Название: Heroes of the Skies
Автор: Michael Veitch
Издательство: Penguin
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 288
Размер: 11,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Every veteran has a story. Sometimes these stories become part of family folklore. Sometimes they are too terrible to speak of. In April 1943 Cyril Burcher bombed a German U-boat, killing its entire crew. Thirty years later, a letter arrived for him out of the blue from the daughter of the U-boat captain.

Название: The United States Air Force: A Turbulent History
Автор: Herbert Molloy Mason, Jr.
Издательство: Mason/Charter
Год: 1976
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 328
Размер: 34,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Less than seventy years after Orville Wright's plant fell apart during an army demonstration, the United States Air Force, with its nuclear capability, has developed into the nation's most powerful political and military weapon. Here is the complete story of this amazing technological metamorphosis.

Название: Rodney and the Breaking of the Line
Автор: Peter Trew
Издательство: eBookPartnership
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 318
Размер: 19,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

George Brydges Rodney (1718-1792), later Admiral Lord Rodney, had anything but a conventional career. His promising early career, which left him marked for advancement, had run into the sand during the long years of peace after the Seven Years War (1756-1763). Indeed when Britain and France found themselves at war again in 1778 as a result of the latter’s support for the American colonists, Rodney had exiled himself in France to escape his creditors.

Название: Human Factors for Naval Marine Vehicle Design and Operation
Автор: Jonathan M. Ross
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 235
Размер: 23,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

There is a driving need for naval professionals to focus on human factors issues. The number of maritime accidents is increasing and the chief cause is human error, both by the designer and the operator. Decreasing crew size, lack of experienced operators, operations in higher sea states and fatigue worsen the situation.

Название: Decisive Battles: From Yorktown to Operation Desert Storm
Автор: Jonathon Riley
Издательство: Continuum
ISBN: 1847252508
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 256
Размер: 7,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

What makes a battle decisive? Jonathon Riley draws on his personal experience as a soldier and historian to explore the definitive battles of the modern era from Yorktown in 1781 to Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Each battle included is a turning point, the outcome of which has changed the face of history.

Название: The Crucible of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare and European Transitions to Modern Economic Growth
Автор: Patrick Karl Obrien
Издательство: Brill Academic Pub
ISBN: 9004472738
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 311
Размер: 21,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book is an collaborative endeavour by senior scholars in European economic history to answer the question of what might be concluded about the nature and significance of economic connections between the long run growth of national economies and their participation in an interlude of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare?

Название: Voices of Snipers: Eyewitness Accounts from the World Wars
Автор: John Walter
Издательство: Greenhill Books
ISBN: 1784386278
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 272
Размер: 16,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Based on an incredible breadth of first-hand testimony, this is a unique collection of eyewitness accounts from World War I and II. John Walter draws on meticulous research and the reminiscences of more than fifty snipers, tracing their journeys from recruitment and selection through training, combat and its aftermath to reveal a surprising commonality of experience, even across nationalities.

Название: Midway and Guadalcanal (Turning Points of World War II)
Автор: Tom McGowen
Издательство: Franklin Watts
Год: 1984
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 120
Размер: 14,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Details the World War II battles between the Americans and the Japanese at the Pacific islands of Midway and Guadalcanal.

Название: Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines: The Unknown Heroines of World War II
Автор: Sally Van Wagenen Keil
Издательство: Rawson, Wade Publisher
Год: 1979
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 376
Размер: 58,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

From 1942 to 1944, almost two thousand women pilots left their civilian lives as students, movie stuntwomen, secretaries, blackjack dealers, and wives with husbands overseas to converge on Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas. There, the only all-female cadet air base in history, they slipped into ill-fitting men's GI flying suits and marched into the "Army Way" of life. Six months later, the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) were ready to fly every airplane in America's air arsenal, from the colossal B-29 Superfortress to the lightning-fast P-51 Mustang fighter.

Название: Heroes or Traitors - The German Replacement Army, the July Plot, and Adolf Hitler
Автор: Walter S. Dunn
Издательство: Praeger
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 208
Размер: 27,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

A riveting account of the conspirators who plotted to kill Hitler in July 1944, and the methods they used to keep a half million men from the battlefields of France and Russia. Without the efforts of these high-ranking German officers, the war against Hitler might have had a completely different outcome. It is a highly detailed account, but also a very readable book.