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 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!
Military Motorcycles
 Author: Michael Green Military Motorcycles Capstone Press 1997 Format: PDF Pages: 56 Language: English Size: 24 MB Discusses the history and use of military motorcycles, highlighting specific models and their roles in various battles.
Homo Imperii: A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia
 Author: Marina Mogilner Homo Imperii: A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology) University of Nebraska Press 2013 Format: PDF Size: 10.4 mb Language: English It is widely assumed that the “nonclassical” nature of the Russian empire and its equally “nonclassical” modernity made Russian intellectuals immune to the racial obsessions of Western Europe and the United States. Homo Imperii corrects this perception by offering the first scholarly history of racial science in prerevolutionary Russia and the early Soviet Union. Marina Mogilner places this story in the context of imperial self-modernization, political and cultural debates of the epoch, different reformist and revolutionary trends, and the growing challenge of modern nationalism. By focusing on the competing centers of race science in different cities and regions of the empire, Homo Imperii introduces to English-language scholars the institutional nexus of racial science in Russia that exhibits the influence of imperial strategic relativism. Reminiscent of the work of anthropologists of empire such as Ann Stoler and Benedict Anderson, Homo Imperii reveals the complex imperial dynamics of Russian physical anthropology and contributes an important comparative perspective from which to understand the emergence of racial science in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and America.
Letters to Hitler
 Author: Henrik Eberle Letters to Hitler Polity 2012 Format: PDF Pages: 281 Language: English Size: 13 MB Between 1925 and 1945 thousands of ordinary Germans of both sexes and all ages wrote letters to Hitler. Lost for decades, a large cache of these letters was recently discovered in the KGB Special Archive in Moscow, having been carted off to Russia by the Soviet Secret Police at the end of the war. The letters range from gushing love letters - ‘I love you so much. Write to me, please,’ this from a seven-year old girl named Gina - to letters from teachers, students, priests, businessmen and others expressing gratitude for alleviating poverty or restoring dignity to the German people. There are a few protest letters and the occasional desperate plea to release a loved one from a concentration camp, but the overwhelming majority are positive and even rapturous, shedding fresh light on the nature of the Hitler cult in Nazi Germany. This volume is the first publication of these letters in English. It comprises a selection of the letters and includes a contextualizing commentary that explains the situation of each writer, how the letter was dealt with and what it tells us about Nazi Germany. The commentary also describes the bureaucratic procedures that evolved to deal with the correspondence (Hitler never read any of it), which ranged from warm thanks to referral to the Gestapo.
Modern Soviet Armor: Combat Vehicles of the USSR and Warsaw Pact Today
 Author: Steven J. Zaloga Modern Soviet Armor: Combat Vehicles of the USSR and Warsaw Pact Today Prentice-Hall Inc. 1979 Format: PDF Pages: 94 Language: English Size: 58.2 MB This book from famous Steven J. Zaloga tells about Modern Soviet Armor, Combat Vehicles of the USSR and Warsaw Pact Today with 270 illustrations including 16 in full color 88 pages.
Airplanes: The Lure of Flight
 Author: Thomas Stacey Airplanes: The Lure of Flight (The Encyclopedia of Discovery and Invention) Lucent Books 1990 Format: PDF Pages: 104 Language: English Size: 14.7 MB Surveys the history, development, and future of airplanes, and examines the impact of flight on civilization.
Airfields & Airmen: Cambrai
 Author: Mike O'Connor Airfields & Airmen: Cambrai Pen and Sword Battleground Europe 2003 Format: EPUB Pages: 176 Size: 6 Mb Language: English This latest book on the Airfields & Airmen of the First World War covers the earliest days of the RFC with the retreat from Mons. We visit the graves of Fokker Eindecker aces and the airfields where the first Jastas were formed. Also covered are airfields from which Allied aces such as Beauchamp Proctor VC flew and there is a visit to the American cemetery at Bony that contains a number of aviators.
The Seafarers - The Luxury Yachts
 Author: John Rousmaniere The Seafarers - The Luxury Yachts Time-Life Books 1981 Format: PDF Pages: 182 Language: English Size: 21.7 MB Content: Essay: Splendor at Sea Chapter 1 A Royal Instrument of Statecraft Chapter 2 Bastions of privilege ashore and afloat Essay: Grand opening at Suez Chapter 3 A Yankee flair for opulence Essay "The finest pleasure craft" Chapter 4 Idylls of millionaires and kings Essay: A revolutionary vessel for the Czar Chapter 5 A final burst of excess Essay: "Sea Cloud" versus "Nabila"-a contrast in grandeur
The War in the Air
 The War in the Air Author: H. G. Wells Boni and Liveright, Inc. Pages: 414 Format: PDF Size: 23 mb Quality: Good Language: English 1908 The reader should grasp clearly the date at which this book was written. It was done in 1907: it appeared in various magazines as a serial in 1908 and it was published in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the "Sausage" held the air. The contemporary reader has all the advantage of ten years' experience since this story was imagined. He can correct his author at a dozen points and estimate the value of these warnings by the standard of a decade of realities.
The United States Army (Serving Your Country)
 Author: Michael Green The United States Army (Serving Your Country) Capstone Press 1998 Format: PDF Pages: 56 Language: English Size: 70 MB Provides an introduction to the history, function, tactics, and future of the United States Army.
Drone Warfare - The Development of Unmanned Aerial Conflict
 Author: Dave Sloggett Drone Warfare - The Development of Unmanned Aerial Conflict Skyhorse Publishing 2015 Format: PDF Pages: 250 Language: English Size: 11.2 MB Drone Warfare answers questions such as: Why did the United States invest so highly drone technology? When did all that start? What barriers had to be overcome? What was there before drones arrived? What roles did drones play in Iraq and Afghanistan? Were they successful? What new developments emerged during operations? Did they save lives? How many have been shot down and where? Will all air forces be drone based in the future? What other applications may arise in the civilian market?
Friendly Fire: American Images of the Vietnam War
 Author: Katherine Kinney Friendly Fire: American Images of the Vietnam War Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195141962 2000 Format: PDF Size: 14,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 240 Hundreds of memoirs, novels, plays, and movies have been devoted to the American war in Vietnam. In spite of the great variety of media, political perspectives and the degrees of seriousness with which the war has been treated, Katherine Kinney argues that the vast majority of these works share a single story: that of Americans killing Americans in Vietnam. Friendly Fire, in this instance, refers not merely to a tragic error of war, it also refers to America's war with itself during the Vietnam years. Starting from this point, this book considers the concept of "friendly fire" from multiple vantage points, and portrays the Vietnam age as a crucible where America's cohesive image of itself is shattered--pitting soldiers against superiors, doves against hawks, feminism against patriarchy, racial fear against racial tolerance. Through the use of extensive evidence from the film and popular fiction of Vietnam (e.g. Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July, Didion's Democracy, O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, Rabe's Sticks and Bones and Streamers), Kinney draws a powerful picture of a nation politically, culturally, and socially divided, and a war that has been memorialized as a contested site of art, media, politics, and ideology.
The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War
 Author: Mark Stille The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War Osprey Publishing Osprey General Military ISBN: 1472801466 2014 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 390 Size: 17 Mb Language: English The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was the third most powerful navy in the world at the start of World War II, and came to dominate the Pacific in the early months of the war. This was a remarkable turnaround for a navy that only began to modernize in 1868, although defeats inflicted on the Russians and Chinese in successive wars at the turn of the century gave a sense of the threat the IJN was to pose. Bringing together for the first time material previously published in Osprey series books, and with the addition of new writing making use of the most recent research, this book details the Japanese ships which fought in the Pacific and examines the principles on which they were designed, how they were armed, when and where they were deployed and how effective they were in battle.
Grunts. U.S. Infantry in Vietnam (G.I.Series 13)
 Author: Christopher Anderson Grunts. U.S. Infantry in Vietnam (G.I.Series 13) Chelsea House 2000 Format: PDF Pages: 82 Language: English Size: 11 MB Illustrated throughout, this addition to the G.I. Series shows what the 'Grunts' actually wore in the field and how Army regulations were adapted to meet the needs of the men in the atrocious conditions of warfare in Vietnam. Rare images of the infantrymen who fought in Vietnam - their uniforms and equipment, and how they were adapted to meet the severe conditions in the jungles and rice paddies of Southeast Asia.
The Book of United States Navy Ships
 Author: M. D. Van Orden The Book of United States Navy Ships Dodd, Mead & Company 1973 Format: PDF Pages: 102 Language: English Size: 77.8 MB Text and photographs introduce the characteristics and purposes of the various types of ships in the present-day Navy.
The Iron Lady
 Author: John Campbell The Iron Lady Penguin Books 2011 Pages: 865 Format: fb2 Language : English Size: 1.5 mb The Iron Lady, the definitive Margaret Thatcher biography, is available just in time for the movie starring Meryl Streep as one of the most infamous figures in postwar politics. Whether you love her or hate her, Margaret Thatcher’s impact on twentieth-century history is undeniable. From her humble, small-town upbringing to her rise to power as the United Kingdom’s first female prime minister, to her dramatic fall from grace after more than three decades of service, celebrated biographer John Campbell delves into the story of this fascinating woman’s life as no one has before. The result of more than nine years of meticulous research, The Iron Lady is the only balanced, unvarnished portrait of Margaret Thatcher, one of the most vital and controversial political figures of our time.
Treasures of the National Air and Space Museum
 Author: Martin O Harwit Treasures of the National Air and Space Museum Abbeville Press 1999 Format: PDF Pages: 324 Language: English Size: 20.8 MB The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is the world's most popular museum, with more than eight million visitors each year. The museum houses a celebrated collection of airplanes, spacecraft, and other artifacts that document the history of aviation and spaceflight. This book presents 280 artifacts from the museum's collection and archives, chronicling some of the greatest technological and human achievements of the century. Milestones of flight such as the Wright 1903 Flyer, Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, Earhart's Lockheed Vega, Yeager's Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis, and the historic craft that took American astronauts into space and brought them back from the Moon are all here. So, too, are lesser known but nonetheless important workhorses of commercial and military aviation history such as the Douglas DC-3, the North American P-51 Mustang, and the Piper J-3 Cub. The unusual, the fanciful, the prototypes, and even a few unsuccessful experiments are included in this remarkable journey through the skies and into space. Finally, this book features a special "behind the scenes" look at vintage and modern photographs, posters, paintings, and sculpture from the museum's archives and collection of art and popular culture. This fascinating Tiny FolioTM serves as an illustrated survey of the history of aviation and spaceflight, as well as an introduction to the museum's renowned collection.
How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America
 Author:Jon Wiener How We Forgot the Cold War A Historical Journey across America University of California Press 2012 ISBN: 0520271416 Format: PDF Size: 4,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 384 Hours after the USSR collapsed in 1991, Congress began making plans to establish the official memory of the Cold War. Conservatives dominated the proceedings, spending millions to portray the conflict as a triumph of good over evil and a defeat of totalitarianism equal in significance to World War II. In this provocative book, historian Jon Wiener visits Cold War monuments, museums, and memorials across the United States to find out how the era is being remembered. The author’s journey provides a history of the Cold War, one that turns many conventional notions on their heads.
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