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 Victory in the Falklands 
 Author: Nick van der Bijl Victory in the Falklands Pen and Sword ISBN: 1844154947 2007 Format: EPUB Size: 12,8 МБ Language: English Pages: 224 The Hundred Days that saw the British response to General Galtiere of Argentina's invasion of the Falklands are for many British people the most remarkable of their lives. It describes the dark days of early April, the feverish response and forming of the Task Force, the anxieties and uncertainties, the naval and air battles that preceded the landings by 3 Commando Brigade and 5th Infantry Brigade. The extraordinary battles such as Goose Green, Mount Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge etc are narrated fully but succinctly. This is a very balanced overview of a never-to-be-repeated but triumphant chapter in British military history.
The Armed Forces of the USSR
 Author: Harriet Fast Scott, William F. Scott The Armed Forces of the USSR Westview Press Inc. 1979 Format: PDF Pages: 472 Language: English Size: 67 MB This fact-rich volume, written by two experienced observers of the Soviet military scene, has sections on almost all aspects of the U.S.S.R.'s defense establishment-the structure of the military services and the high command, their training and education, the military-industrial complex, the relationship between the Communist Party and the armed forces, and the fundamentals of military doctrine and strategy. Extensive use is made of Soviet military bibliographical materials.
Medals of America 2015 New Summer Issue
 2015 New Summer Issue Medals of America 2015 Pages: 77 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 23 MB
The Complete Book of Jets and Rockets
 Author: D. N. Ahnstrom The Complete Book of Jets and Rockets World Publishing Company 1957 Format: PDF Pages: 164 Language: English Size: 18.1 MB D. N. Ahnstrom, author of The Complete Book of Helicopters has written a soaring documentary on jets and rockets. This book takes off with the impact of jet flight, stays airborne at high altitudes of artistic performance and makes you sorry when the reading flight is over. Written in language for the layman, with over 100 photographs and diagrams, it records the discovery of jet propulsion, explains it in ABC terms, and gives a wealth of information for those interested in becoming jet pilots. Furthermore, it has a pleasant combination of human interest stories about daring jet test pilots and comprehensive statistical data on domestic and foreign civil and military aircraft. It's readable, informative and exciting.
Helicopters
 Author: Charles Messenger Helicopters (20th Century Weapons) Franklin Watts 1985 Format: PDF Pages: 54 Language: English Size: 45 MB A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward, and laterally. These attributes allow helicopters to be used in congested or isolated areas where fixed-wing aircraft and many forms of vertical takeoff and landing aircraft cannot perform.
The Harrier Story
 Author: Peter E. Davies, Anthony M. Thornborough The Harrier Story Naval Institute Press 1996 Format: PDF Pages: 264 Language: English Size: 84.2 MB This history of the Harrier covers the aeroplane's design, development, testing and operational elements. It examines all its design features, including variants used by other nations in their aircraft.
British Naval Aviation - The Fleet Air Arm, 1917-1990
 Author: Ray Sturtivant British Naval Aviation - The Fleet Air Arm, 1917-1990 Naval Institute Press 1990 Format: PDF Pages: 228 Language: English Size: 101.5 MB From conducting the first deck landing to deployment of the first vertical take-off aircraft, the British Fleet Air Arm has been at the forefront of international naval air development. Through the days of World War II, the postwar colonial problems and the Falklands conflict, the FAA has played an important operational role; in between times it has advanced the deployment and use of many specialist aircraft, helicopter and naval air weapons. Its "Fly Navy" motto is well known.
Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
 Author: Peter H. Marshall Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism HarperPerennial 2008 Format: PDF Size: 34.2 Mb Language: English A fascinating and comprehensive history, 'Demanding the Impossible' is a challenging and thought-provoking exploration of anarchist ideas and actions from ancient times to the present day. Navigating the broad 'river of anarchy', from Taoism to Situationism, from Ranters to Punk rockers, from individualists to communists, from anarcho-syndicalists to anarcha-feminists, 'Demanding the Impossible' is an authoritative and lively study of a widely misunderstood subject. It explores the key anarchist concepts of society and the state, freedom and equality, authority and power and investigates the successes and failure of the anarchist movements throughout the world. While remaining sympathetic to anarchism, it presents a balanced and critical account. It covers not only the classic anarchist thinkers, such as Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Reclus and Emma Goldman, but also other libertarian figures, such as Nietzsche, Camus, Gandhi, Foucault and Chomsky. No other book on anarchism covers so much so incisively. In this updated edition, a new epilogue examines the most recent developments, including 'post-anarchism' and 'anarcho-primitivism' as well as the anarchist contribution to the peace, green and 'Global Justice' movements. Demanding the Impossible is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand what anarchists stand for and what they have achieved. It will also appeal to those who want to discover how anarchism offers an inspiring and original body of ideas and practices which is more relevant than ever in the twenty-first century.
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
 The Roosevelts: An Intimate History Author: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns Alfred A. Knopf 2014 ISBN: 978-0307700230 Format: pdf Pages: 528 Size: 49 Mb Language: English, English Based on a documentary film by Ken Burns, with a preface by Ken Burns. A vivid and personal portrait of Americas greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation - the companion volume to the seven-part PBS documentary series. With 796 photographs, some never before seen.
Fire and Ice : The Korean War, 1950-1953
 Author: Michael Varhola Fire and Ice : The Korean War, 1950-1953 Da Capo Press ISBN: 1882810449 2000 Format: PDF Size 32,8 МБ Language: English Pages: 317 This handy "At A Glance" volume contains an exceptional amount of material on the Korean Conflict, with much information that will be new to virtually all readers, such as dissension between the U.S. and South Korea, the differing treatment of prisoners by the Chinese and North Koreans, the widespread service of Korean nationals in American units, and the important contribution made by Turkey, the British Commonwealth and other nations to the U.N. effort.
Ships of the Royal Navy
 Author: W.D.G. Blundell Ships of the Royal Navy Almark Publishing Co Ltd 1971 Format: PDF Pages: 72 Language: English Size: 20.5 MB This book describes ships of the Royal Navy in 1971. It is illustrated with more than 80 photographs, mainly black and white, but including 7 colour plates. Book also contains many scale drawings showing plan and side elevations of many of the ships.
Cedar Falls - Junction City: a Turning Point
 Vietnam Studies. Cedar Falls - Junction City: a Turning Point Author: Lieutenant General Bernard William Rogers Department of the Army Pages: 183 Format: PDF Size: 13 mb Quality: Good Language: English 1989 The United States Army has met an unusually complex challenge in Southeast Asia. In conjunction with the other services, the Army has fought in support of a national policy of assisting an emerging nation to develop governmental processes of its own choosing, free of outside coercion. In addition to the usual problems of waging armed conflict, the assignment in Southeast Asia has required superimposing the immensely sophisticated tasks of a modern army upon an underdeveloped environment and adapting them to demands covering a wide spectrum. These involved helping to fulfill the basic needs of an agrarian population, dealing with the frustrations of antiguerrilla operations, and conducting conventional campaigns against well-trained and determined regular units.
Kc-135 Stratotanker In Detail & Scale
 Author: Alwyn T. Lloyd Kc-135 Stratotanker In Detail & Scale (D & S ; Vol. 44) Kalmbach Publishing, Airlife Publishing 1994 ISBN: 0890242038 Format: PDF Size: 58,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 75
Fricourt-Mametz (Battleground Europe)
Author: Michael Stedman
Fricourt-Mametz (Battleground Europe)
Pen and Sword Military
2011
Format: EPUB
Pages: 160
Size: 27 Mb
Language: English
The Battleground Europe series has become justly famous for its detailed coverage of British World War I battlefields; this particular sector is best known for the activities of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and other members of the 38th (Welsh) Division, whose distinctive Red Dragon statue is a prominent feature of the site.
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La Legion Espanola: 75 Anos de Historia (1920-1995): Tomo I (1920-1936)
 Author: Antonio Martínez de la Casa La Legion Espanola: 75 Anos de Historia (1920-1995): Tomo I (1920-1936) Viator Brigada de Infanteria Rey Alfonso XIII de la Legion 2001 Format: PDF Pages: 391 Size: 30 Mb Language: Spanish La Legion Espanola: 75 Anos de Historia (1920-1995): Tomo I (1920-1936)
The Reach for Empire
 Author: Collective The Reach for Empire (The Third Reich Series) Time-Life Books 1989 Format: PDF Pages: 198 Language: English Size: 42.1 MB Four days after becoming chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler met with his senior generals at 14 Bendlerstrasse, the Berlin residence of Colonel General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, the commander in chief of the German army. The occasion, on February 3, 1933, was a dinner party to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of the foreign minister, Constantin von Neurath. Hitler's presence, however, provided Neurath and the military establishment with an unexpected opportunity to hear their new chancellor unbend in private. After a meal Hitler took command. He rose, tapped a glass for silence, and addressed the leaders he hoped would one day execute his ambitious plans for the expansion of the Reich. Hitler spoke for two hours, ranging across a number of topics. According to General Hammerstein's adjutant, who sat discreetly behind a curtain taking notes, Hitler labelled democracy the worst of all possible evils." he promised to eradicate Marxism "root and branch," to restore German military might, and to "weld together" the nation - a task that "cannot be done by persuasion alone, but only by force." At the heart of Hitler's rambling remarks was the concept of lebensraum, or living space.
A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower
 Author: A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower Deportament of the Navy 2015 Pages: 48 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 5.7 MB A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower
Vought F4U Corsair
 Author: James D’Angina Vought F4U Corsair Osprey Publishing Osprey Osprey Air Vanguard 17 ISBN: 1782006265 2014 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 66 Size: 2 Mb Language: English With over 12,500 produced, the Vought F4U Corsair is one of the icons of mid-20th century military aviation. It was as a Marine Corps aircraft that the Corsair was to become famous, fighting through World War II and Korea. Able to outperform its contemporaries, notably the A6M Zero, the Corsair combined speed, resilience and firepower. It also served in Indochina and Algeria, and in 1969’s ‘Soccer War’ between Honduras and El Salvador, Corsairs were flown by both sides and fought the last propeller-aircraft dogfights in history. This highly illustrated volume recounts the design and development history of one of the most iconic fighters in military aviation history.
Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World
 Author:Dr. Tad Daley Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World Rutgers University Press 2010 Format: pdf Size: 1.2Mb Language: English Apocalypse Never illuminates why we must abolish nuclear weapons, how we can, and what the world will look like after we do. The twenty-first century has ushered in a world at the atomic edge. The pop culture days of Dr. Strangelove have been replaced by the all-too-real single day of 24. Tad Daley has written a book for the general reader about this most crucial of contemporary challenges. Apocalypse Never maintains that the abolition of nuclear weapons is both essential and achievable, and reveals in fine detail what we need to do--both governments and movements--to make it a reality. Daley insists that while global climate change poses the single greatest long-term peril to the human race, the nuclear challenge in its many incarnation--nuclear terror, nuclear accident, a nuclear crisis spinning out of control--poses the single most immediate peril.
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