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Between 1494-1628 guns and their carriages underwent such a major transformation that they would remain virtually unchanged for over three centuries. This book is a practical and comprehensive guide to the development and manufacture as well as the use of artillery, drawing heavily on primary sources as well as the recent reconstructions.

Designed for ease of play, this book offers a player experience based on the uncertainty of battle in the ancient period. Keeping the men going is critical to success. The rules are designed to create games that take 2-3 hours to play. The six historical scenarios provide a range of challenges.

This book details the armies, units, and battlefields of the Monmouth Rebellion, in both Scotland and England, giving the enthusiast everything needed to re-fight the battles of 1685. The detailed maps and fast play campaign rules will add extra excitement to each encounter, creating an essential companion to 1685.

The Iasi--Kishinev Operation, 20-29 August 1944: The Red Army's Summer Offensive into the Balkans details the Soviet preparation and conduct of the Red Army's massive offensive into Romania in the summer of 1944.

This study, following on from the author's acclaimed book 'I Will Not Surrender a Hair of a Horse's Tail', commences with Victorio's return to New Mexico in January 1880.

Of all the books about South Africa's 21-year 'Border War' - fought on both sides of Angola's frontier with present-day Namibia - South Africa's Border War has always been rated as among the best. This version is the first re-issue of the original, written by Willem Steenkamp.

The British Expeditionary Force of 1914 was described by the official historian as "incomparably the best trained, best organized, and best equipped British Army that ever went forth to war."

Volume 3 contains the documentary evidence for the two volumes of narrative of Barbarossa Derailed.

At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of Germany's Third Reich, and most German officers and soldiers believed would be a triumphal march on Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union.

The mechanization of British and Household Cavalry regiments took place between the two World Wars and on into 1942.

A complete and updated description (2021) of everything that forms part of the Spanish Ejército del Aire (EA): its history (193-2021), aircraft and helicopters, combat and transport air units, air bases, air defense, means of support, weapons, pilots and other technical personnel, international missions, aeronautical industry, and the future.

For first time a comprehensive and exhaustive history about the design, construction and operation of soviet nuclear submarines and her cruise missiles. The research in the accidents suffered by the submarines is one of the most complete until today.

China's anti-ship ballistic missiles have been both mythologized and derided. Carrier Killer pulls apart the extremes to examine what these weapons can do, their historical and strategic origins, and how they affect the balance of power between the United States and the People's Republic of China.

Operation Allied Force was launched by NATO against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia) on 24 March 1999. The authors have analyzed the experiences of both sides, based on original facts and figures, since the they received the opportunity to compare the experiences on relevant sources from both sides.

The title focuses on the armed formations of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the largest of the two separatist entities in the east of Ukraine. It provides an overview of their formation in 2014, present status, and combat equipment, while also exploring issues around identity and symbology.

The most complete and up-to-date work on all there is to know about the Korean People's Army Ground Forces today. Sixteen unique artworks and well over 150 images that have been collected over a decade's work complement painstaking analysis describing every detail of the North's 'Military First' endeavors.

This book details CIA-supported paramilitary operations in Laos during the height of the conflict in that kingdom, from late 1969 through the conclusion of agency participation in 1974.

The book presents the Imperial Japanese Navy offensive in the Indian Ocean in March-April 1942 and the British attempt to stop the enemy's advance towards India.

In June 1967 Israel, which seemed on the verge of being annihilated by its Arab neighbors, took six days to redraw the strategic map in one of the most dramatic reversals of fortune in modern times. This volume provides a mass of new information and new insight into the conflict using both Israeli and Arab sources.

Never before has the world come as close to destruction as it did in October 1962. Barely 18 months after the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the US, Cuba and the Soviet Union once again came toe to toe in a show of intimidation.

Volume 6 of this mini-series continues the story of the men and machines of the first half century of military aviation in the Arab World. It looks at the first efforts to revive both the REAF and the RIrqAF, along with events in the air and on the ground elsewhere in the Arab World until the beginning of 1941.

Reviewing and re-examining Operation Urgent Fury: the US Intervention in Grenada in 1983.

Within a period of just 15 years Soviet air defenses progressed from AA guns and piston engine fighters to SAMs and missile-armed Mach 2 interceptors. This is the story of how this remarkable progress was achieved and how these assets performed in actual combat against foreign aircraft violating Soviet air space.

The second volume of We Were Never There explores CIA U-2 operations across Asia and the rest of the world from 1957-74. It includes details of previously undisclosed flights, detailed mission routes, special sensor and equipment fits, plus an evaluation of the CIA's U-2 program.

In 1975, Lieutenant Commander Valeriy Sablin led his crew in a mutiny on the Soviet warship Storozhevoy. Facing the loss of a modern warship with armaments, electronics, communication devices, and code books, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev ordered Naval Aviation Colonel Arkhip Savinkov to destroy the Storozhevoy - with a nuclear missile.

The book examines the life and character of the Highland soldier in the Great War, seeking the truth behind the myths. and offering new insights.

The third volume takes up the story of the continued struggle for the return of their Ojo Caliente reservation after Victorio's death at Tres Castillos.