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.

Название: Туполев Ту-16Е-ХР
Автор: Dale Volkov
Издательство: «Уголок неба»
Год: 2019
Страниц: 5
Файл: pdf в zip-архиве; 26,51 mb
Язык: Русский

Еще один вариант постановщика помех обозначался в документах Ту-16Е, а в обиходе - Ту-16Е-ХР (химический разведчик). Этот самолет предназначался для ведения фотографической, радиотехнической, радиационной и химической разведки и по составу оборудования был очень близок к Ту-16РР. Наличие на борту средств радиопротиводействия лишь способствовало выполнению задач воздушной разведки. Экипаж Ту-16Е-ХР состоял из семи человек. В носовой части грузоотсека на качающихся платформах размещались два аэрофотоаппарата АФА-42/100, в задней части отсека - подвесная гермокабина ...

Название: Pure Luck - The Authorised Biography of Sir Thomas Sopwith 1888-1989
Автор: Alan E. Bramson
Издательство: Patrick Stephens Limited
Год: 1990
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 296
Размер: 49,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

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.

Название: Stuka Pilot
Автор: Hans Ulrich Rudel
Издательство: Ballantine Books
Год: 1958
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 248
Размер: 39,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Autobiography of WW2 Nazi pilot Hans Rudel the most highly decorated German serviceman of WW2, and the only one to be awarded the Third Reich's most prestigious medal which was specially created for Rudel by Hitler himself, the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds.

Название: The War Against Russia, 1854-1856
Автор: A. J. Barker
Издательство: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Год: 1971
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 392
Размер: 69,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Crimean War is remembered principally because of a cavalry charge, the heroism of one woman, and the fact that the British generals' names—Raglan and Cardigan—passed into the language as articles of clothing. A whimsical reflection, perhaps, on where their real talents lay. A. J. Barker has written a witty and wise account of that vexing and perplexing war.

Название: Groundcrew Boys: True Engineering Stories from the Cold War Front Line
Автор: David Gledhill
Издательство: Grub Street Publishing
ISBN: 1911667025
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 192
Размер: 75,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Have you read stories of ‘derring-do’ from former operational aircrew and been left wondering what went on in the hangars and on the airfields, as those aircraft were serviced and prepared for flight? In this edition of the Boys series, you’ll discover the true stories of life on the flight line, written by those who served.