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 The British Army since 2000 
 Author: James Tanner The British Army since 2000 Osprey Publishing Osprey Elite 202 ISBN: 1782005935 2014 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 66 Size: 3 Mb Language: English In the past decade and a half the unique requirements of dual wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have radically altered the appearance and capabilities of the British Army’s infantry soldiers. Gone are the tactics uniforms and equipment of the Cold War, replaced by an elite fighting force, skilled in counterinsurgency operations and warfare in both urban and rural environments.
RAF Canberra Units of the Cold War (Osprey Combat Aircraft 105)
 Author: Andrew Brookes RAF Canberra Units of the Cold War Osprey Publishing Osprey Combat Aircraft 105 ISBN: 1782004114 2014 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 96 Size: 4 Mb Language: English From its first public demonstration at the Farnborough Airshow of 1949, the English Electric Canberra bomber captured the attention of the aviation world. It could outmanoeuvre all the fighters of the time and it could climb way above their operating ceilings. Yet this Cold War equivalent of the Mosquito was simple to maintain and a delight to fly, although it could bite any pilot who did not treat it with respect. The Canberra B 2 first flew on 21 April 1950 and entered frontline service with No 101 Sqn in May 1951.
Dress and Ideology: Fashioning Identity from Antiquity to the Present
 Author: Shoshana-Rose Marzel (Editor), Guy D. Stiebel (Editor) Dress and Ideology: Fashioning Identity from Antiquity to the Present Bloomsbury Academic 2015 Format: epub/pdf Size: 4.2 Mb Language: English Dress and fashion are powerful visual means of communicating ideology, whether political, social or religious. From the communist values of equality, simplicity and solidarity exemplified in the Mao suit to the myriad of fashion protests of feminists such as French revolutionary women's demand to wear trousers, dress can symbolize ideological orthodoxy as well as revolt. With contributions from a wide range of international scholars, this book presents the first scholarly analysis of dress and ideology through accessible case studies. Chapters are organized thematically and explore dress in relation to topics including nation, identity, religion, politics and utopias, across an impressive chronological reach from antiquity to the present day.
Destroyers: 60 Years
 Author: William G. Schofield Destroyers: 60 Years Rand McNally & Company 1962 Format: PDF Pages: 188 Language: English Size: 24.6 MB In her sixty years of service, the destroyer has proved herself the most reliable, versatile and indispensable ship of the Navy Now for the first time, the complete story of destroyers and destroyermen in the United States Navy is recorded in dramatic detail. This book is a tribute to rugged men, gallant ships, and heroic deeds. Often outweighed, outgunned, and outpowered, destroyers have written sagas of glory against battleships and cruisers, kamikazes and beach artillery. This is a story of action with North Atlantic convoys and oil South Pacific beachheads; of Hunter-Killer groups and anti-submarine warfare; of shore bombardment and amphibious support Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea, Omaha Beach, Samar, Lingayen Gulf, Korea, Lebanon, and Formosa are all names solidly linked with the record of destroyer action.
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of 20th Century Weapons and Warfare 2
 Author: Bernard Fitzsimons The Illustrated Encyclopedia of 20th Century Weapons and Warfare 2 Columbia House 1977 Format: PDF Pages: 128 Language: English Size: 29.2 MB Any profound understanding of the wars which have shaped our world depends on an understanding of the weapons with which they were fought. In these volumes, details of all the weapons of our century are gathered together in a single work. The facts and information packed into these magnificent volumes could only be duplicated in a library of reference works, and even then, so thorough has been the work of the contributors that new facts are constantly being brought to light, new theories advanced and old myths exploded. Includes Warships, Aircraft, Tanks, Small Arms, Missiles, Artillery...
Death Valley: The Summer Offensive, I Corps, August 1969
 Author: Keith W. Nolan Death Valley: The Summer Offensive, I Corps, August 1969 Dell ISBN: 089141665X 1999 Format: EPUB Size: 5,5 МБ Language: English Pages: 381 In the summer of 1969, in the mountains and valleys to the southwest of Da Nang, American troops fought a determined but costly series of actions against units of the regular North Vietnamese Army. The battles, the first since the announcement of the American withdrawal from Vietnam, were a watershed in American involvement in the country and took place in an atmosphere of increasing resentment - both at home, in the world's media and amongst many of the serving soldiers - against a war that was perceived to be going from bad to worse. This probing analysis of the fighting, and the background to the fighting, addresses the wider political and social issues but reserves particular emphasis for the bitter and prolonged fighting by the war-weary but determined men of the 7th Marine Regiment and the 196th Brigade, against the increasingly confident troops of the 2nd Division of the North Vietnamese Army.
Warspite: Warships of the Royal Navy
 Author: Iain Ballantyne Warspite: Warships of the Royal Navy Pen and Sword Maritime ISBN: 184884350X 2010 Format: EPUB Pages: 224 Size: 6 Mb Language: English No warship name in British naval history has more battle honours than Warspite. While this book looks at the lives of all eight vessels to bear the name (between 1596 and the 1990s), it concentrates on the truly epic story of the seventh vessel, a super-dreadnought battleship, conceived as the ultimate answer to German naval power, during the arms race that helped cause WW1. Warspite fought off the entire German fleet at Jutland, survived a mutiny between the wars and then covered herself in glory in action from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean during WW2.
Museum Ordnance Special 10 - Valentine Infantry Tank
 Author: Paul Roberts Museum Ordnance Special 10 - Valentine Infantry Tank Darlington Productions Inc 1996 Format: PDF Size: 13,2 МБ Language: English Pages: 24
Encyclopedia Of US Air Force Aircraft And Missile Systems vol 1&2
 Author: Marcelle Size Knaack Encyclopedia Of US Air Force Aircraft And Missile Systems vol 1&2 Office of Air Force History 1988 Format: PDF Pages: 1007 Language: English Size: 57.2 MB Volume 1 deals with the development, deployment, and operations of fighter aircraft between 1945 and 1973, commencing with the F-80 Shooting Star and ending with the development of the F-15 Eagle. Many of these aircraft were employed during the Korean War, the war in Southeast Asia, and during the cold war crisis throughout the world. The origin of each aircraft is noted as well as its most troublesome development, production, and operational problems. Also covered are significant modifications, most of which can be attributed to ever-changing aeronautical technology. The second in a series of encyclopedias of United States Air Force Aircraft and missile systems, this volume covers the developing and fielding of bomber aircraft between 1945 and 1973, commencing with the Convair B-36 Peacemaker and ending with the development of the Rockwell International B-1A.
Titanic - 9 Hours to Hell, The Survivors Story
 Author: W. B. Bartlett Titanic - 9 Hours to Hell, The Survivors Story Amberley Publishing 2011 Format: PDF Pages: 74 Language: English Size: 11 MB A major new history of the disaster that weaves into the narrative the first-hand accounts of those who survived. It was twenty minutes to midnight on Sunday 14 April, when Jack Thayer felt the Titanic lurch to port, a motion followed by the slightest of shocks. Seven-year old Eva Hart barely noticed anything was wrong. For Stoker Fred Barrett, shovelling coal down below, it was somewhat different; the side of the ship where he was working caved in. For the next nine hours, Jack, Eva and Fred faced death and survived. They lived, along with just over 700 others picked up by 08.30 the next morning. Over 1600 people did not. This is the story told through the eyes of Jack, Eva, Fred and over a hundred others of those who survived and either wrote their experiences down or appeared before the major inquiries held subsequently. Drawing extensively on their collective evidence, this book weaves the narrative of the events that occurred in those nine fateful hours. The stories of some are discussed in detail, such as Colonel Gracie, a first-class survivor, and Lawrence Beesley, a schoolteacher, who both wrote lengthy accounts of their experiences. No less fascinating are the accounts of those who gave gripping evidence to the inquiries, people like the controversial Lady Lucille Duff-Gordon, steward John Hart who was responsible for saving the lives of the majority of the third-class passengers who lived, or Charles Joughin, the baker, who owed his survival to whisky. This is their story, and those of a fateful night, when the largest ship ever built sank without completing one successful voyage.
Death Dealer
 Death Dealer Da Capo Press Author: Rudolf Höss, Steven Paskuly (Editor) 1996 Pages: 421 Format: pdf Language: English Size: 16 mb ISBN: 978-0306806988 SS Kommandant Rudolph Höss (1900–1947) was history's greatest mass murderer, personally supervising the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Death Dealer is a new, unexpurgated translation of Höss’s autobiography “Hoss’s autobiography combines a considerable amount of accurate in formation [with] some genuine insights into his past.” —New York Review of Books
The Cambridge History of the Cold War (3 volume set)
 The Cambridge History of the Cold War Cambridge University Press Author: Melvyn P. Leffler, Odd Arne Westad 2010 Pages: 3349 Format: PDF Size: 231 mb Language: English The Cambridge History of the Cold War is a comprehensive, international history of the conflict that dominated world politics in the twentieth century. The three-volume series, written by leading international experts in the field, elucidates how the Cold War evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and socio-political environment of the two World Wars and the interwar era, and explains the global dynamics of the Cold War international system. It emphasises how the Cold War bequeathed conditions, challenges and conflicts that shape international affairs today. With discussions of demography and consumption, women and youth, science and technology, ethnicity and race, the volumes encompass the social, intellectual and economic history of the twentieth century, shedding new light on the evolution of the Cold War. Through its various geographical and national angles, the series signifies a transformation of the field from a national - primarily American - to a broader international approach.
War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia
 Author: Richard C. Hall War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia ABC-CLIO ISBN: 1610690303 2014 Format: PDF Size: 7,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 411 The Balkan Peninsula, which consists of Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and the former Yugoslavia, resides in the southeastern part of the European continent. Its strategic location as well as its long and bloody history of conflict have helped to define the Balkans' role in global affairs. This singular reference focuses on the events, individuals, organizations, and ideas that have made this region an international player and shaped warfare there for hundreds of years. Historian and author Richard C. Hall traces the sociopolitical history of the area, starting with the early internal conflicts as the Balkan states attempted to break away from the Ottoman Empire to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that ignited World War I to the Yugoslav Wars that erupted in the 1990s and the subsequent war crimes still being investigated today. Additional coverage focuses on how these countries continue to play an important role in global affairs and international politics.
Great Moments in Aviation
 Author: Michael J. Taylor Great Moments in Aviation Mallard Press 1989 Format: PDF Pages: 86 Language: English Size: 10.4 MB Aviation has probably been responsible for the greatest change to peoples' lives this century. Aircraft for the first time took battle fronts to heavily populated inland cities that were many miles from where armies fought and even gave the first means by which mankind could destroy itself using atomic weapons. Conversely, modern airliners have brought foreign countries and even distant continents to within a few hours' reach of ordinary folk. Whether it was for one of these reasons, or food eaten that might have been sprayed by an agricultural aircraft, an air-sea rescue, the taxes paid that were used in part to fund extraordinary national aerospace programs, or one of a myriad of other possibilities, aviation has touched us all.
Sunk by the Bismarck: The Life and Death of the Battleship HMS Hood
 Author: Edwin P. Hoyt Sunk by the Bismarck: The Life and Death of the Battleship HMS Hood G.K. Hall & Co. 201 Format: PDF Pages: 212 Language: English Size: 37.4 MB When she was completed in the spring of 1920 HMS Hood was the greatest warship afloat. She was the largest the fastest and the finest. Every sailor in the world knew the name Hood and marveled at her strength and size. For twenty years the HMS Hood was the world's mightiest warship. When World War II broke out she was stationed at Scapa Flow in Northern Scotland shepherding convoys and guarding against attack by Hitler's heavy surface fleet. Then in May 1941 3 the Bismarck sailed into the Atlantic. This is the saga of how the Hood served and fought and the dramatic story of how she finally died sunk by the new Nazi super-battleships Bismarck destined to become a legend of its own.
Kookaburra Technical manual. Series 1, no.3 - Lockheed P-38 Lightning Described
 Author: Roy Cross Kookaburra Technical manual. Series 1, no.3 - Lockheed P-38 Lightning Described Kookaburra Technical Publications 1969 Format: PDF Size: 15,2 МБ Language: English Pages: 28 Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, technical drawings, profiles.
Navy Uniform Catalog for Men and Women of the United States Navy
 Navy Uniform Catalog for Men and Women of the United States Navy Navy Uniform Program 1996 Format: PDF Pages: 40 Language: English Size: 27 MB This Navy Uniform Catalog is for the use of authorized Navy personnel, and the following uniforms are presented: Officer/Chief Petty Officers - Women's Uniforms and Accessories Officer/Chief Petty Officers - Men's Uniforms and Accessories Decorations, Service Ribbons, and Accessories Enlisted - Men's Uniforms and Accessories Enlisted - Women's Uniforms and Accessories
The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building: From the Ottoman Empire to AtatA?rk's Turkey
 Author: Erik J. The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building: From the Ottoman Empire to AtatA~1/4rk's Turkey (Library of Modern Middle East Studies) I. B. Tauris 2010 Pages: 368 ISBN: 184885272X Format: pdf Size: 10,9 mb Language: English Quality: Good The grand narrative of The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building is that of the essential continuity of the late Ottoman Empire with the Republic of Turkey that was founded in 1923. Erik Jan Zurcher shows that Kemal's "ideological toolkit," which included positivism, militarism, nationalism and a state-centred world view, was shared by many other Young Turks. Authoritarian rule, a one-party state, a legal framework based on European principles, advanced European-style bureaucracy, financial administration, military and educational reforms and state-control of Islam, can all be found in the late Ottoman Empire, as can policies of demographic engineering. The book focuses on the attempts of the Young Turks to save their empire through forced modernization as well as on the attempts of their Kemalist successors to build a strong national state. The decade of almost continuous warfare, ethnic conflict and forced migration between 1911 and 1922 forms the background to these attempts and accordingly occupies a central position in this volume. This is a powerful history reflecting and contributing to the latest research from a leading historian of modern Turkey. It is essential for all readers interested in the history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, and for an understanding of a key player in the politics of the Middle East and Europe.
The Jet Age - Forty Years of Jet Aviation
 Author: Walter J. Boyne, Donald S. Lopez The Jet Age - Forty Years of Jet Aviation Smithsonian Books 1981 Format: PDF Pages: 204 Language: English Size: 26 MB This compilation of the proceedings of the forty years of jet aviation is unique in that the primary contributors to the book were also seminal contributors to the fascinating forty years of progress. The brief biographical sketches which precede each chapter give but an inkling of the fundamental importance of the contribution of the authors. The articles themselves, however, convey the essence of the often revolutionary changes they imposed upon our life and times.
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