Название: Jane's Fighting Ships 1989-90
Автор: John E. Moore
Издательство: Jane's Information Group
Год: 1981
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 947
Размер: 137,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Jane's Fighting Ships sets the standard in ship reference, providing exhaustive technical detail on variety of ships currently being produced or under development.

Название: The Origins of the First World War
Автор: James Joll
Издательство: Longman Group
Год: 1984
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 244
Размер: 41,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The outbreak of the First World War has always presented a challenge to historians: they have sought to understand its causes in many different ways, from many different angles, and with very different results. The subject has a double fascination for the modern reader, therefore, since the debate throws light not only on the crisis of July-August 1914 itself, but also on the very nature of historical explanation and causality.

Название: Small Arms
Автор: Frederick Wilkinson
Издательство: Hawthorn Books
Год: 1965
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 266
Размер: 30,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Containing the complete history of small firearms; the techniques of the gunsmith; equipment used by combatants, sportsmen and hunters, Small Arms is the authoritative survey of one of the most fascinating aspects of the craft of weaponry. In addition, it traces the development of the match-lock, wheel-lock, flint-lock and percussion lock. The chapters on collectors and collecting, fakes and copies, repairs and restoration, and books and collections make Small Arms a collector's treasure of both practical information and sensible advice.

Название: The Rise of Persia and the First Greco-Persian Wars: The Expansion of the Achaemenid Empire and the Battle of Marathon
Автор: Manousos E Kambouris
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399093290
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 240
Размер: 36,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Manousos Kambouris revisits the epic events of the first Greco-Persian War and the Persian invasion of Greece. He gives excellent detail on the Persian perspective and sets the war in the context of the rise of Achaemenid Persia as the superpower of the day and the expansion of their empire into Europe.

Название: The Greatest Escape: A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure
Автор: Neil Churches
Издательство: Macmillan
ISBN: 1529060338
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 400
Размер: 13,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy. In August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place – 106 Allied prisoners were freed from Maribor camp, in present-day Slovenia.

Название: Авианосцы США 1909-1969 гг.
Автор: А. Якушев
Издательство: Сахновщинськая городская типография
Год: 1998
Формат: fb2, mobi, epub
Размер: 29,9 мб
Страниц: 39
Язык: Русский

В книге сжато рассказана история авианесущего флота Соединенных Штатов со времени его создания и до 1969 года. Отображено судьба авианосцев во Второй мировой войне, в Корейской войне 1950-х годах ХХ ст., войне во Вьетнаме и другие. В конце книжки в табличном облике отображены данные о разработанных за данный период авианосцах Соединенных Штатов.

Название: Firearms
Автор: Frederick Wilkinson
Издательство: Golden Press
Год: 1973
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 88
Размер: 13,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

It was in China that a shattering innovation was developed which was to change the whole way of warfare. In a Chinese book of the 11th century there is a formula for an incendiary mixture which contains, among other ingredients, charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur. These three chemicals are the component parts of gunpowder. By the 13th century the Chinese had come to appreciate the explosive qualities of gunpowder and were using a very crude form of firearm. It was no more than a strengthened bamboo tube which may have discharged a clay bullet, but this was the prototype of the 16-inch naval gun or the modern aircraft's battery of cannon.

Название: Typhoon: The Inside Story of an RAF Fighter Squadron at War
Автор: Mike Sutton
Издательство: Penguin / Michael Joseph
ISBN: 0241535999
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 384
Размер: 13,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 is the most advanced multi-role combat aircraft in the world. Capable of flying at nearly twice the speed of sound and powering to a height of over ten miles in less time than it takes to boil a kettle, a single Typhoon can also deliver a heavy bombload with such lethal precision that a whole squadron of Lancasters could not have guaranteed the same result.

Название: Exploring War and Weapons
Автор: Brian Williams
Издательство: Warwick Press
Год: 1979
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 26
Размер: 23,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Highlights techniques of warfare from Roman times to the present day.

Название: The Battle of Lechfeld and its Aftermath, August 955: The End of the Age of Migrations in the Latin West
Автор: Charles R. Bowlus
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2006
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 247
Размер: 15,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

In August 955 a battle took place that effectively ended the incursions of steppe nomads into Western Europe. The forces of Otto the Great annihilated a huge army of Hungarian mounted archers in an encounter that is generally known as the battle of Lechfeld, a broad plain near Augsburg in southern Germany.