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  • The Sniper Encyclopaedia

    An A–Z Guide to World Sniping

    by John Walter ...
    A complete guide to snipers, rifles, techniques, battles, and campaigns throughout history and around the world, by the author of The Hand Gun Story.The work features hundreds of snipers, including not only the best-known—world renowned gurus such as Vasiliy Zaytsev and Chris Kyle—but also many crack shots overlooked by history. Among them are some of more than a thousand Red Army snipers—men and ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hand Gun Story

    A Complete Illustrated History

    by John Walter ...
    A firearms expert "traces the history of the 'one hand gun' from its 14th century origins . . . surveying changing technology, techniques, and design" ( Midwest Book Review).Ideally suited for both attack and self-defense, handguns have gotten smaller and deadlier. But the earliest pistols had a tendency to misfire. This was cured by the cap-lock, which proved a massive success in the American ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Luger

    The Story of the World's Most Famous Handgun

    by John Walter ...
    The distinctive look of the Luger and its role in German military history make it the world’s most famous handgun. In Luger, renowned gun expert John Walter traces the history of this semiautomatic pistol from an early design by Hugo Borchardt in the 1890s through its use in the trenches of the First World War to the final days of the Third Reich in WWII. Other books on the Parabellum-Pistole, as ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Sniping Rifles in the War Against Japan 1941–45

    by John Walter ...
    Series Book 88 - Weapon
    Fully illustrated, this absorbing study explores the evolving sniping technology and tactics employed by both sides in Asia and the Pacific during 1941–45.During World War II, both the Japanese and their Allied opponents made widespread use of snipers armed with a variety of rifles, scopes and accessories and prepared by widely differing levels of training and tactical doctrine. The challenges of ... Read more

    $17.49 USD

  • Weapons of the Civil War Cavalryman

    by John Walter ...
    Series Book 75 - Weapon
    During the American Civil War, the mounted soldiers fighting on both sides of the conflict carried a wide array of weapons, from sabers and lances to carbines, revolvers, and other firearms.Though some sections of the cavalry placed their trust in the sabre, the advent of viable breechloading carbines -- especially repeaters such as the Spencer -- was to transform warfare within little more than a ... Read more

    $17.49 USD

  • Walther Pistols

    PP, PPK and P 38

    by John Walter ...
    Series Book 82 - Weapon
    While the PP and PPK were intended for police work, the Walther P 38 was produced for the Germany military; all three pistols have garnered a formidable international reputation since the 1930s.The innovative Walther PP (Polizeipistole), a double-action semi-automatic pistol intended for the law-enforcement market, became available in 1929 and went on to arm the police of several European ... Read more

    $17.49 USD

  • Nambu Pistols

    Japanese military handguns 1900–45

    by John Walter ...
    Series Book 86 - Weapon
    This is the absorbing story of the handguns credited to Nambu Kijiro, the principal personal-defence weapons of the Imperial forces.Featuring full-color artwork and carefully chosen photographs, this book charts the origins, development, combat use, and legacy of the Nambu pistols. Cutaway artwork reveals the inner workings of these important handguns, while specially commissioned battlescenes ... Read more

    $17.49 USD

  • Remaking English Society

    Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England

    by Steve Hindle, John D. Walter, Lindsay O'Neill, Malcolm J Gaskill, Naomi Tadmor, Paul Griffiths, Phil Withington, Tim Stretton, Alexandra Shepard1, Adam Fox2, Andy Wood3, Craig Muldrew4, Helen M Berry5, Henry French6 ...
    A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social change in early modern England. Collectively, the essays in the volume reconstruct the fissures and connections that developed both within and between social groups during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on the experience of rapid ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Anabaptism In Outline

    Selected Primary Sources

    by Walter Klaassen, John D. Roth ...
    Series Book 3 - Classics of the Radical Reformation
    **This anthology provides the best introduction to the core beliefs and foundational principles of Anabaptism.This comprehensive book compiles** the writings and statements of thirty-seven sixteenth-century Anabaptists. Selections are arranged under topics such as baptism, the church, nonresistance, Jesus the Word, government, the cross, suffering, discipleship, and relations to other Christians ... Read more

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  • Guns of the Elite Forces

    by John Walter ...
    Guns of the Elite Forces provides a penetrating account of the weapons that elite fighting troops carry into combat. Such elites have always existed in the armies of the world. During World War II, elite units sprang up in most theatres of conflict the German Brandenburgers carried out clandestine operations in Poland; in the Western Desert, the Long Range Desert Group and SAS penetrated deep ... Read more

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  • 180 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.1)

    Enriched edition. Leaves of Grass, Siddhartha, Middlemarch, The Jungle, Macbeth, Moby-Dick, A Study in Scarlet…

    by Walt Whitman, George Eliot, Herman Hesse, Kahlil Gibran, Anton Chekhov, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Marcus Aurelius0, Nikolai Gogol1, James Joyce2, Henry David Thoreau3, T. S. Eliot4, John Keats5, Charles Baudelaire6, Walter Scott7, Daniel Defoe8, Louisa May Alcott9, Jane Austen0, Charlotte Brontë1, Emily Brontë2, Anne Brontë3, Leo Tolstoy4, Victor Hugo5, Jules Verne6, Lewis Carroll7, Frances Hodgson Burnett8, Brothers Grimm9, Hans Christian Andersen0, Agatha Christie1, Wallace D. Wattles2, James Allen3, Sigmund Freud4, Miguel de Cervantes5, Frederick Douglass6, Voltaire7, Sun Tzu8, Plato9, Upton Sinclair0, Anthony Trollope1, E. M. Forster2, Theodore Dreiser3, Charles Dickens4, Thomas Hardy5, Henry James6, D. H. Lawrence7, William Makepeace Thackeray8, Marcel Proust9, H. G. Wells0, Edgar Allan Poe1, Grayson Doyle4 ...
    180 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.1) encapsulates an extraordinary range of literary styles and themes, showcasing the profound depth and diversity of global literary heritage. From the haunting resonance of Poe's gothic tales to the keen social observations of Austen and the existential musings of Dostoevsky, this anthology spans continents and centuries, offering readers a panoramic view ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Abandoned - An Anthology of Vacant Spaces

    Legion of Dorks presents, #4

    by Gregory D. Little, Jen Bair, Jessica Guernsey, Mike Adamson, Ellen Rikhoff, Joshua Robinson, Sara Codair, Tara Calaby, Dan Bridgwater, Matthew A.J. Anderson, Dantzel Cherry, Miriam Thor, D.H. Dunn, John Walters, Scott Edelman ...
    Series Book 4 - Legion of Dorks presents
    Abandoned places can be intriguing, creepy, and forsaken, but are they always empty?In this fourth anthology in the Legion of Dorks presents series, fifteen authors poke around in vacant places and let us see what turns up.You'll discover:· the wreckage of an enormous, ancient, alien craft and what it hides· a young woman looking for a shopkeeper, but who runs into a genie instead· an old ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus