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 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.
Unmanned: Drone Warfare and Global Security
 Author: Ann Rogers and John Hill Unmanned: Drone Warfare and Global Security Pluto Press 2014 Pages: 192 Format: pdf Language: English Size: 5 mb Drones have become the controversial new weapon of choice for the US military abroad. Unmanned details the causes and deadly consequences of this terrifying new development in warfare, and explores the implications for international law and global peace. Ann Rogers and John Hill argue that drones represent the first truly globalised technology of war. The book shows how unmanned systems are changing not simply how wars are fought, but the meaning of conflict itself. Providing an unparalleled account of new forms of 21st century imperial warfare, Unmanned shows how drone systems dissolve the conventional obstacles of time and space that have traditionally shaped conflict in the international system. It considers the possibility that these weapons will become normalised in global conflict, raising the spectre of new, unpredictable and unaccountable forms of warfare.
Flying Combat Aircraft of the USAAF-USAF
 Author: Robin Higham, Abigail T. Siddall Flying Combat Aircraft of the USAAF-USAF The Iowa State University Press 1978 Format: PDF Pages: 172 Language: English Size: 22.3 MB THE informative and entertaining pieces presented here are both original documents and fallible memoirs. It is admitted at once that they represent one school of thought only as to the proper way to handle a particular plane. Another pilot in another war theater may have flown the craft quite differently (or thought he did), so no claim is made that these chapters are absolutely reliable guides. We do say each has been prepared both conscientiously and lovingly and has, whenever possible, been checked against an appropriate authoritative manual.
Clausewitz: His Life and Work
 Clausewitz: His Life and Work Author: Donald Stoker Oxford University Press 2014 ISBN: 978–0199357949 Format: pdf Pages: 377 Size: 13 Mb Language: English, English Military historian Donald Stoker's perceptive biography of Carl von Clausewitz moves skillfully between Clausewitz's career as a solider and his work as a theoretician and author, exploring the composition of On War and other works while also emphasizing the many military engagements in which Clausewitz fought. As an officer in the Prussian army, Clausewitz fought in battles from Jena-Auerstedt to Waterloo, as well as the battle of Borodino while serving the Russians. Stoker takes readers through the heat of these battles, providing historical overview and discussing each engagement in detail. Rich context is provided by Clausewitz himself, who wrote abundant letters to his wife and friends throughout his life, and from which Stoker draws extensively.
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.
The Year in Special Operations 2013-2014
 Author: Collective The Year in Special Operations 2013-2014 Faircount LLC 2013 Format: PDF Pages: 148 Size: 126 Mb Language: English
Secrets of the Spitfire
 Author: Lance Cole Secrets of the Spitfire: The Story of Beverley Shenstone, The Man Who Perfected the Elliptical Wing Pen and Sword Aviation ISBN: 184884896X 2012 Format: EPUB Pages: 272 Size: 2 Mb Language: English This book tells the tale of the brilliant aerodynamicist Beverley Shenstone MASc, HonFRAes, FAIAA,AFIAS, FCASI, HonOSTIV. As R.J. Mitchell's chief aerodynamicist, it was Shenstone who designed the Spitfire's wing - the wing that gave the Spitfire it crucial advantage in the Battle of Britain and beyond. A quiet man, Shenstone never sought glory for his work, yet in recent years he has been credited as the man who persuaded Mitchell to adopt the ellipse - a modified ellipse that was unique in its shape and its combined use of two integrated aerofoil sections. Shenstone's knife-edge shape reached far back into early aeronautics for its inspiration.
Jet and Rocket Planes that Made History
 Author: David C. Cooke Jet and Rocket Planes that Made History G.P. Putnam's Sons 1961 Format: PDF Pages: 81 Language: English Size: 48.6 MB thanks to adeda The book describes different types of Jet and Rocket Planes that Made History.
United States Army Aviators' Clothing, 1917-1945
 Author: C.G. Sweeting United States Army Aviators' Clothing, 1917-1945 McFarland 2015 Format: PDF Pages: 304 Language: English Size: 14 MB The beginning of World War I saw thousands of army and navy aviators who needed specialized clothing that could not be purchased off-the-shelf. During World War II pilots and crews flew countless missions in extreme conditions, from the Arctic to the South Pacific. Through both wars, providing suitable clothing to personnel aboard many different types of aircraft proved a monumental task. This book documents the development, testing, manufacture, procurement and utilization of flying apparel and accessories worn by American airmen around the world between 1917 and 1945. Among the garments explored are various types of flight suits--including heavy winter shearling suits and electrically heated suits--flight jackets, flotation gear, headgear, handwear and footwear. With appendices that include contemporary brochures detailing the care and maintenance of flight clothing, this study provides a thorough exploration of a rarely examined aspect of military history.
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.
The Greatest Raid of All
 Author: C. E. Lucas Phillips The Greatest Raid of All Little, Brown & Company 1961 Format: PDF Pages: 220 Language: English Size: 46.2 MB
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'.
The White Nile
 The White Nile Author: A. Moorehead Penguin Books ISBN: 0140019332 1976 Pages: 384 Format: PDF Size: 89.42МБ Language: English Alan Moorehead's classic bestseller The White Nile chronicles the daring exploration of the Nile River in the second half of the nineteenth century, which was at that time the most mysterious and impenetrable region on earth. Capturing in breathtaking prose the larger-than-life personalities of such notable figures as Stanley, Livingstone, Burton and many others, The White Nile is a seminal work in tales of discovery and escapade, filled with historical detail and compelling stories of heroism and drama. The second half is about General Gordon's defense of Khartoum against the Muslim revolt led by the Mahdi.
Dangerous Ideas
 Author: Susan Magarey Dangerous Ideas University of Adelaide Press 2014 Format: PDF Size: 11.9 Mb Language: English Dangerous Ideas explores sex and love, politics and performance, joy and anguish in a collection of essays focused on the history and politics of the Women’s Liberation Movement and one of its offshoots, Women’s Studies, in Australia and around the world. These are serious matters: they are about tectonic changes in people’s lives and ideas in the late twentieth century, too little remembered or understood any longer. ‘Feminism’, this book suggests, ‘is always multiple and various, fluid and changing, defying efforts at definition, characterisation, periodisation’. Nevertheless, Dangerous Ideas tackles some hard questions. How did Women’s Liberation begin? What held this transformative movement together? Would it bring about the death of the family? Was it reorganising the labour market? Revolutionising human reproduction? How could Women’s Studies exist in patriarchal universities? Could feminism change the paradigms governing the world of learning? In the United States? In Russia? In the People’s Republic of China? It is great fun, too. This book tells of Hobart’s hilarious Feminist Food Guide; of an outburst of creative energies among feminists – women on top, behaving badly; of dreams and desires for an entirely different future. And, always unorthodox: it finds hope and cheer in a history of the tampon.
The Amphibs - Amphibious Training Command United States Atlantic Fleet
 Author: Collective The Amphibs - Amphibious Training Command United States Atlantic Fleet Albert Love Enterprises 1945 Format: PDF Pages: 53 Language: English Size: 57 MB US Navy publication covering the training of sailors who were assigned to Amphibious Landing ships.
Modern Military Helicopters
 Author: Paul Beaver Modern Military Helicopters Patrick Stephens 1987 Format: PDF Pages: 168 Language: English Size: 91 MB The book covers the most of the modern military helicopters with illustrations and technical specifications.
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
A Vertical Empire: History of the British Rocketry Programme
 A Vertical Empire: History of the British Rocketry Programme Author: Charles N Hill Imperial College Press Graduation Year: 2011 Language: English Quality: excellent Format: Pdf Pages: 388 Size: 22,1 Mb A Vertical Empire provides a description of the British rocketry and space programme from the 1950s to 1970s, detailing the Medium Range Ballistic Missile Blue Streak and its conversion to a satellite launcher as part of the European Launcher Development Organisation (Eldo). This extensively revised second edition includes material only made available in the past ten years and the text is supplemented by numerous photographs, sketches and statistics. The all-British satellite Black Arrow is described, as well as the research rocket Black Knight, the Blue Steel missile and the rocket powered interceptor aircraft.
The Centurion Tank (Images of War)
 The Centurion Tank Author: Pat Ware, Brian Delf Pen and Sword Images of War 2013 ISBN: 1781590117 Language: English Format: EPUB / PDF (conv.) Size: 3 MB / 17 MB Few tank designs have been as effective, versatile and long-lived as that of the British Centurion. Conceived during the Second World War as the answer to the superior German Tiger and Panther tanks and to the lethal 88mm gun, this 52-ton main battle tank incorporated the lessons British designers had learned about armored fighting vehicles during the conflict, and it was free of the major faults that had impaired the other British tank designs of the time. The Centurion was so successful that it served in the British Army and in numerous other armies across the world from 1945 until the 1990s.Pat Ware's highly illustrated history of this remarkable tank covers its design and development, its technical specifications and the many variants that were produced. He tells the story from the design brief of 1943, through testing and trials to the tank's entry into service. In addition, he traces the course of the Centurion's subsequent career, as it was up-dated, up-gunned and adapted to operate in varied conditions and conflicts all over the world including Korea, the Indo-Pakistan wars, Vietnam and the Arab-Israeli wars. His expert account of this remarkable fighting vehicle is accompanied by a series of color plates showing the main variants of the design and the common ancillary equipment and unit markings. His book is an essential work of reference for enthusiasts.
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