You'll meet the men who defined modern war, like Eisenhower, Kennedy, Castro, Khomeini, Hussein, Arafat, Ho Chi Minh, Kruschev, Milosevic, and both Presidents Bush.
Unlike the British, their heavy type, the Char 2c (the largest operational tank ever built), wasn't a red herring but rather a useless white elephant (they wasted more money on it). Again Renault came up with the most-produced light ...
Others, such as these two great rivers, were natural borders that the Romans policed with their navy. This book examines these frontiers of the empire, looking at the way they were constructed and manned and how that changed over the years.
The infantry can always be found at the sharp end of the battlefield.
A study of the Roman borders, their role as defenses and control points and their impact on the Roman empire as a whole.
The selection of wartime photographs - many from east European sources - and the extensive quotations from contemporary documents give a graphic impression of how the guns were used on all sides of WW2.
Ocean Liners
The authors offer a fascinating insight into the weapons that served in the artillery over seventy years ago. “Superbly illustrated, this is testament to the courage and skills of extraordinary men in the execution of their duty.
Heavyweights examines the use of these massive weapons of war from stone-shot cannon to the atomic artillery of the 1950s.