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Starting with the ’03 Springfield and ’17 Enfield, this authoritative guide describes the development of automatic and semi-automatic weapons, explaining how they work, barrels and experiments with obstructions, strengths and weaknesses of military rifles, receiver steels and heat treatment, headspace, recoil problems, gunpowder, corrosion, triggers, and the Pederson Device. It also covers noted gun makers, tips to match ammunition, interior and exterior ballistics, velocity variation, measuring methods, weights, overloads, and ranges. Invaluable information for shooters, gunsmiiths, collectors, ballisticians, and hunters.

Julian Hatcher was a retired U.S. Army major general, technical editor for The American Rifleman, and author of Machine Guns, Pistols and Revolvers and Their Use, and Textbook of Firearms Investigation, Identification and Evidence. He was director of the National Rifle Association from 1922-1946. –This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Eric D. Nelson, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of classics at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington. He is the author of The Complete Idiots Guide to the Roman Empire and several scholarly works regarding the life and writings of Hippocrates.
Susan Allard-Nelson, Ph.D., specializes in ancient philosophy, particularly Aristotle, and in ethics. The author of An Aristotelian Approach to Ethical Theory: The Norms of Virtue, she teaches philosophy and writing at Pacific Lutheran University.

A modern examination of the ancient world.

The incredible influence of Ancient Greek culture on everything from science to literature to politics continues to be relevantand hotly debated. In The Complete Idiots Guide to Ancient Greece, you are invited to meet the Ancient Greeks and to understand their legacy by entering their world.

Profiles the most important contributions of Greek culture, including mythology, philosophy, medicine, and the Olympic games
Includes further reading and travel information to help in planning a personal Odyssey

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Ancient Greece

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Middle Ages

Timothy C. Hall, M.A., created and teaches an online AP World History and Medieval Studies curriculum, and is currently a full-time social studies teacher at the Franklin Academy in Wake Forest, NC, where he teaches AP European History, Sociology, and Civics/Economics. He is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide(r) to World History.

Shed some light on one of history’s darkest periods.

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Middle Ages gives readers the beginning, middle, and end of the era, starting with the fall of the Roman Empire in the year 550 and ending with the Renaissance in 1500- and covers some uncomfortable similarities between the so-called “Dark Ages” and today’s “modern world.”

*A fascinating, fact-filled book that delivers more than a thousand years of history in easy-to-understand chapters
*Many AP European History students are urged to read an overview of medieval Europe to aid in their understanding of modern Europe, and a number of high schools have adopted elective courses in medieval history
*Complete with a timeline, a who’s who, and guides to further reading and the Middle Ages in film

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Middle Ages ...

This book is a concise, readable introduction to the Greek author Thucydides, who is widely regarded as one of the foremost historians of all time....

As imagined by Wilson, The Death of Socrates is therefore very much a story about a life of becoming that compels us, centuries later, to follow the example of Socrates, a philosopher who managed to be mythic and reflective and irritating in almost equal measure.
–Larry T. Shillock (Bloomsbury Review 20080101)...

From the rise of Greece to the fall of Rome, this superbly illustrated volume is a wonderful account of the warriors and battles that dominated Europe and the Near East for more than 1,000 years. The story begins at Troy, drawing upon Homeric legend and modern archaeological evidence. It continues through Greece’s Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, Alexander the Great, Rome’s Punic Wars, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, and the barbarian invasions. Although John Warry’s text is worth reading, the color drawings of uniforms, equipment, weapons, warships, siege engines, and more are the real highlight and make the chronicle extremely accessible. Warfare in the Classical World will excite both readers who have a mature interest in the period and, although it’s not a kids’ book, children becoming acquainted with ancient history for the first time. –This text refers to the Paperback edition.

This superbly illustrated volume traces the evolution of the art of warfare in the Greek and Roman worlds between 1600 B.C. and A.D. 800, from the rise of Mycenaean civilization to the fall of Ravenna and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. John Warry tells of an age of great military commanders such as Alexander the Great, Hannibal, and Julius Caesar – men whose feats of generalship still provide material for discussion and admiration in the military academies of the world.

The text is complemented by a running chronology, 16 maps, 50 newly researched battle plans and tactical diagrams, and 125 photographs, 65 of them in color.

From the rise of Greece to the fall of Rome, this superbly illustrated volume is a wonderful account of the warriors and battles that dominated Europe and the Near East for more than 1,000 years. The story begins at Troy, drawing upon Homeric legend and modern archaeological evidence. It continues through Greece’s Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, Alexander the Great, Rome’s Punic Wars, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, and the barbarian invasions. Although John Warry’s text is worth reading, the color drawings of uniforms, equipment, weapons, warships, siege engines, and more are the real highlight and make the chronicle extremely accessible. Warfare in the Classical World will excite both readers who have a mature interest in the period and, although it’s not a kids’ book, children becoming acquainted with ancient history for the first time. –This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Warfare in the Classical World Hb

Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors and Warfare in the Ancient Civilisations of Greece and Rome

From the rise of Greece to the fall of Rome, this superbly illustrated volume is a wonderful account of the warriors and battles that dominated Europe and the Near East for more than 1,000 years. The story begins at Troy, drawing upon Homeric legend and modern archaeological evidence. It continues through Greece’s Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, Alexander the Great, Rome’s Punic Wars, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, and the barbarian invasions. Although John Warry’s text is worth reading, the color drawings of uniforms, equipment, weapons, warships, siege engines, and more are the real highlight and make the chronicle extremely accessible. Warfare in the Classical World will excite both readers who have a mature interest in the period and, although it’s not a kids’ book, children becoming acquainted with ancient history for the first time.

This superbly illustrated volume traces the evolution of the art of warfare in the Greek and Roman worlds between 1600 B.C. and A.D. 800, from the rise of Mycenaean civilization to the fall of Ravenna and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. John Warry tells of an age of great military commanders such as Alexander the Great, Hannibal, and Julius Caesar – men whose feats of generalship still provide material for discussion and admiration in the military academies of the world.

The text is complemented by a running chronology, 16 maps, 50 newly researched battle plans and tactical diagrams, and 125 photographs, 65 of them in color.

Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors and Warfare in the Ancient Civilisations of Greece and Rome ...

How does a democratic government conscript citizens, turn them into soldiers who can fight effectively against a highly trained enemy, and then somehow reward these troops for their service? In Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America, Jennifer D. Keene argues that the doughboy experience in 1917–18 forged the U.S. Army of the twentieth century and ultimately led to the most sweeping piece of social-welfare legislation in the nation’s history — the G.I. Bill.

Keene shows how citizen-soldiers established standards of discipline that the army in a sense had to adopt. Even after these troops had returned to civilian life, lessons learned by the army during its first experience with a mass conscripted force continued to influence the military as an institution. The experience of going into uniform and fighting abroad politicized citizen-soldiers, Keene finally argues, in ways she asks us to ponder. She finds that the country and the conscripts — in their view — entered into a certain social compact, one that assured veterans that the federal government owed conscripted soldiers of the twentieth century debts far in excess of the pensions the Grand Army of the Republic had claimed in the late nineteenth century.

“Jennifer D. Keene [has] illuminated these once unknown soldiers through scholarship of startling originality and insight.” — Steven Trout, American Studies

“Felker”s detailed and insightful analysis of inter-war strategic exercises demonstrates that the popular sterotype of a monolithic and hidebound officer corps cannot be sustained.”-World War II Quarterly (World War II Quarterly )...

The Marines’ battles for Tarawa Atoll and the Marshall Islands were some of the fiercest and most decisive of the Pacific campaign in World War II–critical engagements that this pictorial history brings vividly to life. In hundreds of rare photographs, many never-before-published, the historic drama unfolds in these pages, documenting the 2d Marine Division’s amphibious assault on Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll on November 20, 1943; and the landing of the 22d Marines on the Marshalls on February 18, followed by the intense fighting that brought the entire atoll under Allied control within four days. ...

“Throughout the second century B.C., the world of East Asia was divided between two great superpowers, the Han Chinese and the Hsiung-nu, facing off against each other sometimes peaceably and sometimes antagonistically. In Ancient China and Its Enemies, Nicola Di Cosmo provides a magisterial survey of the rise of the lesser known of these two powers, the nomadic Hsiung-nu. This book is invaluable not only for understanding the relations between ancient China and its major enemy, but also for understanding either of the powers individually.” Edward Shaughnessy, University of Chicago...