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Oxford Ox2 9lp United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, Limited, 2004 64 pages, many b&w photos, and colour illustrations/paintings.. First Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. ... more information

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Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.: Naval Institute Press, 2003 433 pages . Reprint. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. ... more information

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Canada: Apogee Books, 2008 215 pages, index, appendices, black & white photographs and tables. Beginning with a short history of the birth of rocketry he movies into an explanation of the physics that makes it possible to use rockets to fly in space. Leaving no stone unturned the author movies on to the politics and economics of space-flight before providing a detailed cross-section of man's different uses of the reaction rockt to fly into the heavens. Finally he looks at the proposals for future me... more information

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Novato, CA, U.S.A.: Presidio Press, 1988 price clipped 304 pages b/w photos. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. ... more information

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Kralove Czech Republic: Japo, 2002 dual english polish text - 112 pages prof ill b/w photos colour profiles line drawings colour photos . Revised. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. ... more information

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Dulles, VA, U.S.A.: Potomac Books, 2003 281 pages - Based on audiotapes he recorded during the war and sent home to his family, Randy Zahn’s Snake Pilot recounts his experiences flying AH-1 Cobra helicopters during the Vietnam War. First deployed in Vietnam in 1967 and loaded with a formidable arsenal of weaponry, the Cobra was the first helicopter designed from inception as an attack aircraft. It dramatically changed the nature of the war in Vietnam by offering the Army, for the first time, its own po... more information

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Dulles, VA, U.S.A.: Brassey's, Incorporated, 1996 price clipped 276 pages . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. ... more information

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Oxford Ox2 9lp United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, Limited, 2007 48 pages, b/w photos & colour illustrations - Contents Introduction - Prewar Developmet and Deployment - World War II Development and Deployment - Tank Combat of the Great Asian War - Further Reading - Color Plate Commentary - Index. The Japanese Army used tanks to great effect in the build-up to World War II. Inspired by European designs, in the 1920s and 1930s an innovative Japanese tank program facilitated their campaigns in China prior ... more information

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Botley, Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, Limited, 2007 80 pages profuselly illustrated with colour photos colour chips - The Sherman tank was the principal US and Allied tank of World War II - more Shermans were built than all German tanks combined. Not only were large numbers of Shermans manufactured, but a large number of variants emerged powered by different types of engines and with different types of hulls, turrets and other details, making it an ideal subject for any modeller. Steven J Zalog... more information

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Great Britain: Osprey, 2008 96 pages, full colour battlescenes, illustrations, 3-d 'birds-eye-views', maps. In July 1944, Operation Cobra broke the stalemate in Normandy and sent the Allies racing across France. The Allied commanders had ignored Paris in their planning for this campaign, considering that the risk of intense street fighting and heavy casualties outweighed the city's strategic importance. However, Charles de Gaulle persuaded the Allied commanders to take direct action to liberate ... more information

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Oxford Ox2 0ph United Kingdom: Osprey, 2009 48 pages, index, black & white photographs, full colour artwork, illustrations, unrivalled detail, cutaway artwork. This book examines the development of this category of armored cars and offers a detailed analysis of the extensive combat use of the Staghound in British service as well as in the service of other Allied countries including Canada, New Zealand and Poland.. First Edition. Paperback. New/No Jacket. Illus. by Bull, Peter. ... more information

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Oxford Ox2 0ph United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, 2009 80 pages, colour artwork, photographs, unrivaled detail, cutaway artwork. The Gulf War bore witness to a number of deadly encounters between these two great adversaries. Heavily armoured, highly mobile and capable of killing at over 2500m the M1 Abrams is, to this day, a veritable fighting machine. Superior to both Iraq’s Soviet era T-55 and T-62 tanks, nearly all sources claim that no Abrams tank has ever been destroyed by enemy fire. . First Edit... more information

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Hong Kong: Concord Publication Co., 2005 72 pages, profusely illustrated with b&w photos and colour profiles . First Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. ... more information

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Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, Limited, 2009 192 pages, index, colour photographs throughout. The tanks and other armored fighting vehicles of the United States Forces in World War II have always been some of the most popular subjects for scale modellers. Now, renowned modeller and AFV expert, Steven J Zaloga, presents the definitive guide to modelling these famous fighting vehicles.Based around four building projects, Steven presents all the techniques necessary to get a great finish on a ... more information

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Oxford Ox2 0ph United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, Limited, 2009 64 pages, full colour artwork, photographs, unrivalled detail, colour maps. Germany's Atlantic Wall was the most ambitious military fortification program of World War II. Following its conquest of Western Europe, Germany had to defend some 5,000km of Atlantic coastline from the Spanish border to the Arctic Circle. The United States’ entry into the war and the inevitability of an Anglo-American landing in Western Europe resulted in the ... more information

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Oxford Ox2 9lp United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, Limited, 2006 48 pages, b/w photos & colour illustrations. Panzer warfare is synonymous with the Wehrmacht of World War II. This book examines the story of the Panzer’s more mysterious ancestors, the little-known panzers of the Great War. Germany was very slow to develop armored vehicles compared to Britain and France. Efforts to catch-up proved difficult, and only a few dozen German A7V tanks were completed in time to take part in the final campaig... more information

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Oxford Ox2 9lp United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, Limited, 2006 96 pages, profusely illustrated.. First Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. Illus. by Dennis, Peter. ... more information

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Oxford Ox2 9lp United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, Limited, 2007 96 pages, profusely illustrated.. First Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. Illus. by Noon, Steve. ... more information

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Botley, Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, Limited, 2007 96 pages prof ill b/w photos, b/w maps. The delivery of entire divisions to battlefields behind enemy lines by parachute and glider was a unique feature of World War II, and by the end of the war the US Army deployed the largest airborne force in the world, created in only three years, and boasting such impressive units as the 82nd "All American" and 101st "Screaming Eagles." This book details the organization and operation... more information

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Oxford Ox2 9lp United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, Limited, 2001 96 pages, profusely illustrated.. First Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. ... more information

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