Max Walmer's Books

The weapons, uniforms and tactics of the world's secret special warfare units"--Cover subtitle.

Describes the history, types, weapons, and present uses of battleships, both in the United States and the Soviet Union.

From the acclaimed military historian, a history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles—the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg—that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a conflict different from the familiar one of barbed wire, mud and futility. He traces the path to war, making clear why Germany and Austria-Hungary were primarily to blame, and describes the gripping first clashes in the West, where the French army marched into action in uniforms of red and blue with flags flying and bands playing. In August, four days after the French suffered 27,000 men dead in a single day, the British fought an extraordinary holding action against oncoming Germans, one of the last of its kind in history. In October, at terrible cost the British held the allied line against massive German assaults in the first battle of Ypres. Hastings also re-creates the lesser-known battles on the Eastern Front, brutal struggles in Serbia, East Prussia and Galicia, where the Germans, Austrians, Russians and Serbs inflicted three million casualties upon one another by Christmas. As he has done in his celebrated, award-winning works on World War II, Hastings gives us frank assessments of generals and political leaders and masterly analyses of the political currents that led the continent to war. He argues passionately against the contention that the war was not worth the cost, maintaining that Germany’s defeat was vital to the freedom of Europe. Throughout we encounter statesmen, generals, peasants, housewives and private soldiers of seven nations in Hastings’s accustomed blend of top-down and bottom-up accounts: generals dismounting to lead troops in bayonet charges over 1,500 feet of open ground; farmers who at first decried the requisition of their horses; infantry men engaged in a haggard retreat, sleeping four hours a night in their haste. This is a vivid new portrait of how a continent became embroiled in war and what befell millions of men and women in a conflict that would change everything.

Describes the history, types, weapons, and present uses of destroyers, both in the United States and the Soviet Union.

Describes the history, types, weapons, and present uses of frigates, both in the United States and the Soviet Union.

In Lusty Winter, Braithwaite portrays the contemporary world as a place of luxury, ambition, and endless potential where survival is difficult and often impossible. The person trying to survive the lusty winter of his life is George Wilson, a 65-year-old who is hale, hearty, and full of hate for modern society. Escaping from city life and his ambitious celebrity wife, Wilson sets himself up in an isolated cabin in northern Ontario. However, the detached lifestyle he seeks is continuously thwarted by rocky love affairs and violent snowmobilers.

Tom Converse was the kind of man to pull a Colt from his back pocket faster than the seasoned gunslingers could draw from a hip holster. It seemed to come easy to him - like breathing in and out. But was he also the kind of man to make a whole town trigger-happy with fear? Did he hide behind a dark mask and come back for vengeance? Was he The Shadow? Sylvia didn't think so. "I'm the only one who knows the face of the real Shadow," she said. A dappled chestnut with black points is the only cue to the identity of a town's secret horror. It could be a case of mistaken identity, but yet, again . . . This early Max Brand classic features the mysterious and ambiguous figure of The Shadow, a masked and lonely gunslinger who foreshadows great Western legends like Zorro and the Lone Ranger.

Describes the history, types, weapons, and present uses of destroyers, both in the United States and the Soviet Union.

Presents specifications, capabilities, and illustrations of the major weapons used by international elite forces

Describes the history, types, weapons, and present uses of battleships, both in the United States and the Soviet Union.

Describes the history, types, weapons, and present uses of frigates, both in the United States and the Soviet Union.

Spine title: Naval warfare. An account of the warships, weapons, and tactics that are shaping the future of naval conflict.

The weapons, uniforms and tactics of the world's secret special warfare units"--Cover subtitle.

Included are all seven of Max Beerbohm's major early essays. Though these essays were justly acclaimed in their time, their magnificence is such that they also demand the highest accolades in ours, replete as they are with undiminished colour and spectacle, humour and barbed excellence.--From back cover.

Book's by Max Walmer

The New Illustrated Guide to Modern Elite Forces

The New Illustrated Guide to Modern Elite Forces

Battleships

Battleships

Catastrophe 1914

Catastrophe 1914

Destroyers

Destroyers

Frigates

Frigates

Lusty Winter

Lusty Winter

The Shadow of Silver Tip

The Shadow of Silver Tip

Destroyers

Destroyers

An Illustrated Guide to Weapons of the Special Forces

An Illustrated Guide to Weapons of the Special Forces

Battleships

Battleships

Frigates

Frigates

An Illustrated Guide to Modern Naval Warfare

An Illustrated Guide to Modern Naval Warfare

The New Illustrated Guide to Modern Elite Forces

The New Illustrated Guide to Modern Elite Forces

The Works of Max Beerbohm

The Works of Max Beerbohm

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