black Powder Plainsman provides a wealth of information on muzzleloading and the history of the Plainsmen. The author explores the lives...
Shifty's War
The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell "Shifty" Powers, the Legendary Shar pshooter from the Band of Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell “Shifty” Powers, the Legendary Sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers.
As a boy growing up in the remote mining town of Clinchco, Virginia, Darrell “Shifty” Powers’s goal was to become the best rifle shot he could be. His father trained...
Sniping in France
With Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Major Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard was an explorer and adventurer who revolutionized the training of British Army snipers during the First World War. In this richly-detailed book, he explains his constant efforts to improve sniping standards, which finally resulted in the First...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Dont fight a battle if you dont gain anything by winning.General Erwin RommelA fascinating account of a deadly combination: the supreme German weapon of war in the hands of the finest military tacticians of last century.Illustrated throughout with full coverage of all the German tanks, tank battles...
by Joshua Davis
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Joshua Davis was a native of Boston born in 1760, as his short memoir attests he was an experienced sailor and seasoned campaigner. In 1779 he boarded the 20 gun privateer, the Jason, on a mission to capture as many British ships as possible, he and his crewmates were successful in their search for...
Spearhead
An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
**NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • “A band of brothers in an American tank . . . Makos drops the reader back into the Pershing’s turret and dials up a battle scene to rival the peak moments of Fury.”
—The Wall Street Journal
From the...
Gunner's Glory
Untold Stories of Marine Machine Gunners
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
They were warriors, trained to fight,
dedicated to their country,
and determined to win.
At Guadalcanal, the Marine Corps’ machine gunners took everything the Japanese could throw at them in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II; their position was so hopeless that at one point they...