Chris Bishop Books

The Comprehensive Guide to over 1,000 Weapons Systems from 1945 to the Present Day

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II is an easy-to-read illustrated compendium including more than 1500 weapons from handguns to aircraft carriers, each illustrated with a detailed profile artwork and full specifications.

Joyce Porter is the funniest crime writer you've never heard of- until now. Creator of DCI Wilfrid Dover, Scotland Yard's laziest and rudest detective, Eddie Brown, a schoolteacher forced into Cold War spycraft against his will, and Constance Ethel Morrison-Burke ("The Hon Con"), a boisterous noblewoman turned private eye. Porter filled her mysteries with outrageous situations, sparkling dialogue, and over-the-top humor. This tribute to her works is for mystery lovers who enjoy laughing while they piece together clues.

This volume begins with the armoured vehicles of World War I, such as the Lanchester armoured car and Sturmpanzerwagon A7V tank and comes right up to date to the modern era covering the latest tanks and armoured vehicles, such as the Challenger II tank and the M88 armoured recovery vehicle.

No fighting organization has been more multifaceted, combining political, military, and criminal to earn a reputation that garnered both respect and contempt, than Nazi Germany's dreaded Waffen-SS.First started as Hitler's personal bodyguard, the SS evolved into Germany's best equipped and most ideologically motivated fighting units.SS: Hell on the Western Front details Hitler's "Sons of the Reich" as they conquer and then defend Germany's western front. Follow the actions and atrocities of some of the most famous divisions.Learn of the Hitlerjurgend (Hitler youth) division, made up solely of the class of 1926, a fanatic group who showed an indifference to the 60% causalities suffered in Normandy. Rare action photography augmented with battle plan maps enhance author Michael Williams's graphic description of the Waffen-SS on the Western Front.

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Illustrated with detailed artworks of tanks and their markings with exhaustive captions and specifications, Wehrmacht Panzer Divisions 1939-45 is the definitive study of the equipment and organisation of the Wehrmacht's armoured divisions. Organised by division, the book describes the tank types in German service with each armoured division.