A variety of factors surround military firearms – they needed to be produced in large numbers to a standardised pattern at an affordable price. This book examines the transition from traditional...
Heavy gun mountings dominated the design of larger warships, on account of their size, weight, protection and cost. In the 1890s, British gun mountings developed rapidly with new gun technologies (wire...
The Natter rocket plane, a WWII German weapon, marked a key milestone in vertical rocket-powered flight.Well before Yuri Gagarin or Alan Shepard, Lothar Sieber became the first man to take off vertically...
This is an up-to-date and detailed, yet accessible, study of the weapons and armour of the Classical Greeks, Macedonians and Romans. Covering the period from the emergence of hoplite armies in Greece...
Examines the shift from hand-craft to mechanized firearm production, focusing on the French Model 1777 and Russian Model 1808 muskets.A variety of factors surround military firearms – they needed...
"Domenico Angelo's book, complete with diagrams, embodies the ideas of an era." — Philip Stafford in The Times Literary SupplementDomenico Angelo's book, complete with diagrams, embodies the ideas...
This book takes a look at the records from a time period of increasing importance to the tank historian and starts the process of illuminating the dark age of British tanks.
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