This title is the first of two volumes examining the artillery equipment of the British forces du...

In April 1862, the stage was set for one of the greatest locomotive chases in history. Union forc...

During the Old and Middle Kingdoms, Ancient Egypt led the world in the construction of fortificat...

Following the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, the German Army began to co...

There were many elements to British Napoleonic naval success but one of the key factors was gunne...

Panzer warfare is synonymous with the Wehrmacht of World War II. This book examines the story of ...

An illustrated history of the headquarters of the Knights Hospitaller, repeatedly besieged during...

Despite all technological advances, final mastery of any battlefield depends upon the tight-knit ...

Following on from the first volume covering British Napoleonic Artillery, this volume concentrate...

In 1914 the artillery of Britain's 'Field Army' encompassed those weapons judged to have sufficie...

In the wake of the bloody civil war that followed Finland's independence from Russia in 1917, the...

At the beginning of the English Civil War it was clear that artillery was to play a significant p...

Commonly mistaken for the locally raised Viet Cong, the NVA was an entirely different force, cond...

Determined to learn from the lessons of World War I, the US Army developed a new generation of fi...

The rapid development of the tank as an offensive weapon following its introduction in World War ...

The development of the city-state in the Classical period of Greek history ensured a shift in the...

In 1964 Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, activated a joint unconventional task force known a...

In 1585, the English launched a pre-emptive strike against Spain, by attacking her New World colo...

Siege machinery first appeared in the West during the Carthaginian invasion of Sicily in the late...

With the vast expansion of the Roman Empire came a need for more and more fortifications to defen...

Chariots, the first mobile fighting vehicle, seem to have originated in Mesopotamia in the third ...

The Austrian artillery of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars was a creation of the renowned Li...

In the second half of the third millennium BC the Indo-European tribe known as the Hittites migra...

The catapult (katapeltikon) was invented under the patronage of Dionysius I, tyrant of Syracuse, ...

World War I is often deemed to have been 'a war of artillery', and British heavy artillery played...

The concept of a legionary fortress as a permanent structure dates from the reign of Augustus (27...

In May 1943 a specially established RAF squadron made its permanent imprint on military aviation ...

'New France' consisted of the area colonized and ruled by France in North America from the 16th t...

The ring of fortifications protecting the city of Verdun on the Meuse River would become critical...

Few tank designs have been as effective, versatile and long-lived as that of the British Centurio...

The US Army's development of the 37mm anti-tank gun began in response to needs identified during ...

From the beginning of the 2nd millennium AD northern India began to fall under the sway of a numb...

In 1965, soon after the first US combat troops had arrived in Vietnam, it was realized that in so...

In the last years of his reign Henry VIII needed a radically modern system of defence to protect ...

'New France' consisted of the area colonized and ruled by France in North America from the 16th t...

'Examines the geography of the Holy Lands and the great nations that ruled them.'--Provided by pu...

Discover where events in the Old and New Testaments took place and see how people lived in Biblic...

Come affermato nel Manuale operativo dell¿esercito degli Stati Uniti (giugno 1944), ¿la fanteria ...