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Tells the story of the Sherman Crab Flail which proved its worth both in its mine-clearing role and as a fighting machine. It recounts some of its more glorious moments with the famous British 79th Armoured Division and the US Army.

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A history of the mainstay of Allied armoured units in World War II, the Sherman tank, whose simplicity, reliability and manoeuverability made it the most widely used tank of the war.

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Shifting States offers an ethnographic examination of state agency and the relationships between surveillance, bureaucracy, infrastructure and personhood, with an impressive selection of empirically rich and theoretically engaging contributions that are relevant across a range of contemporary issues.

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Explores the origins of American warships, primarily light and medium frigates, built for the Continental Navy during the years 1776-1783. Looking at how these ships performed in key battles, this title presents an overview of the ships' service and development until France's entry into the war and its subsequent decline in importance.

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A study of the machinery of mediaeval siegecraft as used by Chinese, Mongol, Japanese and Korean armies prior to the introduction of gunpowder. It demonstrates that each country provided a different context into which the siege engines fitted, and this revealed much about machines themselves.

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From the 11th century AD, East Asian armies used exploding missiles and siege cannon to reduce the fortification of their enemies, a level of technology that would not be seen in Europe until the 19th century. This book details the design and use of the wide range of weaponry available.

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The author utilizes the methodology John Keegan developed to define sieges as a form of battle and to explore the categories of combat--those relationships of men versus weapons and the commitment to battle on the part of the contestants--which determined the outcome of battles and wars.

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This guide documents 800 sources that have appeared since the 1970s on ULTRA and MAGIC or the Allied code-breaking and and cryptanalytic assault on Axis Communications. It examines sources in ULTRA and MAGIC in the Pearl Harbour attack, the Battle of the Atlantic and other theatres of war.

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The successor to the legendary Bell UH-1 'Huey', the Sikorsky UH-60 first flew in 1974 and was christened the Black Hawk.

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Few historians have looked beyond the veil of the Teapot Dome scandal and examined the naval policies of President Warren Harding and his secretary of navy, Edwin Denby. Historians have also periodically overlooked the personal papers and archives of the Harding administration...

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A profile of the career of Sir Garnet Wolseley, this text follows his rise from the rank of general to field-marshal, and subsequently to a viscount. It also covers his attempts to modernize the army against the wishes of a group of conservatives led by the Duke of Cambridge.

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Murphy was one of a very small number of volunteer pilots who, with their flight crews, started bombing at low altitudes in B-17 flying fortresses in the Southwest Pacific. The Allied Air Forces--using skip bombing--sank all twenty-two Japanese ships.

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The authors present first-hand accounts from a number of the surviving Slovakian and Bulgarian aces, plus material from combat reports which have remained hidden during the decades of communist rule.

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Outlines the history of the sniper rifle, from its introduction in warfare during the Napoleonic wars, through the US Civil War to its apogee as the most frequently used combat rifle in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book details the development of ammunition, different weapons types including single shot, magazine loading and semi-automatic.

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A gripping account about an Australian pilot serving with the Americans in Vietnam.

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The traditional distinction between military and political affairs in American life has become less significant as military officers increasingly participate with civilians in the formulation of national policies. In an examination of the impact of this change upon professional military education, the authors present a forthright analysis of milita

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What happens to the elite, close-knit soldiers of Australia's Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment after they leave the world of special forces From Iraq and Afghanistan to Africa and Asia, defence writer Ian McPhedran uncovers a virtually unknown network and tells how Australia's top soldiers are forever linked in a seemingly borderless world.

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The next thousand years saw the emergence of iron weapons, the chariot, the standing professional army, military academies, general staffs, military training, permanent arms industries, written texts on tactics, military procurement, logistics systems, conscription, and military pay.

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Lewis North Dakota Quarterly

When in 1968 an American rifle battalion known as the First Wolfhounds landed near Dau Tieng, a rest area controlled by the North Vietnamese Army, they expected to interdict the NVA supply line there within three days.

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An icon of World War I aerial combat, the Sopwith Camel was a superb dogfighter in the hands of a pilot who could master its vicious idiosyncrasies. The first British fighter to be armed with twin machine guns, the Camel packed a considerable punch. This book deals with this aircraft.

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The first of a two-volume set detailing the flying clothing, equipment and insignia of the US army air force during World War II in every theatre of the war.

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Aiming to dispel many myths about air combat on the Eastern Front, this volume describes the aircraft of the Soviet Air Force during World War II and the aces who flew them.