By Robert Hardy

ISBN-10: 0857332481

ISBN-13: 9780857332486

Robert Hardy’s Longbow, which has completed an enviable popularity as a vintage ebook at the topic, tells the tale of this weapon all through British historical past with drama, vigour and exuberance. in addition to describing the Longbow’s vibrant earlier in battles akin to Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt, and within the Robin Hood legend and the Wars of the Roses, the e-book comprises info at the archers themselves and their apparatus, education, lifestyle and phrases of carrier.

By Charles Staley

By Dario Azzellini, Boris Kanzleiter

ISBN-10: 3935936176

ISBN-13: 9783935936170

By United States Government US Marine Corps

Marine Corps Reference book MCRP 2-10A.5 previously MCRP 2-24B distant Sensor Operations 2 might 2016 Marine Corps Warfighting e-book (MCWP) 2-2.3, distant Sensor Operations, is the 1st in a brand new sequence of doctrinal guides on intelligence assortment operations. MCWP 2-1, Intelligence Operations (under improvement) and FMFM 3-21, MAGTF Intelligence Operations, supply doctrine, strategies, thoughts, and strategies for intelligence assortment operations. MCWP 2-2.3 enhances and expands upon this data through detailing doctrine, strategies, options, and approaches for the behavior of distant sensor operations in help of the Marine Air-Ground job strength (MAGTF). the first target market of this ebook is intelligence body of workers chargeable for the making plans and execution of sensor operations. body of workers who supply help to distant sensor operations or who make the most of the reporting from those operations must also learn this booklet. MCWP 2-2.3 describes elements of distant sensor operations together with doctrinal basics, gear, command and keep watch over, making plans, execution, logistics, and coaching. MCWP 2-2.3 offers the data wanted by means of Marines to appreciate, plan, and execute distant sensor operations in help of the MAGTF.

By David Turner

ISBN-10: 1906134138

ISBN-13: 9781906134136

By Wayne

By Oscar Gilbert

ISBN-10: 1504021711

ISBN-13: 9781504021715

In may well 1943, a self-described “really younger, eco-friendly, ignorant lieutenant” assumed command of a brand new US Marine Corps corporation. His even more youthful enlisted Marines have been studying to exploit an untested weapon, the M4A2 “Sherman” medium tank. His sole strive against veteran used to be the corporate bugler, who had salvaged his costume cap and battered horn from a sinking airplane service. simply six months later, the corporate will be thrown into one of many ghastliest battles of worldwide conflict II.
 
On November 20, 1943 the second Marine department introduced the 1st amphibious attack of the Pacific struggle, without delay into enamel of robust jap defenses on Tarawa. In that blood-soaked invasion, a unmarried corporation of Sherman tanks, of which simply survived, performed a pivotal function in turning the tide from looming catastrophe to mythical victory. during this distinct examine, Oscar E. Gilbert and Romain V. Cansiere use reputable files, memoirs, and interviews with veterans, in addition to own and aerial photos, to stick to Charlie corporation from its formation, and hint the stream, action—and loss—of person tanks during this terrible 4-day struggle.
 
The authors keep on with the corporate from education in the course of the brutal 76-hour fight for Tarawa. Survivor bills and air-photo analyses record the movements—and destruction—of the company’s person tanks. it's a tale of escapes from drowning tanks, or even extra harrowing extrications from tanks knocked out at the back of eastern strains. it's a tale of guys doing no matter what had to be performed, from burying the lifeless to hand-carrying heavy cannon ammunition ahead lower than hearth. it's the tale of the way the 2 surviving tanks and their crews improved a perilously skinny beachhead and cleared the way in which for serious reinforcements to return ashore. yet such a lot of all, it's a tale of the way a couple of unsung Marines helped flip close to catastrophe into epic victory.

By Geoff Coughlan Osprey

ISBN-10: 1841760609

ISBN-13: 9781841760605

This e-book units out to supply a pragmatic reference for the modeller and supplement the colossal array of ancient reference fabric that already exists for this era. many alternative ideas are coated, together with dry-brushing, washes, weathering, sorts of paints, the instruments of the exchange and lots of extra crucial assistance.