By Floyd R. Tubbs

Perhaps the main simply famous army helmet of the twentieth century is the German Stahlhel. within the revised and extended version of this vintage, Floyd R. Tubbs and Robert w. Clawson establish and classify the Stahlhelm and relate its heritage, designs, positive aspects, and uses.

No unmarried kingdom has produced any such wide array of helmets as did Germany within the early a part of the final century, from civil protection to fireside and police forces to airborne forces. although in response to an identical thought, each one version, layout, and version was once developed with a particular goal, with the shapes for the helmets differing, the metals occuring in numerous weights, and the strengths and characteristics and the liners being specific to every category.

As the one ebook at the German wrestle helmet at the moment in print, this version, with its specified drawings and illustrative photos, will entice the collector in addition to the army historian.

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By Gerald E. Galloway (auth.), Douglas R. Caldwell, Judy Ehlen, Russell S. Harmon (eds.)

This publication features a collection of papers from the foreign army Geology and Geography convention, held on the U.S. army Academy, West element, big apple in June 2003. reports in army Geography and Geology expands a sequence of modern guides originating from meetings and symposia on army geology that started in 1994. The 25 contributions tackle a large diversity of army issues starting from the strategic standpoint, via analyses of old battles on the operational and tactical degrees, to using complex applied sciences utilized to present-day army problems.

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By Chris Bishop

The Bell Huey Cobra used to be the first actual purpose-designed helicopter gunship to turn into operational and to work out strive against. Designed within the mid-1960s as an "interim solution" for an armed escort and close-support weapon to help the USA military within the Vietnam battle, it truly is nonetheless being synthetic and better within the twenty first century, making it successful some distance past the wildest desires of its creators. during this name Chris Bishop discusses the origins of the Huey Cobra, the suggestions to its layout during the years and its significant strive against makes use of in different theaters, together with Vietnam, the Iran-Iraq conflict within the Nineteen Eighties, US Persian Gulf escort operations, Lebanon 1983, Panama 1989, the Gulf conflict 1991 and within the present clash in Iraq.

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By William Keller; Kurt Keller

Starting within the Civil warfare, the U.S. military sought to discover a good procedure to differentiate troops from diverse devices. within the ultimate days of worldwide battle I, it ultimately arrived at a pragmatic and fascinating resolution with the adoption of the shoulder patch o

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By Richard Brzezinski

Few humans will understand that at one time the Polish country was once one among Europe's nice powers. one of many leader tools of her luck used to be surely her military, which although small can declare many accomplishments and significant successes within the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Richard Brzezinski redresses this imbalance through offering a portrait of Polish armies from 1569-1696, detailing their historical past, enterprise, fingers, armour, insignia and get dressed, followed via a variety of illustrations and 8 brilliant complete web page color plates through Angus McBride.

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By Lawrence Burr

On the finish of the Civil struggle the U.S. army was once the main technologically complex military on the earth, yet after the struggle this spirit of innovation pale and America's naval could diminished. even though, within the Eighteen Eighties a "New Navy" used to be born and on the leading edge of its fleet have been the effective cruisers. Lawrence Burr info the way it used to be those cruisers that allowed the United States to once more reveal its energy at the world's oceans. Exploring how the beginning of this "Steel Navy" required the advance of recent shipbuilding, purpose strength, ordnance, and armour-plate creation strength, he information the layout and improvement of those ships.

Intricate color art illuminates the technicalities of the layout, specifically their inner workings via a cutaway of the USS Olympia, which has been restored and is now on public reveal. This name additionally areas those technological advances in context, via vibrant debts of ways US cruisers have been basic to the Spanish-American battle of 1898, destroying the Spanish fleet on the battles of Manila Bay and Santiago. It used to be their functionality at those engagements that marked the emergence of the U.S. army as an enormous naval energy, and the USA as an international power.

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By Otto von Pivka

Forty стр, около forty черно-белых иллюстраций, eight цветных вклеек.
Второе издание с новыми иллюстрациями.
Данный выпуск посвящен армиям союзников Наполеона - королевству Вестфалии и Великому Герцогству Клеве-Бергу (вооружение, снаряжение, униформа).
Так же дан краткий экскурс в историю создания этих государств.

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By Bert Kinzey

USS John F. Kennedy КНИГИ ;ВОЕННАЯ ИСТОРИЯ Издательство: Kalmbach Publishing Co.Серия: element & Scale 42Автор(ы): Bert KinzeyЯзык: EnglishГод издания: 1993Количество страниц: 76ISBN: 1-85310-639-9Формат: pdfРазмер: 31.8 mbRapid0

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