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 War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia 
 Author: Richard C. Hall War in the Balkans: An Encyclopedic History from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Breakup of Yugoslavia ABC-CLIO ISBN: 1610690303 2014 Format: PDF Size: 7,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 411 The Balkan Peninsula, which consists of Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and the former Yugoslavia, resides in the southeastern part of the European continent. Its strategic location as well as its long and bloody history of conflict have helped to define the Balkans' role in global affairs. This singular reference focuses on the events, individuals, organizations, and ideas that have made this region an international player and shaped warfare there for hundreds of years. Historian and author Richard C. Hall traces the sociopolitical history of the area, starting with the early internal conflicts as the Balkan states attempted to break away from the Ottoman Empire to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that ignited World War I to the Yugoslav Wars that erupted in the 1990s and the subsequent war crimes still being investigated today. Additional coverage focuses on how these countries continue to play an important role in global affairs and international politics.
Warspite: Warships of the Royal Navy
 Author: Iain Ballantyne Warspite: Warships of the Royal Navy Pen and Sword Maritime ISBN: 184884350X 2010 Format: EPUB Pages: 224 Size: 6 Mb Language: English No warship name in British naval history has more battle honours than Warspite. While this book looks at the lives of all eight vessels to bear the name (between 1596 and the 1990s), it concentrates on the truly epic story of the seventh vessel, a super-dreadnought battleship, conceived as the ultimate answer to German naval power, during the arms race that helped cause WW1. Warspite fought off the entire German fleet at Jutland, survived a mutiny between the wars and then covered herself in glory in action from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean during WW2.
Ammunition Handbook: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Munitions Handlers
 Ammunition Handbook: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Munitions Handlers Author: Department of the Army Pages: 47 Format: PDF Size: 29 mb Quality: Good Language: English 2001 FM 4-30.13 (FM9-13). This field manual provides ready reference and guidance for units and soldiers that handle munitions items. It is not a comprehensive manual, but it does provide useful data on important points of munitions service support. Also, it is a training tool for munitions units and soldiers.
Death Valley: The Summer Offensive, I Corps, August 1969
 Author: Keith W. Nolan Death Valley: The Summer Offensive, I Corps, August 1969 Dell ISBN: 089141665X 1999 Format: EPUB Size: 5,5 МБ Language: English Pages: 381 In the summer of 1969, in the mountains and valleys to the southwest of Da Nang, American troops fought a determined but costly series of actions against units of the regular North Vietnamese Army. The battles, the first since the announcement of the American withdrawal from Vietnam, were a watershed in American involvement in the country and took place in an atmosphere of increasing resentment - both at home, in the world's media and amongst many of the serving soldiers - against a war that was perceived to be going from bad to worse. This probing analysis of the fighting, and the background to the fighting, addresses the wider political and social issues but reserves particular emphasis for the bitter and prolonged fighting by the war-weary but determined men of the 7th Marine Regiment and the 196th Brigade, against the increasingly confident troops of the 2nd Division of the North Vietnamese Army.
NATO Armoured Combat Vehicles
 Author: Simon Dunstan NATO Armoured Combat Vehicles Arms and Armour Press 1991 Format: PDF Pages: 100 Language: English Size: 53.5 MB Details of all the types of combat vehicles currently deployed around Europe. The data is supplemented by a photographic guide to the motor land armour used in support of the main battle tanks.
The First War of Physics: The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb, 1939-1949
 Author: Jim Baggott The First War of Physics: The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb, 1939-1949 2010 Format: EPUB Size: 3 mb Pages: 584 Rich in personality, action, confrontation, and deception, The First War of Physics is the first fully realized popular account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. The book draws on declassified material, such as MI6's Farm Hall transcripts, coded soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the soviet archives.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
 Author:Laurie Collier Hillstrom The Cuban Missile Crisis (Defining Moments) 2015 Omnigraphics Format:pdf Size: 3 MB Pages:240 Language:English Provides users with a detailed and authoritative overview of events surrounding the harrowing 1962 confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, telling the story of the tense thirteen-day standoff that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Includes biographies, primary sources, and more.
Churchill & Roosevelt - The Complete Correspondence v03 - Alliance Declining
 Author: Warren F. Kimball Churchill & Roosevelt - The Complete Correspondence v03 - Alliance Declining Harper Collins Publishers 1988 Format: PDF Pages: 625 Language: English Size: 21 MB This three-volume work includes all correspondence between the British prime minister and the American president from 1933 until Roosevelt's death in 1945. Kimball's skillful commentary puts the intrinsically interesting letters in context. Although a large amount of Churchill-Roosevelt correspondence has been previously printed, this magnificently edited work is indispensable for the researcher and good reading for anyone interested in the principals and their leadership during World War II. Professor Kimball has located many unpublished items, gives full and corrected texts of others, and holds everything together with informative headnotes. He also includes the enclosures which the two leaders sent to each other.
Encyclopedia Of US Air Force Aircraft And Missile Systems vol 1&2
 Author: Marcelle Size Knaack Encyclopedia Of US Air Force Aircraft And Missile Systems vol 1&2 Office of Air Force History 1988 Format: PDF Pages: 1007 Language: English Size: 57.2 MB Volume 1 deals with the development, deployment, and operations of fighter aircraft between 1945 and 1973, commencing with the F-80 Shooting Star and ending with the development of the F-15 Eagle. Many of these aircraft were employed during the Korean War, the war in Southeast Asia, and during the cold war crisis throughout the world. The origin of each aircraft is noted as well as its most troublesome development, production, and operational problems. Also covered are significant modifications, most of which can be attributed to ever-changing aeronautical technology. The second in a series of encyclopedias of United States Air Force Aircraft and missile systems, this volume covers the developing and fielding of bomber aircraft between 1945 and 1973, commencing with the Convair B-36 Peacemaker and ending with the development of the Rockwell International B-1A.
Churchill - The Power of Words - His Remarkable Life Recounted Through His Writings and Speeches
 Author: Martin Gilbert Churchill - The Power of Words - His Remarkable Life Recounted Through His Writings and Speeches Da Capo Press 2012 Format: PDF Pages: 510 Language: English Size: 28.8 MB Winston Churchill knew the power of words. In public speeches and published books, in newspaper and magazine articles, he expressed his feelings and laid out his vision for the future. His wartime writings and speeches have fascinated generation after generation with their powerful narrative style and thoughtful reflection. This book contains one hundred extracts from his books, articles and speeches. They range from his memories of his schooldays, to his contributions to the debates on social policy and on war, his contributions in both world wars to the events and discourse, and his efforts after 1945 to see the world a better place. Martin Gilbert, Churchill's official biographer, has chosen passages that express to him the essence of Churchill's thoughts, and which describe—in his own inimitable words—the main adventures of his life, and the main crises of his career with Gilbert’s own introduction and interlinking text. They give, from first to last, an insight into his life and thought, how it evolved, and how he made his mark on the British and world stage.
Tunnel Rat in Vietnam
 Author: Tunnel Rat in Vietnam (Warrior 161) Osprey Publishing Ltd. 2012 Format: Pdf (E-book) Size: 5 Mb Language: English
Russian and Soviet Tanks 1914-1941
 Author: Maximino Argüelles Martinez Russian and Soviet Tanks 1914-1941 Maximino Argüelles 2014 Format: PDF Pages: 104 Language: English Size: 17 MB About the evolution of the Soviet offensive doctrine during World War II. Where did this doctrine and armored formations that takes practice arise?. Why was the USSR as a nation which in 1940 developed a tank as advanced as the T-34?. 100 pages trying to answer these and other questions with a description of the principal armored vehicles and the formations in which were integrated from its beginnings in the Russian Empire until June 22, 1941.
Nestor Makhno - Anarchy's Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921
 Nestor Makhno - Anarchy's Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921 Author: Alexandre Skirda AK Press 2004 Pages: 400 Format: PDF Size: 259 Mb Language: English The phenomenal life of Ukrainian peasant Nestor Makhno (1888–1934) provides the framework for this breakneck account of the downfall of the tsarist empire and the civil war that convulsed and bloodied Russia between 1917 and 1921. As in many of history's chivalric tales, clashes were fought through lightning cavalry charges and bitter hand-to-hand, saber-wielding combat. The combatants were drawn from several camps: Budyenny's Red cavalry, the Don Cossacks and Kuban Cossacks (allied with the Whites), Ukrainian nationalists, and Makhnovist partisans. Makhno, a formidable and daring strategist, headed an army of anarchist insurgents—a popular peasant movement which bore his name.
Hitler: An Illustrated Life
 Author: Robin Cross Hitler: An Illustrated Life Quercus 2009 ISBN: 1848660200 Format: EPUB Size: 7,1 МБ Language: English Pages: 224 As Chancellor of Germany between 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler exercised unrestricted power over his country's social, political, and economic life. From Hitler’s belligerent re-armament programme to his imposition of anti-Semitic legislation and territorially aggressive policies, respected historian Robin Cross maps out the life of one of the most evil men ever to have lived. This succinct and powerful account, illustrated with rare and chillingly evocative photographs, is the essential companion for anyone with a fascination for the twentieth century, the Second World War or the age of dictators.
The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building: From the Ottoman Empire to AtatA?rk's Turkey
 Author: Erik J. The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building: From the Ottoman Empire to AtatA~1/4rk's Turkey (Library of Modern Middle East Studies) I. B. Tauris 2010 Pages: 368 ISBN: 184885272X Format: pdf Size: 10,9 mb Language: English Quality: Good The grand narrative of The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building is that of the essential continuity of the late Ottoman Empire with the Republic of Turkey that was founded in 1923. Erik Jan Zurcher shows that Kemal's "ideological toolkit," which included positivism, militarism, nationalism and a state-centred world view, was shared by many other Young Turks. Authoritarian rule, a one-party state, a legal framework based on European principles, advanced European-style bureaucracy, financial administration, military and educational reforms and state-control of Islam, can all be found in the late Ottoman Empire, as can policies of demographic engineering. The book focuses on the attempts of the Young Turks to save their empire through forced modernization as well as on the attempts of their Kemalist successors to build a strong national state. The decade of almost continuous warfare, ethnic conflict and forced migration between 1911 and 1922 forms the background to these attempts and accordingly occupies a central position in this volume. This is a powerful history reflecting and contributing to the latest research from a leading historian of modern Turkey. It is essential for all readers interested in the history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, and for an understanding of a key player in the politics of the Middle East and Europe.
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk: Attack and Close-Support Fighter Bomber
 Author: Jim Winchester Douglas A-4 Skyhawk: Attack and Close-Support Fighter Bomber Pen and Sword Aviation ISBN: 1844150852 2005 Format: EPUB Pages: 256 Size: 9 Mb Language: English The Skyhawk first entered service with the US Navy almost 50 years ago. It first flew 22 June 1954 and is still in service with various US units and remains the backbone of many of the air forces of those countries to which it has been exported. It was originally conceived as a carrier-borne fighter bomber, but as the aircraft has evolved it has taken on other roles. It is renowned for its strength and survivability in combat.
RAF Canberra Units of the Cold War (Osprey Combat Aircraft 105)
 Author: Andrew Brookes RAF Canberra Units of the Cold War Osprey Publishing Osprey Combat Aircraft 105 ISBN: 1782004114 2014 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 96 Size: 4 Mb Language: English From its first public demonstration at the Farnborough Airshow of 1949, the English Electric Canberra bomber captured the attention of the aviation world. It could outmanoeuvre all the fighters of the time and it could climb way above their operating ceilings. Yet this Cold War equivalent of the Mosquito was simple to maintain and a delight to fly, although it could bite any pilot who did not treat it with respect. The Canberra B 2 first flew on 21 April 1950 and entered frontline service with No 101 Sqn in May 1951.
Titanic - 9 Hours to Hell, The Survivors Story
 Author: W. B. Bartlett Titanic - 9 Hours to Hell, The Survivors Story Amberley Publishing 2011 Format: PDF Pages: 74 Language: English Size: 11 MB A major new history of the disaster that weaves into the narrative the first-hand accounts of those who survived. It was twenty minutes to midnight on Sunday 14 April, when Jack Thayer felt the Titanic lurch to port, a motion followed by the slightest of shocks. Seven-year old Eva Hart barely noticed anything was wrong. For Stoker Fred Barrett, shovelling coal down below, it was somewhat different; the side of the ship where he was working caved in. For the next nine hours, Jack, Eva and Fred faced death and survived. They lived, along with just over 700 others picked up by 08.30 the next morning. Over 1600 people did not. This is the story told through the eyes of Jack, Eva, Fred and over a hundred others of those who survived and either wrote their experiences down or appeared before the major inquiries held subsequently. Drawing extensively on their collective evidence, this book weaves the narrative of the events that occurred in those nine fateful hours. The stories of some are discussed in detail, such as Colonel Gracie, a first-class survivor, and Lawrence Beesley, a schoolteacher, who both wrote lengthy accounts of their experiences. No less fascinating are the accounts of those who gave gripping evidence to the inquiries, people like the controversial Lady Lucille Duff-Gordon, steward John Hart who was responsible for saving the lives of the majority of the third-class passengers who lived, or Charles Joughin, the baker, who owed his survival to whisky. This is their story, and those of a fateful night, when the largest ship ever built sank without completing one successful voyage.
Great Moments in Aviation
 Author: Michael J. Taylor Great Moments in Aviation Mallard Press 1989 Format: PDF Pages: 86 Language: English Size: 10.4 MB Aviation has probably been responsible for the greatest change to peoples' lives this century. Aircraft for the first time took battle fronts to heavily populated inland cities that were many miles from where armies fought and even gave the first means by which mankind could destroy itself using atomic weapons. Conversely, modern airliners have brought foreign countries and even distant continents to within a few hours' reach of ordinary folk. Whether it was for one of these reasons, or food eaten that might have been sprayed by an agricultural aircraft, an air-sea rescue, the taxes paid that were used in part to fund extraordinary national aerospace programs, or one of a myriad of other possibilities, aviation has touched us all.
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