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“terry gander”

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  • The German 88

    The Most Famous Gun of the Second World War

    by Terry Gander ...
    The German 88 mm guns became the most famous and feared artillery pieces of the Second World War. They appeared in a whole series of forms ranging from anti-aircraft to anti-tank and tank-guns, including several self-propelled platforms. Although primarily anti-aircraft guns they gained an awesome reputation as anti-tank weapons, a reputation that remains to this day. Terry Gander, in this in ... Read more

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  • The Bofors Gun

    by Terry Gander ...
    The definitive history of this enduring and versatile anti-aircraft weapon, including many photos and drawings.The 40mm Bofors gun, first produced in the 1930s, has become one of the most famous artillery pieces of all time. It shows no sign of fading from the defense scene as, in the second decade of the twenty-first century, it performs in many roles that were not contemplated by its original ... Read more

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    From 1916 to the Present Day

    by Ford, Roger ...
    Series series Military Classics
    The World's Great Tanks examines the best tanks to have ever entered combat - from the earliest British Mark IVs and Vs to classic World War II tanks such as the Russian T-34, the American Sherman, and the German Tiger and Panther tanks to the more modern tanks, such as the Abrams, T-72, Challenger and Leopard. The book details the development of these key vehicles and significant breakthroughs ... Read more

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  • U.S.Navy Seawolves

    The Elite HAL-3 Helicopter Squadron in Vietnam

    by Daniel E. Kelly ...
    There were no dry runs for Seawolves in Vietnam.They put their lives on the line—every time.In the Viet Cong-infested Mekong Delta, where small SEAL teams were alwaysoutgunned and outnumbered, discovery brought swift, deadly consequences— and a radio call for backup from the United States Navy’s very best: the Seawolves. The whir of approaching rotor blades signaled their arrival as they tore ... Read more

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  • Redback One

    The True Story of an Australian SAS Hero

    by Robert Macklin ...
    Series series Hachette Military Collection
    Explosive SAS action in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan.The command came: 'Stop those vehicles!'It was like a red rag to a bull. Instantly streams of 7.62 mm tracer and 50 mm calibre machine gun rounds arced across the night sky and smashed into the bus and truck.Elite SAS Patrol Commander Stuart 'Nev' Bonner takes us inside the extraordinary and dangerous world of secret combat operations in ... Read more

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  • The Assassination Complex

    Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program

    by Jeremy Scahill, The Staff of The Intercept ...
    “A searing, facts-driven indictment of America’s drone wars and their implications for US democracy and foreign policy. A must-read for concerned citizens” (Library Journal, starred review) from bestselling author Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website The Intercept.Drones are a tool, not a policy. The policy is assassination. But drone strikes often kill people other than ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • The Day We Lost the H-Bomb

    Cold War, Hot Nukes, and the Worst Nuclear Weapons Disaster in History

    by Barbara Moran ...
    In The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War’s biggest nuclear weapons disaster. On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber exploded over the sleepy Spanish farming village of Palomares during a routine airborne refueling. The explosion killed seven airmen ... Read more

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  • T-72 Main Battle Tank 1974–93

    by Steven J. Zaloga ...
    Series Book 6 - New Vanguard
    The Russian T-72 Ural tank was the most widely-deployed main battle tank of its generation.Used by the armies of the former Warsaw pact and Soviet Union, it has also been exported in large numbers to many of the states in the Middle East. This book reveals the previously secret history behind the tank. Steven J Zaloga examines the conditions under which the T-72 was designed and produced. ... Read more

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  • Hornet

    The Inside Story of the F/A-18

    by Orr Kelly ...
    The fascinating true story of the controversial development and deployment of the supersonic fighter jet that changed aerial warfare foreverThe McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet was born in 1978, a state-of-the-art supersonic fighter and attack aircraft with a top speed of Mach 1.8, more than one thousand miles per hour. It was versatile, fast, and reliable, and no war machine in the air could match ... Read more

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  • MG 34 and MG 42 Machine Guns

    by Chris McNab ...
    Series Book 21 - Weapon
    With the MG 34, the German Wehrmacht introduced an entirely new concept in automatic firepower – the general-purpose machine gun (GPMG). In itself the MG 34 was an excellent weapon: an air-cooled, recoil-operated machine gun that could deliver killing firepower at ranges of more than 1,000m. Yet simply by changing its mount and feed mechanism, the operator could radically transform its function. ... Read more

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  • Lost Souls of the River Kwai

    Experiences of a British Soldier on the Railway of Death

    by Bill Reed, Mitch Peeke ...
    This is the moving story of a young man who found himself along with thousands of his comrades in the nightmare of Japanese captivity. Unlike so many (it is said that one Commonwealth POW died for every sleeper laid) Bill lived to tell the tale. Indeed it is remarkable that this story has not been told before, so graphic are Bill's memories of the hardships and horrors. The book goes on to ... Read more

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