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 Coastal Command's Air War Against the German U-Boats 
 Author: Norman Franks Coastal Commands Air War Against the German U-Boats Pen and Sword Images of War ISBN: 1783831839 2014 Format: EPUB Pages: 152 Size: 5 Mb Language: English This book summarizes the story of how RAF Coastal Command overcame the German U-boat danger during the Second World War and how the escalation of the U-boat war promoted the development of anti-submarine warfare, leading to victory over this menace in the Atlantic.
Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World
 Author:Dr. Tad Daley Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World Rutgers University Press 2010 Format: pdf Size: 1.2Mb Language: English Apocalypse Never illuminates why we must abolish nuclear weapons, how we can, and what the world will look like after we do. The twenty-first century has ushered in a world at the atomic edge. The pop culture days of Dr. Strangelove have been replaced by the all-too-real single day of 24. Tad Daley has written a book for the general reader about this most crucial of contemporary challenges. Apocalypse Never maintains that the abolition of nuclear weapons is both essential and achievable, and reveals in fine detail what we need to do--both governments and movements--to make it a reality. Daley insists that while global climate change poses the single greatest long-term peril to the human race, the nuclear challenge in its many incarnation--nuclear terror, nuclear accident, a nuclear crisis spinning out of control--poses the single most immediate peril.
Fighting Jets: America's Frontline Fliers
 Author: Collective Fighting Jets: America's Frontline Fliers Beekman House 1990 Format: PDF Pages: 104 Language: English Size: 97.5 MB Tough, fast, sleek: U.S. planes profiled in fascinating words and arresting pictures. Tomcats, Warthogs, Intruders, Hornets, and more. Charts with all the vital information. The latest technology and electronics. Photos in this volume tend to be larger-than-life, quite close.
Allied Participation in Vietnam
 Allied Participation in Vietnam Author: James Lawton Collins Department of the Army Pages: 200 Format: PDF Size: 15 mb Quality: Good Language: English 2005 The story of the efforts of more than 40 nations to assist the Republic of Vietnam in its struggle against North Vietnam including assistance as doctors, teachers, technical specialists, combat troops, medical teams, and political warfare advisors.
Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century
 Author: Mark Mazower Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century Vintage 1999 ISBN: 0140241590 Format: EPUB Size: 4,1 МБ Language: English Pages: 512 From award-winning historian Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century retells the story of a century of division, charting the struggles of rival ideologies to create a new world order for mankind. The end of the First World War saw old empires swept away and the opportunity to build a better society from the ruins. Yet the result was division and bloodshed on an unprecedented scale, as liberal democracy, communism and fascism struggled against one another for mastery of the world. Dark Continent radically overturns the myth of Europe as a safe haven of democracy to redefine our view of the twentieth century.
Counteroffensive. U.S. Marines from Pohang to No Name Line
 Counteroffensive. U.S. Marines from Pohang to No Name Line Author: Brown R.J. Marine Corps 2001 Format: pdf Size: 21,38 mb
The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt
 Author: William L. Shirer The Sinking of the Bismarck The Deadly Hunt Rosetta Books 2014 (first published 1962) Format: EPUB Size: 16,8 МБ Language: English Pages: 178 The Bismark was the greatest warship ever built, with guns so powerful and accurate it could destroy an enemy ship while safely staying outside the line of fire. But the Allies had to sink it…or risk losing the war. William Shirer, famed World War II correspondent and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, captures every suspenseful moment of the perilous mission. Most tragic of all was the loss of the HMS Hood, the British Navy’s star battleship, sunk by the Bismark in just minutes. However, a mixture of luck and new technology—including radar—turned the tide in the Allies’ favor.
US Navy Towing Manual
 US Navy Towing Manual Author: US Navy Pages: 520 Format: PDF Size: 14 mb Quality: Good Language: English 2002
Life in the Third Reich
 Author: Richard Bessel Life in the Third Reich Oxford University Press 2001 Format: pdf Size: 7 Mb Language: English
Aircraft of the Royal Air Force since 1918
 Author: Owen Thetford Aircraft of the Royal Air Force since 1918 Funk & Wagnalls 1968 Format: PDF Pages: 616 Language: English Size: 68.6 MB First published in 1957, this revised edition with new photographs and expanded text also features a a revised and augmented collection of three-view drawings. This book provides a comprehensive guide to every aircraft ever used by the RAF since the establishment in April 1918 to the present day, ranging from the Snipe and Bristol Fighter of World War I and the 1920s, to the Tornado and Eurofighter 2000 of modern times. All aspects are covered, including general evolution, service history, the personalities involved, allocation to squadrons, technical and performance data, serial number details and production statistics. The major RAF aircraft are supplemented by a lengthy appendix covering all miscellaneous types, from the Airspeed Courier to the EH 101 helicopter. The book also encompasses other significant subjects, such as civil aircraft impressed for wartime service, RAF gliders, nuclear weapons and missiles, Orders of Battle, and inventories of RAF aircraft on strength at key dates in its history.
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
 Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Author: Liaquat Ahamed Penguin Press 2009 ISBN: 159420182X, 0143116800, 0434015415 Pages: 576 Language: english Format: EPUB + MOBI Quality: excellent Size: 3 mb Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person?s or government?s control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions taken by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for World War II and reverberated for decades. In Lords of Finance, we meet the neurotic and enigmatic Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, the xenophobic and suspicious Émile Moreau of the Banque de France, the arrogant yet brilliant Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank, and Benjamin Strong of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, whose façade of energy and drive masked a deeply wounded and overburdened man. After the First World War, these central bankers attempted to reconstruct the world of international finance. Despite their differences, they were united by a common fear?that the greatest threat to capitalism was inflation? and by a common vision that the solution was to turn back the clock and return the world to the gold standard. For a brief period in the mid-1920s they appeared to have succeeded. The world?s currencies were stabilized and capital began flowing freely across the globe. But beneath the veneer of boom-town prosperity, cracks started to appear in the financial system. The gold standard that all had believed would provide an umbrella of stability proved to be a straitjacket, and the world economy began that terrible downward spiral known as the Great Depression. As yet another period of economic turmoil makes headlines today, the Great Depression and the year 1929 remain the benchmark for true financial mayhem. Offering a new understanding of the global nature of financial crises, Lords of Finance is a potent reminder of the enormous impact that the decisions of central bankers can have, of their fallibility, and of the terrible human consequences that can result when they are wrong.
Aircraft: An All Color Story of Modern Flight
 Author: David Mondey Aircraft: An All Color Story of Modern Flight Octopus Books 1973 Format: PDF Pages: 112 Language: English Size: 12 MB thanks to adeda Over 150 full color illustrations of the world's great aircraft trace the staggering developments in the modern history of flight.
Barrel of a Gun: A War Correspondent's Misspent Moments in Combat
 Author: Al Venter Barrel of a Gun: A War Correspondent's Misspent Moments in Combat Casemate Pub ISBN: 1935149253 2010 Format: EPUB Size: 10,0 МБ Language: English Pages: 480 "Anybody who says that the pen is mightier than the sword hasn't spent time in Somalia, or in Beirut during its bloody heyday." So begins this fascinating memoir of a journalist, filmmaker, and just plain raconteur who has made a career of examining warfare-on the ground and as the bullets are flying. While the average citizen is aware of violent conflicts broiling all around the globe, Al J. Venter-from some strange compulsion unexplainable even by him-has felt the need to see them all in person, preferably at the center of the action. Born in South Africa, Venter has found no shortage of horrific battles on his own continent, from Rhodesia to Biafra, and Angola to Somalia. He has ridden with the legendary merc group Executive Outcomes, jumped into combat with South Africa's crack Parachute Regiment (the Parabats), and traipsed the jungles with both guerrillas and national troops under whichever strongman in the country then held power. During Sierra Leone's civil war he flew in the government's lone Mi-24 Hind gunship as it blasted apart rebel villages and convoys, his complaint being that the Soviet-made craft leaked when it rained.
The Illustrated Guide to the World's Top Counter-terrorist Forces
 Author: Samuel Katz The Illustrated Guide to the World's Top Counter-terrorist Forces Concord Publications Concord №5001 ISBN: 9623616023 1995 Format: PDF Pages: 258 Size: 69 Mb Language: English This illustrated guide examines the world's top counter-terrorist forces - the SAS, the German GSG-9, the Israeli Sayeret Mat'kal and the US Delta Force.
Russia in the Microphone Age: A History of Soviet Radio, 1919-1970
 Author: Stephen Lovell Russia in the Microphone Age: A History of Soviet Radio, 1919-1970 (Oxford Studies in Modern European History) Oxford University Press 2015 Format: PDF Size: 4.3 Mb Language: English The story of radio begins alongside that of the Soviet state: Russia's first long-range transmission of the human voice occurred in 1919, during the civil war. Sound broadcasting was a medium of exceptional promise for this revolutionary regime. It could bring the Bolsheviks' message to the furthest corners of their enormous country. It had unprecedented impact: the voice of Moscow could now be wired into the very workplaces and living spaces of a population that was still only weakly literate. The liveness and immediacy of broadcasting also created vivid new ways of communicating 'Sovietness' - whether through May Day parades and elections, the exploits of aviators and explorers, or show trials and public criticism. Yet, in the USSR as elsewhere, broadcasting was a medium in flux: technology, the broadcasting profession, and the listening audience were never static. Soviet radio was quickly earmarked as the mouthpiece of Soviet power, yet its history is also full of unintended consequences. The supreme irony of Soviet 'radiofication' was that its greatest triumph - the expansion of the wireless-listening public in the Cold War era - made possible its greatest failure, by turning a part of the Soviet audience into devotees of Western broadcasting. Based on substantial original research in Moscow, St Petersburg, and Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia in the Microphone Age is the first full history of Soviet radio in English. In addition to the institutional and technological dimensions of the subject, it explores the development of programme content and broadcasting genres. It also goes in search of the mysterious figure of the Soviet listener. The result is a pioneering treatment of broadcasting as an integral part of Soviet culture from its early days in the 1920s until the dawn of the television age.
American Web Equipment 1967-1991
 American Web Equipment 1967-1991 Author: C. A. Monroe, Craig Pickrall The Crowood Press Europa Militaria 37 ISBN: 978 1847973153 2012 Language: English Pages: 66 Format: PDF Size: 50,5 MB From the beginning of the twentieth century, United States military individual load-carrying equipments were fabricated mainly of cotton duck and cotton webbing. Throughout the First and Second World Wars, as well as the Korean War, cotton-based load-carrying equipments served the infantryman with little change in their design and construction. In 1954 a new load-carrying system was developed to meet the needs of the infantryman on the perceived battlefields of the Cold War. At the onset of the Vietnam War it was clear that this new cotton-based webbing system was not acceptable for use in the humid environment of the jungles of Southeast Asia. The answer to the problems plaguing cotton load-carrying equipments came in the form of nylon. Nylon equipment was found to be more durable, lighter and dried quicker than the standardized cotton equipment. As the Vietnam War ground down nylon web equipment was proving to be the answer to other load-carrying problems that had arisen during the course of the war. In 1973 an all-nylon load-carrying equipment system was standardized replacing all cotton-based load-carrying equipments in service at the time. Since 1973 all load-carrying equipments have been fabricated utilizing nylon and, in effect, closed the history book on cotton-based equipments. In this book, C A Monroe and Craig Pickrall describe and illustrate the personal equipment of the US Army soldier throughout the period, and show how it has developed to meet changing operational needs.
A History of Artillery
 Author: Ivan V. Hogg A History of Artillery The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited 1974 Format: PDF Pages: 248 Language: English Size: 41 MB Between the discovery of gunpowder and the modern missile lies a long history of the development of big guns, ammunition, armour and artillery strategy. A path through this history is traced by the author of this book, a Master Gunner and until 1972 on the staff of The Royal Military College of Science.
Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union
 Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union Author: Szporluk R. Hoover Institution Press 2000 Pages: 478 Format: PDF Size: 20 Mb Language: English Not only do the individual essays in RUSSIA, UKRAINE, AND THE BREAKUP OF THE SOVIET UNION still make relevant and stimulating reading today, the collection demonstrates as a whole why scholars working on the real nationality problems of the Soviet empire were less surprised than model-building political scientists at its sudden collapse.
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