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.

Название: British Warships 1845-1945
Автор: B.W. Bathe
Издательство: H.M.S.O.
Год: 1970
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 56
Размер: 54,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

British Warships 1845-1945

Название: Оружие и технологии России. Энциклопедия. XXI век. Том 1 - Стратегические ядерные силы
Автор: Сергеев И. (ред.)
Издательство: М.: Оружие и технологии
Год: 2000
Cтраниц: 512, цвет.ил.
Формат: djvu
Размер: 111 мб
Язык: русский, англ.

Издание многотомной энциклопедии "Оружие и технологии России" ориентировано, во-первых, на демонстрацию современного оснащения Вооруженных сил, во-вторых, на то, чтобы дать представление об основных направлениях российской военно-технической политики в начале XXI века, и, в-третьих, на наиболее полную презентацию возможностей России по экспорту вооружений, военной техники и оборонных технологий.

Название: 40 Years at Farnborough: SBAC's International Aviation Showcase
Автор: John Blake, Mike Hooks
Издательство: Haynes
Год: 1990
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 200
Размер: 245,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

40 Years at Farnborough: SBAC's International Aviation Showcase

Название: Uniforms of the French Foreign Legion 1831-1981
Автор: Martin Windrow
Издательство: Blanford Press
Год: 1986
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 162
Размер: 21,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

First published in 1981 to coincide with the Legion's 150th anniversary, this remains the 'daddy' of Martin Windrow's numerous Osprey books on the subject. It's first and foremost about uniforms, so it's more of a reference book for dipping into than a narrative history, but there's a useful summary running throughout the book of the many campaigns which kept the Legion busy in its first century and a half.

Название: The Fighters: The Men and Machines of the First Air War
Автор: Thomas R Funderburk
Издательство: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
Год: 1965
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 224
Размер: 25,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Here is the story of the epic days when men first spread their wings in war, with authentic eyewitness accounts from American, British, French, German, and Canadian fliers. Here you will find superb descriptions of the tactics, combats, triumphs, and tragedies of fighter aviation from its earliest days of improvisation to the final massed formations in the air.

Название: The Planes the Allies Flew in World War II
Автор: David C. Cooke
Издательство: Dodd, Mead & Company
Год: 1969
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 72
Размер: 43,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

A detailed review of The Planes the Allies Flew in World War II, fully illustrated.