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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Early interwar assessment of aviation's dual role in military doctrine and civilian commerce, drawn from WWI aerial combat and imperial air routes.
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Archibald Hurd's pre-WWI analysis of British naval supremacy under challenge from Germany's dreadnought program and the naval arms race.
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Prosopographical register of Schoharie County, New York veterans from the Revolution through the Civil War compiled from muster rolls and pensions.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Written during the formative years of powered flight, this work examines aviation's dual identity as a revolutionary instrument of warfare and a transformative force in civilian transportation, commerce, and imperial communications. The author draws on direct experience with early aviation polic…y to assess how the lessons of aerial combat in the Great War would reshape both military doctrine and peacetime governance of the skies. The result is a document that captures aviation thought at a pivotal moment, when the boundaries between civil and military aeronautics were still being drawn and the strategic implications of air power were fiercely debated. The text addresses several intersecting themes. On the military side, it examines the evolution of aerial reconnaissance, bombing, and fighter tactics during the First World War, analyzing how these capabilities altered the conduct of ground and naval operations. The author assesses which wartime innovations would prove durable and which were artifacts of specific battlefield conditions. On the civilian side, the work explores the establishment of air routes, the economics of commercial aviation, and the role of flight in binding together the far-flung territories of the British Empire. The discussion of imperial air communications is particularly revealing, reflecting the strategic calculation that aircraft could compress the distances that had traditionally governed colonial administration and defense. What makes this work historically significant is its position at the intersection of technical development and policy formation. Aviation language itself was still crystallizing when these pages were written. Terms like "air power," "air routes," and "civil aviation" were acquiring their modern meanings, and the text preserves the intellectual atmosphere in which military officers, politicians, and engineers argued over whether aviation would primarily serve armies and navies or evolve into an independent strategic arm. The author's proximity to these debates gives the writing an immediacy that later historical accounts inevitably smooth away. Modern readers approaching this edition will find it valuable as a primary source for understanding how early aviation advocates framed their arguments. Students of air power theory can trace the conceptual lineage that connects these early formulations to the more developed doctrines of the interwar period and beyond. Historians of technology will appreciate the close attention to the practical challenges of making aviation economically viable in peacetime. Collectors and enthusiasts of early aviation literature will recognize the work as part of a distinct publishing moment when books about flying occupied a space between technical manual, policy argument, and visionary speculation. The Frontier Model Bibliophile edition preserves the historical character of the original text, including its period vocabulary and assumptions, while presenting it in a format designed for contemporary readers and institutional collections. Early aviation imprints of this kind hold particular interest when they reflect direct authorial involvement in the events and policies described, and this volume meets that standard clearly. Early interwar assessment of aviation's dual role in military doctrine and civilian commerce, drawn from WWI aerial combat and imperial air routes. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. A canonical Cold War reference work, this volume on the effects of nuclear weapons represents one of the defining public documents of the atomic age. Originally prepared under the joint sponsorship of the United States Department of Defense and the Department of Energy, it served for decades as…the standard unclassified reference on nuclear weapons phenomena, consulted by military planners, civil defense officials, scientists, and policymakers who needed authoritative data on what nuclear detonations actually do. The scope is comprehensive and systematic. Coverage addresses the physics of nuclear explosions from fission and fusion through the partitioning of energy into blast, thermal radiation, and nuclear radiation. Detailed chapters treat blast wave propagation and structural damage at varying distances and yields, thermal radiation effects including ignition ranges and burn casualty projections, initial and residual nuclear radiation including fallout formation and distribution patterns, electromagnetic pulse characteristics, and the effects of nuclear detonations at high altitude and underwater. Scaling laws allow readers to extrapolate effects across weapon yields, while extensive tables and graphs provide the quantitative data that made this work an operational reference rather than merely a descriptive account. The treatment reflects the document's dual purpose as both a technical manual for professionals and an educational resource for a broader audience. The core phenomena are explained with sufficient rigor to support engineering calculations, while introductory sections provide context accessible to readers without specialized physics backgrounds. This combination made the original edition one of the most widely distributed government technical publications of the Cold War era, found in university libraries, government offices, and private collections worldwide. This Frontier Model Bibliophile edition republishes the public-domain text with its full technical apparatus intact, including the tables, charts, scaling curves, and worked examples that constitute much of the volume's practical value. The original formatting and reference structure are preserved, maintaining the work's utility for researchers who need to cite specific data points or cross-reference with the broader nuclear effects literature. The volume's significance extends beyond its technical content. As a cultural artifact, it documents how the United States government chose to communicate nuclear weapons effects to a public audience during the Cold War, what it chose to quantify, what it chose to illustrate, and what frameworks it provided for thinking about nuclear conflict. Civil defense historians, nuclear policy scholars, and historians of science will find it as valuable for what it reveals about institutional communication as for the technical data it contains. Intended for readers in military history, nuclear policy, Cold War studies, civil defense history, physics, and anyone seeking to understand the physical realities underlying nuclear deterrence theory and arms control negotiations. Canonical Cold War reference on nuclear weapons effects covering blast, thermal radiation, fallout, and EMP with scaling laws and quantitative data. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Compiled from official muster rolls, pension records, and community archives, this comprehensive roster documents the military service of men from Schoharie County, New York, across four American conflicts: the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War. Rath…er than a narrative history, the work is structured as a prosopographical register, listing individual soldiers by name, rank, regiment, dates of enlistment and discharge, and theater of service. The result is a dense, methodical accounting of one rural county's cumulative sacrifice and participation in the nation's formative military engagements. Schoharie County occupies a distinctive place in American military history. Situated in the Mohawk Valley of upstate New York, the region saw direct combat during the Revolution, including the 1780 British and Loyalist raid on the Schoharie settlements. The county's veterans served in some of the most consequential units of each successive war, and the records gathered here preserve the names of men who might otherwise be lost to the broader sweep of national history. For the Revolutionary War entries, the records capture militia and Continental Army service from the valley's frontier defense. Civil War entries are particularly extensive, reflecting the county's contributions to New York volunteer infantry and cavalry regiments that fought from Bull Run to Appomattox. The original compilation reflects the painstaking archival methods of nineteenth-century local historians who recognized that official records were scattered, deteriorating, and at risk of permanent loss. By consolidating pension files, adjutant general reports, and local oral histories into a single volume, the compiler created an indispensable reference that has served genealogists, regimental historians, and community organizations for generations. The structured format makes it especially useful for tracing family military lineage across multiple conflicts, a feature that distinguishes it from the more common single-war regimental histories. Modern readers will find this edition valuable on several levels. Genealogists researching Schoharie County families gain direct access to service records that are otherwise dispersed across state and federal archives. Students of New York military history encounter a microcosm of how one small agricultural county experienced the demands of national mobilization across nearly a century of warfare. Social historians can trace patterns of enlistment, unit composition, and community response to successive calls to arms. The roster format, while austere, contains embedded stories in its details: soldiers who served in multiple wars, families that sent several sons, men who enlisted as privates and emerged as officers. County military records of this kind occupy a particular niche in American publishing history. Produced in small print runs for local audiences, they were heavily used by families and historical societies, leading to high attrition among surviving copies. Original editions command attention from collectors precisely because of this combination of local scarcity and genealogical utility. The Frontier Model Bibliophile edition preserves the full text of the original work, maintaining its documentary integrity while making it available in a contemporary print format accessible to researchers, libraries, and descendants who may never encounter an original copy. Prosopographical register of Schoharie County, New York veterans from the Revolution through the Civil War compiled from muster rolls and pensions. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Produced in the immediate aftermath of the First World War by senior figures in the United States Chemical Warfare Service, this volume represents one of the earliest comprehensive syntheses of chemical warfare as practiced on the Western Front and as envisioned for future conflicts. Written by…officers who participated directly in the development and deployment of chemical weapons, the text bridges the gap between laboratory chemistry, battlefield tactics, and public health response in ways that few subsequent works have attempted from such a position of firsthand authority. The subject matter spans the full spectrum of chemical warfare as understood in the years following the Armistice. Coverage includes the development and classification of chemical agents from tear gases through vesicants and lung irritants, the design and manufacture of gas shells and delivery systems, defensive measures including respirator technology and decontamination procedures, the medical treatment of gas casualties, the industrial chemistry required for large-scale agent production, and the tactical and strategic doctrines that emerged as chemical weapons moved from improvised terror weapons to systematized elements of combined arms warfare. The text draws on operational experience from the American Expeditionary Forces and allied chemical warfare programs. The language throughout reflects the document's historical moment: a technical vocabulary that mixes industrial chemistry, military ordnance terminology, and medical casualty reporting in a register rarely encountered in modern prose. Readers will find detailed descriptions of agent properties, casualty mechanisms, and protective equipment presented with the clinical directness of a professional service manual, which is precisely what the work was designed to be. This Frontier Model Bibliophile edition republishes the public-domain text with its original structure and technical detail preserved. No effort has been made to soften or editorialize the content; the work is presented as the historical document it is. The illustrations, tables, and technical specifications that characterized the original edition are retained, providing researchers with the primary source material in the form its authors intended. The historical significance of this volume extends beyond its technical content. It documents the institutionalization of chemical warfare within the American military establishment during the critical period between the First and Second World Wars, when debates over the future of chemical weapons shaped both military doctrine and international law. The work provides direct evidence of how chemical warfare professionals understood their discipline, its potential, and its limitations during the formative years of the Geneva Protocol negotiations. Intended for readers in military history, the history of science and technology, arms control studies, and public health history. Researchers will find it a primary source of considerable value for understanding the early development of chemical warfare doctrine, while general readers interested in the history of the First World War will encounter a dimension of the conflict that popular histories often address only superficially. Early post-WWI synthesis of chemical warfare by U.S. Chemical Warfare Service officers who developed and deployed the weapons on the Western Front. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Crossing the boundary between military history and the practical trades, this remarkable manual provides detailed cutting patterns, measurement specifications, and construction instructions for the full range of British military uniforms. Written for working tailors engaged in the production of…military dress, the guide covers tunics, trousers, breeches, overcoats, undress jackets, mess dress, and the specialized garments required by different branches and ranks of the British armed forces. The level of technical detail is extraordinary: seam allowances, dart placement, facing construction, button spacing, and the specific modifications required for different regimental distinctions. The manual represents a category of publication that rarely survives in library collections. Military tailoring guides were working documents, used in cutting rooms and workshops where they accumulated the wear, stains, and annotations of daily use. They were produced for a professional audience that already possessed cutting skills and needed authoritative guidance on the precise specifications that military regulations demanded. The vocabulary throughout reflects this professional context: terms of the tailoring trade intermingle with the nomenclature of military dress regulation, creating a hybrid technical language that is unlike anything found in either conventional military history or civilian fashion literature. The significance of this work extends across multiple collecting and research communities. Costume historians gain access to the actual construction methods behind the uniforms depicted in paintings, photographs, and museum displays. The difference between seeing a Victorian military tunic in a glass case and understanding how it was cut, assembled, and fitted transforms one's appreciation of both the garment and the industrial infrastructure that produced it. Military reenactors and historical costumers find here the primary-source specifications needed for authentic reproduction. Textile historians can trace the construction techniques and materials that characterized military garment production in the period. The patterns and measurements documented in the guide also illuminate the social and physical history of the British Army. Sizing standards reveal assumptions about the bodies of soldiers. The hierarchy of dress, from full dress to field service to fatigue, maps onto a system of social performance in which the uniform communicated rank, regiment, branch, and occasion with visual precision. The technical requirements for officers' dress versus other ranks' dress encode class distinctions in seam construction and cloth quality. Modern readers across the spectrum of military, textile, and social history will find this manual fascinating. The Frontier Model Bibliophile edition preserves the complete guide with its patterns, specifications, and trade instructions, maintaining the working-document character that makes it an irreplaceable primary source for anyone interested in how British military uniforms were actually made. Period tailoring manual with cutting patterns, measurements, and construction details for the full range of British military uniforms and regimental dress. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Among the elite regiments of British India, few captured the Victorian military imagination as completely as the Corps of Guides. Raised on the Northwest Frontier in 1846 to provide intelligence, reconnaissance, and fighting capability along the most turbulent border of the empire, the Guides ea…rned a reputation for resourcefulness, endurance, and martial skill that made them legendary within the Indian Army and beyond. This regimental history chronicles their story from formation through decades of frontier service, documenting campaigns, personalities, and the distinctive operational culture that set them apart from conventional line regiments. The Corps of Guides pioneered the use of khaki uniforms, served as scouts and irregular fighters in terrain that defeated conventional tactics, and produced officers and men whose names became synonymous with frontier warfare. Their service record spans the full catalogue of Northwest Frontier engagements: punitive expeditions against tribal forces, reconnaissance missions through passes that no European had mapped, and pitched battles where the Guides fought alongside or ahead of larger formations. The text preserves the frontier-scout vocabulary of this era, with its references to passes, tribal territories, reconnaissance, irregular service, and the geographic specificity of imperial place-names that defined the operational landscape. The author writes with the narrative immediacy characteristic of the best Victorian regimental histories, combining operational accounts with biographical sketches of commanding officers and individual acts of valor. The result reads as both military record and adventure literature, a combination that made frontier regiment histories among the most popular military publications of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The romance-of-service tradition that pervades the text was not merely literary convention; it reflected a genuine culture of elite identity that the Guides cultivated and that shaped recruitment, training, and esprit de corps. Modern readers should approach this edition with awareness of its historical context. The language of imperial frontier warfare reflects assumptions about colonial authority, tribal societies, and military governance that require critical reading. The Guides' story is inseparable from the broader history of British imperialism in South Asia, and the admiring tone of the original text represents one perspective within a complex and contested legacy. That said, the operational and institutional details preserved here retain genuine historical value for understanding how irregular warfare was conducted, how intelligence was gathered on contested frontiers, and how military organizations adapted to environments where conventional European tactics failed. For military historians, this work is a primary source on frontier warfare doctrine and practice. For students of empire, it documents the institutional culture that sustained British power along its most volatile border. For collectors of military literature, the Guides' reputation ensures enduring interest in accounts of their service. The Frontier Model Bibliophile edition presents the full original text, preserving its period character while making it accessible in a contemporary format. Regimental history of British India's Corps of Guides, the elite frontier scouts raised in 1846 for intelligence and combat on the Northwest Frontier. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
