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Schiffer Publishing Ltd German Daggers of World War II A Photographic
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Combat Knives Knife Combat Knife Models Carrying
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Pocketknife Making for Beginners
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Italian Partisan Weapons in WWII
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIf you have a spare few minutes, check out the review of our book Italian Partisan Weapons in WWII by the YouTube account Forgotten Weapons.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Tiger I in Combat
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Art of Swordsmanship by Hans Lecküchner
Book SynopsisEnglish translation of one of the most significant medieval texts on fighting with swords. Completed in 1482, Johannes Lecküchner's Art of Combat with the "Langes Messer" (Messerfechtkunst) is among the most important documents on the combat arts of the Middle Ages. The Messer was a single-edged, one-handed utility sword peculiar to central Europe, but Lecküchner's techniques apply to cut-and-thrust swords in general: not only is this treatise the single most substantial work on the use of one-handed swords to survive from this period, but it is the most detailed explanation of the two-handed sword techniques of the German "Liechtenauer" school dating back to the 1300s. Lecküchner's lavish manuscript consists of over four hundred illustrations with explanatory text, in which the author, a parish priest, rings the changes on bladework, deceits, and grappling, with techniques ranging from life-or-death escapes from an armed assailant to slapstick moves designed to please the crowd in public fencing matches. This translation, complete with all illustrations from the manuscript, makes the treatise accessible for the first time since the author's untimely death less than a year after its completion left his major work to be lost for generations. An extensive introduction, notes, and glossary analyze and contextualize the work and clarify its technical content. Jeffrey L. Forgeng is curator of Arms and Armor and Medieval Art at the Worcester Art Museum, and teaches as Adjunct Professor of History at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.Trade ReviewIt is clear that Jeffrey Forgeng is not only a technical expert on the weapon illustrated in this manual, but also a scholar deeply versed in the manuscript tradition of which this volume is a part as well as in the accumulated historiography that treats it. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *A fantastic attempt to make the fecht-bücher increasingly accessible to a wider audience.... What sets this book apart is the contextualisation of the source and the excellent translations. * MEDIEVAL WARFARE *For anyone really interested in fighting styles and techniques, this is a must-read. * SLINGSHOT *Forgeng's translation is clear and accessible. His experience not only as a scholar of early swordsmanship, but as a practitioner, is readily apparent. . . . [Forgeng makes] a vital text more widely available for practitioners not only looking to better understand the use of single-handed swords of all types, but also to how those techniques complement other medieval martial practices. * DE RE MILITARI *
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Naval & Military Press Ltd Long Luger Pistol (1917)
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd SOG Knives and More from Americas War in
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Germanyâs V2 Rocket
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Catoblepas Press Saps, Blackjacks and Slungshots: A History of Forgotten Weapons
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Naval & Military Press W.E. Fairbairn's Complete Compendium of Lethal, Unarmed, Hand-to-Hand Combat Methods and Fighting
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Italian Small Arms of the First and Second World
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux American Gun
Book SynopsisA finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeA magisterial work of narrative history and original reportage . . . You can feel the tension building one cold, catastrophic fact at a time . . . A virtually unprecedented achievement. Mike Spies, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)A Washington Post top 50 nonfiction book of 2023 Short-listed for the Zócalo Book PrizeOne of The New York Times' 33 nonfiction books to read this fall One of Esquire's best books of fall A Kirkus Reviews best nonfiction book of 2023Named a most anticipated book of the fall by The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and BloombergAmerican Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 presents the epic history of America's most controversial weapon.In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner sought to devise a lightweight, easy-to-use weapon that could replace the M1s touted by soldiers in World War II. What he did create was a lethal handheld icon of the American century.In American Gun, the veteran Wall Street Journal reporters Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson track the AR-15 from inception to ubiquity. How did the same gun represent the essence of freedom to millions of Americans and the essence of evil to millions more? To answer this question, McWhirter and Elinson follow Stonerthe American Kalashnikovas he struggled mightily to win support for his invention, which under the name M16 would become standard equipment in Vietnam. Shunned by gun owners at first, the rifle's popularity would take off thanks to a renegade band of small-time gun makers. And in the 2000s, it would become the weapon of choice for mass shooters, prompting widespread calls for proscription even as the gun industry embraced it as a financial savior. Writing with fairness and compassion, McWhirter and Elinson explore America's gun culture, revealing the deep appeal of the AR-15, the awful havoc it wreaks, and the politics of reducing its toll. The result is a moral history of contemporary America's love affair with technology, freedom, and weaponry.Includes 8 pages of black-and-white images.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Sword Fighting
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HarperCollins Publishers One Shot One Kill A History of the Sniper
Book SynopsisA cultural and military history of the sniper since 1643, when the first shot was fired by a sniper during the battle for Litchfield in the English Civil War, to the present day.Trade Review‘A rapid-fire account of the “most dishonourable and ungentlemanly” tactic in the practice of arms’ The Times ‘The Hunting of Man reminds us of the business of war. It isn't a regular military history but an intriguing, if dispiriting, history of precision killing. … Andy Dougan provides a very readable alternative history of conflict, charting the evolution of the marksman from an opportunist with a bow and arrow into a killer who can change history with a single shot’ Sunday Telegraph
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Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. The Sinking of the Bismarck
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Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S. Trinity A Graphic History of the First Atomic
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Artech House Publishers SurfaceBased Air Defense System Analysis Radar Library
Book SynopsisConstitutes a multidisciplinary introduction to the analysis of air defence systems. The text illustrates 12 air defence process models, covering initial detection to kill assessment. These models form the foundation for any air defence system analysis.Table of ContentsThreat characterization; air defence process models and events; tactical environments; anti-aircraft artillery; surface to air missile guidance concepts; missile element models and trim flight simulation; guidance and control; warheads and fuses; simulation and engagement applications; air defence mission modeling, air defence system test and evaluation.
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Nephilim Press The Toolmakers Airgun
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Legare Street Press The The Enfield Rifle Ed. By R.c. Stewart
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Legare Street Press Etat Actuel De Lartillerie De Campagne En Europe Volume 3
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Legare Street Press Gayas Traité Des Armes 1678
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Legare Street Press Handbook of the Gatling Gun Caliber .30 Models of 1895 1900 and 1903
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Legare Street Press Armour and its Attack by Artillery
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Legare Street Press A A Brief History of The Kings Royal Rifle Corps
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