Books from Brassey's
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The Magic Bullet?: Understanding the Revolution in Military Affairs
By Tim BenbowBombing by use of laser-guided weaponry is evolution, not revolution - aircraft have been bombing for more than 85 years, but a network of sensors in space or on the sea-bed that can track every move, without human involvement, may be ...
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The 24-gun Frigate Pandora 1779
By Ron Coleman, John McKayBog om den britiske fregat "Pandora" fra 1779. Beskriver bygningen, bestykningen og rigningen af skibet. Kort historisk beskrivelse.
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From Sail to Shore an Almanac of Contemporary Marine Painters
By Roger TaylorFrom Sail to Shore an Almanac of Contemporary Marine Painters
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Japan and the United States: Troubled Partners in a Changing World
By Mike Mochizuki15 See Allen Lynch , Gorbachev's International Outlook : Intellectual Origins and Political Consequences ( New York : Institute for East - West Security Studies , 1989 ) ; Alexander Dallin , “ Gorbachev's Foreign Policy and the ...
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Oliver Cromwell, Soldier: The Military Life of a Revolutionary at War
By Alan MarshallHere, Alan Marshall concentrates on the man's military life for it was Cromwell's battlefield skills and command capabilities that helped him attain his political goals.
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Blackburn Aircraft Since 1909
By Aubrey Joseph JacksonBeretter om den engelske flyfabrik Blackburn og flytyperne fra fabrikken.
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The Flower Class Corvette Agassiz
By John McKay, John H. HarlandThe Flower Class Corvette Agassiz
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Blue Helmets: The Strategy of UN Military Operations
By John HillenThis critically acclaimed book, used in graduate courses at Columbia, Georgetown, and other major universities, is even more relevant now than when first published in 1998. In 2000, with the...
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Scapegoat: General Percival of Singapore
By Clifford KinvigOn 15 February 1942, General Arthur Percival surrendered Singapore to the Japanese, along with over 85,000 British, Indian and Australian soldiers. Churchill declared the fall of Singapore to be 'the...
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A Connecticut Yankee in the 8th Gurkha Rifles: A Burma Memoir
By Scott Gilmore, Patrick D. DavisAmerica was still neutral when, in the fall of 1941, a tall, solid thirty-year-old advertising executive from Connecticut volunteered to serve as an American Field Service ambulance driver in the...
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Witness to Annihilation: Surviving the Holocaust, a Memoir
By Samuel DrixWhen the German Army captured Lwow in 1941, Poland's third-largest city contained a vibrant Jewish community of 160,000 people. Because the Final Solution began there so early, no other Jewish...
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Aces in Command: Fighter Pilots as Combat Leaders
By Walter J. Boyne"Eddie Rickenbacker, Hub Zemke, Boots Blesse, and Robin Olds are in the pantheon of American fighter aces. Their names are familiar to many, but there has never been a book...
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Blue & Gray in Black & White: Newspapers in the Civil War
By Brayton HarrisBlue & Gray in Black & White is account of the techniques, tactics, and personalities of the news-gathering industry during the American Civil War. This cataclysmic event accelerated the transformation...
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Showdown: The Lithuanian Rebellion and the Breakup of the Soviet Empire
By Richard J. KrickusShowdown explores the revival of the Lithuanian independence movement, beginning in 1988 when the popular front movement, Sajudis, was founded and including its February 1990 victory in the first free...
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Confederate Raider: Raphael Semmes of the Alabama
By John M. TaylorConfederate Raider is the enthralling story of the Civil War as fought on the high seas by Raphael Semmes, the Confederacy's most famous and revered naval officer. Yet many of...
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Edward Lansdale, the Unquiet American
By Cecil B. CurreyThe Village Voice called the complex life of U.S. Air Force major general and CIA agent Edward G. Lansdale one of "Technicolor fascination". The maverick military thinker's brilliant counterinsurgency tactics...
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Barbarian Eye: Lord Napier in China, 1834, the Prelude to Hong Kong
By Priscilla Hayter NapierThis delightfully written book tells the story of William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier of Merchiston, who was sent to China in 1834, not to stop the opium smuggling (by...
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Great Sieges of History
By William SeymourDescribes the mechanics of a siege, and recounts sixteen famous sieges from the Crusades to the Vietnam War.
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Images of Barbarossa: The German Invasion of Russia, 1941
By Christopher Ailsby-- Contains many previously unpublished photographs-- Includes the murderous activities of the SS in Russia in 1941On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the...
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Brassey's Book of Camouflage
By Timothy Newark, Quentin Newark, J.-F. BorsarelloThis volume covers the history and development of camouflage. Modern camouflage appears in everything from soft pastel grey-greens to wildly exotic flourescents.