Each tactic is presented in easy-to-follow steps, accompanied by helpful illustrations that teach readers how to:
- Find and construct shelters
- Sustain life anywhere on land or at sea
- Hunt, trap, and fish with jerry-rigged tools
- Build fires or escape them
- Negotiate arctic, de[...]
Fully illustrated with a mixture of dramatic archive photos and manufacturers' images, this volume covers the little-known history of riot control vehicles. It explores the world of these vehicles from 1945 through to the present day - from adapted military armoured cars such as the Humber Pig (UK) [...]
The focus of this book is a weapon that has literally placed the power of fire in human hands - the man-portable flamethrower. This formidable weapon first saw battlefield use in the hands of German troops during World War I, and went on to arm the forces of many countries in World War II and beyond[...]
De stora slagen är en tillgänglig och mycket välillustrerad introduktion till 30 av historiens mest berömda slag, däribland Marathon, Hastings, Agincourt, Saratoga, Trafalgar, Waterloo, Gettysburg, Somme, Stalingrad, invasionen av Normandie och många fler.
Varje slag illustreras med[...]
Här får läsaren en överskådlig och lättillgänglig bild av de 28 viktigaste militära kraftmätningarna under andra världskriget. Bland de operationer som skildras återfinns flykten från Dunkerque, Slaget om Storbritannien, Operation Barbarossa, det japanska anfallet på Pearl Harbor, slage[...]
De störtsa slagen under andra världskriget-
Kraftmätningar som formade framtiden
I den här boken får läsaren en överskådlig bild av de 28 viktigaste militära kraftmätningarna under andra världskriget. Bland de operationer som skildras återfinns flykten från Dunkerq[...]
De stora slagen är en mycket välillustrerad introduktion till 30 av historiens mest berömda slag, däribland Marathon, Hastings, Waterloo, Stalingrad och många många fler.
Varje slag illustreras med en taktisk fyrfärgskarta som gör att läsaren snabbt får en överblick över drabb[...]
"The Elite Forces Wilderness Survival Guide" introduces the core skills needed to survive in a wilderness environment. With tips and techniques based on special forces practice, the book is divided into seven convenient chapters, dealing with equipment and clothing, water and plant food, hunting and[...]
Warfare truly entered the industrial age with the invention and adoption of the machine gun. Armed with a machine gun, one or two men could potentially hold off a whole company of enemy soldiers, and inflict terrible losses while doing so. "The Machine Gun Story" describes how Hiram Maxim's inventio[...]
The World War I Story is the perfect pocket narrative of one of the largest conflicts in human history: the Great War. On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated. This event sparked off a war that was change the lives of millions of people around the world. More than 70 mi[...]
The POW How To Escape Handbook covers everything you need to know about making a successful return to friendly territory. Beginning from the point where a combatant finds himself or herself trapped in enemy territory, the book offers useful tips and solid advice on how to evade capture and, if that [...]
SAS and Elite Forces Guide to SurvivalThis guide teaches the skills and offers up the information people need for when things really go wrong. For those who have decided to take their safety into their own hands, the world's best survival experts show readers how live off the land, dig their own wel[...]
This book charts the turbulent history of the Luftwaffe from its secret origins in direct defiance of the Versailles Treaty, through its dominance in the early days of World War II to its ultimate destruction over a ravaged Berlin.As well as providing a comprehensive study of the Luftwaffe's history[...]
Skjutvapen innehåller en detaljerad historisk översikt över skjutvapen från medel tiden fram till våra dagar, liksom artiklar om enkilda vapen och tekniska faktaupplag som förklarar vapnens funktionsprinciper.
Varje vapen illustreras med ett foto och en fullständig teknisk specifik[...]
How secure is your network? The best way to find out is to attack it. Network Security Assessment provides you with the tricks and tools professional security analysts and consultants use to identify and assess risks in internet-based networks - the same penetration testing model they use to secure [...]
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 sim[...]
In early May 1940, the fortress of Eben Emael was a potent sentinel over the Belgian-Dutch borderlands. The fortress covered 75 hectares on the surface, had 5km of tunnels underground and was studded with bunkers, gun turrets and casemates. Add a garrison of 1,200 men and the natural protection of 6[...]
At the beginning of World War II, the Luftwaffe was the world's most advanced air force. With superior tactics, aircraft and training, it cut through opposition air forces. Despite this auspicious beginning, by 1945 the Luftwaffe was a dying force. The Allies were destroying German aircraft at unequ[...]