Название: Curtiss, The Hammondsport Era 1907-1915
Автор: Louis S. Casey
Издательство: Crown Publishers
ISBN: 0517545659
Год издания: 1981
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 260
Формат: PDF
Размер: 226,6 MB

Shows and describes each model aircraft built by the Aerial Experiment Association, and traces Curtiss' involvement with the aviation industry prior to the First World War

Название: The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force
Автор: James J. Halley
Издательство: Air-Britain Historians Ltd
ISBN: 0851300839
Год издания: 1980
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 392
Формат: PDF
Размер: 130,5 MB

The Squadrons of the Royal Air Force

Название: Machine Guns and the Great War
Автор: Paul Cornish
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1848840470
Год издания: 2009
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 216
Формат: PDF
Размер: 120 MB

The machine-gun is one of the iconic weapons of the Great War - indeed of the twentieth century. Yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. During a four-year war that generated unprecedented casualties, the machine-gun stood out as a key weapon.

Название: Italian Tankers in the Dodecanese 1940-1945
Издательство: Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop)
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF (Conv)
Страниц: 174
Размер: 23 Mb
Язык: English

Italian Tankers in the Dodecanese 1940-1945

Название: The Welsh Braveheart: Owain Glydwr, The Last Prince of Wales
Автор: Phil Carradice
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399002651
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 216
Размер: 12,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Like William Wallace in Scotland, Owain Glyndwr fought for his country and was only finally defeated by superior numbers and the military genius of Henry V. Yet Glyndwr was not just a freedom fighter. He was the last native-born Prince of Wales, a man who initiated the first Welsh parliament at Machynlleth and proposed an entirely independent Welsh church.

Название: Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 Volume 4 (Middle East @War Series №35)
Издательство: Helion & Company
Год: 2021
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 114
Размер: 18 Mb
Язык: English

Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 Volume 4

Название: Arrow Countdown
Автор: Peter Zuuring
Издательство: Arrow Alliance Press
Год: 2001
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 148
Размер: 30,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

When it first flew in 1957, the Avro Arrow was the world’s best supersonic combat aircraft. It was the proudest achievement of the engineers and designers who came out of Canada’s world-leading aircraft industry. They had delivered other notable aircraft, including the world’s first passenger jet, but the Arrow put them ahead of everyone else in the field.

Название: Hawker Siddeley Flight Assembly
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Hawker Siddeley Review
Год: 1969
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 28
Размер: 10,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Hawker Siddeley was a group of British manufacturing companies engaged in aircraft production. Hawker Siddeley combined the legacies of several British aircraft manufacturers, emerging through a series of mergers and acquisitions as one of only two such major British companies in the 1960s.

Название: The Fleet Air Arm and the War in Europe, 1939–1945
Автор: David Hobbs
Издательство: Seaforth Publishing
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 373
Размер: 58,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

For the first time, this book tells the story of how naval air operations evolved into a vital element of the Royal Navy’s ability to fight a three-dimensional war against both the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe.

Название: Born of the Desert: With the SAS in North Africa
Автор: Malcolm James
Издательство: Frontline Books
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 336
Размер: 4,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Born of the Desert is a classic account of the early years of the SAS. The Special Air Service was formed in 1941 and quickly earned a reputation for stealth, daring and audacity in the Western Desert Campaign. This elite force utilized the endless expanse of the desert to carry out surprise attacks and hit and run raids behind the Afrika Korps' lines, sowing confusion, fear and consternation.