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In the thirty years after the Second World War, the British army entered a period of intense technological development. Due to the lack of surviving documentation, this period is almost a second Dark Age. What survives shows the British Army's struggle to use cutting edge technology to create weapons that could crush the Soviet Union's armed forces, all the while fighting against the demands of Her Majesty's Treasury.On this journey, the Army ...

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Looks at some of the most fascinating items from the history of armoured warfare that have been unfairly overlooked and are due a reappraisal.

Weapons of myth and scandal, that is the best way to describe the spigot weapons deployed by the British in the Second World War.Unlike conventional mortars, a spigot mortar does not have a barrel through with the round is fired. Instead, the general concept involves a steel rod - the 'spigot' - onto which the bomb is placed before it is fired. This design was, as David Lister reveals, the basis of a number of successful weapons used during th...

This book takes a look at the records from a time period of increasing importance to the tank historian

This book contains three stories. Tallahatchie Timebomb: A cold-case murder investigation, conducted by amateur sleuth and freelance researcher, Colin McDonald. His quest, to find out what really happened to his cousin. The song said he jumped, but the evidence is stacking up. He was pushed, but by whom? With one foot in the Mississippi Delta and the other in a north London suburb, his enquiries stir up the muddy waters of the Tallahatchie Riv...

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Jack is little Reggie's imaginary friend. He might also be the holographic assistant to a ship's master who is about to take her vessel on the first jump to the Kepler system, and the familiar spirit of a young man who awaits execution for witchcraft in one of Lancaster Castle's dank cells. By one name or another, he inhabits the world's history, from alpha to omega. A Roman boy-emperor dances for him, a modern-day diva sings for him and a you...

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Looks at some of the most fascinating items from the history of armoured warfare that have been unfairly overlooked and are due a reappraisal.

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