Catálogo de libros: Armas y equipamiento

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  • Contemporary Technologies and the Morality of Warfare
    Jean-François Caron
    Supported by genuine historical cases, this book argues that certain new technologies in warfare can not only be justified within the current framework of the just war theory, but that their use is mandatory from a moral perspective. ...
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    73,78 €

  • The Practical Guide to Man-powered Bullets
    Richard Middleton
    This book explores in practical detail many of the ways, old and new, in which man can shoot missiles by means of his own force, without the aid of explosives.David slew Goliath with a stone from a sling, but it was a large stone and Man has long been shooting small stones and carefully rounded bullets of clay, glass - and latterly steel and lead - from a variety of weapons wit...
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    37,60 €

  • Armour & Weapons
    Charles John Ffoulkes
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSArmour & Weapons: With A Preface By Viscount Dillon, V.P.S.A.This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. T...
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    10,90 €

  • Kitson’s Irish War
    David Burke
    The British government has taken steps to halt the prosecution of soldiers responsible for the deaths of civilians in Northern Ireland, most of whom had no connection to paramilitary activities. These killings were part of a ruthless dirty war that commenced in 1970 when Brigadier Frank Kitson, a counter-insurgency specialist, was sent to Northern Ireland.Kitson had spent decad...
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    21,73 €

  • Warfare in Medieval Europe c.400-c.1453
    Bernard S. Bachrach / David S. Bachrach
    Warfare in Medieval Europe, now in its second edition, offers considerably more attention to the transition from the later Roman Empire to the early Middle Ages, the composition of the armies of the opponents of the West, and the experience of commanders and individual combatants on the battlefield. ...
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    64,31 €

  • The Otter and his Hawk
    Robert H. Sabet / Robert HSabet
    Grey Otter, a half Cherokee man also known as Skeeter Vaughan, the legendary knife and tomahawk thrower; devised a tomahawk fighting system during World War Two. This book provides an overview of his hawk system as well as discusses his background. It also offers a look at several other Warriors, some who also fought against the Axis powers. ...
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    36,57 €

  • Delta of Power
    Alex Roland
    Does the Military-Industrial Complex as we understand it still exist? If so, how has it changed since the end of the Cold War? First named by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address, the Military-Industrial Complex, originally an exclusively American phenomenon of the Cold War, was tailored to develop and produce military technologies equal to the existential th...
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    36,69 €

  • THE THOMPSON SUBMACHINE GUN
    Anon
    One of a series of Second World War booklets on weapons intended for the training of recruits, this treatise is dedicated to the venerable military type Thompson .45 calibre submachine gun. This model (M1928) had provisions for box and drum magazines. It had a Cutts compensator, cooling fins on the barrel, employed a delayed blowback action and its charging handle was on the to...
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    13,25 €

  • Illustrated Record of German Army Equipment 1939-45 ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES
    Military Intelligence The War Office
    A prime source for all who need information regarding German AFVs in the Second World War.The issue of this publication, two years after the end of the war in Europe, was designed to put on record essential information on the armament of the German Land Forces during the war. It includes some of the more interesting equipment that was developed, but which, due to the conclusion...
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    56,88 €

  • Ministry Of Home Security OBJECTS DROPPED FROM THE AIR 1941
    Ministry of Home Security
    An illustrated official and confidential publication, covering the many and varied types of objects that were falling from principally German aircraft during the second phase of the blitz, including high explosives, incendiary bombs and small arms ammunition.  ...
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    13,25 €

  • The Dirty Secret of Early Modern Capitalism
    Kees Boterbloem
    This study investigates a less-than-wholesome chapter in capitalism’s early manifestation in the Dutch Republic and its seventeenth-century global economic entanglements in the arms trade and mercenary warfare, showing how the Dutch accumulation of great wealth was closely linked to their involvement in warfare at home and far abroad. ...
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    73,18 €

  • The Rise and Fall of Western Tanks, 1939-1955
    Bruce Oliver Newsome
    THE RISE AND FALL OF WESTERN TANKS tells the story of how the wealthiest, most industrialized, and most democratic states led the world in tanks during the Great War, but lost their lead by the Second World War. THIS SECOND VOLUME asks whether Western states caught up during that war - or even during the first decade of the Cold War. You can read what the developers and users s...
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    26,67 €

  • Marshal Ney’s Military Studies
    Michel Ney
    Warfare for the Age of NapoleonSeveral of Napoleon’s Marshals and senior officers wrote treatises on the waging of war based on their own experiences. For modern students of the history of that period these works give fascinating insights into the battlefield and campaign tactics of some of the most fascinating armies of comparatively modern times. Michel Ney fought during the ...
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    17,08 €

  • The Details of the Rocket System Employed by the British Army During the Napoleonic Wars
    William Congreve
    Congreve’s own work on the effectiveness and operation of his rocketsIn 1814 British Guards officer Rees Gronow took part in the Peninsula War action known as ’The Passage of the River Adour’. He wrote of his experiences during that battle in his reminiscences; ’Three or four regiments of French infantry were approaching rapidly when a well-directed fire of rockets fell amongst...
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    17,08 €

  • Trial and Triumph
    Stephen Leal Jackson
    Ernie Plantz responded to his country’s call, accepted duty in the American Submarine Service, developed a place of worth and comradeship, and found himself a prisoner of the enemy for three and a half grueling years; 1297 days. This is his story. A farm boy from rural West Virginia, Plantz served on the USS Perch during the opening days of World War II and was stationed in the...
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    14,97 €

  • ROMMEL IS DEAD
    Merrill Hardy
    As 1941 comes to a close, Europe is at war. Meet German General Heinz Guderian as he battles a resurgent Soviet Army at the very gates of Moscow during the worst winter in 100 years. Owing to General Erwin Rommel’s providential battlefield death in Africa, Heinz is able to personally avoid dismissal by Hitler and the thrashing the Soviets subsequently dish out to the hated Germ...
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    26,79 €

  • NATO Arms Co-operation
    Keith Hartley
    This book, first published in 1983, examines weapons standardisation as one aspect of NATO’s efficiency. It analyses the economic arguments for weapons standardisation, the limitations of the analysis and the available evidence. ...
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    186,91 €

  • By Fire and Ice
    David A. Koplow
    This book, first published in 1997, examines the forced merger between national security interests and environmental policy makers arising from the Chemical Weapons Convention and its requirement to safely dismantle the world’s chemical weapons stockpiles. This book analyses the problems and politics involved. ...
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    213,35 €

  • Peaceful and Non-Peaceful Uses of Space
    Unidir United Nations Institute For Disa
    This book, first published in 1991, is the cumulative result of a long period of research by qualified experts in an attempt to analyse the legal and scientific problems of arriving at definitions in the task of preventing an arms race in outer space. ...
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    160,10 €

  • Fortifying Europe’s Soft Underbelly
    Aleksander Jankovič Potočnik / Mateja Perpar / Vladimir Tonić
    The Rupnik Line, the Vallo Alpino and other fortifications of the Ljubljana Gap in the former Yugoslavia before, during and after World War II are covered in detail by a Slovenian author who has visited, researched and recorded the existing remains. Well illustrated with 165 maps, plans, sketches, and wartime as well as present day photos of the remains of the bunkers, turrets ...
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    24,97 €

  • The Proliferation Puzzle
    First published in 1993, this volume was unique in its scope and approach: Unlike most literature on nuclear weapons proliferation at the time, the essays in this volume offer theoretical discussions and suggest testable hypotheses about the causes and effects of nuclear weapons proliferation. ...
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    213,38 €

  • Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation
    Stockholm International Peace Research I
    In mid-1980 a second conference for the review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) would take place in Geneva.  Originally published in 1979, this book on nuclear energy and nuclear weapon proliferation contains the papers presented at the symposium and reflects the discussions at the meeting. ...
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    239,82 €

  • The Nuclear Confrontation in Europe
    First published in 1985, this book explores the nuclear confrontation between East and West in Europe: where we stand, how we got there and what the future may hold. Its concluding chapter outlines the prospects for nuclear arms control in Europe, and it frames the debate over NATO strategy and the role of nuclear weapons in the years ahead. ...
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    186,85 €

  • Objections to Nuclear Defence
    With the continued success of nuclear deterrence itself in question, citizens feel an urgent need to assess the clash between personal doubts, cherished principles and their governments’ loudly voiced moral certainties. In this title, first published in 1984, philosophers of varying persuasions provide new analyses of these problems. ...
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    187,12 €

  • Ethics and Nuclear Deterrence
    Geoffrey Goodwin
    Originally published in 1982, this book considers the ethical issues raised by nuclear policies and by the debate between proponents of the multilateralist/unilateralist approaches to disarmament and arms control at the time. ...
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    187,12 €

  • For Maytenance of Archers
    E.T. Fox / E.TFox
    For more than three centuries the longbow was the dominant weapon in English military thinking, and England’s archers were a force to be reckoned with on battlefields across Europe. From the famous battles of Crecy and Agincourt to forgotten skirmishes in Norfolk no serious fight was complete without the hum of the bow string. The study of the history of English archery could n...
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    46,11 €

  • Nuclear Past, Nuclear Present
    Ian Clark
    This book provides detailed reconstruction of atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to shed new light upon a set of influential assumptions about the moral acceptability of using nuclear weapons, the rationality of nuclear decision making, and the controllability of nuclear operations. ...
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    73,64 €

  • W.E. Fairbairn’s Complete Compendium of Lethal, Unarmed, Hand-to-Hand Combat Methods and Fighting
    W E Fairbairn
    The fully illustrated distilled knowledge of W.E. Fairbairn, legendary SOE instructor in unarmed combat, and co-inventor of the Sykes-Fairbairn knife, who learned his deadly skills in 30 years on the Shanghai waterfront. It has been suggested that Fairbairn was the inspiration for Q Branch, in Ian Fleming’s fictional books about the British Secret Service agent James Bond.Get T...
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    69,95 €

  • W.E. Fairbairn’s Complete Compendium of Lethal, Unarmed, Hand-to-Hand Combat Methods and Fighting
    W E Fairbairn
    The fully illustrated distilled knowledge of W.E. Fairbairn, legendary SOE instructor in unarmed combat, and co-inventor of the Sykes-Fairbairn knife, who learned his deadly skills in 30 years on the Shanghai waterfront. It has been suggested that Fairbairn was the inspiration for Q Branch, in Ian Fleming’s fictional books about the British Secret Service agent James Bond.Get T...
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    52,86 €

  • Deception and Lies
    David Burke
    In May of 1970, two government ministers were dismissed from Cabinet for allegedly purchasing guns for the IRA. The Taoiseach Jack Lynch disavowed any knowledge of the plot. Few believed him. Charles Haughey, Minister for Finance, a captain in Irish military intelligence along with two others were put on trial. All were acquitted. Haughey refused to talk about the crisis for th...
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    25,26 €


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