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 U.S. Combat Helmets of the 20th Century 
 Author: Mark A. Reynosa U.S. Combat Helmets of the 20th Century Schiffer Publishing 1997 Format: PDF Pages: 114 Language: English Size: 30.4 MB This book represents nearly a decade of research into the history of U.S. production combat helmets. Covered are the standard ground helmets, parachutist helmets and helmet covers. Every major production helmet version is presented in full color photographs, including detail shots and production markings.
U.S. Air Force Special Forces: Combat Controllers
 Author: Kim Covert U.S. Air Force Special Forces: Combat Controllers Capstone Press 2000 Format: PDF Pages: 54 Language: English Size: 29 MB Provides an introduction to the Air Force Special Forces Combat Controllers, their history and development, missions, training, and equipment.
Luftwaffe Fighter Aces
 Author: Mike Spick Luftwaffe Fighter Aces Ballantine Books 1996 Format: PDF Pages: 284 Language: English Size: 48.8 MB Flying has no equivalent, while war is the second-oldest profession. Combined, they are the ultimate in human experience. The fighter pilot is the modem equivalent of the ancient single combat champion, whose worth was measured by the number of his victories. Yet no champion of old ever approached the number of victories attributed to the leading fighter pilots of the Luftwaffe in the Second World War. What sort of men were they?
Pure Luck - The Authorised Biography of Sir Thomas Sopwith 1888-1989
 Author: Alan E. Bramson Pure Luck - The Authorised Biography of Sir Thomas Sopwith 1888-1989 Patrick Stephens Limited 1990 Format: PDF Pages: 296 Language: English Size: 49.5 MB Sir Thomas Sopwith's 101-year life spanned aviation history. A contemporary of the Wright Brothers, he went on to become a highly successful aeroplane manufacturer in his own right: his Camel and Pup revolutionised aerial combat in the First World War. His Hurricane and Lancaster were amongst the most successful designs of the Second and the remarkable Harrier `jump jet' emerged from an industrial empire that employed up to 127,000 people. But Thomas Sopwith was more than a remarkable aviation pioneer and industrialist, he was a sportsman in the old tradition and one of the world's leading 120 metre class yachtsmen. Pure Luck traces the remarkable history of Sopwith, narrates the moments of triumph and tragedy during his early life and describes the events leading to his 80-year involvement in aeronautics - ballooning, early days at Brooklands and the founding of Sopwith Aviation. His wisdom and record of achievement are recorded as Pure Luck places in perspective Tommy Sopwith's astonishing career and highlights many events in his private and business life. With justification Sir Thomas Sopwith can be classed among the most influential non-political figures this century, but during his life he turned down many requests from authors keen to write his biography. It was only a few months before he died in 1989 that he agreed to let Alan Bramson do it. Alan Bramson, a highly accomplished pilot himself with 250 types in his logbook, is the author of 21 other aviation books, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a Liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators.
Letters to Hitler
 Author: Henrik Eberle Letters to Hitler Polity 2012 Format: PDF Pages: 281 Language: English Size: 13 MB Between 1925 and 1945 thousands of ordinary Germans of both sexes and all ages wrote letters to Hitler. Lost for decades, a large cache of these letters was recently discovered in the KGB Special Archive in Moscow, having been carted off to Russia by the Soviet Secret Police at the end of the war. The letters range from gushing love letters - ‘I love you so much. Write to me, please,’ this from a seven-year old girl named Gina - to letters from teachers, students, priests, businessmen and others expressing gratitude for alleviating poverty or restoring dignity to the German people. There are a few protest letters and the occasional desperate plea to release a loved one from a concentration camp, but the overwhelming majority are positive and even rapturous, shedding fresh light on the nature of the Hitler cult in Nazi Germany. This volume is the first publication of these letters in English. It comprises a selection of the letters and includes a contextualizing commentary that explains the situation of each writer, how the letter was dealt with and what it tells us about Nazi Germany. The commentary also describes the bureaucratic procedures that evolved to deal with the correspondence (Hitler never read any of it), which ranged from warm thanks to referral to the Gestapo.
The Green Beret. U.S. Special Forces From Vietnam to Delta Force
 Author: Ashley Brown The Green Beret. U.S. Special Forces From Vietnam to Delta Force Villard Books 1986 Format: PDF Pages: 100 Language: English Size: 20.8 MB The Green Beret explains why the Special Forces were created—to infiltrate behind enemy lines in Vietnam — and how they have developed into an elite fighting fraternity, on the forefront of today's "dirty wars": counter-insurgency and anti-terrorism. It underscores the special skills, the unusual tactics, and the unconventional weapons that give the Green Berets the edge in these distant, deadly battles. More than 100 illustrations and graphic photographs, in both full-color and black-and-white, follow the Green Berets from the highlands of Southeast Asia to the jungles of Latin America.
The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
 Author : Andrei Lankov : The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia Oxford University Press : 2013 ISBN: 9780199964291 Pages: 304 Format : epub Size : 1,9 MB Language : English North Korea is widely regarded as one of the most repressive and dangerous nations in the world - the last Stalinist regime on earth. Yet despite its manifest importance - particularly its potential for destabilizing East Asia - North Korea is notoriously one of the most difficult regimes in the world to study. A black box to most, the regime appears to be fundamentally irrational and unstable. How can it survive? In A Country, Not a Bomb, Andrei Lankov draws from years of research and his own access to North Koreans to provide a genuinely informed and accessible overview of North Korea, from its origins in 1945 to the present. Given its confrontational foreign policy, its nuclear ambitions, and its paranoid leadership cadre, this incredibly poor nation has remained on the front pages ever since the end of the Cold War. Lankov, who is fluent in both Korean and English, will explain how the regime actually functions and why it has achieved a modicum of stability despite itsbizarre mix of Stalinist totalitarianism and hereditary monarchy. Along with covering North Korea's foreign and nuclear policies, the book will also explain how its ruling class actually rules and how ordinary North Koreans live. Perhaps most surprisingly, a grass roots market society is emerging, and Lankov traces how this has happened. Lankov has conducted many interviews with North Korean emigres, so his understanding of both the regime and life under it is remarkably well informed. It will be the definitive account.
Men of War. Life in Nelson's Navy
 Author: Patrick O'Brian Men of War. Life in Nelson's Navy W. W. Norton & Company 1995 Format: PDF Pages: 100 Language: English Size: 11.5 MB This book is a companion to Patrick O'Brian's sea novels, a straightforward exploration of what daily life in Nelson's navy was really like, for everyone from the captain down to the rawest recruit. What did they eat? What songs did they sing? What was the schedule of watches? How were the officers and crew paid, and what was the division of prize-money? These questions and many more are answered in Patrick O'Brian's elegant narrative, which includes wonderful anecdotal material on the battles and commanders that established Britain's naval supremacy. Line drawings and charts help us to understand the construction and rigging of the great ships, the types and disposition of the guns, and how they were operated in battle. A number of contemporary drawings and cartoons illustrate aspects of naval life from the press gang to the scullery. Finally, a generous selection of full-color paintings render the majesty and the excitement of fleet actions in the age of fighting sail. Photographs, drawings, cartoons, charts, and full-color paintings.
Royal Australian Navy 1911-1986
 Author: Dunn, B. G. Wescombe, R. E Royal Australian Navy 1911-1986 SMagazine Art for the Royal Australian Navy 1986 Format: PDF Pages: 84 Language: English Size: 13.7 MB During its 75 years of service, the Royal Australian Navy has protected the carriage of the Nation’s wealth and has contributed substantially to the security of the Nation itself. Today the RAN continues to play its part, which is so important to the development of Australia.
The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
 Author: Steven Pressfield Panzer Warfare on the Eastern Front Sentinel HC 2014 ISBN: 1595230912 Format: Epub Pages: 448 Size: 16 Mb Language: English The nineteen-year-old state of Israel is surrounded by enemies who want nothing less than her utter extinction. The Soviet-equipped Egyptian Army has massed a thousand tanks on the nation’s southern border. Syrian heavy guns are shelling her from the north. To the east, Jordan and Iraq are moving mechanized brigades and fighter squadrons into position to attack. Egypt’s President Nasser has declared that the Arab force’s objective is “the destruction of Israel.” The rest of the world turns a blind eye to the new nation’s desperate peril.
Military Prototypes of the 1950s
 Author: Michael J.H. Taylor Military Prototypes of the 1950s (Warbirds Illustrated 18) Arms and Armour Press 1984 Format: PDF Pages: 72 Language: English Size: 51.2 MB This Arms and Armour Press Warbirds Illustrated edition describes Military Prototypes of the 1950s. Fully illustrated.
The Albanians: a modern history
 Author: Miranda Vickers The Albanians: a modern history I.B. Tauris Pages: 294 ISBN: 1-86064-541-0 Language: English 2001 Format: DjVu Size: 6,12 МБ
British Naval Aviation - The Fleet Air Arm, 1917-1990
 Author: Ray Sturtivant British Naval Aviation - The Fleet Air Arm, 1917-1990 Naval Institute Press 1990 Format: PDF Pages: 228 Language: English Size: 101.5 MB From conducting the first deck landing to deployment of the first vertical take-off aircraft, the British Fleet Air Arm has been at the forefront of international naval air development. Through the days of World War II, the postwar colonial problems and the Falklands conflict, the FAA has played an important operational role; in between times it has advanced the deployment and use of many specialist aircraft, helicopter and naval air weapons. Its "Fly Navy" motto is well known.
State Building in Putin's Russia
 State Building in Putin's Russia Author: Brian D. Taylor Cambridge University Press Graduation Year: 2011 Language: English Format: Pdf Pages: 392 Size: 4,2 Mb The Soviet Union has been characterized as “the world’s largest-ever police state.” But why is “police state” a pejorative, a synonym for brutal dictatorship? After all, if we expect the state to do anything, policing is surely one of those things. Although policing is a function that can and often is carried out by private actors, all modern states create “an organization authorized by a collectivity to regulate social relations within itself by utilizing, if need be, physical force.” Try living in a community of any significant size that does not have an authorized organization capable of policing it, and one will quickly see the virtues of such a force. Anarchists aside, most citizens in the modern world would rather live with police than without them. But the term “police state” resonates because state power, as Max Weber recognized, ultimately rests on the ability to coerce. The behavior of its coercive organizations, such as the military, the police, and the secret police, tells us much about the character of a state, as the Marenin epigraph emphasizes.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
 Author: John Griffiths The Cuban Missile Crisis Rourke Enterprises, Inc. 1987 Format: PDF Pages: 88 Language: English Size: 9.3 MB The Cuban Missile Crisis began on the morning of October 16, 1962 with the confirmation of the existence of Russian offensive missiles on the island of Cuba...
The Churchills - A Family at the Heart of History
 Author: Mary S. Lovell The Churchills - A Family at the Heart of History Abacus Software 2012 Format: PDF Pages: 644 Language: English Size: 30.5 MB There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles', so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and cuckolder of Charles II - onwards, the Churchills have been politicians, gamblers and profligates, heroes and womanisers. The Churchills is a richly layered portrait of an extraordinary set of men and women - grandly ambitious, regularly impecunious, impulsive, arrogant and brave. And towering above the Churchill clan is the figure of Winston - his failures and his triumphs shown in a new and revealing context - ultimately our 'greatest Briton'.
Heroes of the Sky: Avalon International Airshow 2015
 Author: Collective Heroes of the Sky: Avalon International Airshow 2015 Duncan Fenn 2015 Format: PDF Pages: 104 Size: 41 Mb Language: English Pictorial of the Australian International Airshow held at Avalon Airport 2015 from 27th February to 1st March. The Australian International Airshow and Aerospace & Defence Exposition is an event unlike any other in the Australasian region. It is the result of many years of passion and enthusiasm by a dedicated group of aviation enthusiasts.
The Me 262 Stormbird: From the Pilots Who Flew, Fought, and Survived It
 Author: Colin D. Heaton The Me 262 Stormbird: From the Pilots Who Flew, Fought, and Survived It Zenith Press ISBN: 0760342636 2012 Format: EPUB Pages: 336 Size: 2 Mb Language: English The Me 262 was the first of its kind, the first jet-powered aircraft. Although conceived before the war, with the initial plans being drawn in April 1939, the Stormbird was beset with technological (particularly the revolutionary engines) and political difficulties, resulting in it not entering combat until August 1944, with claims of nineteen downed Allied aircraft. The performance of the Me 262 so far exceeded that of Allied aircraft that on 1 Sepember 1944, USAAF General Carl Spaatz remarked that if greater numbers of German jets appeared, they could inflict losses heavy enough to force cancellation of the Allied daylight bombing offensive.
The Armed Forces of the USSR
 Author: Harriet Fast Scott, William F. Scott The Armed Forces of the USSR Westview Press Inc. 1979 Format: PDF Pages: 472 Language: English Size: 67 MB This fact-rich volume, written by two experienced observers of the Soviet military scene, has sections on almost all aspects of the U.S.S.R.'s defense establishment-the structure of the military services and the high command, their training and education, the military-industrial complex, the relationship between the Communist Party and the armed forces, and the fundamentals of military doctrine and strategy. Extensive use is made of Soviet military bibliographical materials.
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