Author: David L. Adamy
Electronic Warfare Pocket Guide
SciTech Publishing
ISBN: 1891121618
2011
Format: PDF
Size: 5,9 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 38
Read Full Post
|
|||||
|
Www.WorldHistory.Biz
Sundries
 Contact
|
   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 Read Full Post McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet (Classic Warplanes)
 Author: Mike Spick McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet (Classic Warplanes) Smithmark Publishers 1991 Format: PDF Pages: 58 Language: English Size: 50.1 MB thanks to adeda This book covers the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 A, C and D variants. The Super Hornet E/F came after this book was published in 1991. The cutaway drawing and the specifications are the C version. The narrative flows easily with the history, color photos, explanations of design innovations such as the HUD (Heads Up Display) and operational history. The Hornet saw action in Libya (1986) and the Iraq Gulf War (1991). This short book, only 45 pages with index, should satisfy most readers. Chapters: (1) History and development (2) Hornet variants (3) Avionics and armament (4) Mission (5) In service and at war Read Full Post Operation Desert Shield Prelude to Desert Storm
 Author: Yves Debay, Michael Green Operation Desert Shield Prelude to Desert Storm (Concord - 2003) Concord Publications Co 1991 ISBN: 9623619030 Format: PDF Size: 35,4 МБ Language: English Pages: 90 Operation Desert Shield is written by Yves DeBay and Michael Green and published by Concord Publications Company. The book covers the buildup to the four day war. It comes with commentary, color and black and white photos. Read Full Post 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. Read Full Post Russia’s Wars in Chechnya 1994–2009 (Osprey Essential Histories 78)
 Author: Mark Galeotti Russia’s Wars in Chechnya 1994–2009 Osprey Publishing Osprey Essential Histories 78 2014 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 96 Size: 42 Mb Language: English In this fully illustrated book an expert on the conflicts traces the progress of the wars in Chechnya, from the initial Russian advance through to urban battles such as Grozny, and the prolonged guerrilla warfare in the mountainous regions. He assesses how the wars have torn apart the fabric of Chechen society and their impact on Russia itself. Featuring specially drawn full-colour mapping and drawing upon a wide range of sources, this succinct account explains the origins, history and consequences of Russia's wars in Chechnya, shedding new light on the history - and prospects - of the troubled region. Read Full Post Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
 Author: Fredrik Logevall Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam Random House ISBN: 0375504427 2012 Format: EPUB Size: 10,8 МБ Language: English Pages: 864 The struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades, the conflict drew in all the world’s powers and saw two of them—first France, then the United States—attempt to subdue the revolutionary Vietnamese forces. For France, the defeat marked the effective end of her colonial empire, while for America the war left a gaping wound in the body politic that remains open to this day. How did it happen? Tapping into newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations and making full use of the published literature, distinguished scholar Fredrik Logevall traces the path that led two Western nations to lose their way in Vietnam. Embers of War opens in 1919 at the Versailles Peace Conference, where a young Ho Chi Minh tries to deliver a petition for Vietnamese independence to President Woodrow Wilson. It concludes in 1959, with a Viet Cong ambush on an outpost outside Saigon and the deaths of two American officers whose names would be the first to be carved into the black granite of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Read Full Post Privatizing War: Private Military and Security Companies under Public International Law
 : Privatizing War: Private Military and Security Companies under Public International Law Author : Lindsey Cameron, Vincent Chetail Cambridge University Press : 2013 ISBN: 1107032407 Pages: 754 Format : PDF Size : 6 MB Language : English A growing number of states use private military and security companies (PMSCs) for a variety of tasks, which were traditionally fulfilled by soldiers. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the law that applies to PMSCs active in situations of armed conflict, focusing on international humanitarian law. It examines the limits in international law on how states may use private actors, taking the debate beyond the question of whether PMSCs are mercenaries. The authors delve into issues such as how PMSCs are bound by humanitarian law, whether their staff are civilians or combatants, and how the use of force in self-defence relates to direct participation in hostilities, a key issue for an industry that operates by exploiting the right to use force in self-defence. Throughout, the authors identify how existing legal obligations, including under state and individual criminal responsibility should play a role in the regulation of the industry. Read Full Post The Great War at sea, 1914-1918
 Author: Richard Hough The Great War at sea, 1914-1918 Oxford University Press 1986 Format: PDF Pages: 412 Language: English Size: 61 MB An eminently readable single-volume account of the fighting at sea during the First World War. The story is well told, especially in its clear rendering of such potentially confusing actions as Jutland and the Falkland Islands. The contest between the German and British navies during World War I was the greatest naval conflict in history. Richard Hugh's vivid rendering of this sea war brings each battle to life. Read Full Post The British Army 1965-80: Combat and Service Dress
 The British Army 1965-80: Combat and Service Dress (Men-at-Arms Series 71) Author: David Smith, Angus McBride Osprey Publishing ISBN: 0850452732 1985 Pages: 50 Format: PDF Size: 18.46МБ Language: English The uniform of the British Army underwent many changes between 1965 and 1980. This book catalogues these changes and outlines in detail the many regimental distinctions which exist throughout this old and prestigious army. Among the formations examined are the Household Division, the Royal Armoured Corps, the Scottish Division, the Queen's Division, the King's Division, the Prince of Wales's Division, the Light Division and the Brigade of Gurkhas. The text is backed by numerous photographs and eight colour plates vividly depicting the nuances of the army's combat and service dress. Read Full Post To the Edge of the World The Story of the Trans-Siberian Railway
 Author: Christian Wolmar To the Edge of the World The Story of the Trans-Siberian Railway Atlantic Books ISBN: 0857890379 2013 Format: MOBI Size: 6,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 304 It is the world's longest railway line. But it is so much more than that, too. The Trans-Siberian stretches nearly 6,000 miles between Moscow and Vladivostok on the Pacific Coast and was the most ambitious railway project in the nineteenth century. A journey on the railway evokes a romantic roam through the Russian steppes, but also reminds travellers of the vastness of our world and hints at the hardships that were endured in its construction. Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander III, to the northern extension ordered by Brezhnev and its current success as a vital artery. He also explores the crucial role the line played in both the Russian Civil War -Trotsky famously used an armoured carriage as his command post - and the Second World War, during which the railway saved the country from certain defeat. Like the author's previous railway histories, it focuses on the personalities, as well as the political and economic events, that lay behind one of the most extraordinary engineering triumphs of the nineteenth century. Read Full Post The First War of Physics: The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb, 1939-1949
 Author: Jim Baggott The First War of Physics: The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb, 1939-1949 2010 Format: EPUB Size: 3 mb Pages: 584 Rich in personality, action, confrontation, and deception, The First War of Physics is the first fully realized popular account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. The book draws on declassified material, such as MI6's Farm Hall transcripts, coded soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the soviet archives. Read Full Post Hitler: An Illustrated Life
 Author: Robin Cross Hitler: An Illustrated Life Quercus 2009 ISBN: 1848660200 Format: EPUB Size: 7,1 МБ Language: English Pages: 224 As Chancellor of Germany between 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler exercised unrestricted power over his country's social, political, and economic life. From Hitler’s belligerent re-armament programme to his imposition of anti-Semitic legislation and territorially aggressive policies, respected historian Robin Cross maps out the life of one of the most evil men ever to have lived. This succinct and powerful account, illustrated with rare and chillingly evocative photographs, is the essential companion for anyone with a fascination for the twentieth century, the Second World War or the age of dictators. Read Full Post Pegasus: The Heart of the Harrier
 Author: Andrew Dow Pegasus: The Heart of the Harrier Pen and Sword Aviation Images of War ISBN: 184884042X 2009 Format: EPUB Pages: 543 Size: 10 Mb Language: English The conception of the Pegasus engine in 1957 upset all the conventions of aircraft design. It was previously usual for aircraft designers to seek a suitable engine, but this was an engine that sought an aircraft. The aircraft that resulted was the famous Harrier that is still in front-line service with air forces around the world including the RAF and US Marine Corps. This book takes an in-depth look at the engine's original design concept, initial production and flight testing. It then goes on to explain how the developments and improvements have been made over the ensuing years and includes experiences of operational combat flying, both from land and sea. Read Full Post Jump Jets The AV-8B Harriers
 Author: Bill Sweetman Jump Jets The AV-8B Harriers (War Planes) Capstone Press 2002 Format: PDF Pages: 36 Language: English Size: 19 MB The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) AV-8B Harrier II is a single-engine ground-attack aircraft that constitutes the second generation of the Harrier Jump Jet family. Capable of vertical or short takeoff and landing (V/STOL), the aircraft was designed in the late 1970s as an Anglo-American development of the British Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational V/STOL aircraft. Named after a bird of prey, it is primarily employed on light attack or multi-role missions, ranging from close air support of ground troops to armed reconnaissance. The AV-8B is used by the United States Marine Corps (USMC), the Spanish Navy, and the Italian Navy. A variant of the AV-8B, the British Aerospace Harrier II, was developed for the British military, while another, the TAV-8B, is a dedicated two-seat trainer. Read Full Post Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context
 Author:Lars T. Lih Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context Historical Materialism (Haymarket Books) 2008 Format:PDF Size:18.74 MB Language: English Read Full Post The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation (Oxford Illustrated Histories)
 Author: Peter Marshall (Editor) The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation (Oxford Illustrated Histories) Oxford University Press 2015 Format: True PDF Size: 76.5 Mb Language: English The Reformation was a seismic event in history, whose consequences are still working themselves out in Europe and across the world. The protests against the marketing of indulgences staged by the German monk Martin Luther in 1517 belonged to a long-standing pattern of calls for internal reform and renewal in the Christian Church. But they rapidly took a radical and unexpected turn, engulfing first Germany and then Europe as a whole in furious arguments about how God's will was to be discerned, and how humans were to be 'saved'. However, these debates did not remain confined to a narrow sphere of theology. They came to reshape politics and international relations; social, cultural, and artistic developments; relations between the sexes; and the patterns and performances of everyday life. They were also the stimulus for Christianity's transformation into a truly global religion, as agents of the Roman Catholic Church sought to compensate for losses in Europe with new conversions in Asia and the Americas. Covering both Protestant and Catholic reform movements, in Europe and across the wider world, this beautifully illustrated volume tells the story of the Reformation from its immediate, explosive beginnings, through to its profound longer-term consequences and legacy for the modern world. The story is not one of an inevitable triumph of liberty over oppression, enlightenment over ignorance. Rather, it tells how a multitude of rival groups and individuals, with or without the support of political power, strove after visions of 'reform'. And how, in spite of themselves, they laid the foundations for the plural and conflicted world we now inhabit. Read Full Post The Military Balance 2013
 Author: The Military Balance 2013 The International Institute For Strategic Studies 2013 Format: PDF Size: 126.84 MB Language: English Read Full Post Armies of World War 3
 Author: Charles Messenger Armies of World War 3 Bison Books 1984 Format: PDF Pages: 196 Language: English Size: 34 MB Discusses Nato and Warsaw Pact's armies face-to-face: nuclear, biological, chemical, armor, infantry, artillery, special forces, air forces, engineers, logistics, and the outcome of such a match. A good Cold War weapons book for the "Reagan Years" period of time. Read Full Post The Coming of the Third Reich
 Author: Richard J. Evans The Coming of the Third Reich Penguin Books ISBN: 0143034693 2005 Format: EPUB Size: 3,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 656 There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one of the world’s most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research and interpretations, Evans’s history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, even as it shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur. The Coming of the Third Reich is a masterwork of the historian’s art and the book by which all others on the subject will be judged. Read Full Post
|
 World History
|
|||
  |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|||||