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The Flash Gordon Serials, 1936-1940 A Heavily Illustrated Guide


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English | ISBN: 0786466154 | 2011 | 214 pages | PDF | 277 MB
Flash Gordon, Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars and Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, the most expensive and popular movie serials ever made, have been favorites of movie and comic fans for decades. The original 1936 serial, designated a cultural treasure, was selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry in 1996.

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Crowns in a Changing World 1901-1936


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English | 2003 | ISBN: 075093431X, 0750902663 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 3.5 mb
At the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, almost every European nation was a monarchy, most linked by close family ties to her and Edward VII, the "uncle of Europe". Prior to the outbreak of World War I, the personal relationships of Edward, and of his successor and son, George V, flourished with the other royal families of Europe. The closeness of the European families was violently interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1914, and the armistice of 1918 brought three empires, namely Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia, crashing down. Some monarchies were strengthened, and others weakened beyond repair. In this well-researched study, John Van der Kiste has drawn upon previously unpublished material for the Royal Archives, Windsor, to show the realtionships between the crowned heads of Europe in the first part of the 20th century. His account sheds new light on foreign policy leading up to World War I.

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Bomber Command 1936-1968 An Operational & Historical Record


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English | September 26, 2022 | ISBN: 1399075020 | 256 pages | MOBI | 36 Mb
This is a comprehensive reference to the structure, operation, aircraft and men of Bomber Command from its formation on 1936 to 1968 when it became part of Strike Command. It includes descriptions of many notable bombing raids, the many types of aircraft used, weapons and airfields. The five main sections of the book include a general historical introduction and overview, operations, operational groups, aircrew training and technical details of each aircraft type. Lengthy Annexes cover personnel, the squadrons in World War II, accuracy of attacks, orders of battle for each wartime year, maps of airfields locations, tonnage of bombs dropped, and nuclear weapons carried in the post-war years.

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Palestine 1936 The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CS48S8FQ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:12:00 | 262 MB
In spring 1936, the Holy Land erupted in a rebellion that targeted both the local Jewish community and the British Mandate authorities. The Great Arab Revolt would last three years, cost thousands of lives, and cast the trajectory for the Middle East conflict. The revolt was the crucible in which Palestinian identity coalesced, uniting all in a single struggle for independence. Yet the rebellion would ultimately turn on itself. British forces’ aggressive counterinsurgency took care of the rest, finally quashing the uprising on the eve of World War II.
To the Jews, the insurgency would leave a very different legacy. It was then that Zionist leaders began to abandon illusions over Arab acquiescence, to face the prospect that fulfilling their dream of sovereignty might mean forever clinging to the sword. The revolt saw thousands of Jews trained and armed by Britain. This is the story of two national movements and the first sustained confrontation between them. The rebellion was Arab, but the Zionist counter-rebellion-the Jews’ transformation-is a vital element in how Palestine became Israel. Today, the revolt’s legacy endures.
Palestine 1936 is the origin story of the world’s most intractable conflict, but it is also more than that. It reveals world-changing events through extraordinary individuals on all sides.

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News of War Civilian Poetry 1936-1945


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English | ISBN: 0190623926 | 2017 | 384 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 15 MB
News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945 is a powerful account of how civilian poets confront the urgent problem of writing about war. The six poets Rachel Galvin discusses-W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Raymond Queneau, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, and César Vallejo-all wrote memorably about war, but still they felt they did not have authority to write about what they had not experienced firsthand. Consequently, these writers developed a wartime poetics engaging with both classical rhetoric and the daily news in texts that encourage readers to take critical distance from war culture.

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Soldat Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949 [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B00D5ZJRQK | 2013 | 12 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 328 MB
Author: Siegfried Knappe, Ted Brusaw
Narrator: John Wray

A German soldier during World War II offers an inside look at the Nazi war machine, using his wartime diaries to describe how a ruthless psychopath motivated an entire generation of ordinary Germans to carry out his monstrous schemes.

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Universal Carrier 1936-48 The ‘Bren Gun Carrier’ Story


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English | 2005 | pages: 50 | ISBN: 1841768138 | PDF | 2,7 mb
The Universal Carrier was a fast, lightly armed vehicle developed by the British Army to carry infantry across ground defended by small-arms fire, specifically the Bren light machine gun, hence the name ‘Bren Gun Carrier’. This name would stick with the Universal Carrier and all of its future variants. This book details the Carrier, which was employed in a number of roles including carrying ammunition and towing anti-aircraft guns and trailers. All Allies used the Universal Carrier extensively during practically every World War II campaign. By the war’s end, the Universal Carrier had proved itself to be an invaluable and successful cross-country vehicle that was both agile and fast for its time.

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