Tag: War

Free Download Andrew N. Buchanan, "From World War to Postwar: Revolution, Cold War, Decolonization, and the Rise of American Hegemony, 1943-1958 "
English | ISBN: 1350240214 | 2023 | 286 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 19 MB
Offering a global account of the ‘long’ World War II, this book challenges conventional narratives that picture a clearly defined war period (1939-1945) followed by a distinct postwar era dominated by the encroaching cold war. Arguing instead that while some aspects of the war did end abruptly in 1945, in many corners of the world ‘war’ bled directly and raggedly into the ‘postwar’ such as Allied Occupation in Italy, the civil war in Greece, the rise of US hegemony and struggles for national liberation in India. From World War to Postwar shows how critical developments in the latter half of the 20th century were a direct result of the Second World War, and reconceptualizes the conflict as an intersecting series of regional wars as well as an overarching world war.

Free Download Alfred Price – Focke Wulf 190 at War
Charles Scribner’s Sons | 1977 | ISBN: 0684153238 | English | 168 pages | PDF | 146.43 MB

Free Download Richard Miller, "Fighting Words: Persuasive Strategies for War and Politics"
English | 2010 | pages: 312 | ISBN: 1932714782 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
In ‘Fighting Words’, award-winning author Richard F. Miller (In Words and Deeds) looks to some of history’s most successful battle speechmakers to answer the age-old question of how. How did Pope Urban II’s speech convince tens of thousands of Europeans to wage the First Crusade, a dangerous, and for many, a one-way journey to Jerusalem? How did George Patton’s speech transform the green kids of the Third Army into the terror of the Third Reich? How did the words of General David Petraeus resurrect a losing effort in Iraq and in the process, retrain his soldiers for a new kind of war?

Free Download J.N. Westwood – Fighting Ships of World War II
Book Club Associates | 1979 | ISBN: 0283985305 | English | 168 pages | PDF | 150.75 MB
Histories of the following types-Battleship, Aircraft Carrier, Cruiser, Destroyer, Submarine, Escort. Ship Biographies include Yamato, Graff Spee, Scharnhorst, Bismarck, USS Alabama, Mogami, USS Johnston, HMS Thunderbolt-30 ships in all. Includes tables giving tonnage, armament, and speed. B&W photos.

Free Download Leo Marriott – Fighting Ships of World War II (Vital Guide)
Airlife | 2004 | ISBN: 1840374160 | English | 112 pages | PDF | 53.11 MB
This book includes the principal ships that were engaged in the war at sea between 1939 and 1945. The mighty battleships and cruisers that roamed the oceans, great aircraft carriers deployed in the Mediterranean and Pacific campaigns and the hard-pressed destroyers and U boats engaged in the Battle of the Atlantic are all described and illustrated. The book is divided into sections on battleships and battlecruisers, aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers and submarines. Specifications include displacement, length, draught, power-plant, speed and range, complement and weapons.

Free Download Chris Ellis – Famous Ships of World War 2 in Colour
Arco Publishing Company | 1977 | ISBN: 0668042257, 0668042311 | English | 211 pages | PDF | 70.31 MB
The variety of ships featured are representative of the many types of classes of ship involved in WW2. The first part illlustrates in colour 71 different ships accompanied by brief details of the vessel concerned, and importantly, many of the pictures show the ships in their camouflage schemes. The second part gives a biography of each of the 71 ships illustrated, describing the ship’s design background, its armament, armour, machinery, and salient features, followed by its wartime history and fate. Further chapters deal with wartime colour schemes, and schematic camouflage patterns (line drawings).

Free Download William Green – Famous Bombers of the Second World War
Doubleday & Company | 1975 | ISBN: 0356083330 | English | 290 pages | PDF | 315.19 MB
Excellent classic reference, good photographs (B & W only) and very good drawings, including several cutaways. Recommended to WWII aviation enthusiasts & modellers.

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.

Free Download Robert Jackson – Cold War Combat Prototypes
Crowood Press | 2005 | ISBN: 186126772X | English | 168 pages | PDF | 137.14 MB
During the Cold War a great many aircraft were built and flown but for various reasons never entered operational service. Some were losers in ‘fly-off’ competitions, others represented journeys up ‘blind alleys’ in aircraft development, and others were cancelled on dubious financial and/or political grounds. This book examines in detail the histories of these aircraft, and seeks to answer the following questions: What might the world’s air forces be like today, had the aircraft in this book entered service? How much did German wartime design contribute to today’s combat aircraft? To what extent did so-called ‘experts’ influence politicians in canceling major projects? Was Duncan Sandys really responsible for the disastrous planning decisions taken in Great Britain in the late 1950s? Could Great Britain have taken the lead in supersonic flight in 1946 – and kept it? Could supersonic VTOL have become a reality in the 1960s?

Free Download Martin Gilbert – Churchill at War: His "Finest Hour" in Photographs 1940-1945
W. W. Norton & Company | 2004 | ISBN: 0393058786 | English | 167 pages | PDF | 97.08 MB
Churchill at War combines official Churchill biographer Sir Martin Gilbert’s authoritative text with almost 200 photographs from the remarkable archive of London’s Imperial War Museum to create an unprecedented portrait of Churchill throughout World War II. Whether deep in conversation with world leaders, sharing a joke with dock workers, inspecting bomb-damaged cities, rallying his troops in the theaters of war, picnicking with his generals on the banks of the Rhine, visiting the ruins of Berlin, or celebrating the victory over Germany, Churchill’s charisma, strength of character, sense of humor, sensitivity, and love for his country shine out from these images. Churchill at War is an insightful glimpse into the wartime life of the man whose friendship with Franklin D. Roosevelt led to the closest-ever Anglo-American relationship, and whose tireless commitment to defeating Nazism was to prove an inspiration for millions over the decades both at home and abroad. 196 b/w photographs.