Название: Great Sea Battles of World War II
Автор: Jack Sweetman
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 1990
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 52
Размер: 37,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Describes the Great Sea Battles of World War II.

Название: Historical Dictionary of the Crusades
Автор: Corliss K. Slack
Издательство: The Scarecrow Press
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 299
Размер: 58,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

During the late eleventh through the early fourteenth centuries, at least seven major expeditions were made between Western Europe and the Holy Land with the goal of ending Muslim control of Jerusalem. Ultimately the crusaders were driven out, but not before a cultural exchange had taken place that had an immense impact on Western Europe and an equally enormous, albeit less positive, impact on Arabs and the Islamic world.

Название: A Letter from Frank: The Second World War Through the Eyes of a Canadian Soldier and a German Paratrooper
Автор: Stephen J. Colombo
Издательство: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554889685
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 264
Размер: 2,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

On the last day of the Second World War, Frank and Russ fought each other. In the days after, they became friends. This is the remarkable tale of a long-forgotten letter. It was written from Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War to a Canadian in a peaceful Southern Ontario town.

Название: Ghostriders 1968-1975: "Mors De Caelis" Combat History of the AC-130 Spectre Gunship, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
Автор: William Walter
Издательство: Knox Press
ISBN: 1637581556
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 352
Размер: 12,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

If necessity is the mother of invention, the AC-130 gunship was definitely her offspring. Ghostriders: Mors De Caelis is a comprehensive history of AC-130 gunship combat operations in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The story begins with the first AC-130 in 1968, and ends in 1975 at the end of the war in Vietnam.

Название: The Men Who Flew the Vought F4U Corsair
Автор: Martin W. Bowman
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 152670580X
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 420
Размер: 9,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

First flown in 1940, the prototype Vought F4U Corsair instantly became the fastest fighter in the world and the fastest US aircraft of any description. Powered by a huge 18-cylinder Pratt and Whitney Double Wasp engine driving an enormous 13 feet 4 inch propeller, the first Corsairs were capable of 417mph. This figure would rise to nearly 450mph in later versions despite the fact that fuel load and overall weight was increased.

Название: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War - Glossop in the Great War
Автор: Glynis Cooper
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473821711
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 160
Размер: 2,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

A new book on Glossop during World War I focuses on the economic and social conditions, problems and hardships of those left at home in England played out against a background of military action on the Western Front, in Turkey, Egypt and Palestine. It chronicles the difficulties, hardships and restrictions of daily life for civilians; the morale of the town year by year as the War dragged on; the growing lists of casualties and the stoical determination of the townsfolk to contribute as much as they could towards the defeat of the Kaiser.

Название: Fast Jets & Planes
Автор: Jill Wolf
Издательство: Antioch Publishing Company
Год: 1988
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 27
Размер: 12,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Describes the main fast military jets of the USAF.

Название: Fighting Ships
Автор: Hugh W. Cowin
Издательство: Gallery Books
Год: 1985
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 72
Размер: 20,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Fighting Ships

Название: Destination Baghdad
Автор: Robert Macy, Melinda Macy
Издательство: M & M Graphics
Год: 1991
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 100
Размер: 14,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Story of the F-117A Stealth Fighter, the Plane Credited with Ripping Out the Eyes and the Heart of the Iraqi War Machine, as Told by the Pilots Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of Operation Desert Storm.

Название: These Englishmen Who Died for France: 1st July 1916: The Bloodiest Day in British History
Автор: Jean-Michel Steg
Издательство: University of Buckingham Press
ISBN: 1800310870
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 178
Размер: 3,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Englishmen, Scotsmen, Irishmen, Welshmen, Canadians, South Africans, Australians, New Zealanders – many soldiers from Great Britain and the Commonwealth volunteered in 1916 to attack on the front in Picardy, a much heavier involvement than in the previous years of the First World War.