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 Modern Military Weapons 
 Author: Robin Cross Modern Military Weapons Franklin Watts Inc. 1991 Format: PDF Pages: 46 Language: English Size: 25.5 MB A guide to modern military weapons, the book includes sections on tanks, artillery, missiles, fighter aircraft, bombers, helicopters, battleships, submarines and amphibious craft.
The Vietnam War
 Author: Jeff T. Hay The Vietnam War Greenhaven Press 2004 ISBN: 0737711493 Format: PDF Size: 6,5 МБ Language: English Pages: 336 Alphabetical entries provide easy access to information on numerous topics including major battles and missions; significant persons such as generals, antiwar activists, leaders, and ambassadors; policies and initiatives; weapons; incidents; and more. Most articles range from a paragraph to a page but a number of topics are examined in longer entries (e.g., "Ho Chi Minh," "Battle of Hue," "Richard Nixon," etc.). Cross-references guide readers to related topics, helping to place the war within its larger historical and global context. Headings for articles are in bold type and there are guide words at the top of each page. Type size is generous. Average-quality, captioned black-and-white photos and maps throughout the book add interest and enhance understanding. An appended chronology begins with the year 1887 when France formed the Indochinese Union and ends with 1993 when the U.S. resumed formal diplomatic relations with Vietnam. A four-page annotated list for further reading includes both print and Web resources. Finally, there is a comprehensive index to further ease access to information.
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.
Pegasus: The Heart of the Harrier
 Author: Andrew Dow Pegasus: The Heart of the Harrier Pen and Sword Aviation Images of War ISBN: 184884042X 2009 Format: EPUB Pages: 543 Size: 10 Mb Language: English The conception of the Pegasus engine in 1957 upset all the conventions of aircraft design. It was previously usual for aircraft designers to seek a suitable engine, but this was an engine that sought an aircraft. The aircraft that resulted was the famous Harrier that is still in front-line service with air forces around the world including the RAF and US Marine Corps. This book takes an in-depth look at the engine's original design concept, initial production and flight testing. It then goes on to explain how the developments and improvements have been made over the ensuing years and includes experiences of operational combat flying, both from land and sea.
Iraq Full Circle (Osprey General Military)
 Author: Darron L. Wright Iraq Full Circle: From Shock and Awe to the Last Combat Patrol in Baghdad and Beyond Osprey Publishing Osprey General Military 2013 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 389 Size: 3 Mb Language: English From 2003 through 2010, more than 200,000 men and women were deployed in Iraq. For seven years, they fought ferociously in the blistering sands in the Land Between the Two Rivers. Some fought for pride or survival, some to bring democracy to a forsaken land that has known only tyranny and strife. Scores of books have been published about the war, most criticizing the strategies and execution. Some have been personal memoirs capturing the heroism and sacrifice.
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
 Author: Odd Arne Westad The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521853648 2005 Format: PDF Size: 44,5 МБ Language: English Pages: 405 The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - gave rise to resentments and resistance that in the end helped topple one superpower and still seriously challenge the other. Ranging from China to Indonesia, Iran, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba, and Nicaragua, it provides a truly global perspective on the Cold War. And by exploring both the development of interventionist ideologies and the revolutionary movements that confronted interventions, the book links the past with the present in ways that no other major work on the Cold War era has succeeded in doing.
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
 Author: Donnie Eichar Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident Chronicle Books 2013 ISBN: 1452112746 Format: PDF Size: 31,1 МБ Language: English Pages: 288 In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes—have led to decades of speculation over what really happened. This gripping work of literary nonfiction delves into the mystery through unprecedented access to the hikers' own journals and photographs, rarely seen government records, dozens of interviews, and the author's retracing of the hikers' fateful journey in the Russian winter. A fascinating portrait of the young hikers in the Soviet era, and a skillful interweaving of the hikers narrative, the investigators' efforts, and the author's investigations, here for the first time is the real story of what happened that night on Dead Mountain.
Combat Helicopters
 Author: Jay Schleifer Combat Helicopters Capstone Press 1996 Format: PDF Pages: 54 Language: English Size: 31 MB A combat helicopter is a military helicopter with the primary role of an attack aircraft, with the capability of engaging targets on the ground, such as enemy infantry and armored vehicles. Due to their heavy armament they are sometimes called helicopter gunships.
Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State
 Author: Mark Lawrence Schrad Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State Oxford University Press 2014 Format: epub/pdf Size: 14 Mb Language: English Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state itself-a history that is drenched in liquor. Scrutinizing (rather than dismissing) the role of alcohol in Russian politics yields a more nuanced understanding of Russian history itself: from palace intrigues under the tsars to the drunken antics of Soviet and post-Soviet leadership, vodka is there in abundance. Beyond vivid anecdotes, Schrad scours original documents and archival evidence to answer provocative historical questions. How have Russia's rulers used alcohol to solidify their autocratic rule? What role did alcohol play in tsarist coups? Was Nicholas II's ill-fated prohibition a catalyst for the Bolshevik Revolution? Could the Soviet Union have become a world power without liquor? How did vodka politics contribute to the collapse of both communism and public health in the 1990s? How can the Kremlin overcome vodka's hurdles to produce greater social well-being, prosperity, and democracy into the future? Viewing Russian history through the bottom of the vodka bottle helps us to understand why the "liquor question" remains important to Russian high politics even today-almost a century after the issue had been put to bed in most every other modern state. Indeed, recognizing and confronting vodka's devastating political legacies may be the greatest political challenge for this generation of Russia's leadership, as well as the next.
Mr. President: A Book of U.S. Presidents
 Author: George Sullivan Mr. President: A Book of U.S. Presidents Scholastic Inc. 1989 Format: PDF Pages: 164 Language: English Size: 64.2 MB Mr. President is a short book perfect for anyone who wants to know the basics of how one becomes president, as well as some good information on all of the presidents up to George Bush. For this type of book, Mr. Sullivan did a very good job, giving information in an easy-to-understand way. It's a fast read that gives more insight into major events through certain President's careers, fun facts about different Heads of State, and even sheds some light on certain "unknown" presidents that might not come up much.
The Road to Kitty Hawk
 Author: Valerie Moolman The Road to Kitty Hawk (The Epic of Flight) Time-Life Books 1980 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 26.3 MB This particular volume covers the span of history and myth from around 11 BC up to and through the Wright brothers successful achievement of powered flight in the early 1900s. In the process, it discusses such diverse flying objects, and hoped-for flying objects, as kites; balloons; manned and unmanned gliders; tower jumpers paraphernalia; parachutes; and finally powered craft, both successful and unsuccessful.
Aerospace Power in the Twenty-First Century: A Basic Primer
 Author: Clayton K. S. Chun Aerospace Power in the Twenty-First Century: A Basic Primer AU Press 2001 ISBN: 1585660914 Format: PDF Size: 6,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 356 In Aerospace Power in the Twenty-First Century: A Basic Primer, Dr. Clayton K. S. Chun exposes readers to relevant aerospace capabilities, theories, uses, elements of operational planning, and key issues. After introducing basic definitions and concepts, Dr. Chun uses case studies of both successful and unsuccessful applications of aerospace power to illustrate its functions and abilities. Designed primarily for readers new to the subject, Aerospace Power in the Twenty-First Century also serves as a useful source of information about the strengths and weaknesses of air and space forces.
The City of Akhenaten. Part I: Excavations of 1921 and 1922 at El' Amarneh.
 Author: T Eric Peet; C Leonard Wooley The City of Akhenaten. Part I: Excavations of 1921 and 1922 at El' Amarneh. Under The Direction Of The Commitee 1923 Format: PDF Size: 10.06 mb Language: English
The Pioneers of Flight: A Documentary History
 Author: Phil Scott The Pioneers of Flight: A Documentary History Princeton University Press 1999 Format: PDF Pages: 256 Language: English Size: 23 MB The pioneers of flight left a legacy of inventions that changed the world. Unknown to most people, many also left compelling written accounts of their ideas, scientific discoveries, and attempts--both successful and disastrous--to take to the air. Phil Scott presents the first major anthology of these writings. His selections show how humans from Ovid to the Wright brothers and beyond dreamed about flying and puzzled over the principles of physics and aerodynamics that kept birds aloft and men grounded. Their eloquent and incisive writings form a record of scientific curiosity and individual tenacity that will fascinate aviation enthusiasts, historians of technology, and anyone interested in the drama of early flight.
Boeing. Planemaker to the World
 Author: Robert Redding, Bill Yenne Boeing. Planemaker to the World Crescent Books 1983 Format: PDF Pages: 264 Language: English Size: 37.6 MB This book tells the Boeing story from its beginnings in a Lake Union boathouse, to its present status as the premier builder of commercial aircraft in the world. Trace the development from the first Boeing mailplanes to the B-17 Flying Fortress and the B-29 Superfortress of WWII to the first jetliner, the 707, to today's mammoth 777. Also examines Boeing's manufacture of helicopters, hydrofoils, and aerospace technology. Includes 100 color and 250 b/w photographs.
Aviation Archive – British Jet Airliners
 Author: Martyn Chorlton Aviation Archive – British Jet Airliners Kelsey Publishing Group ISBN: 1909786071, 978-1909786073 2014 Format: PDF Pages: 100 Size: 79 MB Language: English Aeroplane Collectors’ Archive is a series of bookazines produced by a dedicated team of enthusiasts focusing on groups of aircraft from the history of aviation in a particularly close-up fashion. Featuring archive images alongside period cutaway diagrams, the intention is to take reader ‘inside’ the aircraft in the most literal sense.
Radar Jammers The EA-6B Prowlers
 Author: Bill Sweetman Radar Jammers The EA-6B Prowlers (War Planes) Capstone Press 2002 Format: PDF Pages: 36 Language: English Size: 18.2 MB The Northrop Grumman (formerly Grumman) EA-6B Prowler is a twin-engine, mid-wing electronic warfare aircraft derived from the A-6 Intruder airframe. The EA-6A was the initial electronic warfare version of the A-6 used by the United States Marine Corps in the 1960s. Development on the more advanced EA-6B began in 1966. An EA-6B aircrew consists of one pilot and three Electronic Countermeasures Officers, though it is not uncommon for only two ECMOs to be used on missions. It is capable of carrying and firing anti-radiation missiles (ARM), such as the AGM-88 HARM missile.
Diving Stations - The Story of George Hunt & The ULTOR
 Author: Peter Dornan Diving Stations - The Story of George Hunt & The ULTOR Pen and Sword 2011 Format: PDF Pages: 207 Language: English Size: 14.6 MB Diving Stations is the inspiring story of Captain George Hunt's career. Born in Uganda and then educated in Glasgow, he was determined to join the Navy and at 13 years old he entered HMS Conway. His prewar years saw him serving worldwide. In 1939, on the outbreak of war he was already serving in submarines. Over the next six years he was rammed twice, sunk once and had hundred of depth charges dropped around him. He gave more than he got! While in command of the Unity Class Submarine Ultor - mainly in the Mediterranean - he and his crew accounted for an astonishing 20 enemy vessels sunk by torpedo and 8 by gunfire as well as damaging another 4 ships. His fifteenth mission was described by the Admiralty as 'unsurpassed in the Annals of the Mediterranean Submarine Flotilla'. After the War George continued his distinguished naval career becoming Senior Naval Officer West Indies (SNOWI). He emigrated to Australia where he lives today.Dornan, Peter - Diving Stations - The Story of George Hunt ... .pdf
Mud and Bodies The War Diaries & Letters of Captain N A C Weir, 1914-1920
 Author: Mike Burns, Saul David Mud and Bodies The War Diaries & Letters of Captain N A C Weir, 1914-1920 Frontline Books ISBN: 1848326882 2013 Format: EPUB Size: 15,7 МБ Language: English Pages: 176 Neil Weir died in 1967, but it was not until 2009 that his grandson, Mike Burns, discovered his diary among some boxes he had been left, and learnt that his grandfather had served as an officer in the 10th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlander throughout the First World War, seeing action at Loos, the Somme and Vimy Ridge, as well as in staff and training posts. It ends with his work at the War Office during the Russian Civil War of 1919-20. In the diary, and the accompanying letters which have been collected from various members of the Weir family, we hear the authentic voice of a First World War soldier and get an insight into his experiences on the Western Front and elsewhere. Edited and with introductory text by Saul David, this book is one of the most fascinating accounts ever published of the First World War as experienced by the men who fought it.
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