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 US Navy Dreadnoughts 1914-45 
 US Navy Dreadnoughts 1914-45 Author:Ryan K. Noppen, Paul Wright Osprey Publishing Osprey New Vanguard 208 ISBN: 978 1782006299 2014 Language: English Pages: 50 Format: PDF Size: 2,6 MB The development of the US Navy’s dreadnought battleships was a pivotal part of America’s evolution into a true world power. By the beginning of World War I, the United States possessed the world’s third largest navy, with ten dreadnoughts in service and four more under construction. By the end of World War II, the US Navy was the undoubted global superpower, despite initial crippling losses to its battlefleet at Pearl Harbor. Richly illustrated with archive photographs as well as a full cutaway of the world’s only surviving dreadnought, this comprehensive and detailed title covers the technical characteristics and combat record of the US dreadnoughts throughout their long careers.
John 'Cat's Eyes' Cunningham. The Aviation Legend
 Author: John Golley John 'Cat's Eyes' Cunningham. The Aviation Legend Airlife Publishing Ltd 1999 Format: PDF Pages: 194 Language: English Size: 33 MB Cunningham's wartime fame as an outstanding night-fighter ace was followed by a long career in test flying during the exciting post-war period, when the jet engine was developed to power both military and civil aircraft. This biography records his life and work.
Combat Rescue Helicopters The MH-53 Pave Lows
 Author: Bill Sweetman Combat Rescue Helicopters The MH-53 Pave Lows (War Planes) Capstone Press 2002 Format: PDF Pages: 36 Language: English Size: 20.1 MB The Sikorsky MH-53 Pave Low series is a long-range combat search and rescue (CSAR) helicopter for the United States Air Force. The series was upgraded from the HH-53B/C, variants of the Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion. The HH-53 "Super Jolly Green Giant" was initially developed to replace the HH-3 "Jolly Green Giant". The helicopters later transitioned to Special Operations missions. The U.S. Air Force's MH-53J/M fleet was retired in September 2008 and was replaced by the CV-22B Osprey
Methods and Problems in Greek Science: Selected Papers
 Author: G. E. R. Lloyd Methods and Problems in Greek Science: Selected Papers Cambridge University Press 1993 Pages: 472 Format: PDF Language : English Size: 80 mb This book was first published in 1991. The study of ancient science and its relations with Greek philosophy has made a significant and growing contribution to our understanding of ancient thought and civilisation. This collection of articles on Greek science contains fifteen of the most important papers published by G. E. R. Lloyd in this area since 1961, together with three newer articles. The topics range over all areas and periods of Greek science, from the earliest Presocratic philosophers to Ptolemy and Galen. In each case the article is preceded by an introduction that assesses scholarly debate on the topic since the original publication. Professor Lloyd also suggests modifications and developments to his own position in the light of those debates and his own further research.
The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
 Author: Frances Stonor Saunders The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters New Press 2000 Pages: 528 Format: PDF Language : English Size: 17 mb Quality: Good The "rivetingly told" (Times Literary Supplement) story of the CIA's Cold War cultural operations, short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders presents for the first time the shocking evidence that the CIA infiltrated every niche of the cultural sphere during the postwar years. In a "hammer-blow of a book" (The Spectator, London) drawing together recently declassified documents and exclusive interviews, the author narrates the extraordinary story of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were instruments of America's secret service. The CIA's front organizations and the philanthropic foundations that channeled its money organized conferences, founded magazines, ran congresses, mounted exhibitions, arranged concerts, and flew symphony orchestras around the world. Many of the period's foremost intellectuals, artists, and philanthropists appear in the book: Isaiah Berlin, Clement Greenberg, Sidney Hook, Arthur Koestler, Irving Kristol, Robert Lowell, Henry Luce, Andr Malraux, Mary McCarthy, Reinhold Neibuhr, George Orwell, Jackson Pollock, Nelson Rockefeller, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Stephen Spender, among others. While many were unwitting participants in the CIA's cultural operation, others were willing collaborators. In this expose of covert patronage unprecedented in modern history, recently short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award, Saunders has created "a crucial story" (The Times, London) that is "quite unputdownable" (Literary Review).
HMS Queen Elizabeth
 HMS Queen Elizabeth Author: Editor - Charles Oldham Faircount Media Group Royal Navy 2014 Pages: 196 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 56 MB In July the UK's largest ever warship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, was successfully floated out of the dock in which she was assembled. In an operation that started earlier this week, the dry dock in Rosyth near Edinburgh was flooded for the first time to allow the 65,000 tonne aircraft carrier to float. It then took only three hours to carefully manoeuvre the carrier out of the dock with just two metres clearance at either side and then berth her alongside a nearby jetty. Teams will now continue to outfit the ship and steadily bring her systems to life in preparation for sea trials in 2016. The dock she vacates will be used for final assembly of her sister ship, HMS Prince of Wales, which will begin in September. Both ships are being delivered by the Aircraft Carrier Alliance, a unique partnership between the Ministry of Defence, Thales UK, BAE Systems, and Babcock.
Armour in Detail 1 - BMP 1 Fighting Vehicle
 Author: Andrzej Marchlewski Armour in Detail 1 - BMP 1 Fighting Vehicle Books International 1995 ISBN: 8390318210 Format: PDF Size: 28,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 42
Stealth Jet Fighter: The F-117A
 Author: Tracey Reavis Stealth Jet Fighter: The F-117A Scholastic, Inc. 2001 Format: PDF Pages: 52 Language: English Size: 27 MB The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk is a single-seat, twin-engine stealth ground-attack aircraft formerly operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) developed from the Have Blue technology demonstrator and produced by Lockheed's Skunk Works. It is the first operational aircraft to be designed around stealth technology. The maiden flight of the F-117 happened in 1981 and the aircraft achieved initial operating capability status in October 1983. The Nighthawk spent much of its early service life shrouded in secrecy, until it was revealed to the world in November 1988.
German Battleships 1897-1945
 Author: R. A. Burt German Battleships 1897-1945 Arms and Armour Press ISBN: 0853689857 1989 Format: PDF Size: 11,5 МБ Language: English Pages: 50 The concept of the modern German Navy dates only from the time of Kaiser Wilheim II and so it can be classed as a relatively new maritime power. Until about 1880, the only function of the German fleet had been to deter enemy raids on the German coastline, consequently only small coastal defence vessels were built. A newly formed German Naval Command (1889) was well aware that if expansion of territory were required, a large fleet would have to be created to match that of Great Britain and perhaps gain control of the Atlantic and North Sea.
Battle of Britain 1917: The First Heavy Bomber Raids on England
 Author: Jonathan Sutherland Battle of Britain 1917: The First Heavy Bomber Raids on England Pen and Sword Military ISBN: 184415758X 2006 Format: EPUB Pages: 224 Size: 4 Mb Language: English In the autumn of 1916 the Germans began to equip with the Gotha twin-engined bomber. Of a pusher layout, these aircraft could fly at 15,000 feet, well above any contemporary fighter's maximum height. With a range of 800 km (500 miles) and a bomb load of up to 500 kg (1,100 lb), the Gothas were designed to carry out attacks across the channel against Britain. A group of four squadrons was established in Belgium, and they carried out their first bombing raid towards the end of May 1917. This 22 aircraft sortie, against the town of Folkestone, caused 95 deaths. In mid June a force of 18 Gothas attacked London in broad daylight. Over 90 British fighters met them, but not one Gotha was brought down. This bombing raid caused 162 deaths.
U.S. Army Materiel Command 2015-2016
 Author: Collective U.S. Army Materiel Command 2015-2016 Faircount Media Group 2015 Format: PDF Pages: 146 Size: 40 Mb Language: English
Scholastic Encyclopedia of the United States at War
 Author: June A. English Scholastic Encyclopedia of the United States at War Scholastic Inc. 1998 Format: PDF Pages: 196 Language: English Size: 28.8 MB From the American Revolution to the Gulf War, The Encyclopedia of the United States at War chronicles the history of our country's involvement in armed conflict. War is not all battles and weapons and uniforms; its roots begin to grow many years before the first shot is fired. War is the agonizing decision by our political leaders to risk lives to protect the country's interests. War is every story of every person who gives his or her life in the service of their country. And war continues to affect people and nations for years after peace is attained.
USS Alabama (Images of America)
 USS Alabama Author: Kent Whitaker, Bill Tunnell Arcadia Publishing Images of America 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1467110211 Pages: 128 Language: English Format: EPUB Size: 70 MB
1938 Hitler's Gamble
 Author: Giles MacDonogh 1938 Hitler's Gamble Basic Books 2009 ISBN: 0465009549 Format: PDF Size: 2,7 МБ Language: English Pages: 352 In this masterful narrative, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh chronicles Adolf Hitler’s consolidation of power over the course of one year. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was clearly a threat to the entire world. It was in 1938 that Third Reich came of age. The Führer brought Germany into line with Nazi ideology and revealed his plans to take back those parts of Europe lost to “Greater Germany” after the First World War. From the purging of the army in January through the Anschluss in March, from the Munich Conference in September to the ravages of Kristallnacht in November, MacDonogh offers a gripping account of the year Adolf Hitler came into his own and set the world inexorably on track to a cataclysmic war.
Scouting and Patrolling: Ground Reconnaissance Principles and Training
 Scouting and Patrolling: Ground Reconnaissance Principles and Training Author: Rex Applegate Paladin Press ISBN: 0873641841 1980 Pages: 131 Format: PDF Size: 56.44МБ Language: English This is the classic manual on scouting and patrolling by one of America's foremost authorities on military and police science. This book teaches you all that you need to know about ground reconnaissance principles and training, terrain features and observation, as well as exercise to show you how to put the principles into effect.
Le Cateau (Battleground Europe)
 Author: Nigel Cave Le Cateau Pen and Sword Military Battleground Europe 2008 Format: EPUB Pages: 224 Size: 10 Mb Language: English Le Cateau (26-27 August 1914) was the second major action fought by the BEF in the Great War. His men exhausted after fighting at Mons and by the subsequent speedy retreat, Lieutenant-General Horace Smith-Dorrien (commanding II Corps) decided that he had to make a stand in the vicinity of Le Cateau.
Russia As I See Her: Photoalbum, 1960-2013
 Author: Yuri Abramochkin Russia As I See Her: Photoalbum, 1960-2013 Scanrus Publishing House 2013 Pages: 328 Format: HQ PDF Size: 105.8 Mb Language: English Russia as I see her is a book covering 50 years of life. It is about the Soviet Union, Russia and the transition period between one state and the other. Its author, photo reporter Yuri Abramochkin, worked for APN, one of the largest news agencies in the world. He has travelled around Russia and the world. Everything in this book is fascinating: the photo reports, the portraits, the landscapes, the memories of things that have passed, and intimations of the future. But the most valuable aspect of the book is the people; the world-famous and the unknown, Abramochkin captures both. He possesses the rare ability to see a person and reveal their inner world. Indeed, heisa brilliant portraitist. As a Kremlin photographer, Abramochkin accompanied general secretaries and presidents, engaged with kings and national leaders. But beside snapshots of politicians, he has created a whole portrait gallery of working people and personalities in science, culture and art. These photographs almost seem to be living. Yuri Abramochkin's photographs are accompanied by captions or short stories which offer the author's own vision of events, psychological background for the scenes or some additional information. The result is an amazing photo chronicle of Russia at the end of the last century and the beginning of a new one. Every snapshot by Abramochkin is a story coming alive. Put together, they are a work of talent, an example of honest and passionate attitude towards life.
Fire and Ice : The Korean War, 1950-1953
 Author: Michael Varhola Fire and Ice : The Korean War, 1950-1953 Da Capo Press ISBN: 1882810449 2000 Format: PDF Size 32,8 МБ Language: English Pages: 317 This handy "At A Glance" volume contains an exceptional amount of material on the Korean Conflict, with much information that will be new to virtually all readers, such as dissension between the U.S. and South Korea, the differing treatment of prisoners by the Chinese and North Koreans, the widespread service of Korean nationals in American units, and the important contribution made by Turkey, the British Commonwealth and other nations to the U.N. effort.
The US Fighting Man's Code
 The US Fighting Man's Code Author: Department of Defense Pages: 168 Format: PDF Size: 18 mb Quality: Good Language: English 1955 Since the Code was proclaimed in 1955, each of the Services has improved its instruction on how to avoid capture and what to do if taken prisoner of war. Each Service program has been analyzed, and the best points are reflected in this revised pamphlet, "The U.S. Fighting Man's Code."
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