Contents

Contents : introduction -- Pistols and rifles -- Automatic weapons -- Artillery - Cannons and mortars -- Artillery - Pack guns -- Bombs, rockets and torpedoes -- Mines and fortifications -- Guerilla warfare and terrorism -- Tanks -- Anti-tank weapons -- Transport -- Reconnaissance -- Communications -- Protecting the soldier -- Armoured vehicles -- Camouflage -- Battleships -- 20th-Century battleships -- Smaller fighting ships -- Submarines -- Aircraft carriers -- Early fighter planes -- Jet fighters -- Early bombers -- Modern jets and Stealth -- Airborne troops -- Helicopters -- Doomsday weapons -- Glossary -- Index.