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 Special Forces: The Men, the Weapons, and the Operations 
 Author: David Miller Special Forces: The Men, the Weapons, and the Operations Salamander Books Ltd 1999 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 30 MB This heavily illustrated volume covers in detail the elite special forces of the world, as increased responsibility for military operations falls on these smaller units of well-trained troops equipped with state-of-the-art weapons and equipment. Some units will be well-know to most readers, such as Britain's Special Air Service and Special Boat Squadron, America's SEALs and Delta Force, Germany's GSG-9, Russia's Spetsnaz, and France's Foreign Legion.Many readers will also learn for the first time about numerous other units, such as Israel's Sayerer Metkal, Egypt's Task Force 777, Argentina's Halcon Brigade, and Mexico's Force F "Zorros." Organization, selection, training, uniforms, weapons and equipment are covered for each unit. Maps, drawings, photographs and cut-away diagrams illustrate equipment and active operations. Famous missions such as the Scud missile hunt, aircraft hijackings, and the classic SAS storming of the Iranian embassy in London are covered with detailed photographs. The most up-to-date information available on NATO special forces in Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro, ignored by the American media, is also included.
Warships Illustrated No.12 - British Cruisers in World War One
 Author: R. A. Burt Warships Illustrated No.12 - British Cruisers in World War One Arms & Armour Press 1987 ISBN: 0853688141 Format: PDF Size: 5,7 МБ Language: English Pages: 64 The subject of cruisers during the period 1870 to 1914 is a complex one because of the variety of designs which are included in this category. Frigates of the 1840s were the real ancestors of the modern cruiser, and used for multi-role purposes such as scouting, policing, message-conveying, shadowing and commerce protection duties. Dreadnought-cruiser in 1906 put an end to the growth in displacements, although paradoxically the protected cruiser had taken a retrograde step and returned to the origins of the second class cruiser, with more moderate dimensions and the more direct function of serving the Fleet rather than engaging adversaries irrespective of their size. This group formed the link to the light and heavy cruisers which became standard construction and went oh to serve in the First and Second World Wars.
The Illustrated History of the Submarine
 Author: Edward Horton The Illustrated History of the Submarine Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1974 Format: PDF Pages: 166 Language: English Size: 18.3 MB Seventy years ago Admiral A. K. Wilson of the Royal Navy issued his ringing denunciation of the submarine. It was, he thundered, 'underhand, unfair, and damned unEnglish'. Of course 'Tug' Wilson was only repeating the time-honoured hypocrisy reserved for new weapons by those who are proficient with the old. It was hardly to be expected that the mightiest navy the world had ever seen would take kindly to a newfangled device that threatened the very existence of capital ships. Yet in a curious way his comment was prophetic. Leaving aside the moral question, the submarine was about the most 'unEnglish' weapon ever devised, in that England was uniquely vulnerable to it. In both world wars she was brought to the very brink of defeat by German U-boats, and by U-boats alone.
At War, at Sea: Sailors and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century
 Author: Ronald H. Spector At War, at Sea: Sailors and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century Viking 2001 Format: PDF Pages: 504 Language: English Size: 83.4 MB At War at Sea is a fascinating account of the most important naval conflicts of the twentieth century. Beginning with a gripping narrative of one of the most decisive battles in history - the 1905 Battle of Tsushima between the Japanese and the Russians - and ending with the sophisticated missile engagements off the Falklands and in the Persian Gulf, naval historian Ronald Spector explores every facet of naval warfare." "Here are the real stories of combat at sea told from the point of view of the sailors who experienced it. How did it feel to be the target of a 15-inch shell at the Battle of Jutland or to experience a depth-charge attack in a submarine in the Battle of the Atlantic? What was it like to be under attack by Stuka dive bombers off Crete or kamikazes off Okinawa during World War II? What is the difference between being a sailor on a German U-boat or on today's nuclear submarines? Using more than a hundred diaries, memoirs, letters, and interviews as well as the official record, Spector takes an in-depth look at fighting sailors - in peacetime and in time of war - that is unparalleled both in scope and emotional intensity." "Researched and fascinating in its detail, Spector also explains how the politics and social backdrop inside and outside of the navies of Japan, Russia, Britain, Germany, and the United States affected both the sailors and the navies themselves during the last century. The result is a monumental history of the men, the ships, and the battles fought on the high seas.
Tanks: 100 Years of Evolution (General Military)
 Author: Richard Ogorkiewicz Tanks: 100 Years of Evolution (General Military) Osprey Publishing ISBN: 1472806700 2015 Format: PDF (Converted) Size: 11,5 МБ Language: English Pages: 320 Tank presents a comprehensive account of the world-wide evolution of armoured vehicles from their inception a century ago to the present day, starting with a detailed reappraisal of the development of tanks and how they evolved during World War I. By the end of that conflict tanks had gained considerable importance. However, this was not sustained in its immediate aftermath and a revival only began when the British Army started in to experiment in the 1920s with a more mobile use of tanks. The subsequent rise of the importance of armoured vehicles was accompanied by and was partly due to the advances in their design and performance achieved in Europe and America before World War II. The enhanced capabilities that tanks consequently acquired enabled them to become the core of combined-arms, mechanized formations. Professor Ogorkiewicz has worked in the field of armoured vehicle development since the 1970s, and this is a serious, analytical study on the history of tank development and armoured warfare.
Destroying Libya and World Order
 Author: Francis A. Boyle Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi Revolution Clarity Press 2013 Format: PDF Size: 5.21 MB ISBN: 0985335378 Language: English Francis Boyle provides a comprehensive history and critique of American foreign policy toward Libya from when the Reagan administration came to power in January of 1981 up to the 2011 NATO war on Libya that ultimately achieved the US goal of regime change, and beyond. He sets the record straight on the series of military conflicts and crises between the United States and Libya over the Gulf of Sidra, exposing the Reagan administration’s fraudulent claims of Libyan instigation of international terrorism put forward over his eight years in office. Boyle reveals the inside story behind the Lockerbie bombing cases against the United States and the United Kingdom that he filed at the World Court for Colonel Qaddafi acting upon his advice—and the unjust resolution of those disputes. Deploying standard criteria of international law, Boyle analyzes and debunks the UN R2P “responsibility to protect” doctrine and its immediate predecessor, “humanitarian intervention”. The purported NATO protection in actuality led to 50,000 Libyan casualties, and the complete breakdown of law and order. And this is just the beginning. Boyle lays out the ramifications: the destabilization of the Maghreb and Sahel, and the French intervention in Mali—with the USA/NATO/Europe starting a new imperial scramble for the natural resources of Africa. This book is not only a classic case study of the conduct of US foreign policy as it relates to international law, but a damning indictment of the newly-contrived R2P doctrine as legal cover for Western intervention into third world countries.
Time Frame AD 1900-1925 - The World in Arms
 Author: Collective Time Frame AD 1900-1925 - The World in Arms Time-Life Books 1989 Format: PDF Pages: 186 Language: English Size: 29 MB This book did a good job summarizing why history occured the way it did, drawing in the different parts of the world, culture, politics, and how many different things came together in just the right way to cause the war. This book also has a series of essays on many of the other changes that came about at the turn of the century: flight, electricity, photography... It also sets the stage for the depression and second world war. Content: The Great War The Russian Revolution The Middle East Transformed Japan's New Horizons America Comes of Age
First 24 Hours of War in the Pacific
 Author: Donald J. Young First 24 Hours of War in the Pacific Burd Street Press 1998 Format: PDF Pages: 194 Language: English Size: 96.1 MB Military historian Donald J. Young takes the reader to eleven Pacific sites where war is about to change everything. He puts us on doomed Wake Island where Major Devereaux is ordering his Marine bugler to sound "Call to Arms" as an invasion force looms offshore and bombs devestate. We are with more marines in North China, embassy guards, who must surrender or die on the spot. The bugler sounds "Retreat" for one last time and then breaks his bugle across his knee and hurls it away. We are aboard the PanAm flying boat "China Clipper" as it desperately tries to flee Wake Island already under attack. We are on indefensible Guam when an ill-equipped handful of American Marines, mindful that no U.S. Marine unit has ever gone down without a fight, march off to make a stand agasinst an invasion force of 5000. The Marines are armed with 1903 Springfield rifles, two .30 caliber machine guns, and a few.45 sidearms. They are assisted by Insular Guards, native Chamorros who also carry ought three Springfields but theirs are stamped ""Do not shoot. For training purposes only." We are at Clark Field in the Phillipines where B-17s are caught on the ground by aerial raiders. We are abandoning the ill-fated 2100 ton lumber schooner "Cynthia Olsen" torpedoed and sinking off Hawaii, the first U.S. merchantman to be sunk in World War Two but not the last. Reading this book will remind you how lucky we are there can never be another be another Pearl Harbor.
Authority: A Sociological History
 Author: Frank Furedi Authority: A Sociological History Cambridge University Press 2013 Format: PDF Size: 2 Mb Language: English Concern with authority is as old as human history itself. Eve's sin was to challenge the authority of God by disobeying his rule. Frank Furedi explores how authority was contested in ancient Greece and given a powerful meaning in Imperial Rome. Debates about religious and secular authority dominated Europe through the Middle Ages and the Reformation. The modern world attempted to develop new foundations for authority - democratic consent, public opinion, science - yet Furedi shows that this problem has remained unresolved, arguing that today the authority of authority is questioned. This historical sociology of authority seeks to explain how the contemporary problems of mistrust and the loss of legitimacy of many institutions are informed by the previous attempts to solve the problem of authority. It argues that the key pioneers of the social sciences (Marx, Durkheim, Simmel, Tonnies and especially Weber) regarded this question as one of the principal challenges facing society.
Military and Naval Insignia and Novelties
 Author: Collective Military and Naval Insignia and Novelties Bailey, Banks & Biddle Company 1928 Format: PDF Pages: 30 Language: English Size: 15.8 MB This is an illustrated catalog of Military and Naval Insignia and Novelties from Bailey, Banks & Biddle Company, from 1928.
Wars of the 20th Century
 Author: Collective Wars of the 20th Century Octopus Books Limited 1975 Format: PDF Pages: 522 Language: English Size: 94.5 MB The turn of the century was a watershed in world history. Victoria still reigned in Britain; Kaiser Wilhelni II was calling for a 'place in the sun' for Imperial Germany; Czar Nicholas II was at the start of his ill-fated reign in Imperial Russia. Austria-Hungary, the Hapsburg Empire, dominated parts of Central and Eastern Europe along the Danube as she had done for centuries; the Ottoman Empire, with its Sultan in Constantinople, claimed suzerainty over most of what is now called the Middle East and even part of the Balkans. Africa and Asia were ruled by a few Western European states, notably Britain and France. The sleeping giant, the United States, had just entered the imperial race in the Spanish-American War, and was beginning its expansion in the Caribbean and Latin America. There were none who questioned European hegemony over the world. Europe, in fact, was the center of the world. It was only a matter of which power or combination of powers would dominate the other....
Hitler's Charisma: Leading Millions into the Abys
 : Hitler's Charisma: Leading Millions into the Abyss Author : Laurence Rees Pantheon Books : 2013 Pages: 368 Format : epub Size : 6,7 MB Language : English Fuelled by hate, incapable of forming normal human relationships, unwilling to listen to dissenting voices, Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader, and yet he commanded enormous support and was able to exert a powerful influence over those who encountered him. How did Hitler become such an attractive figure to millions of people? That is the question at the core of Hitler’s Charisma. Acclaimed historian and documentary filmmaker Laurence Rees examines the nature of Hitler’s appeal and reveals the role his supposed “charisma” played in his success. Here is a fascinating social, psychological and historical investigation into the formation of a personality whose determination and vision would at the outset convince a small group of like-minded political and social outcasts but would eventually win over an entire nation and plunge the rest of the world into a cataclysm unlike any that had ever been seen before. Hitler’s Charisma is a natural culmination of twenty years of writing and research on the Third Reich and a remarkable examination of the man and the mind at the heart of it all.
Strategic Bombers 1945-1985
 Author: Michael J.H. Taylor Strategic Bombers 1945-1985 (Warbirds Illustrated 30) Arms and Armour Press 1984 Format: PDF Pages: 76 Language: English Size: 62.7 MB By the end of 1947, the race for strategic superiority between the USA and Soviet Union was under way, both nations possessing the ability to manufacture atomic weapons and both having capable bombers flying. Moreover, in that year Britain passed many examples of Rolls-Royce Nene and Derwent turbojet engines to the Soviet Union, so enabling that nation to study, develop and mass-produce modern powerplants for new fighters and tactical bombers without the need for years of research and development. In the field of rocketry, the Soviet Union was able to make considerable advances owing to the fact that the secret German ballistic missile establishment at Peenemiinde was captured by Soviet forces during the final stages of the war. The first pure jet bomber of US design was the Douglas XB-43, first flown in May 1946. This remained a prototype, and the later four-engined North American B-45 Tornado became the USAF's first jet bomber to see squadron service. However, unlike the later Boeing B-47 Stratojet, the Tornado was not strategically important. The Soviet Union's first operational jet bombers were the Tupolev Tu-12, Tu-14and Ilyushin 11-28, all non-strategic; Britain's contemporary was the English Electric Canberra. The development in Britain of no fewer than three types of four- jet aircraft in the 'V-bomber' series finally gave the Royal Air Force strategic jet bomber capability, by which time the USA and the Soviet Union possessed intercontinental strategic jet or turboprop capability by virtue of the formers huge Boeing B-52 Stratofortress and the latter's Tupolev Tu-95 and Myasishchev M-4.
The Long Twentieth Century
 Author: Giovanni Arrighi The Long Twentieth Century Verso 1994 416 Format: Pdf Size: 10 MB Language: English Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award (1995) for Distinguished Scholarship The Long Twentieth Century traces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Giovanni Arrighi masterfully synthesizes social theory, comparative history and historical narrative in this account of the structures and agencies which have shaped the course of world history over the millennium.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol.1-4
 Author: Winston S. Churchill A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol.1-4 Barnes & Noble, Inc. 2005 Format: PDF/ePub Size: 18.6 Mb Language: English During the 1930's Winston Churchill was enduring his "wilderness years" and was quite prolific in his journalistic efforts. Mr. Churchill began this rather ambitious effort of the history of the English Speaking Peoples in 1937. This four volume effort wasn't published until the years of 1956-1958. You see Winston had to serve England as Prime Minister from 1939 to 1945. After that he had to write his Nobel Prize winning 6 volume compilation of World War II. During this time Sir Winston was the leader of the Conservative opposition party from 1945 to 1951. After that he again served as Prime Minister until 1955. Mr. Churchill didn't finish this history of the English Speaking Peoples until he was in his early 80's. One thing about Mr. Churchill, he didn't let any grass grow under his feet. As a great writer and historian, Mr. Churchill has always had a bias of the English language, laws and its history. Being the master of the English written word, it seems quite right that it was he to write this historical sketch of the English people. Winston goes into great depth of the birth of England and its subsequent development including all the detailed trials and tribulations. He details the narrative of the monarchy into the development of a Democratic form of government. The rather long history is divided into four books as follows: 1.) The Birth of Britain 2.) The New World 3.) The Age of Revolution 4.) The Great Democracies Churchill expounds of the development and governance of the British Empire. He also details much of American history, especially the minutiae of the Civil War.
Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe
 Author:Gellately, Robert Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe New York: Alfred A. Knopf Language:English 2007 Format: epub Size: 7.7 mb A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945 from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but also analyzes the catastrophe of those years in an effort to uncover its political and ideological nature. Arguing that the tragedies endured by Europe were inextricably linked through the dictatorships of Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, Gellately explains how the pursuit of their "utopian" ideals turned into dystopian nightmares. Dismantling the myth of Lenin as a relatively benevolent precursor to Hitler and Stalin and contrasting the divergent ways that Hitler and Stalin achieved their calamitous goals, Gellately creates in Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler a vital analysis of a critical period in modern history.
Flight Craft 5: Sukhoi Su-15: The 'Boeing Killer'
 Flight Craft 5: Sukhoi Su-15: The 'Boeing Killer' Author: Yefim Gordon and Dmitriy Kommissarov Pen & Sword Books Ltd Pen and Sword Aviation 2015 ISBN-13: 978 1 47382 390 7 Pages: 96 Language: English Format: EPUB Size: 18 MB In the late 1950s, the Sukhoi Design Bureau, already an established fighter maker, started work on a successor to its Su-9 and Su-11 single-engined interceptors for the national Air defense Force. Similar to its predecessors, the new aircraft designated Su-15 had delta wings; unlike the Su-9/Su-11, however, it had twin engines and lateral air intakes freeing up the nose for a powerful fire control radar. First flown in May 1962, the Su-15 officially entered service in 1965 and was built in several versions, the late ones having cranked-delta wings and a more capable radar. Being an air defense fighter, the Su-15 frequently had to deal with intruders. Unfortunately the aircraft gained notoriety in two separate incidents involving shoot-downs of Boeing airliners (a 707 in 1978 and a 747 in 1983), both of which were South Korean and had intruded into Soviet airspace on what was very probably clandestine spy missions. This book describes the developmental and service history of the Sukhoi-Su-15, containing a comprehensive survey of all model-making kits currently available on the market.
Armoured Warfare in the Korean War (Images of War)
 Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones Armoured Warfare in the Korean War (Images of War) Pen and Sword Military 2013 Format: EPUB Pages: 160 Size: 8 Mb After the Second World War, military analysts thought that the only place significant armored forces were ever likely to confront each other again was in central Europe where the Nato alliance would fend off the Soviet Red Army. Then during the Korean War of 1950-53 both sides deployed large numbers of armored fighting vehicles, and this neglected aspect of the conflict is the subject of Anthony Tucker-Jones's photographic history. Korea, with its rugged mountains, narrow passes, steep valleys and waterlogged fields was not ideal tank country so the armor mainly supported the infantry and rarely engaged in battles of maneuver. Yet the wide variety of armor supporting UN and North Korean forces played a vital if unorthodox role in the swiftly moving campaigns.
Imperial Airways (1924-1940)
 Author: Collective Imperial Airways (1924-1940) Kelsey Publishing Aeroplane Classic Airliner) ISBN: 1909786411 2014 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 100 Size: 33 Mb Language: English Imperial Airways (1924-1940) (Aeroplane Classic Airliner)
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