Tag: War

Free Download Brian Delf, "Bronze Age War Chariots"
English | 2006 | pages: 51 | ISBN: 1841769444 | PDF | 14,2 mb
Chariots, the first mobile fighting vehicle, seem to have originated in Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC. The highly mobile two-wheeled war chariot, carrying a driver and an archer armed with a short composite bow, revolutionized military tactics after 1700 BC. This expensive weapon spread throughout the Middle East and is thought to have reached Egypt with the conquering Hyksos. It spread into Asia Minor, Greece, and was known in Northern Europe by 1500 BC. This book covers the evolution of the war chariot throughout the Bronze Age, detailing its design, development and combat history – in particular its fundamental involvement at the battle of Qadesh.

Free Download Christopher Shores, Mark Rolfe, "British and Empire Aces of World War I"
English | 2001 | pages: 92 | ISBN: 1841763772 | PDF | 47,8 mb
At the outset of World War I the British had some 110 assorted aircraft, used mostly for the visual reconnaissance role. With the advent of faster and more agile single-seaters, the Allies and their adversaries raced to outdo each other in the creation of genuinely effective fighters with fixed forward-firing machine gun armament. It was not until 1917 that the British developed a truly effective interrupter gear, which paved the way for excellent single seaters such as the Sopwith Triplane Camel and the RAF S.E.5., later joined by the Bristol F.2B – the war’s best two-seat fighter. This volume traces the rapid development of the fighter in World War I and the amazing exploits of the British and Empire aces who flew them.

Free Download Jean-Michel Veranneman, "Belgium in the Second World War"
English | 2014 | pages: 348 | ISBN: 1783376074 | EPUB | 15,5 mb
This WWII history sheds light on Belgian resistance and fighting from the battle against Nazi invasion through its occupation and liberation.

Free Download Robert F. Dorr, Mark Styling, "B-29 Units of World War II"
English | 2002 | pages: 93 | ISBN: 1841762857 | PDF | 39,0 mb
The ultimate piston-engined heavy bomber of World War II (1939-1945), the first production B-29s were delivered to the 58th Very Heavy Bomb Wing in the autumn of 1943. By the spring of 1944 the Superfortress was bombing targets in the Pacific, and by war’s end the aircraft had played as great a part as any weapon in ending the conflict with the Japanese. Indeed, the final dropping of two atomic bombs from the B-29 convinced the Japanese to sue for peace. This book traces the wartime career of the B-29, as the aircraft went from strength to strength in the Pacific Theatre.

Free Download Martin Bowman, Mark Styling, "B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Pacific War"
English | 2003 | pages: 99 | ISBN: 1841764817 | PDF | 11,2 mb
The B-17 saw combat in the Pacific from the moment a formation of these bombers arrived at Pearl Harbor during the midst of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack. By the end of World War II (1939-1945), SB-17 rescue craft were saving combat crews in the waters off Japan. This book reveals why, to the public, the Flying Fortress was better known than the Spitfire, the Boeing 747, or Lindbergh’s Spirit of St Louis. The name recognition enjoyed by the B-17 was that company’s reason for creating B-17 Steak Sauce and Osprey’s reason to round out the saga of this great wartime aircraft.

Free Download Chris Davey, "American Spitfire Aces of World War 2"
English | 2007 | pages: 100 | ISBN: 1846032024 | PDF | 33,5 mb
The first few American volunteers flew Spitfires with the RAF during the Battle of Britain. Many more joined their ranks, often posing as "Canadians", eventually forming three Eagle squadrons who earned a fierce fighting reputation. When the United States entered the war the Eagle fighter sections were issued with Spitfires and eventually transferred to the Eighth Air Force. In just two years of service with the USAAF, 22 pilots claimed five or more victories flying the Spitfire, whilst a further two dozen aces claimed part of their total flying them, a testament to their skill and success at the controls of this legendary warbird.

Free Download Gerry Embleton, Samuel Embleton, "American Civil War Guerrilla Tactics"
English | 2009 | pages: 66 | ISBN: 1846034949 | PDF | 8,4 mb
Osprey’s examination of guerilla tactics employed during the American Civil War (1861-1865). While the giant armies of the Union and the Confederacy were fighting over cities and strategic strongholds, a large number of warriors from both sides were fighting, smaller, more personal battles. Beginning with the violent struggle known as "Bleeding Kansas," armed bands of irregular fighters began to wage war in every corner of the United States. Many of the names of their commanders have become legendary, including William Quantrill, "Bloody Bill" Anderson, and John S. Mosby, "The Grey Ghost." To their own people they were heroes; to others they were the first of a new generation of wild west outlaw. Their tactics including robbing banks and trains, kidnapping soldiers and civilians, rustling cattle, and cutting telegraph lines. In fact, it is during the violence of the war that many of America’s future outlaw legends would be born, most notably Cole Younger and Frank and Jesse James. In this book, new Osprey author Sean McLachlan explores the varied and often daring tactics employed by these famous warriors.

Free Download Chris Chant, Mark Rolfe, "Air War in the Gulf 1991"
English | 2001 | pages: 99 | ISBN: 1841762954 | PDF | 8,6 mb
In August 1990 Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces invaded and occupied the small Arab state of Kuwait. This book analyses the ensuing Gulf War (16 January – 28 February 1991) – a war fought to expel Iraq and restore Kuwaiti independence if not, as one British MP tartly observed, to defend democracy. The allies under General Schwarzkopf launched five weeks of air attacks, deploying 1,800 technologically highly advanced aircraft from the US, British, French and Saudi air forces. Many of these machines, including the British Tornadoes and US F-117A Stealth fighters, had never before engaged in combat, and their combined assault, watched by millions on TV, combined impressive accuracy with firepower to which the Iraqi forces had no answer.

Free Download Peter Pedersen, "ANZACS on the Western Front: The Australian War Memorial Battlefield Guide"
English | 2018 | pages: 929 | ISBN: 0730337391 | EPUB | 142,6 mb
newly updated, lavishly illustrated account of the ANZACs involvement in the Western Front-complete with walking and driving tours of 28 battlefields.

Free Download Richard Overy, "A History of War in 100 Battles"
English | 2014 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0199390711, 0007452519 | EPUB | 16,9 mb
Their very names-Gettysburg, Waterloo, Stalingrad-evoke images of great triumph and equally great suffering, moments when history seemed to hang in the balance. Considered in relation to each other, such battles-and others of less immediate renown-offer insight into the changing nature of