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  • An Untaken Road

    Strategy, Technology, and the Hidden History of America's Mobile ICBMs

    by Steven A Pomeroy ...
    Series series Transforming War
    Steven A. Pomeroy has authored the first history of the American mobile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a technology the United States spent four decades and billions of dollars creating but never deployed. An Untaken Road showcases how the evolution of a technology that ultimately never existed and the politics that surrounded it end up significantly shaping American nuclear strategy ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

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  • Tiger Command!

    A Novel Based on a True Story of Combat on the Russian Front

    by Bob Carruthers, Sinclair McLay ...
    German and Russian tank battalions clash in this action-packed novel of WWII combat and conspiracy cowritten by an Emmy Award–winning historian.When Germany's leading tank ace meets Russia's Steppe Fox it's a fight to the death. Faced with overwhelming odds, Kampfgruppe Hans von Schroif needs a better armored vehicle and fast, but the new Tiger tank is still on the drawing board. Now, von Schroif ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Sniper in the Arizona

    2nd Battalion, 5th Marines in the Arizona Territory, 1967

    by John Culbertson ...
    "Morning was always a welcome sight to us. It meant two things. The first was that we were still alive. . . ."In 1967, death was the constant companion of the Marines of Hotel Company, 2/5, as they patrolled the paddy dikes, mud, and mountains of the Arizona Territory southwest of Da Nang. But John Culbertson and most of the rest of Hotel Company were the same lean, fighting Marines who had ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Artillery in the Great War

    by Paul Strong, Sanders Marble ...
    A year-by-year examination of key WWI battles and how the ongoing advances in artillery shaped strategy, tactics, and oprations; includes battlefield maps!World War I is often said to have been an artillery war, yet the decisive role artillery played in shaping military decisions—and therefor the war itself—has rarely been examined. Artillery in the Great War traces the development of this all ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arsenals of Folly

    by Richard Rhodes ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War.In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, setting the stage for the 1986 Reykjavik summit and the incredible events that followed. In this thrilling, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Hitler's Rockets

    The Story of the V-2s

    by Norman Longmate ...
    In Hitler’s Rockets Norman Longmate tells the story of the V-2, the technically brilliant but hated weapon, the ancestor and forerunner of all subsequent ballistic missiles. He reveals the devious power-play within the German armed forces and the Nazi establishment that so influenced the creation of the rockets. He shows through contemporary documents and protagonists’ accounts how the British ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • On Horsemanship

    by Xenophon ...
    Series series Unabridged Start Publishing LLC
    On horsemanship deals with the selection, care, and training of horses in general. Military training and the duties of the cavalry commander are dealt with in the Hipparchicus. Written in about 350 BC, the treatises of Xenophon were considered the earliest extant works on horsemanship in any literature. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Cataclysm 90 BC

    The Forgotten War that Almost Destroyed Rome

    by Philip Matyszak ...
    A dramatic account of a rebellion against the Roman republic—by a confederation of its Italian allies.We know of Rome's reputation for military success against foreign enemies. Yet at the start of the first century BC, Rome faced a hostile army less than a week's march from the capital. It is probable that only a swift surrender prevented the city from being attacked and sacked. Before that point, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The M1 Carbine

    by Leroy Thompson ...
    Series Book 13 - Weapon
    In 1938 the US Chief of Infantry requested that the Ordnance Department develop a carbine to be used by service and support troops, artillerymen, machine-gun crews, tankers, mortar crews and other troops not needing the power of the M1 Garand rifle. The development of this new weapon was given an added impetus by Germany's successful use of airborne and glider troops early on in World War II. This ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Tanks in Hell

    A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa

    by Oscar E. Gilbert ...
    An extraordinary slice of untold WWII history: how unproven Marines driving untested Sherman tanks turned the tide against Japan in the Battle of Tarawa.In May 1943, a self-described "really young, green, ignorant lieutenant" assumed command of a new US Marine Corps company. His even younger Marines were learning to operate an untested weapon, the M4A2 "Sherman" medium tank. Just six months later, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Kriegsmarine U-boats 1939–45 (2)

    by Gordon Williamson ...
    Series Book 55 - New Vanguard
    Following on from New Vanguard 51: Kriegsmarine U-boats 1939–45 (1), this book charts the continuing development of the U-boat in German service, including the evolution of the Type IX as a long range 'cruiser' intended for solo operations in distant waters.Also covered is the revolutionary Type XXI, conceived of in 1942 and launched in April 1944, the first true submarine rather than submersible, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • German Pocket Battleships 1939–45

    by Gordon Williamson ...
    Series Book 75 - New Vanguard
    After the end of World War I, the German Navy came up with the concept of the Panzerschiffe, or Pocket Battleship, to circumvent treaty limitations on the size and types of ship Germany was permitted to build.New, more modern production methods, where welded construction prevailed over the older riveting process, were combined with the development of modern engines capable of fast speeds and a ... Read more

    $17.29 CAD