Название: Hong Kongers in the British Armed Forces, 1860-1997
Автор: Chi Man Kwong
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192845748
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 288
Размер: 6,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Hong Kong has been caught between empires ever since the First Opium War (1839-1842). As a result, the study of Hong Kong history has been subjected to the influence of the empires that controlled or laid claims over it. The historical experience of the Hongkongers during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is unique, with Hong Kong as a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society, an international trading hub, and a geopolitically crucial British colony until 1997.

Название: The Kaiser's Merchant Ships in World War I
Автор: William Lowell Putnam
Издательство: McFarland
Год: 2001
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 260
Размер: 150,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Germany's merchant Marine fleet--the second largest in the world prior to 1914--played an unintended but decisive role in that nation's defeat in World War I. There were those ships that went to war for the Kaiser on the high seas, those that stayed at home or otherwise played no significant part in the conflict, and those which were commandeered (mostly in 1917 and by the United States) and used against Germany.

Название: Intruders Over Britain: The Story of the Luftwaffe's Night Intruder Force, the Fernnachtjager
Автор: Simon W. Parry
Издательство: Air Research Publications
Год: 1987
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 216
Размер: 119,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

First-hand accounts from those who flew with the Allies and the Luftwaffe, combined with detailed appendices of losses and victory claims, provide a definitive history of the Intruder operations over Britain.

Название: Faulkner, Aviation, and Modern War
Автор: Michael Zeitlin
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 248
Размер: 6,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Faulkner, Aviation, and Modern War frames William Faulkner’s airplane narratives against major scenes of the early 20th century: the Great War, the rise of European fascism in the 1920s and 30s, the Second World War, and the aviation arms race extending from the Wright Flyer in 1903 into the Cold War era.

Название: Aviator's Recognition Manual 1980
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Department of the Army
Год: 1980
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 332
Размер: 62,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Aviator's Recognition Manual 1980

Название: Stackpole Military History Series - Bodenplatte: The Luftwaffe's Last Hope
Автор: John Manrho, Ron Putz
Издательство: Stackpole Books
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 596
Размер: 105,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the early morning of January 1, 1945, as the Battle of the Bulge smoldered to an end, the German Luftwaffe--assumed to be starved of fuel and fighting spirit--launched a massive, surprise, low-level strike on Allied airfields throughout France, Belgium, and Holland, an operation code-named Bodenplatte. More than 900 German aircraft took to the skies and attacked the vulnerable fields, destroying 200 Allied aircraft and damaging 150 more. In a pyrrhic victory, the Luftwaffe lost 271 fighters, with many more damaged, and 213 pilots--irreplaceable losses at this stage of the war.

Название: The Soviet Air Force in World War II: The Official History
Автор: Ray Wagner
Издательство: Doubleday & Company
Год: 1973
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 488
Размер: 110,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Soviet Air Force in World War II: The Official History

Название: The Lorraine Campaign
Автор: Cole, Hugh M. (Hugh Marshall)
Издательство: Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History
Год: 1993
Страниц: 734
Формат: pdf
Размер: 33,3 MB
Язык: английский

This account focuses on the tactical operations of the Third Army and its subordinate units between 1 September and 18 December 1944.

Название: Independence or Death: British Sailors and Brazilian Independence 1822-1825
Издательство: British Academic Press
Год: 1996
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 245
Размер: 134 Mb
Язык: English

Independence or Death: British Sailors and Brazilian Independence 1822-1825

Название: Flying Catalinas: The Consoldiated PBY Catalina in WWII
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB, PDF (Conv)
Страниц: 548
Размер: 36 Mb
Язык: English

Flying Catalinas: The Consoldiated PBY Catalina in WWII