Название: John 'Cat's Eyes' Cunningham. The Aviation Legend
Автор: John Golley
Издательство: Airlife Publishing Ltd
Год: 1999
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 194
Размер: 33,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Cunningham's wartime fame as an outstanding night-fighter ace was followed by a long career in test flying during the exciting post-war period, when the jet engine was developed to power both military and civil aircraft. This biography records his life and work.

Название: The Army Library - Air Defense Weapons
Автор: John Nicholas
Издательство: Rourke Enterprises, Inc.
Год: 1989
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 56
Размер: 25,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Describes the different kinds of air defense weapons used by the United States Army at various times in history, including radar, antiaircraft guns, and missiles.

Название: The Army Library - Artillery
Автор: John Nicholas
Издательство: Rourke Enterprises, Inc.
Год: 1989
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 56
Размер: 23,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Describes the various types of artillery used by the United States Army during different times in history, including self-propelled howitzers, light artillery, towed heavyweights, and other kinds of guns.

Название: The Army Library - Main Battle Tanks
Автор: John Nicholas
Издательство: Rourke Enterprises, Inc.
Год: 1989
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 54
Размер: 21,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Explores the different kinds of tanks and their military uses by various countries.

Название: The Oxford History of Modern War
Автор: Charles Townshend
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 444
Размер: 52,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

How has war shaped modern society and vice versa? This book examines the techniques, technology, and theory of warfare from the 'military revolution' of the seventeenth century to the present day. The expert contributors explore major developments and themes, including the growth of modern military professionalism and mass armies; the extraordinary achievements of Napoleon's armies; the role of nationalism in battlegrounds as various as the American Civil War and the former Yugoslavia; colonial wars; the concept and reality of 'total war'; guerrilla warfare and 'people's wars'.

Название: Hot Wings of Desert Storm
Автор: George Hall
Издательство: Kidsbooks Inc.
Год: 1991
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 36
Размер: 36,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Information and pictures of fighter planes from around the world such as the F-14 Tomcat and the F/A-18 Hornet that were used in the Persian Gulf War.

Название: The Guns of Bull Run (Civil War Series)
Автор: Joseph A. Altsheler
Издательство: Echo Library
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 176
Размер: 1,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Guns of Bull Run (Civil War Series)

Название: First Blood - Fort Sumter to Bull Run (The Civil War Series)
Автор: William C. Davis
Издательство: Time Life Books
Год: 1983
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 184
Размер: 31,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book follows the Civil War, from the April surrender of Fort Sumter to the skirmishes and other events which led to the First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861. This volume looks at the opening moves by both sides in the Eastern Theater, when the North and the South both thought the war would be a short one.

Название: Fighters (Modern Air Power)
Автор: Stephen Badsey
Издательство: Gallery Books
Год: 1990
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 88
Размер: 13,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book examines fighters attack aircraft and their subsequent use in warfare.

Название: Osprey New Vanguard 228 - German Commerce Raiders 1914-1918
Автор: Ryan K. Noppen
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 49
Размер: 9,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

This is the story of Germany's commerce raiders of World War I, the surface ships that were supposed to starve the British Isles of the vast cargoes of vital resources being shipped from the furthest reaches of the Empire. To that end pre-war German naval strategists allocated a number of cruisers and armed, fast ocean liners, as well as a complex and globe-spanning supply network to support them – known as the Etappe network.