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 Airlift! The Story of the Military Airlift Command 
 Author: Marcella Thum, Gladys Thum Airlift! The Story of the Military Airlift Command Dodd, Mead & Company 1986 Format: PDF Pages: 150 Language: English Size: 26.2 MB A history of MAC, a military organization which is the "backbone of deterrence" for United States fighting forces, the largest peacetime cargo airline in the world, and a humanitarian airlift in times of disaster.
U-boats at War
 Author: Harald Busch U-boats at War Ballantine Books 1955 Format: PDF Pages: 196 Language: English Size: 34.6 MB This book is about the German U-boats and the men who lived, fought and died in them. Over 39,000 officers and men served in the German submarine fleet—about 7,000 of them found an ocean grave...
Safety and Instruction Manual - Para. P - Series Performance Plus
 Safety and Instruction Manual - Para. P - Series Performance Plus Author: Para-Ordnance Mfg., Inc. Pages: 52 Format: PDF Size: 26 mb Quality: Good Language: English 2002 Para-Ordnance P-Series semi-automatic pistols are equipped with a number of safety devices (some are hand-operated while others are passive) that are designed to minimize accidental discharges.
Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene, and the Revolutionary State
 Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene, and the Revolutionary State By Tricia Starks Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press 2008 352 Pages ISBN: 0299229602 Language: English PDF 13 MB In 1918 the People’s Commissariat of Public Health began a quest to protect the health of all Soviet citizens, but health became more than a political platform or a tactical decision. The Soviets defined and categorized the world by interpreting political orthodoxy and citizenship in terms of hygiene. The assumed political, social, and cultural benefits of a regulated, healthy lifestyle informed the construction of Soviet institutions and identity. Cleanliness developed into a political statement that extended from domestic maintenance to leisure choices and revealed gender, ethnic, and class prejudices. Dirt denoted the past and poor politics; health and cleanliness signified mental acuity, political orthodoxy, and modernity. Health, though essential to the revolutionary vision and crucial to Soviet plans for utopia, has been neglected by traditional histories caught up in Cold War debates. The Body Soviet recovers this significant aspect of Soviet thought by providing a cross-disciplinary, comparative history of Soviet health programs that draws upon rich sources of health care propaganda, including posters, plays, museum displays, films, and mock trials. The analysis of propaganda makes The Body Soviet more than an institutional history; it is also an insightful critique of the ideologies of the body fabricated by health organizations.
British Battleships 1919-1945
 Author: R A. Burt British Battleships 1919-1945 Naval Institute Press ISBN: 1591140528 2012 Format: EPUB Pages: 448 Size: 10 Mb Language: English BRITISH BATTLESHIPS, 1919-1939 is one of the most sought after naval reference books since its original publication in 1993. A masterpiece of research and illustration, this new edition has been completely redesigned to feature over 70 new photographs, many never before seen in print.
Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century
 Author: Francisco Bethencourt Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century Princeton University Press 2014 Format: pdf/epub Size: 18.5 Mb Language: English Groundbeaking in its global and historical scope, Racisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism in the West, distinguished historian Francisco Bethencourt shows that racism preceded any theories of race and must be viewed within the prism and context of social hierarchies and local conditions. In this richly illustrated book, Bethencourt argues that in its various aspects, all racism has been triggered by political projects monopolizing specific economic and social resources. Bethencourt focuses on the Western world, but opens comparative views on ethnic discrimination and segregation in Asia and Africa. He looks at different forms of racism, particularly against New Christians and Moriscos in Iberia, black slaves and freedmen in colonial and postcolonial environments, Native Americans, Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, and Jews in modern Europe. Exploring instances of enslavement, forced migration, and ethnic cleansing, Bethencourt reflects on genocide and the persecution of ethnicities in twentieth-century Europe and Anatolia. These cases are compared to the genocide of the Herero and Tutsi in Africa, and ethnic discrimination in Japan, China, and India. Bethencourt analyzes how practices of discrimination and segregation from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries were defended, and he systematically integrates visual culture into his investigation. Moving away from ideas of linear or innate racism, this is a major interdisciplinary work that recasts our understanding of interethnic relations.
Research Planes
 Author: David Baker Research Planes (The Military Aircraft Library) Rourke Enterprises Inc. 1987 Format: PDF Pages: 54 Language: English Size: 70 MB The Military Aircraft Library From the fastest and highest flying planes to the largest and strongest of nations defenders, these books will thrill the readers with the latest military photographs. The informative text, glossary, index and acronymn lists of each title, provides the reader with easy access to factual information for reference reports. The author is an international authority in military techniques.
Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum
 Author: Gregory P. Kennedy Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution Press 1983 Format: PDF Pages: 170 Language: English Size: 17.3 MB The rockets, missiles, and spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum make up the definitive collection of artifacts of the U.S. Space Program Through a unique agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in effect since 1967, the National Air and Space Museum has become sole custodian of the historic American relics of space exploration. These relics are displayed, loaned to other museums, or preserved in storage. If you see a genuine U.S. spacecraft in a museum anywhere in the world, it is almost certainly from this collection!
Churchill & Roosevelt - The Complete Correspondence v02 - Alliance Forged
 Author: Warren F. Kimball Churchill & Roosevelt - The Complete Correspondence v02 - Alliance Forged Harper Collins Publishers 1988 Format: PDF Pages: 779 Language: English Size: 26.5 MB This three-volume work includes all correspondence between the British prime minister and the American president from 1933 until Roosevelt's death in 1945. Kimball's skillful commentary puts the intrinsically interesting letters in context. Although a large amount of Churchill-Roosevelt correspondence has been previously printed, this magnificently edited work is indispensable for the researcher and good reading for anyone interested in the principals and their leadership during World War II. Professor Kimball has located many unpublished items, gives full and corrected texts of others, and holds everything together with informative headnotes. He also includes the enclosures which the two leaders sent to each other.
The Me 262 Stormbird: From the Pilots Who Flew, Fought, and Survived It
 Author: Colin D. Heaton The Me 262 Stormbird: From the Pilots Who Flew, Fought, and Survived It Zenith Press ISBN: 0760342636 2012 Format: EPUB Pages: 336 Size: 2 Mb Language: English The Me 262 was the first of its kind, the first jet-powered aircraft. Although conceived before the war, with the initial plans being drawn in April 1939, the Stormbird was beset with technological (particularly the revolutionary engines) and political difficulties, resulting in it not entering combat until August 1944, with claims of nineteen downed Allied aircraft. The performance of the Me 262 so far exceeded that of Allied aircraft that on 1 Sepember 1944, USAAF General Carl Spaatz remarked that if greater numbers of German jets appeared, they could inflict losses heavy enough to force cancellation of the Allied daylight bombing offensive.
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.
Silent Killers - Submarines and Underwater Warfare
 Silent Killers - Submarines and Underwater Warfare (Osprey General Military) Osprey Publishing Author: James P. Delgado ISBN: 978 1849088619 2011 Format: pdf (e-book) Size: 11 Mb 264 Language: English James P. Delgado, President and CEO of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, presents a detailed and visually stunning examination of the history and development of the modern nuclear submarine. Calling on his training as a nautical archaeologist who was among the first explorers to dive the Titanic, Delgado recreates the story of the submarine from the bottom up – that is through eerie photographs of subs at the bottom of the sea. In addition, he explores submarine technology, from wooden to iron to steel hulls, from hand-cranked to nuclear-powered propulsion, from candlelight to electricity, from gunpowder ‘torpedoes’ to nuclear missiles. An esteemed underwater archaeologist and marine historian, Jim Delgado has compiled an extraordinary history of the dragons of the deep. Silent Killers is a triumph that is educational as well as highly entertaining. - Clive Cussler.
S.V.D. Sniper Book
 S.V.D. Sniper Book Author: Jamia Hafsa Pages: 55 Format: PDF Size: 8 mb Quality: Good
Rescue of the Bounty: Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy
 Author: Michael J. Tougias, Douglas A. Campbell Rescue of the Bounty: Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy Scribner 2014 Format: epub/pdf Size: 19.7 Mb Language: English On Thursday, October 25, 2012, Captain Robin Walbridge made the fateful decision to sail Bounty from New London, Connecticut, to St. Petersburg, Florida. Walbridge was well aware that a hurricane was forecast to travel north from the Caribbean toward the eastern seaboard. Yet the captain was determined to sail. As he explained to his crew of fifteen: a ship is always safer at sea than in port. He intended to sail “around the hurricane” and told the crew that anyone who did not want to come on the voyage could leave the ship—there would be no hard feelings. As fate would have it, no one took the captain up on his offer. Four days into the voyage, Superstorm Sandy made an almost direct hit on Bounty. The vessel’s failing pumps could not keep up with the incoming water. The ship began to lose power as it was beaten and rocked by hurricane winds that spanned eight hundred miles. A few hours later, in the dark of night, the ship suddenly overturned ninety miles off the North Carolina coast in the “Graveyard of the Atlantic,” sending the crew tumbling into an ocean filled with towering thirty-foot waves. The coast guard then launched one of the most complex and massive rescues in its history, flying two Jayhawk helicopter crews into the hurricane and lowering rescue swimmers into the raging seas again and again, despite the danger to their own lives. In the uproar heard across American media in the days following, a single question persisted: Why did the captain decide to sail? Through hundreds of hours of interviews with the crew members, their families, and the coast guard, the masterful duo of Michael J. Tougias and Douglas A. Campbell creates an in-depth portrait of the enigmatic Captain Walbridge, his motivations, and what truly occurred aboard Bounty during those terrifying days at sea. Dripping with suspense and vivid high-stakes drama, Rescue of the Bounty is an unforgettable tale about the brutality of nature and the human will to survive.
Royal Australian Navy 1997
 Author: Collective Royal Australian Navy 1997 Sea Power Centre - Australia 1997 Format: PDF Pages: 25 Language: English Size: 12.3 MB The book was distributed by Navy Public Relations and through Navy Recruiting centres around Australia and were produced in various formats. This collection of 'Navy Todays' has been digitized by the Sea Power Centre - Australia as part of its ongoing program to place historic records in the public domain.
Arms of our Fighting Men
 Author: C. B. Colby Arms of our Fighting Men Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc. 1972 Format: PDF Pages: 58 Language: English Size: 24.4 MB Personal Weapons, Bazookas, Big Guns... A parade of photographs and brief details of the weapons of servicemen.
Gun Digest Book of the Tactical Rifle
 Gun Digest Book of the Tactical Rifle Author: Patrick Sweeney Gun Digest Books 2011 ISBN: 1440214328 Pages: 224 Language: English Format: EPUB Size: 22 MB The Master Blaster is back in the Gun Digest Book of the Tactical Rifle! Ever feel like burning up some ammo? Well, so does Pat Sweeney! In the Gun Digest Book of the Tactical Rifle, America's favorite black rifle expert puts today's hottest tactical rifles through their paces. It's a fun and fact-filled exploration of high-volume shooting at its finest. From AKs to M14s, from AUGs to SCARS, Pat gives practical, real-world advice on tactical rifles from around the world. It's a great go-to book for shooters, collectors and hobbyists in fact, for anyone with an interest in tactical rifles and their uses. It pays to try before you buy! So let Pat Sweeney try them out for you in Gun Digest Book of the Tactical Rifle!
The P-40 Kittyhawk in service
 Author: Geoffrey Pentland The P-40 Kittyhawk in service Kookaburra Technical Publications 1974 ISBN: 0858800128 Format: PDF Size: 25,5 МБ Language:English Pages: 66
Marine Corps Outlook 2011-2012
 Author: Collective Marine Corps Outlook 2011-2012 Faircount LLC 2012 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 164 Size: 26 Mb Language: English After a decade of warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, today the Marine Corps is dedicated to getting back to its amphibious roots, lightening its load, and reclaiming its role as the nation’s premier middleweight expeditionary force, as J.R. Wilson writes in “Marine Corps 2030.” Obstacles include looming defense budget cuts and shrinking manpower as its force structure is cut, but the Marine Corps has traditionally done more with less than any of the other armed services.
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