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 An Island Hell: A Soviet Prison in the Far North
An Island Hell: A Soviet Prison in the Far North
Author: Malsagoff S.A.
An Island Hell: A Soviet Prison in the Far North
London: A.M. Philpot ltd.
1926
Language: English
Format: pdf
Size: 55,6 mb

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 Vom Original zum Modell: Uboottyp II, Die 'Einbäume'
Vom Original zum Modell: Uboottyp II, Die 'Einbäume'
Vom Original zum Modell: Uboottyp II, Die 'Einbäume'
Author: Eberhard Rössler
Bernard & Graefe Verlag
ISBN: 3763760237
1999
Pages: 90
Format: PDF
Size: 96.37МБ
Language: German

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 The Magnificent Bastards The Joint Army-Marine Defense of Dong Ha, 1968
The Magnificent Bastards The Joint Army-Marine Defense of Dong Ha, 1968
Author: Keith Nolan
The Magnificent Bastards The Joint Army-Marine Defense of Dong Ha, 1968
Presi dio Press
ISBN: 089141861X
2007
Format: EPUB
Size: 5,4 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 448
On April 29, 1968, the North Vietnamese Army is spotted less than four miles from the U.S. Marines’ Dong Ha Combat Base. Intense fighting develops in nearby Dai Do as the 2d Battalion, 4th Marines, known as “the Magnificent Bastards,” struggles to eject NVA forces from this strategic position.
Yet the BLT 2/4 Marines defy the brutal onslaught. Pressing forward, America’s finest warriors rout the NVA from their fortress-hamlets–often in deadly hand-to-hand combat. At the end of two weeks of desperate, grinding battles, the Marines and the infantry battalion supporting them are torn to shreds. But against all odds, they beat back their savage adversary. The Magnificent Bastards captures that gripping conflict in all its horror, hell, and heroism.

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 Airplanes and Helicopters of the U.S. Navy
Airplanes and Helicopters of the U.S. Navy
Author: Frank J. Delear
Airplanes and Helicopters of the U.S. Navy
Dodd, Mead & Company
1982
Format: PDF
Pages: 152
Language: English
Size: 65 MB

Traces the history of U.S. Naval aviation from its beginnings to current aircraft, including supersonic jets, and examines new technology and future aircraft.

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 Flying Fortress - the Illustrated Biography of the B-17s and the Men Who Flew Them
Flying Fortress - the Illustrated Biography of the B-17s and the Men Who Flew Them
Author: Edward Jablonski
Flying Fortress - the Illustrated Biography of the B-17s and the Men Who Flew Them
Doubleday & Company, Inc.
1965
Format: PDF
Pages: 390
Language: English
Size: 34.4 MB

The Boeing B-17 was more than a plane—and its story, and that of its crews—is more than history. It is drama, romance, adventure, tragedy and folklore set against the panorama of the greatest war in history. To the men who flew in the B-17, and particularly to those who feel thev owe their lives to this majestic aircraft, it was more than a metal monster with four engines and a hundred-foot wing. The B-17 was almost human—the Queen of the Bombers, the Big Bird, a Glorv Wagon, affectionately named "Rosie's Riveters," "Memphis Belle," "Swoose," "Suzy-Q," "Hell's Angels"—names which during the bittersweet years of war became as celebrated as the men who fought in them.

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 White Ensign Flying: Corvette HMCS Trentonian
White Ensign Flying: Corvette HMCS Trentonian
White Ensign Flying: Corvette HMCS Trentonian
Author: Roger Litwiller
Dundurn
2014
ISBN: 1459710398
Pages: 192
Language: English
Format: EPUB
Size: 7 MB

White Ensign Flying tells the story of HMCS Trentonian, a Canadian corvette that fought U-Boats in the Second World War. Trentonian escorted convoys on the North Atlantic and through the deadly waters near England and France. The ship was attacked by the Americans in a friendly-fire incident during Operation Neptune and later earned the dubious distinction of being the last corvette sunk by the enemy. Litwiller has interviewed many of the men who served in Trentonian and collected their stories. Their unique personal perspectives are combined with the official record of the ship, giving an intimate insight into the life of a sailor — from the tedium of daily life in a ship at sea to the terror of fighting for your life in a sinking ship. Over one hundred photos from the private collections of the crew and military archives bring the story of Trentonian to life, illustrating this testament to the ship and the men who served in it.

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 Scream of Eagles: The Creation of Top Gun and the U.S. Air Victory in Vietnam
Scream of Eagles: The Creation of Top Gun and the U.S. Air Victory in Vietnam
Author: Robert K. Wilcox
Scream of Eagles: The Creation of Top Gun and the U.S. Air Victory in Vietnam
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
1990
Format: PDF
Pages: 336
Language: English
Size: 30.8 MB

The first true-life account of the creation of the Top Gun school during the Vietnam War era. Wilcox's gripping narrative describes how a handful of Navy fighter pilots established a special school called Top Gun at the Miramar Air Station in California in 1968 and virtually revolutionized air combat training. Top Gun doctrine was fully validated when Randy Cunningham and his radar interceptor officer, William Driscoll, became the first American aces of the Vietnam war. By the time of the U.S. pullout in 1973, Top Gun's kill ratio was 12 to 1, compared with the Air Force's "dismal" 2 to 1. Wilcox ( The Shroud ) contends that Top Gun training forged the only clear-cut victory America won during the 1965-1973 war. The book features breathtaking accounts of aerial duels--Wilcox is very good at describing the three-dimensional world of dogfighting. His account of the school's ad hoc origins and the effort to develop ways of meeting the MiG challenge in Vietnam is equally exciting. Screaming Eagles ranks with the best of the books about air combat.

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 Pioneers of Flight
Pioneers of Flight
Author: Henry T. Wallhauser
Pioneers of Flight
Hammond
1969
Format: PDF
Pages: 96
Language: English
Size: 10.7 MB

Briefly traces the pioneering experiments that led to the first flight by the Wright brothers and describes subsequent landmarks in aviation history up to Lindbergh's crossing of the Atlantic in 1927.

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 A Young Persons Introduction to HMS Victory
A Young Persons Introduction to HMS Victory
A Young Persons Introduction to HMS Victory
Author: William Pearce
Alan Roe
Waterlow Ltd. for Portsmouth Royal Navy Museum Trading Co. Ltd
1982
Pages: 20
Language: English
Format: PDF
Size: 14 MB

HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. She was also Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824, she served as a harbour ship. In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She is the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission.

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 Royal Navy Uniforms 1930-1945
Royal Navy Uniforms 1930-1945
Author: Martin J. Brayley
Royal Navy Uniforms 1930-1945
The Crowood Press
ISBN: 1847978444
2014
Format: EPUB
Pages: 160
Size: 16 Mb
Language: English

Royal Navy Uniforms 1930-1945 uses over 400 illustrations - both period images and new colour photographs of original items - to show the clothing of both Officers and Ratings in World War II and during the years leading up to it, when Naval uniforms underwent significant modernization. The illustrations are supported by detailed text describing the development and use of Naval clothing of the time. Its contents include Officers' clothing and effects; Class 1 and III Ratings' clothing and effects; seamens' clothing and effects; battledress and tropical clothing; miscellaneous clothing, personal effects and substantive and non-substantive insignia. This is the first book to offer a detailed study of Royal Navy clothing in the 1930s and World War II and will be a vital resource for collectors, historians and enthusiasts. All of the major uniform types are superbly illustrated with 470 colour and black & white studio images and period photographs.

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 Churchill & Roosevelt - The Complete Correspondence v03 - Alliance Declining
Churchill & Roosevelt - The Complete Correspondence v03 - Alliance Declining
Author: Warren F. Kimball
Churchill & Roosevelt - The Complete Correspondence v03 - Alliance Declining
Harper Collins Publishers
1988
Format: PDF
Pages: 625
Language: English
Size: 21 MB

This three-volume work includes all correspondence between the British prime minister and the American president from 1933 until Roosevelt's death in 1945. Kimball's skillful commentary puts the intrinsically interesting letters in context. Although a large amount of Churchill-Roosevelt correspondence has been previously printed, this magnificently edited work is indispensable for the researcher and good reading for anyone interested in the principals and their leadership during World War II. Professor Kimball has located many unpublished items, gives full and corrected texts of others, and holds everything together with informative headnotes. He also includes the enclosures which the two leaders sent to each other.

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 Twin Mustang: The North American F-82 at War
Twin Mustang: The North American F-82 at War
Author: Alan C. Carey
Twin Mustang: The North American F-82 at War
Pen and Sword
Images of War
ISBN: 1783462213
2014
Format: EPUB
Pages: 128
Size: 4 Mb
Language: English

One of the most unusual and remarkable American fighter aircraft, the F-82 Twin Mustang was the last mass production propeller-driven fighter acquired by the U.S. Air Force. Originally intended as a very long-range fighter escort for the Boeing B-29 Superfortress during World War II, it arrived too late to see combat and evolved into a night and all-weather fighter during the post-war years. Combat operations in the Korean War followed, along with a host of other dynamic episodes of deployment. This work traces the developmental, operational, and combat history of this unique American fighter and features 120 photographs and illustrations, many of which have never been published before.

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 Occult Roots of Nazism
Occult Roots of Nazism
Occult Roots of Nazism
Author: Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Tauris Parke Paperbacks
2005
Pages: 304
Format: PDF
Size: 14.5 Mb
Language: English

Product Description: Over half a century after the defeat of the Third Reich the complexities of Nazi ideology are still being unravelled. This text is a serious attempt to identify these ideological origins. It demonstrates the way in which Nazism was influenced by powerful occult and millenarian sects that thrived in Germany and Austria at the turn of the century. Their ideas and symbols filtered through to nationalist-racist groups associated with the infant Nazi party and their fantasies were played out with terrifying consequences in the Third Reich: Auschwitz, Sobibor and Treblinka are the hellish museums of the Nazi apocalypse. This bizarre and fascinating story contains lessons we cannot afford to ignore.

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 Mars Learning The Marine Corp's Development of Small Wars Doctrine, 1915-1940
Mars Learning The Marine Corp's Development of Small Wars Doctrine, 1915-1940
Author: Keith B. Bickel
Mars Learning The Marine Corp's Development of Small Wars Doctrine, 1915-1940
Westview Press
ISBN: 0813397758
2000
Format: PDF
Size: 28,4 МБ
Language:English
Pages: 289
Keith B. Bickel challenges a host of military and strategic theories that treat particular bureaucratic structures, large organizations, and elites as the progenitors of doctrine. This timely study of how the military draws lessons from interventions focuses on the overlooked role that mid-level combat officers play in creating military doctrine. Mars Learning closely evaluates Marine civil and military pacification operations in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua, and illuminates the debates surrounding the development of Marine Corps’ small wars doctrine between 1915 and 1940. The result is compelling evidence of how field experience obtained before 1940 played a role in shaping the Marine Corps’ Small Wars Manual and elements of doctrine that exist today. How the Marines organized lessons at that time provides important insights into how doctrine is likely to be generated today in response to post-Cold War interventions around the globe.

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 Tanks
Tanks
Author: Ian V. Hogg
Tanks (Modern Military Techniques)
Lerner Publications Company
1985
Format: PDF
Pages: 54
Language: English
Size: 64.7 MB

A survey of the evolution of modern armored tanks, now equipped with computerized electronics, night vision, air filtration, and laser fire control systems, and their tasks and tactics today.

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 Great British Flying-boats
Great British Flying-boats
Great British Flying-boats
Author: Martyn Chorlton
Kelsey Publishing
Aeroplane Collectors' Archive
ISBN: 978 1907426292
2012
Language: English
Pages: 100
Format: PDF
Size: 21,8 MB

The Aeroplane Collectors’ Archive series is devoted to British monoplane fl ying-boats – we intend to cover biplane ‘boats in a future issue, while the Saro SR.A/1 will also feature in another of this series. One type included here is not a fl ying-boat – the seaplane upper component of the Short-Mayo Composite, but the unit had to be considered as a whole. As in previous Collectors’ Archives, only basic details for each type are given, and we concentrate on providing large and interesting illustrations and cutaway drawings from the Aeroplane and Flight archives, supplementing these where necessary by quality prints from our wider archive and from other sources. We are grateful to the Solent Sky Museum Southampton for their assistance with this volume.

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 Carrier Battle in the Philippine Sea
Carrier Battle in the Philippine Sea
Author: Barrett Tillman
Carrier Battle in the Philippine Sea
Phalanx
1994
ISBN: 1883809045
Format: PDF
Size: 13,2 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 51
Renowned aviation historian, Barrett Tillman, has done a concise yet exhaustive job of research of the famed Marianas Turkey Shoot, the greatest air battle of the Pacific war. Because of in depth interviews much of the story is told by participants. These exciting accounts are augmented by Tillman's analysis. This large format book also provides both U.S. Navy and Japanese order of battle down to squadron level for both carrier and shore based aircraft. One map, 47 black and white photos. Six brush profiles of Hellcats, Avengers, Dauntlesses, Zeros, Judys and Vals (all by John Valo) provide a wealth of visual history. Final appendices supply losses and U.S. Navy aerial combat claims for this historic engagement of carrier aircraft. 48 pages, 47 b/w photos, six aircraft profiles, appendices, 8.5x11 inches, softcover.

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 Profile AFV - Weapons Profiles 62 - Commando, Twister and High Mobility Vehicles.
Profile AFV - Weapons Profiles 62 - Commando, Twister and High Mobility Vehicles.
Author: Christopher F. Foss
Profile AFV - Weapons Profiles 62 - Commando, Twister and High Mobility Vehicles.
Profile Publications Ltd
1973
Format: PDF
Size: 11,8 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 24

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 Osprey Warrior 90 - US Marine Corps Tank Crewman 1965-70: Vietnam
Osprey Warrior 90 - US Marine Corps Tank Crewman 1965-70: Vietnam
Author: Oscar Gilbert
Osprey Warrior 90 - US Marine Corps Tank Crewman 1965-70 Vietnam
Osprey Publishing
2004
ISBN: 1841767182
Format: PDF
Size: 22,4 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 66
Following Korea, by 1960 tanks and their crews had proved themselves to be a fundamental part of the Marine Corps' combined arms team. When the Marines were ordered to Vietnam in 1965, they took their tanks with them. This book explores this decision, which created a political storm. The presence of the tanks became a lightning rod for accusations of an 'escalation' of the war. Nevertheless, the tanks not only proved their value in the anti-guemilla campaigns, but amid the bitter conventional fighting and extraordinary casualties at Hue City. The ability to undertake such radical change and to prevail demonstrated the versatility, courage and tenacity that are the hallmarks of the 'ordinary' Marine.

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