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 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.
Comrades!: A History of World Communism
 Author: Robert Service Harvard University Press 2010 ISBN: 0674046994 Pages: 592 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 64.04 Mb Almost two decades after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR, leading historian Robert Service examines the history of communism throughout the world. Comrades! moves from Marx and Lenin to Mao and Castro and beyond to trace communism from its beginnings to the present day. Offering vivid portraits of the protagonists and decisive events in communist history, Service looks not only at the high politics of communist regimes but also at the social conditions that led millions to support communism in so many countries. After outlining communism's origins with Marx and Engels and its first success with Lenin and the Russian Revolution in 1917, Service examines the Soviet bloc, long-lasting regimes like Yugoslavia and Cuba, the Chinese revolution, the spread of communism in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and the international links among the hundreds of parties. He covers communism's organization and ideology as well as its general appeal. He looks at abortive communist revolutions and at the ineffectual parties in the United States and elsewhere. Service offers a human view of the story as well as a global analysis. His uncomfortable conclusion--and an important message for the twenty-first century--is that although communism in its original form is now dying or dead, the poverty and injustice that enabled its rise are still dangerously alive. Unsettling and compellingly written, Comrades! is the most comprehensive study of one of the most important movements of the modern world.
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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Military Elites: Special Fighting Units in the Modern World
 Author: Roger A. Beaumont Military Elites: Special Fighting Units in the Modern World The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. 1974 Format: PDF Pages: 280 Language: English Size: 23 MB Merrill's Marauders. Darby's Rangers. The French Foreign Legion. The Green Berets. The Commandos. Names that have come to epitomize daring, determination and expertise. Names that stir us with the promise of martial glory. Precisely as they were meant to do. For it is the opinion of the author that many elite military units were formed to serve psychological rather than tactical needs. This book tells the history of more than eighty such organizations, from the Arab Legion of Glubb Pasha to the heliborne air cavalry of Vietnam.
Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution
 Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution Author: Richard Levy ABC-CLIO 2005 Pages: 828 Language: English Format: pdf Size: 9.1 Mb Written by top scholars in an accessible manner, this unique encyclopedia offers worldwide coverage of the origins, forms, practitioners, and effects of antisemitism, leading to the Holocaust and surviving to the present day. Antisemitism has informed the theory and practice of politics and has permeated cultures around the world. The line between anti-Jewish sentiment and other kinds of conflict is hard to define, but it is clear that the destructive nature of antisemitism has harmed the human community for two millennia. Entries in this encyclopedia span the period from ancient Egypt to the modern era. Key theoreticians of Jew-hatred and their written works, its permeation of Christianity and modern Islam, and its political, artistic, and economic manifestations are covered. This is the first comprehensive work that deals with the entire history of ideas and practices that engendered the Holocaust.
Modern Military Weapons
 Author: Robin Cross Modern Military Weapons Franklin Watts Inc. 1991 Format: PDF Pages: 46 Language: English Size: 25.5 MB A guide to modern military weapons, the book includes sections on tanks, artillery, missiles, fighter aircraft, bombers, helicopters, battleships, submarines and amphibious craft.
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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Communism on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin
 Author: Steven E. Harris Communism on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin Woodrow Wilson Center Press 2013 Format: PDF Size: 23 Mb Language: English This fascinating and deeply researched book examines how, beginning under Khrushchev in 1953, a generation of Soviet citizens moved from the overcrowded communal dwellings of the Stalin era to modern single-family apartments, later dubbed khrushchevka. Arguing that moving to a separate apartment allowed ordinary urban dwellers to experience Khrushchev’s thaw, Steven E. Harris fundamentally shifts interpretation of the thaw, conventionally understood as an elite phenomenon. Harris focuses on the many participants eager to benefit from and influence the new way of life embodied by the khrushchevka, its furniture, and its associated consumer goods. He examines activities of national and local politicians, planners, enterprise managers, workers, furniture designers and architects, elite organizations (centrally involved in creating cooperative housing), and ordinary urban dwellers. Communism on Tomorrow Street also demonstrates the relationship of Soviet mass housing and urban planning to international efforts at resolving the "housing question" that had been studied since the nineteenth century and led to housing developments in Western Europe, the United States, and Latin America as well as the USSR.
ConDiesel and the Gama Goat M561
 Author: Collective ConDiesel and the Gama Goat M561 Condec Corporation 2003 Format: PDF Pages: 15 Language: English Size: 14 MB Consolidated Diesel Electric Company was the successful competitor for the production program on the U. S. Army's M561, 6x6 1V4 Ton Cargo Truck (Gama Goat). The addition of this new and advanced mobility truck to the stable of ConDiesel's production vehicles is considered a milestone in the Company's history.
90 Years of the RAAF - A Snapshot History
 Author: Chris Clark 90 Years of the RAAF - A Snapshot History Air Power Development Centre 2011 Format: PDF Pages: 330 Language: English Size: 15.6 MB This book is an illustrated “snapshot history” of the Royal Australian Air Force that focuses, year by year, on specific chronological events from its formation in 1921 to the present day. It captures not only the highlights and achievements of the last 90 years, but also its low points.
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.
The Archaeology of Airfields
 Author: Bob Clarke The Archaeology of Airfields Tempus Publishing 2008 Format: PDF Pages: 224 Language: English Size: 56 MB In the 1950s the British Government embarked on the ambitious project of building a countrywide air defence network - The ROTOR Project. Airfields were erected around the British Isles, both underground and open to the elements. Using his archaeologist's training, Bob Clarke has investigated the background of many of the UK's airfields and airfield structures, asking questions about why they were built in their often widely differing locations, and which criteria affected the decisions. He uncovers in the process the fascinating thought processes behind their construction and illustrates what they reveal about the concerns of their time. This book does not seek to cover every airfield in Britain, nor to tell the stories of the many squadrons involved. Rather, this is a history of Britain's airfields set against the country's varied landscape, examining both their make-up and the political background that saw them called into being.
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
 Author: Michael Parenti Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism City Lights Publishers ISBN: 0872863298 2001 Format: PDF Size: 10,4 МБ Language: English Pages: 165 Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology—terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti’s trademark. Parenti shows how “rational fascism” renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege. He also maps out the external and internal forces that destroyed communism, and the disastrous impact of the “free-market” victory on eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He affirms the relevance of taboo ideologies like Marxism, demonstrating the importance of class analysis in understanding political realities and dealing with the ongoing collision between ecology and global corporatism.
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.
Electronic Warfare Pocket Guide
 Author: David L. Adamy Electronic Warfare Pocket Guide SciTech Publishing ISBN: 1891121618 2011 Format: PDF Size: 5,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 38
The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People
 Author: Alan Brinkley The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 6 edition 2009 Format: pdf Size: 148.3Mb Language: English Known for its clear narrative voice and impeccable scholarship, Alan Brinkley's best-selling survey text invites students to think critically about the many forces that continually create the Unfinished Nation that is the United States. In a concise but wide-ranging narrative, Brinkley shows the diversity and complexity of the nation and our understanding of its history--one that continues to evolve both in the events of the present and in our reexamination of new evidence and perspectives on the past. This sixth edition features a new series of Patterns of Popular Culture essays, as well as expanded coverage of pre-Columbian America, new America in the World essays, and updated coverage of recent events and developments that demonstrates how a new generation continues to shape the American story.
Speer: The Final Verdict
 Speer - The Final Verdict Harcourt 2001 Format: PDF Pages: 440 Language: English Size: 82 MB Albert Speer was an unemployed architect when Hitler came to power in 1933. Soon he was designing the Third Reich's most important buildings. In 1942 Hitler appointed him Armaments Minister and he quadrupled production, an astonishing achievement that kept the German Army in the field and prolonged the war. Yet Speer's life was full of contradictions. The only member of the Nazi elite with whom Hitler developed more than a purely functional relationship (he has even been called "Hitler's unrequited love"), Speer was always an outsider in Hitler's inner circle. He saw himself as an artist, above the crass power struggles of the roughnecks around him. But his enormous ambition blinded him to the crimes in which he played a leading role. Brilliantly illustrated, this gripping account of one man's rise and fall helps explain how Germany descended so far into crime and barbarism.
American Heroes in Special Operations
 Author: Oliver North American Heroes in Special Operations Fidelis ISBN: 9866326926 2010 Format: EPUB Pages: 304 Size: 44 Mb Language: English Following the success of American Heroes: In the Fight Against Radical Islam (a New York Times best seller), Oliver North moves from the frontline to the world of shadow warriors, introducing readers to the brave, noble work of Navy Seals, Rangers, and Green Berets in American Heroes in Special Operations.
The Pioneers of Flight: A Documentary History
 Author: Phil Scott The Pioneers of Flight: A Documentary History Princeton University Press 1999 Format: PDF Pages: 256 Language: English Size: 23 MB The pioneers of flight left a legacy of inventions that changed the world. Unknown to most people, many also left compelling written accounts of their ideas, scientific discoveries, and attempts--both successful and disastrous--to take to the air. Phil Scott presents the first major anthology of these writings. His selections show how humans from Ovid to the Wright brothers and beyond dreamed about flying and puzzled over the principles of physics and aerodynamics that kept birds aloft and men grounded. Their eloquent and incisive writings form a record of scientific curiosity and individual tenacity that will fascinate aviation enthusiasts, historians of technology, and anyone interested in the drama of early flight.
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