Название: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War - Torquay in the Great War
Автор: Alex Potter
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 147382270X
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 176
Размер: 3,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 1914 Torquay was the crown jewel of the English Riviera, long the haunt of the rich and famous but this status was not to last. The Great War of 1914-1918 brought a shuddering end to this golden period in amongst the blood and mud of the Western Front as hundreds of Torquinians gave their lives in the fight against the Kaiser.

Название: Black Thursday
Автор: Martin Caidin
Издательство: Bantam Books
Год: 1981
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 292
Размер: 33,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Shortly after daybreak, 291 U.S. Flying Fortress bombers and their escort fleet of over 100 Thunderbolt P-47 fighters flew high over German-dominated Europe. Their mission: Attack and destroy the Schweinfurt ballbearing factories, the heavily defended heart of Hitler's war machine. The Luftwaffe was waiting.

Название: Research Airplanes: Testing the Boundaries of Flight
Автор: Don Berliner
Издательство: Lerner Publications Company
Год: 1988
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 72
Размер: 22,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Describes how airplanes, designed for research and testing, are used to explore new areas of flight.

Название: Forging the Anvil: Combat Units in the US, British, and German Infantries of World War II
Автор: G. Stephen Lauer
Издательство: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc
ISBN: 1626379580
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 463
Размер: 3,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

"Lauer's mastery of his subject is unrivaled. His book should be required reading for anyone with an interest in the training and development of infantry soldiers.” ―David J. Furness, US Marine Corps Lieutenant General

Название: 607 Squadron: A Shade of Blue
Автор: Robert Dixon
Издательство: History Press
Год: 2008
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 164
Размер: 141,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Every squadron has its own unique history. This book covers the life of an Auxiliary Air Force squadron; 607 (County Durham) Squadron, from its birth in 1930 through to 1941. On its way, the book covers squadron life through both the battle of France and the Battle of Britain.

Название: The Shape of Battle: A Study of Six Campaigns, from Hastings to Helmand
Автор: Allan Mallinson
Издательство: Bantam Press
ISBN: 1787632415
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 416
Размер: 39,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Every battle is different. Each takes place in a different context - the war, the campaign, the weapons. However, battles across the centuries, whether fought with sticks and stones or advanced technology, have much in common. Fighting is, after all, an intensely human affair; human nature doesn't change.

Название: Panzer Army Africa
Автор: James Lucas
Издательство: Jove Books
Год: 1986
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 292
Размер: 31,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Well written perspective from the German side of the WW II battles of North Africa. Since the author is British, makes sense there was more on the British than was presented on the Germans & Italians in this book.

Название: Thames Valley Airfields in the Second World War
Автор: Robin J. Brooks
Издательство: Countryside Books
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 260
Размер: 175,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

A full account of the part played by the Thames Valley airfields during the Second World War, including Greenham Common, White Waltham, Thame, Wing, Hendon and Northolt. The history of each airfield is described with the squadrons and aircraft based at them and the main operations flown. The effects of the war on the daily lives of civilians, and the constant dangers from raids and night bombing are also detailed.

Название: The Usborne Book of Cutaway Planes
Автор: Clive Gifford
Издательство: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Год: 1995
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 36
Размер: 28,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

From how an ejection seat rockets a pilot to safety to the amazing changes in engine design, this fascinating book shows how modern planes work by cutting away their outside to reveal their inner workings. Produced with the help of many of the world's leading aerospace companies, this book will explain clearly in simple, no-nonsense text, many of the principles behind how planes fly and what their various components are designed to do.

Название: Look Inside Cross-Section Jets
Автор: Dorian Spencer Davies
Издательство: Dorling Kindersley Limited
Год: 1996
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 36
Размер: 27,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

What: *Does a jet engine look like inside? *Is a chaff and flare dispenser used for? *Does and IFF aerial do? Which: *Was the first aircraft to fly "supersonic"? *Aircraft had wings only 10cm (4 in) thick? *Aeroplane can change shape? How: *Do a plane's wings help it stay in the air? *Can wearing inflatable trousers save a pilot's life? *Can a plane land on a ship? Find the answers to these and other fascinating questions in... Look inside cross-sections Jets.