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Chris McNab is an author and editor. To date he has published over 25 books, including Twentieth-Century Small Arms (2001), Gunfighters - The outlaws and their weapons (2005, contributing editor), The Personal Security Handbook (2003), The Encyclopedia of Combat Techniques (2002) and The Illustrated History of the Vietnam War (2000), and is the co-author of the Osprey publication Tools of Violence (2008). He has also written extensively for major encyclopedia series, including African-American Biographies (2006), USA 1950s (2006) and Reformation, Exploration and Empire (2005), and has contributed to The Times on the war in Iraq. The author lives in Neath, Wales... Read More
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Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $40.00
The Napoleonic Wars saw almost two decades of brutal fighting, from the frozen wastelands of Russia to the wildness of the Peninsula; from Egypt's Lower Nile to the bloody battlefield of Waterloo. Fighting took place on an unprecedented scale across Europe, and over the entire period of the wars Napoleon led... Read more >
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Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $19.95
In his new book, Chris McNab, author of Tools of Violence and The Special Forces Survival Guide, empties a six-shooter's worth of eye-opening stories about the use of deadly force in American law enforcement. Drawing on the work of Michael A. Bellesiles, whose groundbreaking study, Arming America, demonstrated that gun ownership... Read more >
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Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2008
Price: $24.95
The tools of lethal force have always attracted controversy and fascination. In the modern media age, however, they are also surrounded by confusion and misunderstanding. McNab and Keeter cut through mythology and misinformation and comprehensively lay out the facts, often revealing startling gaps in our everyday knowledge.
Tools of Violence unravels the... Read more >
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Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2010
Price: $25.95
Chris McNab's latest title for Osprey follows the Roman Army from the first armed citizens of the early Republic through the glorious heights of the Imperial legions to the shameful defeats inflicted upon the late Roman army by the Goths and Huns. Tracing the development of tactics, equipment and training through... Read more >
