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Travel back in time to witness the unique technological prototypes responsible for changes in the shape and speed of warfare. These weapons have redefined the present-day battlefield by transforming science fiction into science fact. This program traces the steps of technology that have let to today's awesome firepower. In a command performance, host GEORGE C. SCOTT, presents the evolution of military hardware honed from primitive inception to Gulf War perfection. BRUTE FORCE: THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF WAR TECHNOLOGY tells the story of the remarkable development of modern weaponry from its earliest days of theory and conjecture to recent history, with its forays into computer technology, satellites, and ultra-secret sensors. Take a tour of duty with the exclusive archival, newsreel, and recent combat footage of this up-to-the-minute series. 26 episodes, 48 minutes each. 1991

The M-1 and M-1A1 Abrams Battle Tank is the military's most modern land combat fighting machine. Until the Desert Storm operation, this awesome arsenal of power had never seen actual combat. Equipped with the latest technology available, including the Thermal Night Vision, a new nuclear-biological-chemical warfare system, the M-1 is America's primary initial land assault vehicle. In addition to the huge 120mm main turret cannon, the M-1 carries 3 machine guns and a crew of four inside. This amazing video puts you right in the commander's chair viewing all the stunning action firsthand!

Designed by knife maker and firefighter Rick Hinderer, the Gerber 22-41870 Hinderer Combat Life Saver Knife boasts a smart, user-friendly feature set that delivers reliable handling in the toughest situations. A true rescue tool, this knife showcases a strong, sharp blade with a serrated edge, a hook cutter, and an ergonomic grip that's easy to hold while wearing gloves..caption {font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif;font-size: 10px;font-weight: bold;font-style: italic;}ul.indent {list-style: inside disc;text-indent: 20px;}table.callout {font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, serif;margin: 10px;width: 250;}td.callout3-c26 {height: 100 percent;background: url('http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/th/content_26/Q1_2009/c26-callout3.png') repeat-y;border-left: 0px solid #999999;border-right: 1px solid #999999;padding: 10px;width: 250px;}ul.callout {list-style: inside disc;text-indent: -12px;font-size: 12px;line-height: 1.5em;}h5.callout {text-align: center;}img.withlink {border:1px black solid;}a.nodecoration {text-decoration: none}The Gerber 22-41870 Hinderer Combat Life Saver Knife includes:Sharp 440A stainless steel partial-serrated bladeEasy-open thumb studSafety-hook cutterWindow punchPatented lock inset in handleAn easy-grip handle and sharp blade give you expert control.View Larger.All the Essentials You Need for Emergencies at Your FingertipsWhen you need one tool for a rescue, bank on the Gerber 22-41870 Hinderer Combat Life Saver Knife with Serrated Edge. Rick Hinderer, a firefighter and knife designer, conceived and designed this knife based on real-life experiences, giving it some of the most important features a firefighter will need while keeping the size small and convenient.The knife has a 3.5-inch, sharp serrated blade that safely slices through seatbelts, and it will cut through just about anything you'll encounter in the field. The knife also features a window punch and an oxygen tank valve opener.The knife is crafted with an attention to detail: it includes large features and mechanisms so that it can be used while wearing turnout gloves without problems. An oversized thumbstud makes it easy to open the blade, and the ergonomic handle keeps your hand comfortable while you work.Gerber's History of IngenuitySavvy. Moxie. Craftsmanship. Attention to detail. These are just a few of the company traits that contributed to Gerber's emergence as a world leader in outdoor gear. Joseph Gerber started Portland, Oregon's Gerber Advertising back in 1910, and one Christmas, he hired a local knife-maker to craft 25 sets of kitchen cutlery as client gifts. The knives were so popular, Mr. Gerber ultimately left his agency to launch Gerber Legendary Blades in 1939.For more than half a century, Gerber Legendary Blades has been helping people fend for themselves. Gerber designs popular, dependable tools and knives along with other outdoor gear that helps users accomplish whatever tasks they may be faced with, promoting the lost art of self-reliance.What's in the BoxGerber 41870 Hinderer Combat Life Saver Knife

The Hinderer CLS knife features a 3.5 in. 440A stainless steel serrated blade with a non-reflective black finish and a black glass filled nylon handle that includes a hook cutter a glass breaker an oxygen tank valve opener linear lock lanyard hole and an overall length of 8.5 in. ATTRIBUTES Blade Detail: ComboEdge Blade Length (inches): 3.50 Blade Material: 440A Black Carry System: Pocket Clip Handle Material: Nylon Lock Style: Liner Lock Overall Length (inches): 8.50 Special Features: Seat belt cutter glass breaker oxygen tank wrench on handle

Designed by knife maker and firefighter Rick Hinderer, the Gerber 22-41534 Hinderer Rescue Knife boasts a smart, user-friendly feature set that delivers reliable handling in the toughest situations. A true rescue tool, this knife showcases a strong, sharp blade with a serrated edge, a hook cutter, and an ergonomic grip that's easy to hold while wearing gloves..caption {font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif;font-size: 10px;font-weight: bold;font-style: italic;}ul.indent {list-style: inside disc;text-indent: 20px;}table.callout {font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, serif;margin: 10px;width: 250;}td.callout3-c26 {height: 100 percent;background: url('http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/th/content_26/Q1_2009/c26-callout3.png') repeat-y;border-left: 0px solid #999999;border-right: 1px solid #999999;padding: 10px;width: 250px;}ul.callout {list-style: inside disc;text-indent: -12px;font-size: 12px;line-height: 1.5em;}h5.callout {text-align: center;}img.withlink {border:1px black solid;}a.nodecoration {text-decoration: none}The Gerber 22-41534 Hinderer Rescue Knife includes:Sharp 3.5-inch serrated bladeSafety-hook cutterWindow punchOxygen tank valve openerAn easy-grip handle and sharp blade give you expert control. View Larger.All the Essentials You Need for Fire Rescue at Your FingertipsWhen you need one tool for a rescue, bank on the Gerber 22-41534 Hinderer Rescue Knife. Rick Hinderer, a firefighter and knife designer, conceived and designed this knife based on real-life experiences, giving it some of the most important features a firefighter will need while keeping the size small and convenient.The knife has a 3.5-inch, sharp serrated blade that safely slices through seatbelts, and it will cut through just about anything you'll encounter in the field. The knife also has a hook cutter, which lets you cut through clothing without cutting the person wearing it. Other convenient features include a window punch and an oxygen tank valve opener.The knife is crafted with an attention to detail: it includes large features and mechanisms so that it can be used while wearing turnout gloves without problems. The ergonomic handle keeps your hand comfortable while you work.Gerber's History of IngenuitySavvy. Moxie. Craftsmanship. Attention to detail. These are just a few of the company traits that contributed to Gerber's emergence as a world leader in outdoor gear. Joseph Gerber started Portland, Oregon's Gerber Advertising back in 1910, and one Christmas, he hired a local knife-maker to craft 25 sets of kitchen cutlery as client gifts. The knives were so popular, Mr. Gerber ultimately left his agency to launch Gerber Legendary Blades in 1939.For more than half a century, Gerber Legendary Blades has been helping people fend for themselves. Gerber designs popular, dependable tools and knives along with other outdoor gear that helps users accomplish whatever tasks they may be faced with, promoting the lost art of self-reliance.What's in the Box22-41534 Hinderer Rescue Knife and nylon sheath.

This is the easiest and most fun way to restyle a room. These simple peel and stick appliques are great for adding style anywhere. Leaves no damage or residue on the surface. Just peel and stick! Repositionable. If you change your mind, just peel and stick again. This set includes 42 pre-cut appliques. Use them to create a fun, eclectic design to border your room. Largest design measures approx. 13" x 9." Smallest measures .75" diameter.

Sam Fuller's The Big Red One was already one of the best films of 1980, despite the fact that the version released to theaters ran barely half as long as the director's cut. Fuller had been America's ballsiest B-movie auteur, an ex-newspaper reporter of the hardnosed breed who made fiercely personal, radically stylized, and politically outspoken films between the early '50s (The Steel Helmet, Pickup on South Street) and the early '60s (Shock Corridor). The Big Red One was his long-dreamt-of account of World War II as experienced by his own squad of the 1st Infantry Division, USA, from the first shot fired (by a dead man, on the coast of North Africa) to the last (in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia). Even in the studio-truncated version, there was no shortage of astonishing moments and sequences: the squad choking on dust in a bat-filled cave in North Africa as German tanks clatter past the entrance; Fuller's cold-blooded distillation of the D-Day slaughter on Omaha Beach, with a wrist watch on a dead arm in the surf marking time as the water slopping over it grows redder; the rifle squad delivering a Frenchwoman's baby in a German tank on a battlefield full of corpses; a commando-like raid on Nazi troops bivouacked in a Belgian insane asylum. A quarter-century later, film critic Richard Schickel and Warner Bros. executive Brian Jamieson succeeded in restoring 15 never-seen sequences and fleshing out 23 others to create The Big Red One: The Reconstruction, a "new" film nearly an hour longer. Above all, BR1: The Reconstruction has a rhythm the 1980 cut lacked. The arc of years, battles, and battlegrounds is so much more satisfying. Greater play is given to Fuller's feeling for children caught up in the sidewash of history and atrocity. And the 2004 cut puts sex back into the movie, not orgiastically but as a fact of life and a rarely forgotten driving force. We can see now that Fuller touched, bluntly and shockingly, on the phenomenon of infiltrators--English-speaking German warriors who donned GI khaki and moved among their enemies waiting for a chance to strike. It's also apparent, as it was not in 1980, that Lee Marvin as the eternal Sergeant leading the young squad is magnificent. This was Marvin's greatest role, rivaled only by his walking dead man in John Boorman's Point Blank. Just beneath the masterly implacability, we glimpse the tenderness, rage, dark humor, experience, and wisdom beyond guilt that have enabled him to survive, to preserve others and to soldier on. His performance, like Fuller's film, is a masterpiece. --Richard T. Jameson

Lee Marvin is a grizzled WWII army sergeant leading the men of the First Infantry Division (aka the Big Red One) from one battlefield to the next across Africa and Europe. Robert Carradine, Mark Hamill, Kelly Ward, and Bobby Di Cicco are among the young recruits in his charge. Writer/director Samuel Fuller's gritty, autobiographical military saga was originally slated to be made in the '50s with John Wayne. Film critic Richard Schickel used Fuller's shooting script and thousands of feet of unused footage to put together this special extended version. 162 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French; audio commentary; documentaries; photo gallery; alternate scenes; TV spot. Two-disc set.

Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 11/28/2006

Beautiful 2008 spring collector edition.

1:87 Scale German King Tiger model and soldiers set D-Day Series is an accurate military model crafted in die cast metal and plastic. The fearsome King Tiger was the most powerful tank of WW2---a hallmark of German engineering, it struck terror in the hearts of allied tanker crews throughout Europe. With near-impenetrable front armor and an 88mm gun, it had no match on the battlefield and often had to be challenged by several allied tanks working together. Specifications name Die Cast Military Set specification 1:87 Scale item weight (lb) 1.83 item dimension (in) 18.75 / 13 / 1.75

52 pages153 color photos4 color plates1/35 scale plansThe M113 was originally designed as an Armored Personal Carrier (APC) in the late 1950s. Since the time the series production of the vehicle started in 1960, more than 80,000 M113 and M113-based vehicles have been built. The M113's evolution has seen three major upgrading programs, and the end of its service life is not yet known. By 1990, most nations originally fielding the M113 as an APC had abandoned the vehicle in this role and either replaced the M113 with a new combat vehicle or with an M113-based vehicle such as the Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicle (AIFV). However, most of these nations still fielded the M113 in countless variants such as command post vehicles, mortar carriers, and anti-tank weapon platforms, etc. The M113 is used in more than 40 major variants and is in service with more than 50 nations. This book focuses on the M113 family of vehicles used in the 1990s. Carl Schulze selected from his huge archive of M113 photos and put together this first volume book featuring American, Canadian, German, Danish and Norwegian M113 and variants operating during the 1990s. Of interesting note are Canadian M113 TUA, German M548GA1 Skorpion and M113GA1 RATAC, Danish M92, Norwegian NM135 and NM142. The four color plates feature the US M113A3 in OIF, Canadian M113 TUA, German Skorpion and Danish M92. There is a 4-view M113 line drawings in 1/35 scale for the modelers.

"The Pz. Kpfw. VI with its heavy armour, dual purpose armament and fighting ability is basically an excellent tank."Major W. de l. Messenger, British Intelligence, 1944The Tiger I is the most famous tank in history. In the right hands it enjoyed spectacular successes, but the Tiger I was also plagued by an array of technical and design flaws which made it a death trap for novice and unwary crews. This unique overview draws on a wide variety of primary accounts of the Tiger I in action from both the Allied and the German perspective. Rare photographs, technical drawings and contemporary reports of the Tiger in combat help to set aside the myths and bring the reality into focus.This book is part of 'The Hitler's War Machine' series, a new military history range compiled and edited by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers. The series draws on primary sources and contemporary documents to provide a new insight into the true nature of Hitler's Wehrmacht.The series consultant is David Mcwhinnie creator of the award winning PBS series 'Battlefield'.

“The Pz. Kpfw. VI with its heavy armour, dual purpose armament and fighting ability is basically an excellent tank.”Major W. de l. Messenger, British Intelligence, 1944The Tiger I is the most famous tank in history. In the right hands it enjoyed spectacular successes, but the Tiger I was also plagued by an array of technical and design flaws which made it a death trap for novice and unwary crews. This unique overview draws on a wide variety of primary accounts of the Tiger I in action from both the Allied and the German perspective. Rare photographs, technical drawings and contemporary reports of the Tiger in combat help to set aside the myths and bring the reality into focus.This book is part of ‘The Hitler’s War Machine’ series, a new military history range compiled and edited by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers. The series draws on primary sources and contemporary documents to provide a new insight into the true nature of Hitler’s Wehrmacht.The series consultant is David Mcwhinnie creator of the award winning PBS series ‘Battlefield’.Please visit www.codahistory.com for more military books, or browse or other books available on the Kindle Store.

The Panther V evidenced a number of problems in combat, this was the proof of the rushed development programme was made obvious from the events at Kursk. However, despite its disappointing battlefield debut, the Panther is frequently hailed as the best all round tank of the war.This fascinating study by Emmy award Winning Author and historian Bob Carruthers draws on a wide variety of combat reports and unique primary sources to weigh up the facts in order to produce the definitive single volume overview of a legendary fighting machine. Included are numerous examples of wartime combat reports from both allied and German sources, additionally there are a large selection of extracts from the Pantherfibel, the original crew training manual. This superb new release in eBook form is essential reading for anyone interested in tank warfare during World War II.

The Panther V evidenced a number of problems in combat, this was the proof of the rushed development programme was made obvious from the events at Kursk. However, despite its disappointing battlefield debut, the Panther is frequently hailed as the best all round tank of the war.This fascinating study by Emmy award Winning Author and historian Bob Carruthers draws on a wide variety of combat reports and unique primary sources to weigh up the facts in order to produce the definitive single volume overview of a legendary fighting machine. Included are numerous examples of wartime combat reports from both allied and German sources, additionally there are a large selection of extracts from the Pantherfibel, the original crew training manual. This superb new release in eBook form is essential reading for anyone interested in tank warfare during World War II.

Real war stories told by real soldiers for readers who want to know what it was like to be in the thick of battle. These are riveting combat narratives about the weapons and warriors of some of history's bloodiest conflicts. Each book is a gritty, action-oriented account of life and death in the heat of battle. Original titles as well as long out-of-print gems will explore conflicts ranging from the blood-soaked fields of the Civil War to the current war on terror and everything in between. The books are published as high-quality and affordable trade paperbacks, making them terrific editions for all who are interested in military history. WWII began with a metallic roar as the German Blitzkrieg raced across Europe, spearheaded by the most dreaded weapon of the 20th century: the Panzer. No German tank better represents that thundering power than the infamous Tiger, and Otto Carius was one of the most successful commanders to ever take a Tiger into battle, destroying well over 150 enemy tanks during his incredible career. Illustrations: 51 b/w photos; 3 maps; 50 illustrations

Real war stories told by real soldiers for readers who want to know what it was like to be in the thick of battle. These are riveting combat narratives about the weapons and warriors of some of history's bloodiest conflicts. Each book is a gritty, action-oriented account of life and death in the heat of battle. Original titles as well as long out-of-print gems will explore conflicts ranging from the blood-soaked fields of the Civil War to the current war on terror and everything in between. The books are published as high-quality and affordable trade paperbacks, making them terrific editions for all who are interested in military history. WWII began with a metallic roar as the German Blitzkrieg raced across Europe, spearheaded by the most dreaded weapon of the 20th century: the Panzer. No German tank better represents that thundering power than the infamous Tiger, and Otto Carius was one of the most successful commanders to ever take a Tiger into battle, destroying well over 150 enemy tanks during his incredible career. Illustrations: 51 b/w photos; 3 maps; 50 illustrations