Product Description: This highly detailed and well-illustrated single-volume work documents the evolution of warfare across history through weaponry and technological change.• Contains more than 260 entries of weapons and technological changes• Features 25 sidebars that provide interesting insights as to the employment of the weapons and changes• Appropriate for students in high school, college, and military academies as well as general readers interested in the history of weaponry• Provides a bibliography and inde...read more

Product Description: Tank Driver is the story of a young man’s combat initiation in World War II. Based on letters home, the sparse narrative has the immediacy of on-the-spot reporting. Ted Hartman was a teenager when he was sent overseas to drive a Sherman tank into combat to face the desperate German counterattack known as the Battle of the Bulge...read more

Product Description: This encyclopedic collection of more than 200 of the most decisive and important battles throughout world history gets a fresh interpretation by a noted military historian.• Chronological organization of topics allows readers to quickly locate individual battles and place them within the larger continuum of history • Numerous illustrations, drawings, maps, and photographs depict pivotal battles and make the book visually appealing• Every essay dedicated to a specific battle has a bibliography of references for further reading• A fact box at the top of each entry provides essential information and statistics in one easy-to-access locatio...read more

Product Description: Book by Tucker, Spencer C.

Presents nearly 176 documents and over a thousand entries covering all aspects of the Cold War from its origins to its aftermath, including political, military, social, diplomatic, economic, and biographical entries.