The Heavy Cruiser Takao

The Heavy Cruiser Takao
256 pages | Dec 12, 2004 |ISBN:0851779743 | PDF | 67.5 Mb

The Takao class of Japanese heavy cruisers was approved in the 1927-31 Programme, and the Takao was the first of four vessels launched between May 1930 and April 1931. These were genuinely aggressive ships, being fast, heavily armed with both guns and torpedos, and well-protected. They saw much action in the Pacific War between 1941 and 1945, but Takao, having survived a torpedo attack during the Leyte Gulf battle preliminaries, was sunk by a British midget submarine in Singapore Harbour

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The Destroyer Campbeltown (Anatomy of the Ship)

The Destroyer Campbeltown (Anatomy of the Ship)
127 pages | Dec 12, 2008 |ISBN: 0851779972 | PDF | 57.5 Mb

The destroyer Campbeltown is most famous for her part in the commando raid on the St Nazaire drydock in 1942. Built as the USS Buchanan (DD131)- and later renamed Campbelton - she was one of over 270 flush-decked destroyers put into service towards the end of World War I. When Britain appealed to America in 1940 for the transfer of fifty vessels for anti-submarine duty

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Destroyer weapons of World War 2

Destroyer weapons of World War 2
172 pages | Dec 12, 2000 |ISBN: 0870219294 | PDF | 7.5 Mb

A better working title would have been "British and US Destroyer Guns of WW11". The reader would then consider the information on other weapons and sensors as a side bonus.

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The City of Coventry: A Twentieth Century Icon

The City of Coventry: A Twentieth Century Icon
2006 | 256 | ISBN: 184511034X | PDF | 1 Mb

Shattered by bombing in the World War II, Coventry was to rise as a model of urban regeneration and imaginative urban planning. Adrian Smith mixes memoir and meticulous scholarship to describe how his native city has inspired film-makers like Humphrey Jennings, poets and painters such as Philip Larkin and Terry Jones, and musicians as varied as Benjamin Britten and The Specials. Attractively presented, highly readable and with broad appeal, City of Coventry is a lively re-examination of an iconic city of the twentieth century illuminating the profound changes that engulfed industrial England during and after the war.

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The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II by Chris Bishop

The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II by Chris Bishop

Barnes & Noble | 1998 | ISBN: 0760710228 | 545 pages | PDF | 77 MB

The book is organized into the following catergories(summarized for this review): Tanks, Vehicles, Artillery, Rockets, Infantry Weapons and Airplanes. Each category is then seperated Axis and Allies. Almost all of the 1,500+ weapons covered in this book have an image most of them featuring a photograph. The book is a great cross reference guide for anyone who enjoys reading historical material.

Ancient Chinese Warfare By Ralph D. Sawyer

Ancient Chinese Warfare By Ralph D. Sawyer
Publisher: Ba sic Books 2011 | 576 Pages | ISBN: 046502145X | PDF | 1 MB

Sawyer, a leading scholar of Chinese warfare and fellow at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, is best known for his comprehensively edited translations of classical military writings. His latest analytical work is no less significant. It begins in the prehistoric period and continues through the fifth century B.C.E., an era traditionally described as one of stability, almost idyllic compared to the two-century warring states period that followed. Sawyer instead demonstrates through archeological evidence, traditional ***s, and convincing interpretations of inscriptions that conflict in China became increasingly complex, lethal, and decisive during the Hsia and Shang dynasties. Armies became structured forces with bureaucratized logistics. Warrior values were integrated into mainstream cultures.
Sawyer's analysis ranges from the evolution of fortification, through the metallurgical innovations behind improved weapons, to the technologies and animal husbandry that enabled the chariots that became ancient China's signature. Warfare, says Sawyer, stimulated innovation, social change, and material progress. It also destroyed the peace and security of communities, then peoples, absorbed into ever-larger political systems sustained by force. Ancient China, shaped by its wars, was firmly set on "a trajectory of state building and aggressive activity.

 

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Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia

Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia
2008-02-05 | ISBN: 1403975418 | 144 pages | PDF | 15 MB

From the Silk Road to the Great Game, Central Asia has long been a region of great strategic, political, and economic importance. Currently the home of large oil reserves, Islamic terrorists, and new democracies, Central Asia is of growing visibility to Americans. In this atlas, Rafis Abazov provides 50 two-color maps, each accompanied by a facing page of explanatory text, that graphically illuminate the region's history tracing back to the 8th-7th centuries B.C. From the spread of Islam to the invasion of the Mongols, the area has been at the crossroads of some of the world's most important developments, all succinctly explained in this book. Students will regard it as a useful reference, and general readers will value it for its clarity and wealth of information.

 

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