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Free Download Robert C. Stern – Big Gun Battles: Warship Duels of the Second World War
Seaforth Publishing | 2015 | ISBN: 1848321538 | English | 296 pages | PDF | 208.51 MB
The outcome of much of the naval war in World War II was decided by the torpedo or the aerial bomb, making the submarine and aircraft carrier, the new arbiters of naval conflict. Despite this, there were a surprising number of ship-to-ship engagements involving the big guns of battleships and cruisers. Big Gun Battles recounts some of the most important, technically interesting, or obscure of these gunfire duels. Covering all theatres of the naval war, the battles selected demonstrate the changing face of surface warfare under the influence of rapidly improving fire-control systems, radar, and other sensors. By 1945 big ships could open fire at great ranges with a high probability of hitting with the first salvo. This was the pinnacle of gunnery excellence, but also heralded the end of naval gunnery as a major factor in sea warfare. Facing such deadly accuracy, navies looked to longer-ranged, smarter, weapons like surface-skimming missiles and homing torpedoes.

Free Download Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories By Simon Winchester
2010 | 512 Pages | ISBN: 0061702587 | EPUB | 4 MB
The definitive biography of the world’s most important body of water — the Atlantic. One hundred and ninety million years ago, the shifting of two of the world’s tectonic plates led to the creation of an immense chasm. This giant gash in the flanks of the planet slowly opened up and eventually evolved into the most important and most travelled ocean in our world. In this utterly original biography, Simon Winchester explores the life of the Atlantic; it’s birth, its relationship with mankind, and what lies in store for it once man has left the stage. He charts the development of the first settlements by the Oceanside — the communities of Celts and Vikings and whose lives depended on the sea — and delves into the age of exploration, venturing to forgotten worlds. The building of some of the world’s most beautiful port cities — London, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Casablanca — is also examined, along with the creation of settlements and colonies in and around the sea. Completely unique and highly readable, Atlantic takes its reader on a wonderful journey through time, along the waves of our planet’s most significant ocean.

Free Download Monty’s Greatest Battles 19421945
by Adrian Stewart;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1399046012 | 290 pages | True PDF EPUB | 38.68 MB

Free Download Jonathan McKee, "The Guy’s Guide to Four Battles Every Young Man Must Face"
English | ISBN: 1683229495 | 2019 | 192 pages | EPUB | 652 KB
Honestly. . . "Why wait for something when I can enjoy it now?" "The images don’t really affect me. . . do they?"

Free Download The Biggest Tank Battles of World War II: The History of the Most Decisive Tank Encounters between the Allies and Axis (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868699009 | 2023 | 5 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 287 MB
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Bill Caufield
The tank was first developed by the British and French during World War I as a means to break the deadlock on the Western Front. More so than any previous war, the balance of power lay with the defense, as machine guns, trenches, bunkers, barbed wire, and rapid-firing rifles all made frontal assaults on established positions prohibitively costly. In the closing months of the war, the tank partially evened up that balance, even as the war’s commanders initially proved unsure of how to use them. While it cannot be said that the tank won the war, it contributed to its end and if the fighting had continued another year, the mass production that had started in Allied countries may have proved decisive. World War II was the culmination of a quarter century of tank development, and it would also be the first major test of tanks in mobile warfare during which they had to face other tanks.

Free Download Michael Armitage – Classic RAF Battles from World War One to the Present
Brockhampton Press | 2002 | ISBN: 186019897X | English | 180 pages | PDF | 112.43 MB
The Royal Air Force has earned its celebrated reputation for excellence and courage over seven decades of service to Britain, through two World Wars and many small incidents, events and flash-points the world over. In compiling this superb visual testament to the RAF, the general aim has been to capture the very reason for the RAF’s existence – the combat actions which have given it such an historic tradition of defence to the nation. Some scenes are of general campaigns or aspects of the RAF’s history; most, however, are of specific raids, operations or incidents; but they all demonstrate the variety of locations, task’s and aircraft types that feature in the RAF’s reputation.

Free Download Charles J Esdaile, "British Battles of the Spanish Civil War: How Volunteers from Britain Fought against Franco"
English | ISBN: 1526782812 | 2023 | 248 pages | EPUB | 19 MB
The Spanish Civil War continues to attract attention as a brutal political and military struggle which foreshadowed the wider war across Europe that followed, and it has given rise to myths that have become commonplace since the war ended eighty years ago. Few of these myths are as potent as those associated with the International Brigades, the 45,000 volunteers from many countries who traveled to Spain to fight for the Second Republic. That is why this perceptive and original study by Charles Esdaile is so valuable. Using the recorded experience of the British Brigaders as well as primary research in the Spanish archives, he thoroughly re-examines the contribution they made to the war effort against the Nationalists of General Franco.

Free Download T E Vineyard, "Battles of the Civil War"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1017664293, 1010108948 | EPUB | pages: 172 | 0.9 mb
In all history of this American Republic, or perhaps any other nation, there was no conflict that was so terrible as our Civil war. Napoleon’s efforts to bring into reality his dream of universal empire would not compare with it.

Free Download Hereford B. George M.A. F.R.G.S., "Battles Of English History"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1517072867, 0530731819 | EPUB | pages: 302 | 0.4 mb
It has been the business of my life to teach history: and the informal division of labour which comes to pass in a University has led me to pay special attention to the military side of it. This aspect of history involves much comparison of statements and weighing of evidence, and is therefore calculated to be very useful to those for whom the study of history is, not their permanent occupation, but the means of completing their mental training. Campaigns and battles present in an exceptionally clear shape the stock problems of history, what was done, why it was done, what were the results, what ought to have been done, what would have been the consequences if this or that important detail had been different. It is however not easy to gain from books a clear general idea of a campaign or a battle, harder perhaps than to obtain a similar grasp of the work of a legislator, or of the drift of a social change. To the ordinary historian the military side is only one aspect of his theme, and very possibly an aspect which interests him but little. He narrates the facts as given him by his authorities: but when these are vague, as mediaeval writers mostly are, or discrepant, as modern writers are who mean to be precise and write from different standpoints, he need be something of an expert to make his narrative lifelike. On the other hand, purely military works are, very reasonably, technical: they are written for experts, to whom the technical language is familiar, and they often go into considerable detail. Ordinary readers are apt, consequently, to want help in obtaining from them a clear idea of the outline of events.

Free Download My Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and the Battles That Made Us (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C21DVJQQ | 2024 | 10 hours and 44 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 308 MB
Author: Morgan Campbell
Narrator: Morgan Campbell
The debut memoir from award-winning journalist Morgan Campbell: an incredible history of a family’s battles across generations, a hilarious and emotional coming-of-age story, and a powerful reckoning with what it means to be Black in Canada-particularly when you have strong American roots. Morgan Campbell comes from "a fighting family," a connection and clash that reaches back to the south side of Chicago in the 1930s. His father’s and mother’s families were both part of the Great Migration from the U.S. rural south to the industrial north, but a history of perceived slights and social-class differences solidified a great feud that only intensified over the course of the century after the families came together in marriage and split up across the border.