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Aircraft Carrier Victorious Detailed in the Original Builders’ Plans


Free Download Aircraft Carrier Victorious: Detailed in the Original Builders’ Plans by David Hobbs
English | November 1, 2018 | ISBN: 1526737345 | 176 pages | EPUB | 5.91 Mb
The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the "as fitted" general arrangements, these drawings represented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. Intended to provide a permanent reference for the Admiralty and the dockyards, these highly detailed plans were drawn with exquisite skill in multi-colored inks and washes that represent the acme of the draughtsman’s art. HMS Victorious was a ship with two almost separate incarnations – as built in 1941 she was one of a new type of armored aircraft carrier which saw arduous wartime service; post-war the ship underwent a massive reconstruction lasting nearly eight years that saw her recommission in 1958 as one of the best equipped carriers in the world.

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Victorious in Defeat The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975 [Audiobook]


Free Download Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C9W38NRR | 2023 | 25 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 732 MB
Author: Alexander V. Pantsov
Narrator: Rick Adamson

An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century’s most powerful and controversial figures. Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926. He was the architect of a new republican China, a hero of the Second World War, and a faithful ally of the United States. Simultaneously a Christian and a Confucian, Chiang dreamed of universal equality yet was a perfidious and cunning dictator responsible for the deaths of over 1.5 million innocent people.

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