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Illustrated throughout, Wilderness Survival demonstrates the core skills that the world's elite forces use to survive in the wild. With tips and techniques from special forces manuals, the book is divided into 7 chapters, dealing with survival psychology, equipment, living off the land, shelter, dangers, first aid and navigation.

In 1939, three machine guns dominated the Red Army's front-line infantry firepower - the DShK 1938 heavy machine gun, the PM M1910 medium/heavy machine gun and the Degtyaryov DP-27, a lighter, bipod-mounted support weapon. Confronted by cutting-edge German technology during the Great Patriotic War (1941-45), the Soviets responded with the development of new weaponry, including the RPD light machine gun, the 7.62×54mmR SG43 medium machine gun a...

Over 75 years after its end, WWII's legacy can still be seen from the Arctic wastes to the South Pacific, with a greater number of weapons made than any other conflict before or since. Using 150 photographs, Abandoned World War II Aircraft, Tanks and Warships allows the reader to explore the detritus of this war in every part of the world.

This absorbing study examines the US infantry against the Chinese Army in the unforgiving terrain of Korea during the first real clash of the Cold War.In 1945 Korea entered the post-war world already partitioned at the 38th Parallel, the north firmly within the Soviet zone of influence and the south an ally of the United States. In June 1950 the Soviet-equipped North Korean forces struck south. After a series of North Korean successes, a drama...

This book explains the tactics and technologies of siege warfare for both attackers and defenders, from ancient times to the beginning of the gunpowder age. Mighty siege engines - including torsion artillery, trebuchets, battering rams and siege towers - are closely examined and illustrated in fine detail.

This study explores the organization, appearance and equipment of both sides' ground forces during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88).Driven by the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the insecurities it provoked in Saddam Hussein's Iraqi dictatorship, the Iran-Iraq war which began the following year would become the largest conventional conflict of the period. Curiously little-known considering its size and longevity, the struggle between Iran and Iraq w...

With more than 300 easy-to-follow artworks and handy pull-out lists of key information, SAS And Elite Forces Guide: Preparing To Survive is the definitive long term survival guide for when help isn't on its way. If disaster strikes, you'll be ready.

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A detailed study of one of the greatest tank battles since World War II, as some 950 Egyptian tanks confronted about 800 tanks of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the Sinai Peninsula. This momentous clash came to be known as the Six-Day War, and was a critical laboratory for two competing and contrasting systems of armored warfare. The Six-Day War in 1967 was a lightning Israeli campaign that changed the face of the Middle East. Israel's ar...

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World's Worst Military Disasters examines some of the worst battle defeats in military history from ancient times through to the present day, including some of the most famous battles in history.

World's Worst Historical Disasters examines some of the most significant natural and man-made disasters in world history, from plagues, earthquakes, volcanoes, genocides and floods, to train and aeroplane crashes and much more.

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Drawing on extensive primary source documentation, this lively study of US air assault operations and North Vietnamese countermeasures assesses the clash between two highly contrasting approaches to warfare in a particularly challenging landscape.The tactics and technologies of modern air assault--vertical deployment of troops by helicopter or similar means--emerged properly during the 1950s in Korea and Algeria. Yet it was during the Vietnam ...

An in-depth exploration of the events of the Battle of Britain, coinciding with 2020 as the eightieth anniversary of the historical episode.

Faszinierende Fotos zeigen Wracks in riesiger Vielfalt: Schiffe, Flugzeuge, Autos, Lokomotiven ... Der Historiker Chris McNab versammelt in diesem Bildband Fundstücke aus aller Welt, zu denen es auch viele Geschichten zu erzählen gibt. Und nicht zuletzt wird deutlich, wie sehr diese ausrangierten und zurückgelassenen Überbleibsel menschlicher Schöpferkraft einen ganz eigenen Zauber ausüben können.

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