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 Strategy & Tactics of War
Strategy & Tactics of War
Author: Ned Willmott, John Pimlott
Strategy & Tactics of War
Chartwell Books Inc.
1979
Format: PDF
Pages: 250
Language: English
Size: 42.5 MB

In The Strategy and Tactics of War Ned Willmott and John Pimlott explore the art of war historically, and with particular reference to its development in the twentieth century. The book breaks down into three main areas: land, sea and air, and within each one, the development of strategy and the implementation of tactics is detailed. Such problems as how dependence on the lessons learned (belatedly) from the trench warfare of World War I blinkered Allied response to the German tank blitzkrieg of 1940; the grim lessons only now being really understood from the failure of strategic air bombing of civilian and commercial targets ; the initial success of the German naval blockade of Britain and how the convoy system overcame the U-boat threat - all these, and many more, are discussed in this engrossing book. The Strategy and Tactics of War provides an absorbing glimpse into the living military history of our time.

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 Churchill: A Biography
Churchill: A Biography
Author: Roy Jenkins
Churchill: A Biography
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2001
Format: PDF
Pages: 1072
Language: English
Size: 162.7 MB

A brilliant new life of Britain's greatest modern prime minister. Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history, but even though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost sixty years, he might be remembered only as a minor player in the drama of British government had it not been for World War II. In this magesterial book, Roy Jenkin's unparalleled command of the political history of Britain and his own high-level experience combine in a narrative account of Churchill's astounding career that is unmatched in its shrewd insights, its unforgettable anecdotes, the clarity of its overarching themes, and the author's nuanced appreciation of his extraordinary subject.

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 World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization
World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization
Author:Nesta Webster
World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization
Boston:Small,Maynard & Company
1994
Format:PDF
Size:11.4 MB
Language: English

British historian Nesta Webster reveals the secret societies and forces behind major European revolutions from the French Revolution to the Russian Revolution.

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 Empire of Chaos
Empire of Chaos
Author: Pepe Escobar
Empire of Chaos
Nimble Books
2014
Format: PDF
Size: 2 Mb
Language: English

From Syria and Iraq to Ukraine, from AfPak to Libya, from Iran to Russia, and from the Persian Gulf to China, foreign correspondent Pepe Escobar, author of The Roving Eye column for Asia Times/Hong Kong, crisscrosses what the Pentagon calls the "arc of instability."
As Escobar tells it in the introduction, "the columns selected for this volume follow the period 2009-2014 - the Obama years so far. A continuum with previous volumes published by Nimble Books does apply. Globalistan, from 2007, was an extended reportage/warped travel book across the Bush years, where I argued the world was being plunged into Liquid War - alluding to energy flows but also to the liquid modernity character of post-modern war. Red Zone Blues, also from 2007, was a vignette - an extended reportage centering on the Baghdad surge. And Obama does Globalistan, from 2009, examined how the hyperpower could embark on a "change we can believe in". The outcome, as these columns arguably reflect, is Empire of Chaos - where a plutocracy progressively projects its own internal disintegration upon the whole world."
"You will find some key overlapping nations/themes/expressions/acronyms in these columns; Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, China, Russia, Ukraine, Pipelineistan, BRICS, EU, NATO, GCC, the Global South, GWOT (the global war on terror), The New Great Game, Full Spectrum Dominance. You will also find a progressive drift towards not conventional war, but above all economic war - manifestations of Liquid War."
Incrementally, I have been arguing that Washington's number one objective now is to prevent a full economic integration of Eurasia that would leave the U.S. as a non-hegemon, or worse still, an outsider. Thus the three-pronged strategy of "pivoting to Asia" (containment of China); Ukraine (containment of Russia); and beefing up NATO (subjugation of Europe, and NATO as Global Robocop)."
Book the ultimate trip to the Empire of Chaos, and see how the U.S. - and the West - are tackling the emergence of a multipolar world.

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 Raymond Baxter's Farnborough Commentary
Raymond Baxter's Farnborough Commentary
Author: Raymond Baxter
Raymond Baxter's Farnborough Commentary
Patrick Stephens Ltd
1980
Format: PDF
Pages: 120
Language: English
Size: 49 MB

This well illustrated book tells about the history of Farnborough Air Shows.

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 TS-11 Iskra Jet Trainer
TS-11 Iskra Jet Trainer
TS-11 Iskra Jet Trainer
Zaklad Wydawniczo-Poligraficzny
1966
Format: PDF
Pages: 24
Language: English
Size: 17 MB

The PZL TS-11 Iskra (English: Spark) is a Polish jet trainer aircraft, used by the air forces of Poland and India. It is notable as the main training aircraft of the Polish Air Force, the oldest jet still in service in Poland.

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 Imperial Airways (1924-1940)
Imperial Airways (1924-1940)
Author: Collective
Imperial Airways (1924-1940)
Kelsey Publishing
Aeroplane Classic Airliner)
ISBN: 1909786411
2014
Format: PDF (e-book)
Pages: 100
Size: 33 Mb
Language: English

Imperial Airways (1924-1940) (Aeroplane Classic Airliner)

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 Hot Wings of Desert Storm
Hot Wings of Desert Storm
Author: George Hall
Hot Wings of Desert Storm
Kidsbooks Inc.
1991
Format: PDF
Pages: 36
Language: English
Size: 36.5 MB

Information and pictures of fighter planes from around the world such as the F-14 Tomcat and the F/A-18 Hornet that were used in the Persian Gulf War.

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 Strategic Bombers 1945-1985
Strategic Bombers 1945-1985
Author: Michael J.H. Taylor
Strategic Bombers 1945-1985 (Warbirds Illustrated 30)
Arms and Armour Press
1984
Format: PDF
Pages: 76
Language: English
Size: 62.7 MB

By the end of 1947, the race for strategic superiority between the USA and Soviet Union was under way, both nations possessing the ability to manufacture atomic weapons and both having capable bombers flying. Moreover, in that year Britain passed many examples of Rolls-Royce Nene and Derwent turbojet engines to the Soviet Union, so enabling that nation to study, develop and mass-produce modern powerplants for new fighters and tactical bombers without the need for years of research and development. In the field of rocketry, the Soviet Union was able to make considerable advances owing to the fact that the secret German ballistic missile establishment at Peenemiinde was captured by Soviet forces during the final stages of the war. The first pure jet bomber of US design was the Douglas XB-43, first flown in May 1946. This remained a prototype, and the later four-engined North American B-45 Tornado became the USAF's first jet bomber to see squadron service. However, unlike the later Boeing B-47 Stratojet, the Tornado was not strategically important. The Soviet Union's first operational jet bombers were the Tupolev Tu-12, Tu-14and Ilyushin 11-28, all non-strategic; Britain's contemporary was the English Electric Canberra. The development in Britain of no fewer than three types of four- jet aircraft in the 'V-bomber' series finally gave the Royal Air Force strategic jet bomber capability, by which time the USA and the Soviet Union possessed intercontinental strategic jet or turboprop capability by virtue of the formers huge Boeing B-52 Stratofortress and the latter's Tupolev Tu-95 and Myasishchev M-4.

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 The Falklands War Myth and Countermyth
The Falklands War Myth and Countermyth
Author: David Monaghan
The Falklands War Myth and Countermyth
Palgrave Macmillan
1998
ISBN: 0333655818
Format: PDF
Size: 20,0 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 208
This book examines the debate which has long raged in Britain about the meaning of the Falklands War. Using literary critical methods, Monaghan examines how the Thatcherite reading of the war as a myth of British greatness reborn was developed through political speeches and journalistic writing. He then goes on to discuss a number of films, plays, cartoon strips and travel books which have subverted the dominant myth by finding national metaphors of a very different kind in the Falklands War.

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 Ukraine after Euromaidan: Democracy under Fire
Ukraine after Euromaidan: Democracy under Fire
Author: A. Bedritskiy, A. Kochetkov, S. Byshok
Ukraine after Euromaidan: Democracy under Fire

2015
Format: PDF
Size: 1.3 Mb
Language: English

The book «Ukraine after Euromaidan: Democracy under fire» is devoted to the 2014 coup in Ukraine and the chain of events that followed, including the war in the East Ukraine and establishing of the People’s Republics in Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
The events of the Ukrainian revolution of 2014 brought not only changes of the political landscape of the country but also transformation of Ukraine’s very map. Thus, the Republiс of Crimea returned to Russia, and in the East of the country two new republics have been formed: Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), which historically were part of Novorossiya.

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 Warships of the World: Major Classes
Warships of the World: Major Classes
Author: Bernard Ireland
Warships of the World: Major Classes
Charles Scribner's Sons
1976
Format: PDF
Pages: 140
Language: English
Size: 21.4 MB

The large warship, by virtue of cost and complexity, is becoming increasingly the prerogative of the two major naval powers and a book on the subject is, necessarily, devoted in great part to two fleets. Warship development is composed largely of one power's efforts to neutralize an advance on the part of another and warship designs of the last twenty years have been dominated by one of two major developments — the guided missile and the nuclear submarine. These have dictated weaponry and electronics which have, in turn, defined the ship, which is, after all, only the package which delivers them.

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 La Legion Espanola: 75 Anos de Historia (1920-1995): Tomo III (1971-1995)
La Legion Espanola: 75 Anos de Historia (1920-1995): Tomo III (1971-1995)
Author: Antonio Martínez de la Casa
La Legion Espanola: 75 Anos de Historia (1920-1995): Tomo III (1971-1995)
Viator Brigada de Infanteria Rey Alfonso XIII de la Legion
2001
Format: PDF
Pages: 495
Size: 42 Mb
Language: Spanish

La Legion Espanola: 75 Anos de Historia (1920-1995): Tomo III (1971-1995)

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 The Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm 1990-1991 (Modern Warfare)
The Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm 1990-1991 (Modern Warfare)
Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones
The Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm 1990-1991 (Modern Warfare)
Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1781593914
2014
Format: EPUB
Size: 4,6 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 128
Each stage in the Gulf War, the liberation by American-led UN forces of Iraqi-occupied Kuwait in 1990-91, is vividly described in this photographic history. Over 180 photographs provide a remarkable visual account of Operation Desert Storm in the air, at sea and on land, and they show the vast array of military equipment deployed by both sides.
Anthony Tucker-Jones, who worked at the time as an analyst for British Defense Intelligence, describes the armed forces that were ranged against each other, in total over a million troops, over 7000 armored vehicles, 4600 artillery pieces, and thousands of aircraft.
In a concise text he relates the key events in the short, intense conflict that followed – the preliminary air campaign, the elimination of the Iraqi navy, the coalition’s ground offensive, the tank battles in which American Abrams and British Challengers engaged Soviet-designed T-72 and T-62s, the Iraqi retreat, the death and destruction at the Muttla Pass, and the liberation of Kuwait City.
The photographs, most of which have not been published before, give a powerful impression of the character of late-twentieth-century warfare. They also record a major conflict that has been overshadowed by the more recent war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.

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 Warships Illustrated No.12 - British Cruisers in World War One
Warships Illustrated No.12 - British Cruisers in World War One
Author: R. A. Burt
Warships Illustrated No.12 - British Cruisers in World War One
Arms & Armour Press
1987
ISBN: 0853688141
Format: PDF
Size: 5,7 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 64
The subject of cruisers during the period 1870 to 1914 is a complex one because of the variety of designs which are included in this category. Frigates of the 1840s were the real ancestors of the modern cruiser, and used for multi-role purposes such as scouting, policing, message-conveying, shadowing and commerce protection duties. Dreadnought-cruiser in 1906 put an end to the growth in displacements, although paradoxically the protected cruiser had taken a retrograde step and returned to the origins of the second class cruiser, with more moderate dimensions and the more direct function of serving the Fleet rather than engaging adversaries irrespective of their size. This group formed the link to the light and heavy cruisers which became standard construction and went oh to serve in the First and Second World Wars.

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 Rise of the Ironclads
Rise of the Ironclads
Author: George F. Amadon
Rise of the Ironclads
Pictorial Histories Publishing Company
1988
Format: PDF
Pages: 82
Language: English
Size: 57.8 MB

This books does an excellent job of explaining the struggle between the Union and Confederate navies. England was very supportive of the Confederacy at the beginning of the Civil War, providing the Southerners with food, clothing, medicine, and the tools of war. Then the blockade of Southern ports by the wooden Union Navy became more effective. The Confederacy considered this act to be evil and cruel because it denied women and children the necessities of life. The secret conversion of the U.S.S. MERRIMACK to the ironclad C.S.S. VIRGINIA was considered to be a God-given means by which the wooden ship blockade could be broken, allowing necessary supplies to flow once again from Great Britain. The short-lived success of the VIRGINIA ended with the arrival of the U.S.S. MONITOR. The success of the MONITOR changed naval architecture and tactics for navies around the world. George Amadon's book provides an excellent analysis of naval strategies of the time, these ships, and the great battle between them.

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 Air Defense Weapons
Air Defense Weapons
Author: John Nicholas
Air Defense Weapons (The Army Library)
Rourke Enterprises, Inc.
1989
Format: PDF
Pages: 56
Language: English
Size: 25 MB

Describes the different kinds of air defense weapons used by the United States Army at various times in history, including radar, antiaircraft guns, and missiles.

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 Le Cateau (Battleground Europe)
Le Cateau (Battleground Europe)
Author: Nigel Cave
Le Cateau
Pen and Sword Military
Battleground Europe
2008
Format: EPUB
Pages: 224
Size: 10 Mb
Language: English

Le Cateau (26-27 August 1914) was the second major action fought by the BEF in the Great War. His men exhausted after fighting at Mons and by the subsequent speedy retreat, Lieutenant-General Horace Smith-Dorrien (commanding II Corps) decided that he had to make a stand in the vicinity of Le Cateau.

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 Sharks of Steel
Sharks of Steel
Author: Yogi Kaufman, Paul Stillwell
Sharks of Steel
Naval Institute Press
1993
Format: PDF
Pages: 184
Language: English
Size: 33.5 MB

Spectacular color photographs and a lively text tell the story of the submarine in this companion volume to a four-part documentary television series produced by the Discovery Channel. Generally following the program's format, the book significantly amplifies the subject, both for longtime fans and for those whose interest in submarines has been piqued by recent events. The pictures and commentary provided here vividly capture the feel of being on board and underwater and offer a rare insider's view of the challenges, pressures, and excitement unique to submariners. Readers join a dangerous World War II patrol in the Pacific, a modern-day cruise to secret destinations, and an unprecedented tour of the world's largest submarine, a Russian "Typhoon," seen by few Westerners.

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