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"Marco Vorobiev details the rich history of the rifle, its design and dissemination across the globe, and how it survived both inside political pressures and constant competition from newer firearms designs in this definitive volume"--

Vorobiev M: AK-47 - Survival and
Evolution of the World's Most Prolific

AK-47 - Survival and Evolution of the World's Most Prolific Gun

"Alice Lovejoy's writing makes you re-see the world film made--connecting the graphic violence of war to the stealthy violence of a chemical-laden world. A fascinating, gripping, globe-spanning guide to a history that now connects us all."--Bathsheba Demuth, author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait​ "This highly original and compelling study offers a long hard look at the underside of cinema's modernity, one that has been violent, destructive, dangerous, and cruel. Beautifully written and brilliantly argued, Tales of Militant Chemistry stuns with its rigorous scholarship and reads like a page-turning dystopian novel. It will be discussed for years to come."--Haidee Wasson, author of Everyday Movies: Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture "Tales of Militant Chemistry is an extraordinary contribution to the history of the twentieth century, and to the methodology of cultural history. By focusing on the materials and chemicals that made film possible, Lovejoy provides an original and surprising perspective on the entwined histories of both culture and warfare. This is essential reading for historians of the environment, science, warfare, and culture."--Tara Zahra, author of Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars "Tales of Militant Chemistry offers a gripping narrative of twentieth-century film stock's chemical entanglement with modern violence--with the atom bomb, trench warfare, industrial accident, racism, and plantation slavery. This is leading-edge scholarship at the intersections of media studies, cultural history and the new materialisms."--Stephanie LeMenager, author of Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century "This work of deep nuance and adept analysis describes the subtle process by which medium, carrier, and production are intertwined. Readers will no longer see the film industry simply as a manufacturer of movies, but as a system of interdependent and interconnected manufacturing, financial, and political processes deeply embedded in the international violence of the twentieth century."--Rick Prelinger, cofounder of Prelinger Library and Archives and Emerit Professor of Film &amp; Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz

The Film Factory in a Century of War

Tales of Militant Chemistry

Weapon

Written by a noted authority, this fully illustrated study describes and depicts the machine guns equipping Soviet and Russian troops after 1945.

Russian Machine Guns since 1945

The rapid proliferation and growing sophistication of aerospace weapons--rockets, missiles, and drones--have altered the landscape of warfare. The influence of these weapons on the battlefield is felt profoundly, yet the mechanism of coercion by which these weapons alter the will of the adversary is poorly understood. In Bombing to Provoke, Jaganath Sankaran argues that it is not what these aerospace weapons physically do but what they prompt the target state to do in response that matters for understanding their coercive effect. By threatening a chemical, biological, or nuclear strike or demonstrating the ability to bombard the target's economic and political core repeatedly, aerospace weapons coerce by weaponizing fear and triggering a sense of defenselessness. Sankaran provides a series of historical and current case studies to show how these fears amplify the political vulnerabilities of the target state, coercing it to divert substantial military resources away from other vital missions to redress the threat. This scenario is playing out in real time right now in both the Russo-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza theaters, both of which are seeing barrages of cross-border missile and rocket fire aimed at weakening the target's resolve. For anyone seeking to understand why states at war in the age of aerospace weapon warfare operate and react in the ways that they do, this book's methodical dissection of the strategic rationale behind these weapons makes it necessary reading.

Rockets, Missiles, and Drones as Instruments of Fear and Coercion

Bombing to Provoke

The Official U.S. Army Pistol Training Manual provides the framework for training and using a service pistol, including equipment, ammunition, and shooting.

The Official U.S. Army Pistol Training Manual

What Everyone Needs To Know®

The second edition of Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know® provides a comprehensive and updated look at the rapidly evolving world of drones, otherwise known as unmanned or uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs). Covering the past, present, and future of military and civilian applications, this book explores how drones have transformed, and are transforming, industries and warfare.

What Everyone Needs to Know®

Drones

Oxford Monographs in International Humanitarian & Criminal Law

Reframing Accountability for Complicit Weapon Suppliers

The Arms Trade and International Criminal Law

How to be Asked Again

A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in Asia, published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. 'A short but quietly devastating book, in which Overy adds new perspectives to a subject that has often been approached from a narrowly American angle... Overy's book is a sombre reminder that the border between civilisation and savagery is wafer-thin.' - Philip Snow, Literary Review In the closing months of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of Japanese, mostly civilians, died in a final outburst of violence from the air. American planes were beginning to run low on plausible targets when it was decided to use two atomic weapons in a final, terrible flourish to try to end the war. Richard Overy's remarkable new book rethinks how we should regard this last stage of the war and the role of the bombing. This book explores the way in which the willingness to kill civilians and destroy cities became normalized in the course of a horrific war as moral concerns were blunted and scientists, airmen, and politicians followed a strategy of mass destruction they would never have endorsed before the war began. But it also engages with the new scholarship that shows how complex the effort to end the war was in Japan, where 'surrender' was entirely foreign to Japanese culture.

Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan

Rain of Ruin

"The story of the development of American arms manufacturing and how ingenuity and inventiveness made the United States the major arms supplier to the world beginning in the mid-nineteenth century"--

American Gun-Makers in the Gilded Age

Arming the World

A nuclear historian gives a new, surprising account of one of the most controversial actions in history-how the United States deployed the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II-and the fallout that continues to haunt us. In the eight decades since the United States deployed the most destructive weapon ever used, conventional wisdom has held that American leaders were faced with a difficult choice: Invade Japan, which would have cost millions of Japanese and Allied lives in bloody combat, or use the fearsome atom bomb in the hopes of convincing the Japanese emperor to surrender. President Truman-in what many have come to regard as an immoral decision-ordered the military to drop the bomb. Now, historian Alex Wellerstein offers a revisionist narrative of what happened in the spring of 1945, uncovering new research that points to a very different chain of events. Wellerstein reveals a much more complex situation in which American leaders, limited by time, knowledge, and authority, and under great secrecy, each jockeyed to influence if and how the bomb would be used. Refuting previous accounts, Wellerstein explains how there was no official decision to use the bomb, nor did President Truman likely know that Hiroshima or Nagasaki were heavily populated cities. Once the bombs were dropped, Truman began a years-long struggle for control of the awesome power of atomic weapons, the ramifications of which are still felt today. The Most Awful Responsibility documents the little-known truth of the circumstances leading to this momentous event, painting a more complete picture of the end of World War II and of Truman himself. It is essential reading for all who want to truly understand not only why the bomb was dropped on Japan, but also why it has not been used since.

Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age

The Most Awful Responsibility

Based on first-hand accounts, original documentation and unpublished images, this is a highly illustrated history of the Flakpanzer in World War II. As the war progressed, Allied and Soviet forces began to deploy ground-attack aircraft armed with cannons, bombs or rockets to halt German armoured columns. Consequently, field commanders began to demand for their units to be issued with effective armoured anti-aircraft weapons. Renowned armour expert Thomas Anderson explains how the weapons were first mounted on light trucks and then, more effectively, on the chassis of light, medium or heavy half-tracks before orders were issued for a dedicated armoured Flakpanzer - the 2cm Flakpanzer 38(t) based on the chassis of a Czech-built PzKpfw 38(t). The effectiveness of this type saw the development of four further vehicles on the PzKpfw IV chassis: FlakPz IV Wirbelwind (whirlwind), the 3.7cm FlaK 43 L/50 Ostwind (east wind), the 3.7cm FlaK 43 L/60 Möbelwagen (furniture van) and the 2cm Vierlingsflak 38 L/55. The final stages of the war also saw German field engineers mounting Flak weapons on all types of heavy truck or half-track chassis available. Drawing on after-action reports, original wartime documents and rare and previously unseen photographs, this is a comprehensive and fully illustrated study of the German development of Flakpanzers throughout World War II.

Flakpanzer

New Vanguard

An expert guide to the tanks that fought for the Axis in the Italian Campaign between 1943 and 1945, World War II's least-known period of armoured warfare.

German and Italian Tanks in Italy 1943–45

AK-47 - Survival and Evolution of the World's Most Prolific Gun

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