Over the centuries, naval relations between Japan and Korea appear to have alternated between peaceful trade and outright hostility. However, this i...

The Confederate states adopted radical solutions to counter the naval superiority of their opponents. One of the more successful solutions they adop...

Following on from the first volume covering British Napoleonic Artillery, this volume concentrates on the heavy weapons of siege and coastal defences....

As a young gunner, Napoleon Bonaparte was trained in one of Europe's finest artillery arms. Both the technological sophistication of their weaponry...

The Panzerkampfwagen V Panther is one of the best-known German tanks in existence and is considered one of the greatest tanks of World War II. When...

From 1943 the British began the design of a tank that bore distinct similarities to the German Panther tank. Designed as a Universal Tank, the desig...

When it came to non-gunpowder machine development, the medieval period was one of the most inventive in military history. During this era, the pre-e...

The Iosef Stalin tanks were the ultimate heavy tanks developed by the Soviet Union and were popularly called 'Victory tanks' due to their close asso...

The deeds and personalities of famous pirates have received significant attention in recent years: however, no detailed depiction of their vessels has...

In this book, Gordon Williamson examines the design, development and operational use of the battleships used by the Kriegsmarine during World War II...

The Austrian artillery of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars was a creation of the renowned Lichtenstein system of the early 1750s. This weight sys...

The M4 Sherman tank was the mainstay of the Western allies between 1942 and 1945. Fast and modern it was a big success and was transported as far af...