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 Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General 
 Author: Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General Henry Holt and Co ISBN: 080509668X 2014 Format: EPUB Size: 3,0 МБ Language: English Pages: 368 Readers around the world have thrilled to Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus--riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history. Now from Bill O’Reilly, anchor of The O’Reilly Factor, comes the most epic book of all in this multimillion-selling series: Killing Patton. General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident--and may very well have been an act of assassination. Killing Patton takes readers inside the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton’s tragic demise, naming names of the many powerful individuals who wanted him silenced.
The Smithsonian Book of Flight
 Author: Walter J. Boyne The Smithsonian Book of Flight Smithsonian Books 1987 Format: PDF Pages: 304 Language: English Size: 52.6 MB An account of the history of flight, chronicling the rapid evolution of aviation technology, from the Wright Flyer of 1903 to Paul MacCready's "Gossamer Condor", from the first balloons and gliders to Concorde. The work covers the effects of new technology on aviation design and also the strategic aspects of air power; the social, cultural and political impact of aviation technology; and the growth and recent re-retrenchment of the general aviation community.
Scouting and Patrolling: Ground Reconnaissance Principles and Training
 Scouting and Patrolling: Ground Reconnaissance Principles and Training Author: Rex Applegate Paladin Press ISBN: 0873641841 1980 Pages: 131 Format: PDF Size: 56.44МБ Language: English This is the classic manual on scouting and patrolling by one of America's foremost authorities on military and police science. This book teaches you all that you need to know about ground reconnaissance principles and training, terrain features and observation, as well as exercise to show you how to put the principles into effect.
Tank Warfare: A History of Tanks in Battle
 Author: Kenneth Macksey Tank Warfare: A History of Tanks in Battle Stein and Day Publishers 1972 Format: PDF Pages: 294 Language: English Size: 47.6 MB After its introduction during the First World War, the tank revolutionized warfare and proved to be a terrifying and efficient machine of war. Kenneth Macksey provides a study of the policy-makers and tank strategists, the technical and tactical development, as well as presenting the story of the tank on the battlefield—the split-second decisions, the battle-weary crews, and the endless mud in this fascinating and detailed account of tank warfare. Tank Warfare delves into the history of the tank, its formation and early prototypes, as well as how it came to be the master of the land battle, becoming Hitler’s driving force for Blitzkrieg and changing the course of the battle of El Alamein.
First Under the North Pole: The Voyage of the Nautilus
 Author: William R. Anderson First Under the North Pole: The Voyage of the Nautilus The World Publishing Company 1959 Format: PDF Pages: 72 Language: English Size: 21 MB Account by the Commander of the first submarine to travel beneath the North Pole.
Convertiplanes in Action: The VTOL Success Story
 Author: Erik Bergaust Convertiplanes in Action: The VTOL Success Story G. P. Putnam's Sons 1969 Format: PDF Pages: 80 Language: English Size: 29.2 MB Until the day when the great air terminals no longer need long runways, the airplane is—in words attributed to Thomas Edison—"only half invented." Ever since the Wright brothers were airborne at Kitty Hawk, aviation pioneers and engineers have recognized the need for vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft and short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft. Helicopters are part, but only part, of the solution, as technicians continue to design and test larger and more complex convertiplanes.
Europa Militaria 12 - Military Model Showcase
 Author: Bill Horan Europa Militaria 12 - Military Model Showcase Crowood Press ISBN: 1872004288 1992 Format: PDF Size: 8,8 МБ Language: English Pages: 64
The Year in Defence: Aerospace Edition
 Author: Collective The Year in Defence: Aerospace Edition Faircount LLC 2009 Summer Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 76 Size: 20 Mb Language: English The Year in Defense is one of today’s leading military and defense information sources for leaders and managers within the American defense community and industrial base. The publication reviews significant activities in the U.S. Department of Defense and military departments over the recent 12-month period while previewing the year ahead.
Coastal Command's Air War Against the German U-Boats
 Author: Norman Franks Coastal Commands Air War Against the German U-Boats Pen and Sword Images of War ISBN: 1783831839 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 152 Size: 5 Mb Language: English This book summarizes the story of how RAF Coastal Command overcame the German U-boat danger during the Second World War and how the escalation of the U-boat war promoted the development of anti-submarine warfare, leading to victory over this menace in the Atlantic.
The Royal Flying Corps
 Author: Sir Robert Thompson The Royal Flying Corps Hamish Hamilton 1968 Format: PDF Pages: 151 Language: English Size: 46 MB The Royal Flying Corps, in the six brief years of its existence from 13th April, 1912, to 1st April, 1918, when it was amalgamated with the Royal Naval Air Service to form the Royal Air Force, gained an undisputed reputation as one of the greatest fighting units of all time. It fought on every front in the First World War except the Russian and by its contribution to victory clearly established the role of an Air Force in war. The Corps itself and the names of its heroes will live for ever in the history of military aviation and in the memories of the British people. This short book does not pretend to do full justice to the men who, with their machines, not only forged a new weapon of war but opened up a whole new dimension for the achievement of man. It can only set out the bare facts, which speak for themselves, showing how the vision and purpose of the first few overcame all opposition and, through the fluctuating fortunes of war, altered the course of history.
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of 20th Century Weapons and Warfare 4
 Author: Bernard Fitzsimons The Illustrated Encyclopedia of 20th Century Weapons and Warfare 4 Columbia House 1978 Format: PDF Pages: 128 Language: English Size: 25.3 MB Any profound understanding of the wars which have shaped our world depends on an understanding of the weapons with which they were fought. In these volumes, details of all the weapons of our century are gathered together in a single work. The facts and information packed into these magnificent volumes could only be duplicated in a library of reference works, and even then, so thorough has been the work of the contributors that new facts are constantly being brought to light, new theories advanced and old myths exploded. Includes Warships, Aircraft, Tanks, Small Arms, Missiles, Artillery...
The Illustrated Guide to the World's Top Counter-terrorist Forces
 Author: Samuel Katz The Illustrated Guide to the World's Top Counter-terrorist Forces Concord Publications Concord №5001 ISBN: 9623616023 1995 Format: PDF Pages: 258 Size: 69 Mb Language: English This illustrated guide examines the world's top counter-terrorist forces - the SAS, the German GSG-9, the Israeli Sayeret Mat'kal and the US Delta Force.
Naval Auxiliaries
 Author: Collective Naval Auxiliaries Division of Naval Intelligence 1943 Format: PDF Pages: 36 Language: English Size: 28.8 MB The Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force is a division of the US Navy. The 42 ships of the Military Sealift Command's Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force are the supply lines to U.S. Navy ships at sea. These ships provide virtually everything that Navy ships need, including fuel, food, ordnance, spare parts, mail and other supplies. NFAF ships enable the Navy fleet to remain at sea, on station and combat ready for extended periods of time. NFAF ships also conduct towing, rescue and salvage operations or serve as floating medical facilities. All NFAF ships are government owned and crewed by civil service mariners. Some of the ships also have a small contingent of Navy personnel aboard for operations support, supply coordination and helicopter operations.
Hitler's Charisma: Leading Millions into the Abys
 : Hitler's Charisma: Leading Millions into the Abyss Author : Laurence Rees Pantheon Books : 2013 Pages: 368 Format : epub Size : 6,7 MB Language : English Fuelled by hate, incapable of forming normal human relationships, unwilling to listen to dissenting voices, Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader, and yet he commanded enormous support and was able to exert a powerful influence over those who encountered him. How did Hitler become such an attractive figure to millions of people? That is the question at the core of Hitler’s Charisma. Acclaimed historian and documentary filmmaker Laurence Rees examines the nature of Hitler’s appeal and reveals the role his supposed “charisma” played in his success. Here is a fascinating social, psychological and historical investigation into the formation of a personality whose determination and vision would at the outset convince a small group of like-minded political and social outcasts but would eventually win over an entire nation and plunge the rest of the world into a cataclysm unlike any that had ever been seen before. Hitler’s Charisma is a natural culmination of twenty years of writing and research on the Third Reich and a remarkable examination of the man and the mind at the heart of it all.
The Illustrated History of Helicopters
 Author: Michael Heatley The Illustrated History of Helicopters Exeter Books 1986 Format: PDF Pages: 120 Language: English Size: 21.6 MB Helicopters are such a familiar part of modern life that it is easy to forget how rapid has been their spread and development. Although the idea of the helicopter can certainly be traced back to Leonardo da Vinci, it was not until the 1930s that the first practical examples were built. At the start of World War II the helicopter speed record was some 70 mph and the distance record was a mere 143 miles. Today's military attack helicopters can attain 200 mph while civil and military machines can lift payloads up to 50,000 pounds or have operational specialties ranging from supplying offshore oil rigs in some of the most testing weather conditions to low altitude 'nap of the earth' flying in sophisticated combat role
The Postwar Naval Revolution
 Author: Norman Friedman The Postwar Naval Revolution Naval Institute Press 1986 Format: PDF Pages: 244 Language: English Size: 46.3 MB Based on much recently released documentation, this book deals not only with overall policy and strategy, but also with the technicalities of ship design and weapon procurement Many hitherto unpublished warship design studies are included, emphasising as usual in Norman Friedman's books the factors determining the design, and in these cases the reasons why they were never built. Since the period under review dictated the shape of navies for decades to come, this work is a significant contribution to the understanding of contemporary naval developments. Indeed, many of the problems of the 1950s merely foreshadowed those of the present, so this study of their solutions is highly relevant for the policy planning of today.
Barrel of a Gun: A War Correspondent's Misspent Moments in Combat
 Author: Al Venter Barrel of a Gun: A War Correspondent's Misspent Moments in Combat Casemate Pub ISBN: 1935149253 2010 Format: EPUB Size: 10,0 МБ Language: English Pages: 480 "Anybody who says that the pen is mightier than the sword hasn't spent time in Somalia, or in Beirut during its bloody heyday." So begins this fascinating memoir of a journalist, filmmaker, and just plain raconteur who has made a career of examining warfare-on the ground and as the bullets are flying. While the average citizen is aware of violent conflicts broiling all around the globe, Al J. Venter-from some strange compulsion unexplainable even by him-has felt the need to see them all in person, preferably at the center of the action. Born in South Africa, Venter has found no shortage of horrific battles on his own continent, from Rhodesia to Biafra, and Angola to Somalia. He has ridden with the legendary merc group Executive Outcomes, jumped into combat with South Africa's crack Parachute Regiment (the Parabats), and traipsed the jungles with both guerrillas and national troops under whichever strongman in the country then held power. During Sierra Leone's civil war he flew in the government's lone Mi-24 Hind gunship as it blasted apart rebel villages and convoys, his complaint being that the Soviet-made craft leaked when it rained.
The Naval Battles of Narvik 9th-10th and 13th of April 1940
 Author: Marcus Einarson Osen The Naval Battles of Narvik 9th-10th and 13th of April 1940 Norsk Tidsskrift 2003 Format: PDF Pages: 38 Language: English/Norwegian Size: 16.4 MB Throughout the winter of 1940 Norway's strategic importance became increasingly clear. One reason was our country's vast coastline, half of all Europe's, towards the Atlantic. The other; the greater part of Germany's iron core, on which her war economy depended absolutely, was mined in North Sweden and normally shipped from her Baltic ports; but when those ports froze it had to be sent through Narvik.
The Illustrated History of the Submarine
 Author: Edward Horton The Illustrated History of the Submarine Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1974 Format: PDF Pages: 166 Language: English Size: 18.3 MB Seventy years ago Admiral A. K. Wilson of the Royal Navy issued his ringing denunciation of the submarine. It was, he thundered, 'underhand, unfair, and damned unEnglish'. Of course 'Tug' Wilson was only repeating the time-honoured hypocrisy reserved for new weapons by those who are proficient with the old. It was hardly to be expected that the mightiest navy the world had ever seen would take kindly to a newfangled device that threatened the very existence of capital ships. Yet in a curious way his comment was prophetic. Leaving aside the moral question, the submarine was about the most 'unEnglish' weapon ever devised, in that England was uniquely vulnerable to it. In both world wars she was brought to the very brink of defeat by German U-boats, and by U-boats alone.
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