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 Swift to Battle: No.72 Fighter Squadron RAF in Action 
 Author: Tom Docherty Swift to Battle: No.72 Fighter Squadron RAF in Action Volume 1: 1937-1942 Pen and Sword Aviation ISBN: 1844158292 2009 Format: EPUB Pages: 256 Size: 6 Mb Language: English This first of three volumes traces the history of 72 Fighter Squadron, one of the premier squadrons in the Royal Air Force. The aircraft flown, operational personnel and missions flown are fully described with firsthand accounts from pilots and both air and ground crew.
Modern Soviet Armor: Combat Vehicles of the USSR and Warsaw Pact Today
 Author: Steven J. Zaloga Modern Soviet Armor: Combat Vehicles of the USSR and Warsaw Pact Today Prentice-Hall Inc. 1979 Format: PDF Pages: 94 Language: English Size: 58.2 MB This book from famous Steven J. Zaloga tells about Modern Soviet Armor, Combat Vehicles of the USSR and Warsaw Pact Today with 270 illustrations including 16 in full color 88 pages.
Dictionary of Battles
 Author: Thomas Harbottle Dictionary of Battles Stein and Day Publishers 1971 Format: PDF Pages: 344 Language: English Size: 35.5 MB Harbottle's "Dictionary of Battles" is one of the handiest reference books ever written for anyone who needs to know a little bit about a whole lot of military history, such as the story of the Battle of Puebla which spawned the Cinco de Mayo celebrations in the United States and Mexico, or the role of the French fleet at the Battle of Yorktown. The Dictionary of Battles is an invaluable reference work. Originally compiled by Thomas Benfield Harbottle around the turn of the century, it has now been updated by George Bruce to include all twentieth-century military operations from the Boer Wars through Vietnam. For comprehensiveness, the Dictionary of Battles also includes the sieges, raids, and relatively minor actions of important wars, because these tactical moves very often led to the main battles.
Strike Fighters The F/A-18E/F Super Hornets
 Author: Bill Sweetman Strike Fighters The F/A-18E/F Super Hornets (War Planes) Capstone Press 2002 Format: PDF Pages: 36 Language: English Size: 18.4 MB The Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet and related twin-seat F/A-18F are twin-engine carrier-capable multirole fighter aircraft variants based on the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet. The F/A-18E single-seat and F/A-18F tandem-seat variants are larger and more advanced derivatives of the F/A-18C and D Hornet. The Super Hornet has an internal 20 mm M61 rotary cannon and can carry air-to-air missiles and air-to-surface weapons. Additional fuel can be carried in up to five external fuel tanks and the aircraft can be configured as an airborne tanker by adding an external air refueling system.
Glock Armorers Manual
 Glock Armorers Manual Author: GLOCK GLOCK Inc. 2012 ASIN: B006RWTDQ2 Format: pdf Pages: 73 Size: 7 Mb Language: English, English This manual provides basic service and backup information for certified GLOCK 17 - GLOCK 36 armorers, and is not intended for use otherwise.
Flights of Discovery
 Author: Lane E. Wallace Flights of Discovery National Aeronautics & Space Administration 1996 Format: PDF Pages: 214 Language: English Size: 85.8 MB This book chronicles the very inception of the Dryden Flight Research Center and the Flights of the Discovery with a glimpse toward the future. This book examines the aircraft, people and the center operation to give you a complete picture of the importance of this center.
The Year in Defence: Naval Edition
 Author: Collective The Year in Defence: Naval Edition Faircount LLC 2009 Spring Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 92 Size: 11 Mb Language: English The Year in Defense is one of today’s leading military and defense information sources for leaders and managers within the American defense community and industrial base. The publication reviews significant activities in the U.S. Department of Defense and military departments over the recent 12-month period while previewing the year ahead.
Battleground Europe.Market Garden - Hell's Highway
 Author: Tim Saunders Battleground Europe.Market Garden - Hell's Highway Pen & Sword 2001 Format: PDF Pages: 204 Language: English Size: 32.5 MB Hell's Highway is the dramatic name given to the vital stretch of road that the British 3rd Guards Armoured Division had to advance down rapidly on their route to relieve the American Paras (82d Airborne) at Nijmegen and the British I st Airborne Division at Arnhem. Adopting the clear and successful style of Battleground works this book relies on personal accounts to embellish this dramatic story.
The Military Sale. Medals, Orders, Decorations and Militaria
 The Military Sale. Medals, Orders, Decorations and Militaria Author: Collective Baldwin's 03 2014 Pages: 167 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 19 MB
The Seafarers - The Great Liners
 Author: Melvin Maddocks The Seafarers - The Great Liners Time-Life Books 1979 Format: PDF Pages: 182 Language: English Size: 29 MB It is a curious fact that the greatest liners of all time were those which plied their trade across the North Atlantic and it is to those great ships that this book is dedicated. It is, after all, one in a lengthy series of Time-Life books known for their excellence. The only fault with my particular copy is the leather bound cover. As far as the content is concerned, quite excellent. The appetite is whetted by the immediate inclusion of ten full page reproductions of posters from a bygone age. Unlike other books of the genre, this one does not zero in on and then concentrate on the Titanic - as though that were the only ship ever to have sailed. Instead we get a complete history of transatlantic passenger liners of which the Titanic was a part. The photographs are worthy of the research which has undoubtedly gone into the text with plenty of pictures which are exciting. The overall subject is so thoroughly covered that short biographies of such diverse characters as Cunard and Brunel are also included.
The American Nation: A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th ed.)
 The American Nation: A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition) Pearson Author: Mark C. Carnes, John A. Garraty 2011 Pages: 992 Format: pdf Language: English ISBN: 978-0205790449 Size: 107 mb The American Nation’s pedagogical mission is to show readers how history connects to the experiences and expectations that mark their lives. The authors pursue that mission through a variety of distinctive features, including an innovative art program and provocative chapter-opening questions and essays to engage readers.
Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence
 Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence (Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence) Author: Michael A. Turner The Scarecrow Press 2005 Pages: 352 Language: English Format: pdf Size: 12.3 Mb This compendium of over 500 entries on the most important and relevant personalities, programs, activities, and agencies of U.S. intelligence, beginning with the Sons of Liberty before the onset of the Revolutionary War until the most recent reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community, covers the myriad pieces of legislation that have governed the activities of U.S. intelligence. Each entry is cross-referenced for easy navigation and provides a definition as well as a brief but complete historical evaluation of the subject. This volume traces more than two centuries of history in the chronology. The introduction explains just what intelligence is and does, and shows how U.S. intelligence operations have evolved. Appendixes list Directors and Deputy Directors of Central Intelligence. The bibliography provides the most relevant and important sources for those interested in further reading.
The Six Million Reconsidered
 The Six Million Reconsidered Author: Comittee for Truth in History Pages: 137 Format: PDF Size: 13 mb Quality: Good Language: English 1977 The present volume is conceived as a supplement that weighs the credibility of age-old Jewish atrocity tales - of which the "six million" story is but the latest and greatest - in the light of several historical-cultural factors that deserve to be known better than they have been. The Zionists and their friends do not want the non-Jewish world to learn about these forbidden matters, for reasons that we hope will quickly become apparent.
Helicopters and Other Rotorcraft Since 1907
 Author: Kenneth Munson Helicopters and Other Rotorcraft Since 1907 (Blandford Colour Series) Blandford Press 1973 ISBN: 0713706104 Format: PDF Size: 28,3 МБ Language: English Pages: 199 This unique volume covers the development of rotorcragt from the first primitive, exploratory mashines to the latest, fastest helicopters in world-wide service today, with 94 representive types illustrated for the first time by full-colour general arrangement drawings showing each in the markings of a typical operator.
The Year in Special Operations 2014-2015
 Author: Collective The Year in Special Operations 2014-2015 Faircount LLC 2014 Format: PDF Pages: 132 Size: 113 Mb Language: English
Militant Tricks: Battlefield Ruses of the Islamic Insurgent
 Author: Mike Leahy Militant Tricks: Battlefield Ruses of the Islamic Insurgent Posterity Press(NC) 2005 Pages: 412 Format: PDF Language : English Size: 35 mb Quality: Good Over the last 10 years, our deployed troops have experienced many things. Though the war in Afghanistan is still going, their hard-won lessons have yet to be assimilated by the Stateside bureaucracy. To help, Militant Tricks recounts America's progress in Iraq and Afghanistan from the standpoint of East Asian battlefield deception. Both countries were part of the Mongol Empire for over 200 years and thus prone to every sort of ancient Chinese illusion. Militant Tricks also contains the tactical "techniques" with which to counter a Muslim urban offensive. While some of these nontraditional techniques were risked during the Baghdad Surge, they may all too soon be forgotten.
1915: The Death of Innocence
 Author: Lyn MacDonald 1915: The Death of Innocence Penguin 1997 ISBN: 0140259007 Format: EPUB Size: 12,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 640 By Christmas 1914, the wild wave of enthusiasm that had sent men flocking to join up a few months earlier began to tail off, and though the original British Expeditionary Force had suffered 90 percent casualties, most people, particularly the soldiers themselves, still believed that 1915 would see the breaking of the deadlock. But their hopes were shattered on the bloody battlefields of Neuve Chapelle, Ypres, Loos, and far away on the shores of Gallipoli. Lyn Macdonald's story of 1915 is stark, brutal, frank, sometimes painfully funny, always human. Never before has any writer collected so many firsthand accounts of the experiences of ordinary soldiers, through diaries, letters, and interviews with survivors—and it is the dogged heroism and sardonic humor of the soldiers that shine through the pages of this epic narrative. 1915 is a uniquely compelling blend of military history and poignant memories of the fighters who survived the ordeal.
SAAFs Border War. The South African Air Force in Combat 1966-89
 Author: Peter Baxter SAAFs Border War. The South African Air Force in Combat 1966-89 Helion and Company 2013 ISBN: 1908916230 Format: EPUB Size: 39,3 МБ Language: English Pages: 72 South African Mirages and Cuban MiG-21s dogfighting over Cuito Cuanavale, the largest tank battle on African soil since El Alamein; Puma troopships shot out of the skies by Strela missiles and RPG-7 rockets; Alouette III gunships hovering menacingly above Koevoet tracker-combat teams as they close in for the kill; Hercules and Transall transports disgorging their loads of Parabats over Cassinga; suicidal helicopter hot-extractions of Recce operators deep in enemy territory; and a lone Alouette pilot who disobeyed orders and under intense ground fire evacuated a critically wounded soldier such is the story of the South African Air Force, the SAAF, over the 23-year period 1966-1989, the period of conflict that became known as the 'Border War'. Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the SAAF was effectively South Africa's first line of defence against Soviet expansionism in southern Africa. That the Soviets, through their surrogates-the Cuban military, Angola's FAPLA and Namibia's SWAPO-sought a communist regime in South Africa is indisputable, as too was the SAAF's skill, quality, determination and capability to defeat the best Soviet air defences of the time. This account covers all the major operations that the SAAF was involved in, from Operation Blouwildebees, the opening salvo of the conflict at Omgulumbashe, South West Africa in 1966 to the final curtain, Operation Merlyn, the so-called April Fool's Day 'war' of 1989.
Bombs over Bikini: The World's First Nuclear Disaster
 Author: Connie Goldsmith Bombs over Bikini: The World's First Nuclear Disaster (Nonfiction - Young Adult) 21st Century 2014 Format: PDF Size: 10.6 Mb Language: English In 1946, as part of the Cold War arms race, the US military launched a program to test nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific Ocean. From 1946 until 1958, the military detonated sixty-seven nuclear bombs over the region's Bikini and Enewetak Atolls. The twelfth bomb, called Bravo, became the world's first nuclear disaster. It sent a toxic cloud of radiation over Rongelap Atoll and other nearby inhabited islands. The testing was intended to advance scientific knowledge about nuclear bombs and radiation, but it had much more far-reaching effects. Some of the islanders suffered burns, cancers, birth defects, and other medical tragedies as a result of radiation poisoning. Many of the Marshallese were resettled on other Pacific islands or in the United States. They and their descendants cannot yet return to Bikini, which remains contaminated by radiation. And while the United States claims it is now safe to resettle Rongelap, only a few construction workers live there on a temporary basis. For Bombs over Bikini, author Connie Goldsmith researched government documents, military film footage, and other primary source documents to tell the story of the world's first nuclear disaster. You'll meet the people who planned the test operations, the Marshall Islanders who lost their homes and suffered from radiation illnesses, and those who have worked to hold the US government accountable for catastrophically poor planning. Was the new knowledge about nuclear bombs and radiation worth the cost in human suffering? You decide.
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