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Автор: Jean Huon Название: The Colt M1911 .45 Automatic Pistol: M1911, M1911A1, Markings, Variants, Ammunition, Accessories ISBN: 0764358251 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780764358258 Издательство: Schiffer Рейтинг: Цена: 27820.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Colt M1911 is one of the most well-known and popular military weapons of the 20th century. Designed by John Browning, this pistol, with its legendary reliability and firepower, represents the developmental starting point of a majority of automatic pistols to this day. It was the standard-issue sidearm of the US armed forces for more than 70 years and is still in use throughout the world. This detailed, illustrated book features the M1911 from its initial design, manufacturing, and testing, through its combat use in WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. Through more than 370 images, this title includes close-up views of markings, as well as a serial numbers list, and a visual breakdown of the weapon. Accessories such as magazines, ammunition, holsters, and cleaning kits are featured throughout the book, as are rarely seen combat-related uniform and equipment items.
Автор: Malmassari Paul Название: Armoured Trains: An Illustrated Encyclopedia 1826-2016 ISBN: 1591146070 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781591146070 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 78170.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Completely revised and expanded since its French publication, "Armoured Trains: An Illustrated Encyclopedia 1826 2016" is the first English-language edition of the authoritative work on the subject.
Military forces around the world were quick to see the advantages of railways in warfare, whether for the rapid deployment of men or the movement of heavy equipment like artillery. From this realization, it was a short step to making the train a potent weapon in its own right a mobile fort or a battleship on rails. Armed and armored, they became the first practical self-propelled war machines. As demonstrated in the American Civil War, these trains were able to make a significant contribution to battlefield success.
Thereafter, almost every belligerent nation with a railway system made some use of armored rolling stock, ranging from low-intensity colonial policing to the massive employment of armored trains during the Russian Civil War. Although they were somewhat eclipsed as frontline weapons by the development of the tank and other armored fighting vehicles, armored trains retained a role as late as the civil wars in the former republic of Yugoslavia.
This truly encyclopedic book covers, country by country, the range of fighting equipment that rode the rails over nearly two centuries. While this book outlines the place of armored trains in the evolution of warfare, it concentrates on details of their design through a vast array of photographs and the author s meticulous drawings."
Автор: Absolon Trevor Название: Samurai Armour ISBN: 1472807960 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472807960 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 39600.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: The first of a two-part, exhaustively researched meditation on the astonishingly beautiful and intricate armour of the samurai. This volume focuses on the dou, the armour that protected the warrior`s chest.
Автор: George Moller Название: American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume III: Flintlock Alterations and Muzzleloading Percussion Shoulder Arms, 1840-1865 ISBN: 0826350011 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826350015 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 104410.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This third volume in Moller`s authoritative reference work describes muzzleloading percussion shoulder arms procured by the US government for issue to federal and state armed forces in the period that includes the Civil War. Like the first two volumes of American Military Shoulder Arms, this exhaustive reference work will be a must for serious arms collectors, dealers, and museum specialists.
Автор: Hamid Syed Ali Название: At the Forward Edge of Battle Volume 2: A History of the Pakistan Armoured Corps ISBN: 1912866331 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912866335 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 21070.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The first illustrated history of the Pakistan Armoured Corps. Volume 2, is illustrated by over 100 photographs, 15 colour profiles, and a similar number of maps.
Автор: Plant John Название: The 1st Armoured Division ISBN: 1909878456 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781909878457 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 23430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
The 17th Battalion arrived in France in April 1918. Its first operations were in support of the French Army in June. It returned to the British Army in August and was very successful at the Battle of Amiens. The Austin Armoured cars were towed in pairs by tanks across the battlefield. Once they reached better ground on the other side of the lines, they ranged freely. A German Corps headquarters 10 miles back was captured and German reserves, artillery and supply lines were shot up. The 17th was the first British unit to cross the Rhine in 1918. This is a very good Battalion history that is scarce in its original printing.
Recognising after the battle of Cambrai that the slow MARK V tanks could break through the fortified German lines, but could not exploit the breakout, the new Whippet Tanks and the 17th (armoured car) Battalion underwent training to establish how to take advantage of this situation.
In 1917 an order of Austin Armoured cars - originally destined for the Russian Army - became the 17th (Armoured car) Battalion. 16 of the Austins not sent following the revolution were used to equip the 17th (Armoured Car) Battalion of the Tank Corps. The Vickers machine guns were exchanged for the Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun, which was the standard machine gun of the British tank unit. During the fighting at Amiens as part of the 5th Australian Division, 16 cars were towed in pairs across the trenches and battlefield by tanks, and were then let loose behind the German lines, creating havoc around Proyart and Framerville.
A German Corps Headquarters, which was located 10 miles behind the front line, was captured, and in honour of the Australian Division an Australian flag was nailed to the German generals' front door. Detailed plans of the Hindenburg line were captured and German reserves, artillery and supply lines were shot up, including a train.
The greatest value of these cars was in the spreading of fear and rumour. German troops were reporting a new British tank that could travel at 30mph and spout fire in all directions. It was said that the 16 cars were 'worth more than a whole cavalry division'.
At the time of the Battle of Amiens the armoured cars were painted sky blue and khaki, in the hope that they would not show up against the horizon.
Автор: Gale, Dr. Tim Название: French army`s tank force and armoured warfare in the great war ISBN: 1138247200 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138247208 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 58170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Recent scholarship has challenged the assumption that military commanders during the First World War were inflexible, backward-looking and unwilling to exploit new technologies. Instead a very different picture is now emerging of armies desperately looking to a wide range of often untested and immature scientific and technological innovations to help break the deadlock of the Western Front. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the development of tank warfare, which both the British and the French hoped would give them a decisive edge in their offensives of 1917 and 1918. Whilst the British efforts to develop armoured warfare have been well chronicled, there has been no academic study in English on the French tank force - the Artillerie Speciale - during the Great War. As such, this book provides a welcome new perspective on an important but much misunderstood area of the war. Such was the scale of the French tanks’ failure in their first engagement in 1917, it was rumoured that the Artillerie Speciale was in danger of being disbanded, yet, by the end of the war it was the world’s largest and most technologically advanced tank force. This work examines this important facet of the French army’s performance in the First World War, arguing that the AS fought the war in as intelligent and sensible a manner as was possible, given the immature state of the technology available. No amount of sound tank doctrine could compensate for the fragility of the material, for the paucity of battlefield communication equipment and for the lack of tank-infantry training opportunities. Only by 1918 was the French army equipped with enough reliable tanks, as well as aircraft and heavy-artillery, to begin to exercise a mastery of the new form of combined-arms warfare. The successful French armoured effort outlined in this study (including a listing of all the combat engagements of the French tank service in the Great War) highlights a level of military effectiveness within
Автор: Morgan Pitelka Название: Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability ISBN: 0824876814 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824876814 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 31410.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In Spectacular Accumulation, Morgan Pitelka investigates the significance of material culture and sociability in late sixteenth-century Japan, focusing in particular on the career and afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616), the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. The story of Ieyasu illustrates the close ties between people, things, and politics and offers us insight into the role of material culture in the shift from medieval to early modern Japan and in shaping our knowledge of history.This innovative and eloquent history of a transitional age in Japan reframes the relationship between culture and politics. Like the collection of meibutsu, or ""famous objects,"" exchanging hostages, collecting heads, and commanding massive armies were part of a strategy Pitelka calls ""spectacular accumulation,"" which profoundly affected the creation and character of Japan's early modern polity. Pitelka uses the notion of spectacular accumulation to contextualize the acquisition of ""art"" within a larger complex of practices aimed at establishing governmental authority, demonstrating military dominance, reifying hierarchy, and advertising wealth. He avoids the artificial distinction between cultural history and political history, arguing that the famed cultural efflorescence of these years was not subsidiary to the landscape of political conflict, but constitutive of it. Employing a wide range of thoroughly researched visual and material evidence, including letters, diaries, historical chronicles, and art, Pitelka links the increasing violence of civil and international war to the increasing importance of samurai social rituals and cultural practices. Moving from the Ashikaga palaces of Kyoto to the tea utensil collections of Ieyasu, from the exchange of military hostages to the gift-giving rituals of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Spectacular Accumulation traces Japanese military rulers' power plays over famous artworks as well as objectified human bodies.
Автор: Brayley, Martin J. Название: Modern body armour ISBN: 1847972489 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847972484 Издательство: TBS/GBS Рейтинг: Цена: 26330.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Traces the development of individual ballistic protection from the multi-layer silk garments and metal plates used during World War One and through to the Korean War and Vietnam, to the advanced armour used in Iraq and Afghanistan. This work illustrates the primary armour patterns in use with the world`s major nations from 1914 to the present day.
Автор: Kure, Mitsuo Название: Samurai: Arms, Armour and Costume ISBN: 1905573413 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781905573417 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 22000.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Arms, Armour and Costume. One of the first books ever to show in a full photographic coverage the history and development of the clothing, armour and weaponry of Japan`s samurai warrior class.
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