Название: The Mighty Eighth at War: USAAF 8th Air Force Bombers Versus the Luftwaffe 1943-1945
Автор: Martin W. Bowman
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473822777
Год: 2010
Формат: AZW3/EPUB/PDF (conv)
Страниц: 288
Размер: 10,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

From the beginning of World War Two the RAF s Bomber Command had been the only means of striking Hitler s Reich and its war machine. The entry into the war of the United States and the subsequent arrival in the UK of the Eighth Air Force was to more than double the Allied capability.

Название: The Decisive Campaigns of the Desert Air Force 1942 - 1945
Автор: Bryn Evans
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1783462604
Год: 2014
Формат: AZW3/EPUB/PDF (conv)
Страниц: 240
Размер: 12,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Compared to the RAF’s Fighter and Bomber Commands, the Desert Air Force (DAF) is far less well known, yet its achievements were spectacular.
DAF led the way in North Africa and Italy in pioneering new tactics in close Army-Air Force cooperation on the battlefield, DAF and Allied air forces gave Allied armies in North Africa and Italy a decisive cutting edge.

Название: Bomber Command Reflections of War: Volume 3: Battleground Berlin: July 1943 - March 1944
Автор: Martin W. Bowman
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1848844948
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 15,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

This massive work provides a comprehensive insight to the experiences of Bomber Commands pilots and aircrew throughout World War Two. From the early wartime years when the RAFs first attempts to avenge Germanys onslaught were bedeviled by poor navigation and inaccurate bombing, to the final winning onslaught that finally tamed Hitler in his Berlin lair, these volumes trace the true experiences of the men who flew the bombers.

Название: The Brunei Revolt: 1962-1963
Автор: Nicholas van der Bijl
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848846401
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 13,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

In December 1962, nationalists in Brunei, the hugely wealthy small kingdom on the North Coast of Borneo, formed the Army of North Kalimantan (TNKU) and, demanding greater democracy, engineered a rebellion against the Sultan and seized a large number of hostages.

Название: The Fall of Saigon: Scenes From The Sudden End Of A Long War
Автор: David Butler
Издательство: Sphere
ISBN: 0722121067
Год: 1986
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 560
Размер: 21,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Shortly after dawn on April 30,1975, the last US Marines were helicoptered from the roof of the American Embassy in downtown Saigon. Four hours later, the tanks of the Communist victors rolled into a city seized by despair.

Название: Through Hitler’s Back Door: SOE Operations in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria 1939-1945
Автор: Alan Ogden
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848842481
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 304
Размер: 11,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia were all German allies in the Second World War, unlike the other countries of Europe which had either been forcibly occupied by the Nazis or remained neutral. SOE Missions mounted within their borders were thus doubly hazardous for they were conducted in enemy-populated territory, heavily policed by military forces and gendarmerie.

Название: Flight Accidents in the 21st Century U.S. Air Force
Автор: Henry Bond
Издательство: McFarland
ISBN: 1476674027
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 202
Размер: 4,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Mid-flight noncombat mishaps and blunders occur frequently in the USAF during training and utility flights--sometimes with the loss of life and regularly with the destruction of expensive aircraft.

Название: World War One Aircraft Carrier Pioneer: The Story and Diaries of Captain JM McCleery RNAS/RAF
Автор: Guy Warner
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1848842554
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 304
Размер: 16,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Jack McCleery was born in Belfast in 1898, the son of a mill owning family. He joined the RNAS in 1916 as a Probationary Flight Officer. During the next ten months he completed his training at Crystal Palace, Eastchurch, Cranwell, Frieston, Calshot and Isle of Grain, flying more than a dozen landplanes, seaplanes and flying boats, gaining his wings as a Flight Sub-Lieutenant.

Название: Military Leaders and Sacred Space in Classical Greek Warfare: Temples, Sanctuaries and Conflict in Antiquity
Автор: Sonya Nevin
Издательство: I.B. Tauris
ISBN: 1784532851
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 320
Размер: 10,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The ancient Greeks attributed great importance to the sacred during war and campaigning, as demonstrated from their earliest texts. Among the first four lines of the Iliad, for example, is a declaration that Apollo began the feud between Achilles and Agamemnon and sent a plague upon the Greek army because its leader, Agamemnon, had mistreated Apollo's priest.

Название: Современное оружие для самообороны и выживания
Издательство: АСТ
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 258
Размер: 51 Mb
Язык: Russian

С древности возможность иметь и носить оружие было признаком свободного человека. У многих народов оружие – это элемент национального костюма. А любовь к оружию и стремление его иметь заложены в мужчинах на генетическом уровне. Человечество выросло с оружием в руках, и роль оружия в нашей жизни не становится меньше – скорее, наоборот