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 Sherman Tank: A Pocket History 
 Author: John Christopher Sherman Tank: A Pocket History Amberley 2012 Format: EPUB Pages: 128 Size: 7 Mb Once described as the worst tank that ever won the war , the Sherman tank was never going to be the equal of the German heavies in a direct tank-on-tank confrontation. It was never meant to be. What is was, though, was reliable, maneuverable and built in such prodigious quantities that it became ubiquitous. Sheer weight of numbers and interchangeability of parts was what made the Medium Tank M4, as the Sherman was officially designated, a war winner. Built in the States in car factories, railway works and new bespoke factories, the Sherman came in many variants, and was converted for other uses by the Allied forces. The Brits gave it a bigger gun, made funnies that could wade ditches, build bridges, even float in the sea and clear minefields.
Queen: The Ultimate Illustrated History of the Crown Kings of Rock
 Queen: The Ultimate Illustrated History of the Crown Kings of Rock Author: Phil Sutcliffe Voyageur Press 2011 Format: HQ PDF Quality: excellent Size: 122 mb Language: English Pages: 289 Queen was renowned for electrifying performances, envied for rumors of rock excess, and beloved for music that melded an array of genres. Now available in a nicely priced paperback edition comes the first history befitting this larger-than-life rock band. Packed with stunning performance and offstage photographs—dozens of them previously unpublished—as well as handbills, posters, backstage passes, tickets, T-shirts, LPs, and singles gathered from around the globe, this is the ultimate visual history for Queen fans everywhere. A history of the band spans the pre-Queen years to current work with Paul Rodgers. Complementing this thorough account are reviews of all studio and live albums; complete tour dates; an extensive discography; reflections on the band and their music from some of rock’s top performers past and present; and exclusive insights from their former crew.
Las Tropas de Montana
 Las Tropas de Montana Osprey Publishing, RBA Author: Gordon Williamson 2012 ISBN: 978 8447374717 Format: pdf Size: 4 Mb 49 Language: Spanish De la Serie "Soldados de la 2 Guerra Mundial".
American Arsenal: A Century of Waging War
 Author: PATRICK COFFEY American Arsenal: A Century of Waging War Oxford University Press 2014 Format: pdf Size: 4Mb Language: English
The Secret History of Khava Gaisanova & The North Caucasus
 Author: Rob Honstra, Arnold van Bruggen The Secret History of Khava Gaisanova & The North Caucasus The Sochi Project 2013 Format: PDF Size: 112.9 Mb Language: English Khava Gaisanova lives in Chermen, a village in the heart of the North Caucasus. In 2007 her husband disappeared, like so many men in the North Caucasus disappear without a trace – kidnapped, arrested or simply executed and buried in anonymous graves. The unstable North Caucasus described in this book lies on the other side of the mountains from Sochi. In The Secret History of Khava Gaisanova, a grim picture unfolds of the region hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Enigma - Battle for the Code
 Author: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Enigma - Battle for the Code Wiley 2004 Format: PDF Pages: 415 Language: English Size: 21.5 MB Winston Churchill called the cracking of the German Enigma Code “the secret weapon that won the war.” Now, for the first time, noted British journalist Hugh-Sebag-Montefiore reveals the complete story of the breaking of the code by the Allies—the breaking that played a crucial role in the outcome of World War II. This fascinating account relates the never-before-told, hair-raising stories of the heroic British and American sailors, spies, and secret agents who faced death in order to capture vital codebooks from sinking ships and snatch them from under the noses of Nazi officials. Sebag-Montefiore also relates new details about the genesis of the code, little-known facts about how the Poles first cracked the Luftwaffe’s version of the code (and then passed it along to the British), and the feverish activities at Bletchley Park, Based in part on documents recently unearthed from American and British archives—including previously confidential government files—and in part on unforgettable, firsthand accounts of surviving witnesses, Enigma unearths the stunning truth about the brilliant piece of decryption that changed history.
Artillery: Guns & Rocket Systems
 Author: T. J. O'Malley Artillery: Guns & Rocket Systems Greenhill Books 1994 Format: PDF Pages: 168 Language: English Size: 14.3 MB No matter what new weapons and electronic-based weapon systems appear, artillery continues to dominate the battlefield Operating as part of a team which includes infantry and armour, artillery remains the one weapon which can dictate the course of conflict, both in attack and defence Artillery takes many forms, but is divided mainly into towed and self-propelled types, with the quite separate categories of multiple rocket systems and heavy mortars adding to the overall potential This survey is thus divided into those main categories but there are frequent overlaps of type and function. Of the four mentioned the self-propelled artillery piece is now the most important. Even after the addition of mobility to its firepower potential is considered the overall fact remains that the modern battlefield is a lethally hostile environment in which to survive unless armoured protection is provided.
The Lost Squadron: A True Story
 Author: David Hayes The Lost Squadron: A True Story Hyperion Books 1994 Format: PDF Pages: 232 Language: English Size: 39.3 MB In July 1942 a squadron of brand-new American warplanes desperately needed by the Allied war effort was flying to England via Greenland and Iceland. Caught in a blinding blizzard and running short of fuel, the two B-17 bombers and six P-38 Lightnings crashlanded on Greenland's vast glaciers. The crews were evacuated safely, but the aircraft had to be left behind. Nearly forty years later, Pat Epps and Richard Taylor, two Atlanta-based aviation enthusiasts, learned of the lost squadron during a stopover in Greenland after a flight across the North Pole in 1981. In the years since the crash, Greenland's winters had dumped tons of snow on the abandoned aircraft, but using magnetometers and a sophisticated radar system designed to probe beneath deep ice, Epps and Taylor located the planes - lying 260 feet below the surface and resolved to dig them out. They finally succeeded in 1993. "The Lost Squadron" celebrates the spirit of adventure and the perseverance of the members of the Greenland Expedition as, equipped with little more than enthusiasm and dogged determination, they bring one of the P-38s of the lost squadron home to fly the skies once again.
Methods and Problems in Greek Science: Selected Papers
 Author: G. E. R. Lloyd Methods and Problems in Greek Science: Selected Papers Cambridge University Press 1993 Pages: 472 Format: PDF Language : English Size: 80 mb This book was first published in 1991. The study of ancient science and its relations with Greek philosophy has made a significant and growing contribution to our understanding of ancient thought and civilisation. This collection of articles on Greek science contains fifteen of the most important papers published by G. E. R. Lloyd in this area since 1961, together with three newer articles. The topics range over all areas and periods of Greek science, from the earliest Presocratic philosophers to Ptolemy and Galen. In each case the article is preceded by an introduction that assesses scholarly debate on the topic since the original publication. Professor Lloyd also suggests modifications and developments to his own position in the light of those debates and his own further research.
Engineering Fundamentals of the Internal Combustion Engine
 Engineering Fundamentals of the Internal Combustion Engine Author: Willard W. Pulkrabek Prentice Hall Pages: 425 Format: PDF Size: 16 mb Quality: Good Language: English 2004 This applied thermoscience text explores the basic principles and applications of various types of internal combustion engines, with a major emphasis on reciprocating engines. It covers both spark ignition and compression ignition engines—as well as those operating on four-stroke cycles and on two stroke cycles—ranging in size from small model airplane engines to the larger stationary engines.
The Green Beret. U.S. Special Forces From Vietnam to Delta Force
 Author: Ashley Brown The Green Beret. U.S. Special Forces From Vietnam to Delta Force Villard Books 1986 Format: PDF Pages: 100 Language: English Size: 20.8 MB The Green Beret explains why the Special Forces were created—to infiltrate behind enemy lines in Vietnam — and how they have developed into an elite fighting fraternity, on the forefront of today's "dirty wars": counter-insurgency and anti-terrorism. It underscores the special skills, the unusual tactics, and the unconventional weapons that give the Green Berets the edge in these distant, deadly battles. More than 100 illustrations and graphic photographs, in both full-color and black-and-white, follow the Green Berets from the highlands of Southeast Asia to the jungles of Latin America.
HMS Queen Elizabeth
 HMS Queen Elizabeth Author: Editor - Charles Oldham Faircount Media Group Royal Navy 2014 Pages: 196 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 56 MB In July the UK's largest ever warship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, was successfully floated out of the dock in which she was assembled. In an operation that started earlier this week, the dry dock in Rosyth near Edinburgh was flooded for the first time to allow the 65,000 tonne aircraft carrier to float. It then took only three hours to carefully manoeuvre the carrier out of the dock with just two metres clearance at either side and then berth her alongside a nearby jetty. Teams will now continue to outfit the ship and steadily bring her systems to life in preparation for sea trials in 2016. The dock she vacates will be used for final assembly of her sister ship, HMS Prince of Wales, which will begin in September. Both ships are being delivered by the Aircraft Carrier Alliance, a unique partnership between the Ministry of Defence, Thales UK, BAE Systems, and Babcock.
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
 Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Author: Liaquat Ahamed Penguin Press 2009 ISBN: 159420182X, 0143116800, 0434015415 Pages: 576 Language: english Format: EPUB + MOBI Quality: excellent Size: 3 mb Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person?s or government?s control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions taken by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for World War II and reverberated for decades. In Lords of Finance, we meet the neurotic and enigmatic Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, the xenophobic and suspicious Émile Moreau of the Banque de France, the arrogant yet brilliant Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank, and Benjamin Strong of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, whose façade of energy and drive masked a deeply wounded and overburdened man. After the First World War, these central bankers attempted to reconstruct the world of international finance. Despite their differences, they were united by a common fear?that the greatest threat to capitalism was inflation? and by a common vision that the solution was to turn back the clock and return the world to the gold standard. For a brief period in the mid-1920s they appeared to have succeeded. The world?s currencies were stabilized and capital began flowing freely across the globe. But beneath the veneer of boom-town prosperity, cracks started to appear in the financial system. The gold standard that all had believed would provide an umbrella of stability proved to be a straitjacket, and the world economy began that terrible downward spiral known as the Great Depression. As yet another period of economic turmoil makes headlines today, the Great Depression and the year 1929 remain the benchmark for true financial mayhem. Offering a new understanding of the global nature of financial crises, Lords of Finance is a potent reminder of the enormous impact that the decisions of central bankers can have, of their fallibility, and of the terrible human consequences that can result when they are wrong.
With Our Backs to the Wall. Victory and Defeat in 1918
 Author: David Stevenson With Our Backs to the Wall. Victory and Defeat in 1918 Belknap Press 2011 Format: PDF Pages: 747 Language: English Size: 5.5 MB With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than four years of desperate fighting, with victories sometimes measured in feet and inches, why did the Allies reject the option of advancing into Germany in 1918 and taking Berlin? Most histories of the Great War focus on the avoidability of its beginning. This book brings a laser-like focus to its ominous end the Allies incomplete victory, and the tragic ramifications for world peace just two decades later.In the most comprehensive account to date of the conflict's endgame, David Stevenson approaches the events of 1918 from a truly international perspective, examining the positions and perspectives of combatants on both sides, as well as the impact of the Russian Revolution. Stevenson pays close attention to America's effort in its first twentieth-century war, including its naval and military contribution, army recruitment, industrial mobilization, and home-front politics. Alongside military and political developments, he adds new information about the crucial role of economics and logistics.The Allies eventual success, Stevenson shows, was due to new organizational methods of managing men and materiel and to increased combat effectiveness resulting partly from technological innovation. These factors, combined with Germany's disastrous military offensive in spring 1918, ensured an Allied victory but not a conclusive German defeat.
Aircraft
 Author: Ole Steen Hansen Aircraft (20th century Inventions) Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers 1998 Format: PDF Pages: 54 Language: English Size: 43.3 MB A look at the ever-changing technology of aircraft, this book, which is part of a series on twentieth-century inventions, describes aircraft's vital civil and military importance. The secret of flight has intrigued human-kind for thousands of years. But it was not until 1903 that an aircraft lifted itself into the air under its own power. The development of aircraft since the Wright brothers' historic 1903 flight has been so spectacular that it is hard to imagine life without them. Aircraft playS a role in everything from transporting people and goods to pollution control, and from studying wildlife to fighting battles. As with other books in this series the emphasis is on the ways in which aircraft have been used and their dramatic impact on our lives in business, leisure, education, medical and military arenas.
Rockets of the Navy
 Author: Erik Bergaust Rockets of the Navy G.P. Putnam's Sons 1959 Format: PDF Pages: 49 Language: English Size: 30 MB In a navy which increasingly recognizes the efficacy of rockets and missiles, the problems accompanying conversion are enormous. In this compendium of navy rockets, the author illustrates the gradual changes that are being made in our navy, discusses problems of conversion--the regulated and paced changes which hope to avoid premature obsolescence--and systematically lists individual weapons, their origins and functions. Photographically illustrated, this slim text provides a good reference book for those interested in technical aspects of modern warfare as they are manifest in the United States Navy.
Submarine Warfare: Men, Weapons, and Ships
 Author: C. B. Colby Submarine Warfare: Men, Weapons, and Ships Coward-McCann, Inc. 1967 Format: PDF Pages: 54 Language: English Size: 16.9 MB Describes main submarines as well as their missiles and armament.
Pure Luck - The Authorised Biography of Sir Thomas Sopwith 1888-1989
 Author: Alan E. Bramson Pure Luck - The Authorised Biography of Sir Thomas Sopwith 1888-1989 Patrick Stephens Limited 1990 Format: PDF Pages: 296 Language: English Size: 49.5 MB Sir Thomas Sopwith's 101-year life spanned aviation history. A contemporary of the Wright Brothers, he went on to become a highly successful aeroplane manufacturer in his own right: his Camel and Pup revolutionised aerial combat in the First World War. His Hurricane and Lancaster were amongst the most successful designs of the Second and the remarkable Harrier `jump jet' emerged from an industrial empire that employed up to 127,000 people. But Thomas Sopwith was more than a remarkable aviation pioneer and industrialist, he was a sportsman in the old tradition and one of the world's leading 120 metre class yachtsmen. Pure Luck traces the remarkable history of Sopwith, narrates the moments of triumph and tragedy during his early life and describes the events leading to his 80-year involvement in aeronautics - ballooning, early days at Brooklands and the founding of Sopwith Aviation. His wisdom and record of achievement are recorded as Pure Luck places in perspective Tommy Sopwith's astonishing career and highlights many events in his private and business life. With justification Sir Thomas Sopwith can be classed among the most influential non-political figures this century, but during his life he turned down many requests from authors keen to write his biography. It was only a few months before he died in 1989 that he agreed to let Alan Bramson do it. Alan Bramson, a highly accomplished pilot himself with 250 types in his logbook, is the author of 21 other aviation books, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a Liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators.
Daily Life in the Soviet Union
 Daily Life in the Soviet Union (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series) Author: Katherine Eaton Greenwood 2004 ISBN: 0313316287 Pages: 344 Format: PDF Size: 23 mb Language: english Details what ordinary life was like during the extraordinary years of the reign of Soviet Union. Thirty-six illustrations, thematic chapters, a glossary, timeline, annotated multimedia bibliography and detailed index make it a sound starting point for looking at this powerful nation's immediate past.
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