Lone Cone Library

This book describes infantry weapons like bayonets and hand grenades and heavy artillery such as howitzers and machine guns used in battles during World War I.

Describes the uniforms, gear, and weapons used by the Central Powers and Allied Powers during World War I -- Publisher.

Discusses the principal causes and events of World War I and considers what the outcome might have been for the participants and subsequent history had different decisions been made at crucial times before, during, and after the war.

Photographs and text provide an overview of the weapons used by both sides during World War II, including information on the infantry weapons, artillery and missiles, tanks, ships, aircraft, and the atomic bomb.

Describes some of the weapons used by both the Allied and Axis forces during World War II, including automatic weapons, radar, early computers, tanks, aircraft carriers, bombers and fighter planes, and the atomic bomb.

Describes weapons of the Cold War, including nuclear weapons, missiles and defenses.

"A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the "definitive" (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; today, there are 440 nuclear reactors operating throughout the world, with nuclear power providing 10 percent of world electricity. Yet as the world seeks to reduce carbon emissions to combat climate change,...