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.

Название: Warfare in the 19th Century (History of Warfare)
Автор: Ian Westwell
Издательство: Raintree Steck-Vaughn Company
Год: 1999
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 86
Размер: 17,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Surveys the changing nature of warfare in the latter half of the nineteenth century, using accounts of various conflicts to describe advances in communication and transportation, changes in battlefield tactics, and improvements in weaponry.

Название: Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War, an Oral History
Автор: David P. Cline
Издательство: The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 1469664534
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 416
Размер: 5,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Journalists began to call the Korean War "the Forgotten War" even before it ended. Without a doubt, the most neglected story of this already neglected war is that of African Americans who served just two years after Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the military.

Название: Allied Landing Craft of World War Two
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Arms and Armour
Год: 1985
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 216
Размер: 166,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Reprint of Official Navy Catalog from 1944. Includes landing craft of British and American forces during WW2