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Название: Medieval Armies and Weapons in Western Europe: An Illustrated History
Автор(ы): Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage
Издательство: McFarland & Co.
Год: 2005
ISBN: 0786417722
Страниц: 288
Язык: English
Формат: PDF OCR
Размер: 50 MB

This study combines both a broad introduction to medieval warfare and detailed studies of warriors and weaponry throughout the Middle Ages. Packed full of wonderful black and white illustrations, Lepage begins with the late Roman army, the Huns, Germans, Franks and Vikings, before moving on to the age of feudalism, knights, chivalry and crusading, and warfare of the High Middle Ages. Descriptions of weaponry, armour and tactics, are accompanied by detailed discussion of, for example, the nature of pitched battles, siege tactics, naval warfare, the wounded and the dead, religious military orders, mercenaries and the advent of gunpowder and firearms. A great, well-rounded account of the subject.

Название: Крестовые походы
Автор(ы): Жорж Тат
Издательство: Олимп, АСТ, Астрель
Серия: История. Открытие
Год: 2003
ISBN: 5-17-013244-1
Страниц: 192
Язык: Русский
Формат: PDF HQ
Размер: 208 MB

Призыв папы Урбана II в 1096 г. мобилизует весь христианский мир. В течение двух веков, начиная со времени правления Готфрида Бульонского и кончая периодом царствования Людовика Святого, европейцы различных социальных слоев вставали под знамена Церкви, чтобы отбить у неприятеля или защитить Святую землю.
Что ими двигало: религиозные чувства или политический расчет? Во имя Христа они убивали неверных, захватывали их города - Никею, Антиохию, Тир, Иерусалим, основав Латинскую империю. Для мусульман же этот религиозный подъем христиан был не более чем агрессией варваров. Эмир Зенги и Hyp ад-Дин, его сын и преемник, объявили христианам джихад, или священную войну. Миф о непобедимости франков был развеян. Саладин, султан Египта и Сирии, нанес европейцам последний удар: они были окончательно изгнаны со Святой земли в 1291 г. Книга Жоржа Тата познакомит вас с основными этапами этих кровавых столкновений между двумя мирами - христианским и мусульманским.

Название: Осада и сдача крепости Порт-Артур. Мои впечатления
Автор: Костенко М.И.
Место издания: Киев
Издательство: типография Окружного штаба
Год: 1906
Страниц: 288
Формат: pdf
Размер: 52.19 MB

Достаточно откровенные и водержательные мемуары генерала, одного из командиров в осажденном Порт-Артуре. Много живых подробностей, деталей быта и нравов. Поразительно, что сразу же после войны генералы на действительной службе не стеснялись издавать книги, в которых реалистически описывались ужасы войны и откровенно говорилось о недостатках в деятельности военного ведомства.

Название: Hawker Sea Fury
Автор(ы): Kev Darling
Издательство: Specialty Press
Серия: Warbird Tech Series - Volume 37
Год: 2002
ISBN: 1580070639
Страниц: 108
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 96 MB

The Hawker Sea Fury is a bit of a mystery to most aircraft enthusiasts. If they're familiar with Hawker and Sydney Camm's designs, this plane - the Royal Navy's last prop-driven fighter - is known to them, though not with much detail. Reno racing fanatics also know the Fury and the Sea Fury, but to air racing fans the Hawker design is just an airframe on which to hang the most powerful piston engine and biggest propeller possible. Warbird Tech Volume 37.

Название: Boeing Aircraft Since 1916
Автор(ы): Peter M. Bowers
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Серия: Putnam Aviation Series
Год: 1989
ISBN: 0870210378
Страниц: 668
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 152 MB

BOEING AIRCRAFT SINCE 1916 was first published in 1966 and an updated edition followed in 1968. At that time only a few Boeing 737s had been produced, the Model 747 had yet to fly and the company was awaiting to go-ahead to build its supersonic airliner. Since that time the supersonic airliner has been cancelled, Model 737s have been produced in large numbers as numerous versions, and the Model 747 has revolutionized air transport with nearly a thousand ordered and well over 700 in service. Nearly fifty-five of the later Model 757s and 767s are in airline service. To cover this enormous growth in Boeing activities this book has been virtually rewritten and greatly expanded. New information has been included in the pre-jet sections and the Model 707 and 727 sections have been updated. The full development histories of the 737, 747, 757, and 767 are included and there are full production lists of well over 6,000 Boeing jet liners. All the new types are fully illustrated by a superb selection of photos and the opportunity has been taken to include numerous new views of the older Boeing types--a surprise to many will be the photos of B-47 jet bombers with U.S. Navy markings. In addition to the hundreds of photos this book includes a large number of three-view general arrangement drawings.

Название: Belgian Military Aviation 1945-1977
Автор(ы): Paul A. Jackson
Издательство: Midland Counties Publications
Год: 1977
Страниц: 116
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 60 MB

В книге описывается авиационная техника и структура бельгийских ВВС.

Название: The Turret Fighters: Defiant and Roc
Автор(ы): Alec Brew
Издательство: The Crowood Press Ltd.
Серия: Crowood Aviation
Год: 2002
ISBN: 1861264976
Страниц: 160
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 70 MB

The turret fighter was predicted by many before World War II to be the only effective way of dealing with the new threat of the heavy bomber. In the event, a two-man fighter with its armament concentrated in a power-operated turret did not turn out to be the answer. The Boulton Paul Defiant and the Blackburn Roc were only two examples of the concept to enter service and only the Defiant was able to claim any success in combat. From the archives of Boulton Paul Aircraft, the company which built every single Defiant and Roc, come a host of photographs and testaments to the Defiant from those who built them and those who flew them.

Название: 50 лет в строю. Воспоминания
Автор: Граф Алексей Игнатьев
Издательство: Захаров
ISBN: 5-8159-0211-X
Год: 2002
Формат: RTF, FB2
Страниц: 540
Размер: 10.8 MB
Язык: Русский

Алексей Алексеевич Игнатьев (1877-1954), потомственный военный, дипломат и мемуарист, полковник Генштаба царской армии, генерал-майор при Временном правительстве и генерал-лейтенант (1943) Советской армии, сын Киевского генерал-губернатора и внук председателя Комитета министров России. Паж, кавалергард, участник русско-японской войны, в 1908-17 годах - военный атташе в Скандинавских странах и во Франции.
После Октябрьской революции перешел на сторону Советской власти, жил в Париже и помог сохранить в банках Франции 225 млн. рублей золотом, принадлежавших России. В 1937 году вернулся в Москву. Муж знаменитой балерины Наташи Трухановой. Автор пятитомных воспоминаний "Пятьдесят лет в строю", которые немного сокращены здесь за счет технических подробностей.

Название: English Electric Canberra
Автор(ы): Roland Beamont, Arthur Reed
Издательство: Ian Allan Ltd.
Серия: Modern Aircraft Series
Год: 1984
ISBN: 0711013438
Страниц: 166
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 81 MB

The English Electric Canberra is a British first-generation jet-powered medium bomber that was manufactured during the 1950s. It was developed by English Electric during the mid-to-late 1940s in response to a 1944 Air Ministry requirement for a successor to the wartime de Havilland Mosquito fast-bomber; amongst the performance requirements for the type was the demand for an outstanding high altitude bombing capability in addition to flying at high speeds, these were partly accomplished by making use of newly developed jet propulsion technology. When the Canberra was introduced to service with the Royal Air Force (RAF), the type's first operator, in May 1951, it became the service's first jet-powered bomber aircraft.

Название: Gloster Javelin
Автор(ы): Maurice Allward
Издательство: Ian Allan Ltd.
Серия: Postwar Military Aircraft #1
Год: 1983
ISBN: 0711013233
Страниц: 112
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 58 MB

The Gloster Javelin was a twin-engined T-tailed delta-wing subsonic night and all-weather interceptor aircraft that served with Britain's Royal Air Force from the mid-1950s and until the late 1960s. The last aircraft design to bear the Gloster name, it was introduced in 1956 after a lengthy development period and received several upgrades during its lifetime to its engines, radar and weapons, including support for the De Havilland Firestreak air-to-air missile. The Javelin was succeeded in the interceptor role by the English Electric Lightning, a supersonic aircraft capable of flying at more than double the Javelin's top speed, which was introduced into the RAF only a few years later. The Javelin served for much of its life alongside the Lightning; the last Javelins were withdrawn from operational service in 1968 following the introduction of successively more capable versions of the Lightning.