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Название: Vickers-Supermarine Spitfire Mk.VI-XVI
Автор: Tomo-o Yamada, Hajime Ohasato
Издательство: Dainippon Kaiga Co. Ltd.
Серия: Aero Detail 27
ISBN: 4499226848
Год издания: 2000
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 88
Формат: PDF
Размер: 131,2 MB

Vickers-Supermarine Spitfire Mk.VI-XVI (Aero Detail 27)

Название: Waterloo: Myth and Reality
Автор(ы): Gareth Glover
Издательство: Pen & Sword Military
Год: 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78159-356-1
Страниц: 300
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 111 MB

More has probably been written about the Waterloo campaign than almost any other in history. It was the climax of the Napoleonic Wars that forms a watershed in both European and world history. However, the lethal combination of national bias, willful distortion and simple error has unfortunately led to the constantly regurgitated traditional 'accepted' version being significantly wrong regarding many episodes in the campaign. Oft-repeated claims have morphed into established fact and, with the bicentenary of this famous battle soon to be commemorated, it is high time that these are challenged and finally dismissed.

Название: Nakajima Ki-43 'Oscar' Hayabusa
Издательство: Dainippon Kaiga Co. Ltd.
Серия: Aero Detail 29
ISBN: 4499227356
Год издания: 2000
Язык: English/Japanese
Cтраниц: 78
Формат: PDF
Размер: 19,7 MB

Nakajima Ki-43 'Oscar' Hayabusa (Aero Detail 29)

Название: Focke-Wulf Fw 190A
Автор: Miroslav Bily
Издательство: Modelpres
Серия: modelpres №3
ISBN: 8090132855
Год издания: 1991
Язык: Czech
Cтраниц: 24
Формат: PDF
Размер: 21,8 MB

Focke-Wulf Fw 190A

Название: The Battle of Britain
Автор: Jon Lake
Издательство: Amber Books
ISBN: 1552670074
Год издания: 2000
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 261
Формат: PDF
Размер: 115,1 MB

One of the most pervasive views of the Battle of Britain was that heavily out-numbered but superior British pilots won their victory against overwhelming German forces through grit, courage and skill alone. This common perception, still widely held, also lays great stress on the wartime propagandist belief that the German fighter pilots were no match for their opponents. Yet it is worth reinvestigating the truth of what actually happened, as the Battle was in many ways a victory for the RAF's cautious tactics, tactics that ensured the survival of a Fighter Command which, though more than equal in courage and determination, was no match for the Germans when it came to combat experience and tactical expertise.

Название: World's Aircraft Carriers, 1914-45
Автор: Roger Chesneau
Издательство: Arms & Armour Press
Серия: Warships Illustrated No.8
ISBN: 0853687684
Год издания: 1986
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 66
Формат: PDF
Размер: 53,6 MB

World's Aircraft Carriers, 1914-45

Название: A Pictorial History of the Sea War, 1939-1945
Автор: Paul Kemp
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1557506744
Год издания: 1995
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 194
Формат: PDF
Размер: 91,6 MB

An illustrated work covering the naval element of World War II. The subject is discussed according to type of action, including fleet actions, carrier warfare, submarine warfare, coastal forces and special forces. The book also contains illustrations of life at sea and surrender ceremonies.

Название: The Trafalgar Companion
Автор: Peter Padfield, Edgar Vincent, Nicholas Tracy, John Hattendorf
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey General Military
ISBN: 1841768359
Год издания: 2005
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 225
Формат: PDF
Размер: 34,6 MB

The battle of Trafalgar lasted just five hours, yet those short hours forever shattered Napoleon's dream of adding England to his list of conquests. This book, written by a number of respected authors, examines not only the battle but also the characters and motivation of the men that fought in it, including the great commanders Nelson and Villeneuve. Exploring the political and military aspects of the fighting, it provides detailed analyses of the tactics deployed by both sides, showing how strategies were translated into action.

Название: Marlborough's War Machine 1702-1711
Автор(ы): James Falkner
Издательство: Pen & Sword Military
Год: 2014
ISBN: 978-1-84884-821-4
Страниц: 267
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 78 MB

Blenheim, Ramilles , Oudenarde, Malplaquet – much has been written about the brilliant victories of the Duke of Marlborough’s Anglo-Dutch army over the armies of Louis XIV of France during the War of the Spanish Succession. Less attention has been focused on the men and the military organization that made these achievements possible - the soldiers, the commanders, the army structure and administration, the logistics, engineering, weapons and finance. That is why James Falkner’s penetrating account of the composition and operation of Marlborough’s army is of such value. His clear analysis gives a fascinating insight into Marlborough’s war machine and into the conduct of war in Europe 300 years ago.

Название: Portsmouth in the Great War
Автор(ы): Sarah Quail
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Серия: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War
Год: 2014
ISBN: 978-1783462766
Страниц: 202
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 54 MB

Portsmouth in the Great War is a story with a cast of thousands. They included a future archbishop and at least six brave and determined young clergymen with a talent for writing letters who volunteered as Army chaplains. There was the first naval VC of the war who was also the first submariner VC ever; a glamorous commander-in-chief, a number of dashing naval and marine officers and men - and a host of unofficial diarists and letter-writers. The wife of a Royal Academician also featured who went backwards and forwards across the Channel with hospital supplies on the Red Cross yacht Medusa until German U-boats put paid to her plans. Also in the story was the Portsmouth school girl, daughter of a local GP and Territorial Army officer, who was in Germany when war broke out and made her own, perilous way home. There were dockyard workers, and women who took their places when they went away to fight, and women who replaced men on the trams, in banks and post offices, and of course there were the men who joined the three local battalions of the Hampshire Regiment, and the ships which belonged to the Port of Portsmouth. They all took part in the greatest war the world had ever seen, and thousands of them laid down their lives in defence of this country and it's Empire - in Flanders, at Coronel, at Gallipoli and at Jutland, and in the many other theatres of war. The book is fully illustrated and many of the images have not been published before.