Название: Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers: The Passive Defence of the Western World During the Cold War Автор: N.J. McCamley Издательство: Pen & Sword Год: 2006 Формат: PDF Страниц: 308 Размер: 175,3 МБ Язык: Английский
Secret Cold War Nuclear Bunkers tells the previously undisclosed story of the secret defence structures built by the West during the Cold War years. The book describes in fascinating detail a vast umbrella of radar stations that spanned the North American continent and the North Atlantic from the Aleutian Islands through Canada to the North Yorkshire Moors, all centred upon an enormous secret control centre buried hundreds of feet below Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado.
Название: Waffen SS: Los Templarios de Hitler en Combate Автор: David Odalric de Caixal Издательство: Almena Ediciones Год: 2003 Формат: PDF Страниц: 244 Размер: 14,1 МБ Язык: Испанский
Название: Deutsche Soldaten, Morder Oder Helden? Die Wahrheit Uber das Deutsche Soldatentum Автор: Wilhelm Hillek Издательство: FZ-Verlag Год: 1997 Формат: PDF Страниц: 422 Размер: 288,4 МБ Язык: Немецкий
Deutsche Soldaten, Morder Oder Helden? Die Wahrheit Uber das Deutsche Soldatentum
Название: The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France Автор: Meredith Martin, Gillian Weiss Издательство: Getty Research Institute ISBN: 1606067303 Год: 2022 Формат: PDF Страниц: 256 Размер: 58,8 МБ Язык: Английский
This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and labor of enslaved Muslims to glorify Louis XIV.
Название: The Story of Knights and Armor Автор: Ernest Edward Tucker Издательство: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company, Inc Год: 1961 Формат: PDF Страниц: 224 Размер: 34,7 МБ Язык: Английский
Knights are real people who not only lead crusades and fight in tournaments but, something harder, carry about their heavy loads of chain mail, weapons and armor plate. They parade before you and you ride with them until you know their hardships as well as their triumphs, their squires and their war horses, and now and then, their fair ladies.
Название: Guardians of Empire: The Armed Forces of the Colonial Powers c. 1700-1964 Автор: David Killingray Издательство: Manchester University Press ISBN: 0719057345 Год: 1999 Формат: PDF Страниц: 256 Размер: 9,8 МБ Язык: Английский
This book explores the ways in which armies and armed forces were involved in the making, the maintenance and the loss of overseas empire. The volume ranges widely in time and space. Besides chapters on the British Empire in Africa, Asia and Oceana, there are also essays on Algeria, the Dutch East Indies, the Germans in Africa and the American Empire in the Pacific.
Название: Testing Tornado Автор: David J. Eagles Издательство: The History Press Год: 2016 Формат: PDF Страниц: 180 Размер: 107,3 МБ Язык: Английский
During the early Cold War days when 17-year-old David Eagles applied to the Fleet Air Arm hoping to be a fighter pilot for his National Service, he little imagined the lifetime career that was to follow. After Flying Training with the US Navy and loan Service with the Australian Fleet Air Arm, he settled into Fleet Air Arm fighter pilot life.
Название: Encyclopaedia of the Modern British Army (2nd Edition) Автор: Terry Gander Издательство: Patrick Stephens Год: 1982 Формат: PDF Страниц: 288 Размер: 287,9 МБ Язык: Английский
Encyclopaedia of the Modern British Army (2nd Edition)
Название: Fighter Planes That Made History Автор: David Coxe Cooke Издательство: G.P. Putnam's Sons Год: 1959 Формат: PDF Страниц: 76 Размер: 31,4 МБ Язык: Английский
All the great warplanes that made history are pictured and described, from the Morane-Saulnier Bullet, Nieuport, Spad and Fokker D-7 of World War I, through the Spitfire, Mustang and Messerschmitt Me 109 and Zero of World War II, to the F86 Sabre and MiG-15 of the Korean War. An aviation book which tells the real truth about the outstanding fighter planes of all nations, whether friend or foe.
Название: The Barbarians. Warriors & Wars of the Dark Ages Автор: Tim Newark Издательство: Blandford Press Год: 1985 Формат: PDF Страниц: 166 Размер: 25,4 МБ Язык: Английский
Barbarian was a derogatory name. An insult. The Greeks used the word for all those people living beyond their frontiers. It was in imitation of the foreigners' incomprehensible, ba-ba-babbling way of talking. Later, the Romans and their heirs, applied the word to European and Asian races living outside their empires who did not inhabit sophisticated urban settlements. These Barbarians were viewed as wild, savage people. From their archetypal appearance, the Latins derived their word for a beard, barba.