[PDF] Guns To The Far East eBook

Author : V. A. Stuart
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 2005-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590131819

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The Crimean War has ended at last, and Phillip Hazard finds himself in China, serving under the fiery Commodore Keppel. The British pull off a rousing victory against a Chinese junk fleet at Fatsham Creek, but later Hazard is dismayed to hear of the Great Mutiny in India. Worried that his two sisters are caught up in the brutal conflict, he joins British relief forces fighting to reach the besieged northern Indian towns of Cawnpore and Lucknow. Arriving in Cawnpore at last, Hazard faces a diabolical vengeance, and in Lucknow he must take on the blazing guns of the angry sepoys.

Author : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1782002529

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From the 11th century AD, East Asian armies made increasing use of exploding missiles and siege cannon to reduce the fortifications of their enemies. Some of these weapons were very similar to those used in Europe for example, the heavy siege cannon used in the siege of P'yongyang during the Japanese invasion in the late 16th century. Others, like the Korean hwach'a carts mounting over a hundred rockets that were used to bombard the Japanese at Haengiu in 1593, were very different from their European contemporaries. This book details the design and use of the wide range of weaponry available during this period.

Author : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 14,90 MB
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 178200226X

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From the 11th century AD, East Asian armies made increasing use of exploding missiles and siege cannon to reduce the fortifications of their enemies. Some of these weapons were very similar to those used in Europe for example, the heavy siege cannon used in the siege of P'yongyang during the Japanese invasion in the late 16th century. Others, like the Korean hwach'a carts mounting over a hundred rockets that were used to bombard the Japanese at Haengiu in 1593, were very different from their European contemporaries. This book details the design and use of the wide range of weaponry available during this period.

Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1472810708

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World War II marked the zenith of railway gun development. Although many of the railway guns deployed at the start of the conflict were of World War I vintage, Germany's ambitious development programme saw the introduction of a number of new classes, including the world's largest, the 80cm-calibre Schwerer Gustav and Schwerer Dora guns, which weighed in at 1,350 tons and fired a huge 7-ton shell. This book provides an overview of the types of railway guns in service during World War II, with a special focus on the German railway artillery used in France, Italy and on the Eastern Front, and analyzes why railway guns largely disappeared from use following the end of the war.

Author : Jamie Bisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1135765960

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This book details the frenzied rise and fall of a handful of Cossack junior officers led by Captain Grigori Semionov, who established themselves as warlords in Siberia during Russia's violent revolutionary upheaval of 1918-1921.