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 The Fighting Israeli Air Force
The Fighting Israeli Air Force
Author: Stanley Ulanoff, David Eshel
The Fighting Israeli Air Force
Arco Publishing
1985
Format: PDF
Pages: 230
Language: English
Size: 25.7 MB

Fighting Israeli Air Force by Brig. Gen. Stanley M. Ulanoff, USAR. Illustrated throughout with photos, illustrations. Full number line. Sections include an overview, The 1948 War of Independence, The Sinai Campaign, The 1967 Six Day War, The 1973 Yom Kippur War, The 1976 Entebbe rescue, The Osirak Reactor, Lebanon 1982, Missions of the IAF, Zahal, Uniforms and Insignia, Commanders, Air Bases, Aircraft, Facts and Figures, and more.

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 Royal Weddings Through Time
Royal Weddings Through Time
Author: Janette McCutcheon
Royal Weddings Through Time
Amberley Publishing
2011
Format: PDF
Pages: 100
Language: English
Size: 26.7 MB

Many rare images are used, telling the story of these important royal occasions from the twelfth century to the present day. Royal Weddings are always a time for public celebration; the build-up, the pomp and circumstance of the day, the dress, the sense of occasion. Author Janette McCutcheon takes us through the history of Royal Weddings, the highlights, the dresses, using period illustrations of many major royal weddings from Edward I to Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. From the 800lb cake for Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon s wedding to the more private wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at a French chateau and the pomp and circumstance of the wedding of Charles and Di, we are taken on a journey through the weddings that changed history.

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 The History of Ukraine. The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations
The History of Ukraine. The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations
The History of Ukraine. The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations
Author: Paul Kubicek
Greenwood
Graduation Year: 2008
Language: English

Format: Pdf
Pages: 220
Size: 1,1 Mb

Ukraine's struggle for a national identity plagued this former Soviet Union state long before the Cold War shook the world. Its central location between Eastern Europe and Western Asia invited many different cultures to settle the land, ultimately populating a powerful early medieval society known as Kievan Rus. However, readers will learn how Kievan Rus's Golden Age quickly crumbled with decades of Mongol invasions, Polish-Lithuanian occupation, and Russian empirical ruling. Explore how Ukraine flirted with independence in the early 20th century, only to be quickly taken over by harsh Soviet rule in 1922. Despite its independence from the USSR in 1991, devastating consequences of the socialist rule have allowed the world to witness Ukraine's ceaseless efforts to attain a stable government, struggling through the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko, rigged elections, and the Orange Revolution. Kubicek's survey is comprehensive and concise-a perfect resource for high school students and undergrads, as well as general readers looking to further their knowledge of this up-and-coming nation.

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 The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History
The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History
Author: Touraj Daryaee
The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199732159
2012
Format: PDF
Size: 31,9 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 426
This Handbook is a current, comprehensive single-volume history of Iranian civilization. The authors, all leaders in their fields, emphasize the large-scale continuities of Iranian history while also describing the important patterns of transformation that have characterized Iran's past. Each of the chapters focuses on a specific epoch of Iranian history and surveys the general political, social, cultural, and economic issues of that era. The ancient period begins with chapters considering the anthropological evidence of the prehistoric era, through to the early settled civilizations of the Iranian plateau, and continuing to the rise of the ancient Persian empires. The medieval section first considers the Arab-Muslim conquest of the seventh century, and then moves on to discuss the growing Turkish influence filtering in from Central Asia beginning in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The last third of the book covers Iran in the modern era by considering the rise of the Safavid state and its accompanying policy of centralization, the introduction of Shi'ism, the problems of reform and modernization in the Qajar and Pahlavi periods, and the revolution of 1978-79 and its aftermath. The book is a collaborative exercise among scholars specializing in a variety of sub-fields, and across a number of disciplines, including history, art history, classics, literature, politics, and linguistics. Here, readers can find a reliable and accessible narrative that can serve as an authoritative guide to the field of Iranian studies.

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 Douglas A-4 Skyhawk: Attack and Close-Support Fighter Bomber
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk: Attack and Close-Support Fighter Bomber
Author: Jim Winchester
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk: Attack and Close-Support Fighter Bomber
Pen and Sword Aviation
ISBN: 1844150852
2005
Format: EPUB
Pages: 256
Size: 9 Mb
Language: English

The Skyhawk first entered service with the US Navy almost 50 years ago. It first flew 22 June 1954 and is still in service with various US units and remains the backbone of many of the air forces of those countries to which it has been exported. It was originally conceived as a carrier-borne fighter bomber, but as the aircraft has evolved it has taken on other roles. It is renowned for its strength and survivability in combat.

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 World Military Aviation: Aircraft, Airforces and Weaponry
World Military Aviation: Aircraft, Airforces and Weaponry
Author: Nikolaus Krivinyi
World Military Aviation: Aircraft, Airforces and Weaponry
Arco Publishing
1973
Format: PDF
Pages: 230
Language: English
Size: 24.3 MB

World Military Aviation is the complete and up-to-date record of all the world's current military aircraft, with every aeroplane detailed and illustrated with three-view scale drawings. All the service aircraft are described, from the latest Soviet MiG-25 interceptor (capable of a speed of Mach 3 at altitude) to the new American Grumman F-14A Tomcat', which is still undergoing trials, and to those World War 2 aeroplanes still used by less important nations throughout the world. World Military Aviation is divided into two sections: Airforces and airpower surveys 126 national airforces and details organisation, aircraft types and quantities, manpower, etc. Aircraft details over 320 military aeroplanes from interceptors and bombers to helicopters, light liaison craft and trainers. Information is provided on dimensions, performance, armament, and payload, production figures, types and variants, etc. Additional material covers the markings of the world's air forces (with 201 roundels and insignia), plus details of armament (cannon, air-to-ground missiles, air-to-air missiles, multiple rocket packs, bombs, and torpedos). World Military Aviation is a new and basic reference volume, containing the very latest information Over 800 individual drawings.

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 Weyers Flottentaschenbuch / Warships of the World: 60 Jahrgang 1990/1991
Author: Gerhard Albrecht
Weyers Flottentaschenbuch / Warships of the World: 60 Jahrgang 1990/1991
Bernard & Graefe Verlag
1990
Format: PDF
Pages: 859
Size: 272 Mb
Language: German/English

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 United States Marine Corps
United States Marine Corps
United States Marine Corps
Author: Collective
Faircount LLC
2007 Edition
Pages: 148
Language: English
Format: PDF (e-book)
Size: 33 МВ

The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces. The U.S. Marine Corps is one of the four branches in the U.S. Department of Defense as well as one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. It operates posts on land and aboard sea-going amphibious warfare ships around the world. The Marine Corps has been a component of the U.S. Department of the Navy since 1834, working closely with naval forces for training, transportation, and logistics. The U.S. Marine Corps has around 194,000 active duty members and just under 40,000 reserve Marines as of 2007. It is the smallest of the United States Armed Forces in the U.S. Department of Defense.

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 Armor of the West: NATO's Afnorth & Northag
Armor of the West: NATO's Afnorth & Northag
Author: Yves Debay
Armor of the West: NATO's Afnorth & Northag (Concord Color 4004)
Concord Publications
1992
Format: PDF
Pages: 100
Language: English
Size: 99 MB

This photo book and a companion volume will take one last look at some of the NATO armored vehicles that would have blunted any Soviet-Warsaw Pact military invasion of Western Europe.

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 Killing the Bismarck: Destroying the Pride of Hitler's Fleet
Killing the Bismarck: Destroying the Pride of Hitler's Fleet
Author: Iain Ballantyne
Killing the Bismarck: Destroying the Pride of Hitler's Fleet
Pen & Sword Books
2010
ISBN: 1844159833
Format: EPUB
Size: 4,6 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 288
In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic, to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy's pursuit and subsequent destruction of Bismarck was an epic of naval warfare.
In this new account of those dramatic events at the height of the Second World War, Iain Ballantyne draws extensively on the graphic eye-witness testimony of veterans, to construct a thrilling story, mainly from the point of view of the British battleships, cruisers and destroyers involved. He describes the tense atmosphere as cruisers play a lethal cat and mouse game as they shadow Bismarck in the icy Denmark Strait. We witness the shocking destruction of the British battle cruiser Hood, in which all but three of her ship's complement were killed; an event that filled pursuing Royal Navy warships, including the battered battleship Prince of Wales, with a thirst for revenge. While Swordfish torpedo-bombers try desperately to cripple the Bismarck, we sail in destroyers on their own daring torpedo attacks, battling mountainous seas.

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 World's Smallest Planes
World's Smallest Planes
Author: Teo Yew Chiat
World's Smallest Planes
Teo Yew Chiat
2008
Format: PDF
Pages: 20
Language: English
Size: 12 MB

When mentioned the world’s smallest plane - very very few aviators can name or know about it. In fact, there are five of them beating each other to claim the World’s Smallest Plane since 1948. Now you can know about them in this book.

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 Hitler's Olympics: The 1936 Berlin Olympic Games
Hitler's Olympics: The 1936 Berlin Olympic Games
Author: Christopher Hilton
Hitler's Olympics: The 1936 Berlin Olympic Games
Sutton Publishing
2006
Format: PDF
Pages: 244
Language: English
Size: 94.4 MB

"I'm afraid the Nazis have succeeded with their propaganda." - William Shirer's diary, August 16, 1936. The Berlin Olympic Games, which remain the most controversial ever held, have their 70th anniversary in August 2006. "Hitler's Olympics" creates a vivid account of the disputes, the personalities and the events which made these Games so memorable. Ironically, the choice of Germany as the host nation for the 1936 Olympics was intended to signal its return to the world community after defeat in World War I. In actuality, Hitler intended the Berlin Games to be an advertisement for Germany as he was creating it, and they became one of the largest propaganda exercises in history. Two Germans Jews competed in the Games while the most memorable achievement was that of black American Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals. Ultimately, however, Germany was the overall biggest medal winner. The popular success of Owens allowed the Nazis to claim that their policies had no racial element and charges of anti-semitism which did arise were levelled at the Americans. In this stunning and important book, Christopher Hilton uses newspapers, diaries and interviews to recreate the unique atmosphere during the XIth Olympiad.

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 The Grand Fleet - Warship Design and Development 1906-1922
The Grand Fleet - Warship Design and Development 1906-1922
Author: D.K. Brown
The Grand Fleet - Warship Design and Development 1906-1922
Pen & Sword
2010
Format: ePub (e-book)
Pages: 340
Language: English
Size: 11 MB

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 Aerospace Power in the Twenty-First Century: A Basic Primer
Aerospace Power in the Twenty-First Century: A Basic Primer
Author: Clayton K. S. Chun
Aerospace Power in the Twenty-First Century: A Basic Primer
AU Press
2001
ISBN: 1585660914
Format: PDF
Size: 6,9 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 356
In Aerospace Power in the Twenty-First Century: A Basic Primer, Dr. Clayton K. S. Chun exposes readers to relevant aerospace capabilities, theories, uses, elements of operational planning, and key issues. After introducing basic definitions and concepts, Dr. Chun uses case studies of both successful and unsuccessful applications of aerospace power to illustrate its functions and abilities. Designed primarily for readers new to the subject, Aerospace Power in the Twenty-First Century also serves as a useful source of information about the strengths and weaknesses of air and space forces.

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 Combat Helicopters
Combat Helicopters
Author: Jay Schleifer
Combat Helicopters
Capstone Press
1996
Format: PDF
Pages: 54
Language: English
Size: 31 MB

A combat helicopter is a military helicopter with the primary role of an attack aircraft, with the capability of engaging targets on the ground, such as enemy infantry and armored vehicles. Due to their heavy armament they are sometimes called helicopter gunships.

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 A Guide To Modern U.S. Army Weapons
Author: V.M. DeMola
A Guide To Modern U.S. Army Weapons
V.M. DeMola
2012
Format: EPUB
Size: 5,8 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 218
A Guide To Modern U.S. Army Weapons explores the current inventory of weapons employed by the United States Army. References, video links, and book suggestions are included for those who wish to explore a subject in more detail.

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 Churchill - The Power of Words - His Remarkable Life Recounted Through His Writings and Speeches
Churchill - The Power of Words - His Remarkable Life Recounted Through His Writings and Speeches
Author: Martin Gilbert
Churchill - The Power of Words - His Remarkable Life Recounted Through His Writings and Speeches
Da Capo Press
2012
Format: PDF
Pages: 510
Language: English
Size: 28.8 MB

Winston Churchill knew the power of words. In public speeches and published books, in newspaper and magazine articles, he expressed his feelings and laid out his vision for the future. His wartime writings and speeches have fascinated generation after generation with their powerful narrative style and thoughtful reflection.
This book contains one hundred extracts from his books, articles and speeches. They range from his memories of his schooldays, to his contributions to the debates on social policy and on war, his contributions in both world wars to the events and discourse, and his efforts after 1945 to see the world a better place.
Martin Gilbert, Churchill's official biographer, has chosen passages that express to him the essence of Churchill's thoughts, and which describe—in his own inimitable words—the main adventures of his life, and the main crises of his career with Gilbert’s own introduction and interlinking text. They give, from first to last, an insight into his life and thought, how it evolved, and how he made his mark on the British and world stage.

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 Explosives, Propellants and Pyrotechnics
Explosives, Propellants and Pyrotechnics
Explosives, Propellants and Pyrotechnics (Brassey's World Military Technology)
Author: A. Bailey
Brassey's
ISBN: 1857532554
2000
Pages: 193
Format: PDF
Size: 81.22МБ
Language: English
Fully revised and updated to take account of the most recent developments in the field, this useful text explains today''s explosives from simple theory to practical use and considers future developments.

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 Russian and Soviet Tanks 1914-1941
Russian and Soviet Tanks 1914-1941
Author: Maximino Argüelles Martinez
Russian and Soviet Tanks 1914-1941
Maximino Argüelles
2014
Format: PDF
Pages: 104
Language: English
Size: 17 MB

About the evolution of the Soviet offensive doctrine during World War II. Where did this doctrine and armored formations that takes practice arise?. Why was the USSR as a nation which in 1940 developed a tank as advanced as the T-34?. 100 pages trying to answer these and other questions with a description of the principal armored vehicles and the formations in which were integrated from its beginnings in the Russian Empire until June 22, 1941.

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