Tag: Destroyers

Free Download Susanna Hecht, "The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon, Updated Edition"
English | ISBN: 0226322726 | 2011 | 408 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half of the planet’s remaining rain forest. Is it truly in peril? What steps are necessary to save it? To understand the future of Amazonia, one must know how its history was forged: in the eras of large pre-Columbian populations, in the gold rush of conquistadors, in centuries of slavery, in the schemes of Brazil’s military dictators in the 1960s and 1970s, and in new globalized economies where Brazilian soy and beef now dominate, while the market in carbon credits raises the value of standing forest.

Free Download Jim Mesko, Don Greer – US Tank Destroyers – Armor Walk Around Number 3
Squadron/Signal Publications | 2003 | ISBN: 0897474562 | English | 82 pages | PDF | 104.88 MB
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Free Download John English – Obdurate to Daring: British Fleet Destroyers 1941-45
World Ship Society | 2008 | ISBN: 0956076904 | English | 224 pages | PDF | 159.36 MB

Free Download Alan Raven – Fletcher-Class Destroyers (Warship Design Histories)
Naval Institute Press | 1987 | ISBN: 0870211935 | English | 174 pages | PDF | 150.27 MB
One of the very best sources of information on Fletcher class destroyers available. Forty three pages of pictures. Eighty pages of drawings. Six pages on paint schemes and camouflage.

Free Download Robert Jackson – Destroyers, Frigates and Corvettes
Prospero Books | 2000 | ISBN: 1552673464 | English | 328 pages | PDF | 155.21 MB
300 of the world’s greatest destroyers and escorts. Each ship illustrated with a full colour side view. Detailed specifications tables.

Free Download Maurice Cocker – Destroyers of the Royal Navy 1893-1981
Ian Allan | 1981 | ISBN: 0711010757 | English | 144 pages | PDF | 106.93 MB

Free Download M. J. Whitley – Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia
Naval Institute Press | 1988 | ISBN: 0870213261 | English | 328 pages | PDF | 302.68 MB
Fast, compact and formidable, destroyers were in the thick of the action in every theater of operations during the Second World War. They performed a wide range of duties, often of the most hazardous nature. Not only were they assigned to escort the main battle fleets into action, but they were called upon to escort convoys and protect them from attacks by aircraft and submarines. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs and line drawings, this reprint of the popular 1988 book comprehensively details in one volume all the destroyers built between 1939 and 1945 by the navies of the world. Each class is described under three design, modification, and service. The author, a leading World War II historian, provides a wealth of data on each ship’s builder, dimensions, armament, performance, and fate as well as keel-laying, launch, and commissioning dates. Such a detailed record of these highly effective, versatile ships will prove invaluable to warship enthusiasts everywhere.