With captions explaining the story behind each entry, Ireland is a stunning collection of images celebrating the island's natural beauty, culture and history, from rugged cliffs to mysterious stone circles, magnificent cathedrals and ruined abbeys.
Martin J. Dougherty Books
January 1, 1969
Martin J. Dougherty leverages his diverse professional background, encompassing roles from engineer to defense analyst, to offer a unique perspective on military history. His writing delves into the intricacies of combat, exploring not just the hardware and tactics but also the strategic thinking that underpins warfare. Dougherty's approach is characterized by a deep understanding of martial principles, which he applies to analyses across different eras. He transforms complex subjects into compelling narratives, making military history accessible and engaging for a broad audience.
Small Arms Visual Encyclopedia
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
From the very first handguns of the fifteenth century to modern machine guns and rifles, Small Arms Visual Encyclopedia is a highly illustrated volume that examines all the significant small arms of the world, featuring more than 1000 of the world’s handguns, assault rifles, shotguns, machine guns, and other more esoteric weapons. All the famous weapons of each type are featured, such as the M-16, Colt .44 Magnum and MG42. Each featured small arm is illustrated with an excellent full-color artwork, showing the weapon in great detail with full specifications tables that list country of origin, weights, dimensions and calibre (with all weights and measures provided in both metric and imperial). With more than 800 outstanding color artworks, Small Arms Visual Encyclopedia is a comprehensive and accessible reference work that will appeal to anyone with an interest in small arms.
Some of the most romantic castles in the world are found in the British Isles and Ireland. These strongholds may now largely be ruined, but in their dilapidation they have gained an air of mystery and beauty. The people they once protected are gone, the borders they guarded have dissolved, the fragile communities and wooden buildings that built up around them have been dismantled. Only the castles, centuries on, remain – proof of how robustly they were constructed in the first place. From the tip of southern Ireland to northern Scotland, from castles maintained over the centuries to ones that are now mere ruins, Celtic Castles celebrates the stories behind more than 100 strongholds. In these we find tales of religious dissent, of English Parliamentarians attacking Irish Catholic refuges, of warring Scottish clans, of the English and Scots fighting over Scottish independence. And in the buildings we find such curiosities as Britain’s only triangular castle or the hiding place for the Scottish crown jewels. With 150 outstanding colour photographs, Celtic Castles is a brilliant pictorial examination of worlds gone by.
What's the truth behind the King Arthur legend and why has it endured? Long before the Marvel Universe there was the universe of Arthurian romance, and King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table examines the fact and the fiction behind Arthur, Lancelot, Merlin, Guinevere, Galahad, among others, as well as the quest for the Holy Grail.
Modern Air-launched Weapons
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Martin J. Dougherty is a freelance author and former defense analyst specializing in military subjects. His many published works include books on modern warfare, weaponry, and military vehicles. He has spoken at several defense industry conferences, presenting papers on precision-guided weapons and the countermeasures used to defend against them. He lives in northeast England.
History of the Dark Ages
From the Huns to William the Conquerer
SAS and Elite Forces Guide Extreme Unarmed Combat
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Presented in a handy pocketbook format, Extreme Unarmed Combat considers the different fighting and martial arts skills a person can use before looking at the areas of the body to defend, showing how to attack without letting oneself be hurt as well as how to incapacitate an opponent.
The Aztec, Inca and Maya charts the rise and fall pre-Columbian civilizations in Mesoamerica and South America, from the Maya to the Aztec and Inca empires, as well as the Zapotec, Olmec, Teotihuacan and Toltec civilizations from the 2nd century BCE to the 16th century CE.
With more than 300 black-&-white illustrations of combat scenarios, punches, blocks and ducks, and with expert easy-to-follow text, Extreme Unarmed Combat guides you through everything you need to know about what to do when you can't escape trouble. This book could save your life.
After the end of the Cold War, there was decade or so of military spending cuts, but since the new millennium, budgets have grown and new weapons technology is reaching the front line. Modern Weapons allows the reader to compare the key weapons of modern armies side by side.
