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 FDR and the American Crisis
FDR and the American Crisis
FDR and the American Crisis
Author: Albert Marrin
Knopf Books for Young Readers
2015
ISBN-13: 978-0385753593
Pages: 336
Language: English
Format: Epub
Size: 81 MB

The definitive biography of president Franklin Delano Roosevelt for young adult readers, from National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin. Brought up in a privileged family, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had every opportunity in front of him. As a young man, he found a path in politics and quickly began to move into the public eye. That ascent seemed impossible when he contracted polio and lost the use of his legs. But with a will of steel he fought the disease—and public perception of his disability—to become president of the United States of America. FDR used that same will to guide his country through a crippling depression and a horrendous world war. He understood Adolf Hitler, and what it would take to stop him, before almost any other world leader did. But to accomplish his greater goals, he made difficult choices that sometimes compromised the ideals of fairness and justice. FDR is one of America’s most intriguing presidents, lionized by some and villainized by others. National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin explores the life of a fascinating, complex man, who was ultimately one of the greatest leaders our country has known.

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 Spy Sub: A Top Secret Mission to the Bottom of the Pacific
Spy Sub: A Top Secret Mission to the Bottom of the Pacific
Author: Roger C. Dunham
Spy Sub: A Top Secret Mission to the Bottom of the Pacific
Naval Institute Press
1996
Format: PDF
Pages: 260
Language: English
Size: 36 MB

A true story about an operation involved the desperate search for a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine that exploded and disappeared in the depths of the Pacific in 1968.

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 Churchill and the Archangel Fiasco
Churchill and the Archangel Fiasco
Author: Michael Kettle *Probate*
Churchill and the Archangel Fiasco (Russia and the Allies , 1917-1920)
Routledge
ISBN: 0415082862
1992
Format: PDF
Size: 7,3 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 616
This third volume in Michael Kettle's series on Allied intervention in the Russian civil war, begins at the point when small-scale Allied intervention in Bolshevik-overrun Russia had failed, but had succeeded in covering the formation of some anti-Bolshevik White groups sympathetic to allied aid.
Written on a panoramic basis which includes detailed documents from both sides, Kettle reveals what each side's leadership had to face as the Russian kaleidoscope constantly changed. Kettle argues that British intervention was doomed to failure and that the White Russians became expendable British pawns in a temporary forward holding position, designed to contain the Bolshevik inferno within Russia. The strategic and military miscalculations of British medium intervention thus prolonged the Russian civil war, and caused a further 14 million Russian deaths. Using Churchill's previously unpublished, last papers and recently available French documents, Kettle provides a fascinating and in-depth analysis of the `Archangel Fiasco'.

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 A History of Modern Iran
A History of Modern Iran
Author: Ervand Abrahamian
A History of Modern Iran
City University of New York
2008
Pages: 260
Language: english
Format: PDF
Size: 5.84 mb

In a reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces its traumatic journey across the twentieth century, through the discovery of oil, imperial interventions, the rule of the Pahlavis and, in 1979, revolution and the birth of the Islamic Republic. In the intervening years, the country has experienced a bitter war with Iraq, the transformation of society under the clergy and, more recently, the expansion of the state and the struggle for power between the old elites, the intelligentsia and the commercial middle class. The author is a compassionate expositor. While he adroitly negotiates the twists and turns of the country's regional and international politics, at the heart of his 2008 book are the people of Iran. It is to them and their resilience that this book is dedicated, as Iran emerges at the beginning of the twenty-first century as one of the most powerful states in the Middle East.

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 Air Power in the Age of Total War
Air Power in the Age of Total War
Author: John Buckley
Air Power in the Age of Total War
Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025321324X
1998
Format: PDF
Size: 3,7 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 269
Warfare in the first half of the 20th century was fundamentally and irrovocably altered by the birth and subsequent development of air power. This work assesses the role of air power in changing the face of battle on land and sea. Utilizing late-1990s research, the author demonstrates that the phenomenon of air power was both a cause and a crucial accelerating factor contributing to the theory and practice of total war. For instance, the expansion of warfare to the homefront was a direct result of bombing and indirectly due to the extent of national economic mobilization required to support first rate air power status. In addition, the move away from the principle of total war with the onset of the Cold War and the replacement of air power by ICBMs is thoroughly examined. This work should provide students of international history, war studies, defence and strategic studies with an insight into 20th-century warfare.

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 Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War
Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War
Author: Robert A. Pape
Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War
Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801483115
1996
Format: PDF
Size: 15,7 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 408
From Iraq to Bosnia to North Korea, the first question in American foreign policy debates is increasingly: can air power alone do the job? Robert A. Pape provides a systematic answer. Analysing the results of over 30 air campaigns, including a detailed reconstruction of the Gulf War, he argues that the key to success is attacking the enemy's military strategy, not its economy, people or leaders. Coercive air power can succeed, but not as cheaply as air enthusiasts would like to believe.

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 Heroes of the Sky: Avalon International Airshow 2015
Heroes of the Sky: Avalon International Airshow 2015
Author: Collective
Heroes of the Sky: Avalon International Airshow 2015
Duncan Fenn
2015
Format: PDF
Pages: 104
Size: 41 Mb
Language: English

Pictorial of the Australian International Airshow held at Avalon Airport 2015 from 27th February to 1st March. The Australian International Airshow and Aerospace & Defence Exposition is an event unlike any other in the Australasian region. It is the result of many years of passion and enthusiasm by a dedicated group of aviation enthusiasts.

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 Imperial Japanese Naval Aviator 1937–45
Imperial Japanese Naval Aviator 1937–45

Imperial Japanese Naval Aviator 1937–45 (Warrior 55)
Osprey Publishing Ltd.
2003
Format: Pdf (E-book)
Size: 3 Mb
Language: English

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 U.S. Combat Helmets of the 20th Century
U.S. Combat Helmets of the 20th Century
Author: Mark A. Reynosa
U.S. Combat Helmets of the 20th Century
Schiffer Publishing
1997
Format: PDF
Pages: 114
Language: English
Size: 30.4 MB

This book represents nearly a decade of research into the history of U.S. production combat helmets. Covered are the standard ground helmets, parachutist helmets and helmet covers. Every major production helmet version is presented in full color photographs, including detail shots and production markings.

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 Next Generation Naval Vessel Technology
Next Generation Naval Vessel Technology
Next Generation Naval Vessel Technology
Author:
Global Business Media
Pages: 18
Format: PDF
Size: 12 mb
Quality: Good
Language: English
2013

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 The Edge of the Sword
The Edge of the Sword
Author: Anthony Farrar-Hockley
The Edge of the Sword
Pen & Sword Military
ISBN: 1844156923
2008
Format: EPUB
Size: 8,6 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 274
In April 1951, at the height of the Korean War, Chinese troops advanced south of the 38th parallel towards a strategic crossing-point of the Imjin River on the invasion route to the South Korean capital of Seoul. The stand of the 1st Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment, against the overwhelming numbers of invading troops has since passed into British military history. In The Edge of the Sword General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, then Adjutant of the Glosters, has painted a vivid and accurate picture of the battle as seen by the officers and soldiers caught up in the middle of it. The book does not, however, end there. Like the majority of those who survived, the author became a prisoner-of-war, and the book continues with a remarkable account of his experiences in and out of Chinese prison camps.
This book is not an attempt at a personal hero-story, and it is certainly not a piece of political propaganda. It is, above all, an amazing story of human fortitude and high adventure.

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 Combat Aircraft
Combat Aircraft
Author: C. J. Norman
Combat Aircraft (Picture Library)
Franklin Watts Ltd
1986
Format: PDF
Pages: 38
Language: English
Size: 18 MB

In this book all sorts of military planes are highlighted, with material on their design, technology, and capabilities.

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 The Gun
The Gun
Author: C. J. Chivers
The Gun
Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0743271734
2011
Format: EPUB
Size: 7,6 МБ
Language: English
Pages: 496
At a secret arms-design contest in Stalin’s Soviet Union, army technicians submitted a stubby rifle with a curved magazine. Dubbed the AK-47, it was selected as the Eastern Bloc’s standard arm. Scoffed at in the Pentagon as crude and unimpressive, it was in fact a breakthrough—a compact automatic that could be mastered by almost anyone, last decades in the field, and would rarely jam. Manufactured by tens of millions in planned economies, it became first an instrument of repression and then the most lethal weapon of the Cold War. Soon it was in the hands of terrorists.
In a searing examination of modern conflict and official folly, C. J. Chivers mixes meticulous historical research, investigative reporting, and battlefield reportage to illuminate the origins of the world’s most abundant firearm and the consequences of its spread. The result, a tour de force of history and storytelling, sweeps through the miniaturization and distribution of automatic firepower, and puts an iconic object in fuller context than ever before.

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 Royal Flying Corps (Images of War)
Royal Flying Corps (Images of War)
Author: Alistair Smith
Royal Flying Corps (Images of War)
Pen and Sword
2012
Format: EPUB
Pages: 136
Language: English
Size: 6.4 MB

This book contains selected images from three different Royal Flying Corps albums, offering a unique insight into their wartime experiences. Photographs include training shots taken in Canada and at Tangmere, as well as shots of aircraft in and around the River Crouch in Essex, an area with a particular and long standing connection with military aviation. There is a large variety of different aircraft featured, as well as images of pilots and esteemed officers. Also included are a number of photographs from the collection of the late Lieutenant William Shorter, who was shot down over German lines at the age of twenty. These consolidated albums work to illuminate further our understanding of the Second World War and the important part played by the Royal Flying Corps within this wider history.

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 Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
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.

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 American Web Equipment 1967-1991
American Web Equipment 1967-1991
American Web Equipment 1967-1991
Author: C. A. Monroe, Craig Pickrall
The Crowood Press
Europa Militaria 37
ISBN: 978 1847973153
2012
Language: English
Pages: 66
Format: PDF
Size: 50,5 MB

From the beginning of the twentieth century, United States military individual load-carrying equipments were fabricated mainly of cotton duck and cotton webbing. Throughout the First and Second World Wars, as well as the Korean War, cotton-based load-carrying equipments served the infantryman with little change in their design and construction. In 1954 a new load-carrying system was developed to meet the needs of the infantryman on the perceived battlefields of the Cold War. At the onset of the Vietnam War it was clear that this new cotton-based webbing system was not acceptable for use in the humid environment of the jungles of Southeast Asia. The answer to the problems plaguing cotton load-carrying equipments came in the form of nylon. Nylon equipment was found to be more durable, lighter and dried quicker than the standardized cotton equipment. As the Vietnam War ground down nylon web equipment was proving to be the answer to other load-carrying problems that had arisen during the course of the war. In 1973 an all-nylon load-carrying equipment system was standardized replacing all cotton-based load-carrying equipments in service at the time. Since 1973 all load-carrying equipments have been fabricated utilizing nylon and, in effect, closed the history book on cotton-based equipments. In this book, C A Monroe and Craig Pickrall describe and illustrate the personal equipment of the US Army soldier throughout the period, and show how it has developed to meet changing operational needs.

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 The Albanians: a modern history
The Albanians: a modern history
Author: Miranda Vickers
The Albanians: a modern history
I.B. Tauris

Pages: 294
ISBN: 1-86064-541-0
Language: English
2001
Format: DjVu
Size: 6,12 МБ

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 M1A1HA Abrams (The Combat Tanks Collection 102)
M1A1HA Abrams (The Combat Tanks Collection 102)
Author: Collective
M1A1HA Abrams
De Agostini UK
The Combat Tanks Collection 102
2012
Format: PDF
Pages: 16
Size: 25 Mb
Language: English

• Panzer history and development: Pz.Gren.Div. "Grossdeutschland" (II)
• Panzers in action: The German retreat from the Soviet Union (VIII)

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 Life Inside the Air Force Academy
Life Inside the Air Force Academy
Author: Magdalena Alagna
Life Inside the Air Force Academy
Children's Press
2002
Format: PDF
Pages: 52
Language: English
Size: 25.7 MB

Life Inside the Air Force Academy (High Interest Books: Insider's Look) describes how is it like to be Inside the Air Force Academy.

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