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Cartoons of World War II


Free Download Tony Husband, "Cartoons of World War II"
English | ISBN: 1435150686 | 2013 | 192 pages | EPUB | 19 MB
In peacetime cartoonists are a diverse collection of individuals with their own styles and projects, but when the trumpets of war blow it is like unleashing the dogs of war. Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and Mussolini were a gift for them and, as this collection shows, one they weren’t about to turn down. This book shows that humour was one of the key weapons of war, with countries using cartoons to demoralise their opponents and maintain morale. Each country had its own style: the British liked understatement, showing people drinking cups of tea while bombs fell, whilst the Germans chose Churchill serving up a cocktail of blood, sweat and tears to an emaciated and sickly British lion. Showcasing the very best cartoons from Britain, the USA, Germany, Russia plus the work of all of WWII’s greatest cartoonists, including Bill Mauldin, Fougasse, Emett, David Low and Graham Laidler (Pont), this book is guaranteed to make you laugh.

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Unsolved Mysteries of World War II From the Nazi Ghost Train and ‘Tokyo Rose’ to the day Los Angeles was attacked by Ph


Free Download Michael FitzGerald, "Unsolved Mysteries of World War II: From the Nazi Ghost Train and ‘Tokyo Rose’ to the day Los Angeles was attacked by Ph"
English | ISBN: 1788285859 | 2019 | 256 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
During World War II, many deeply mysterious events took place in the fog and chaos of conflict. These were classified, hushed up and kept from the public eye, and yet with the recent opening of secret archives, new light has been shed on these strange circumstances. This brilliant book fills you in on these unsolved cases, teasing fact from fiction.

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Forgotten Battlefronts of the First World War


Free Download Martin Marix Evans, "Forgotten Battlefronts of the First World War"
English | ISBN: 0752450476 | 2009 | 272 pages | MOBI | 602 KB
The struggle between Germany and the Allies along the Western Front is for many the most familiar element of World War I. However, many less well-known theaters of conflict, key to the overall progress and conduct of the war, hold as much relevance to both the traveler and the armchair enthusiast. In this work, the author sheds light on the fighting methods of the protagonists in less familiar settings, whether in the Italian Alps or in the cloying heat of the Greek coast. In the first weeks of fighting, stubborn Belgian resistance resulted in a desperate battle to stabilize the front and compelled the German advance to be diverted against the British at Ypres. French determination to win back Alsace-Lorraine plunged the Vosges region into fluid conflict for over a year from August 1914 before both sides realized the impossibility of a decisive success in this area. The three-year struggle between Italy and Austria across the alpine passes was to draw German, British and French forces into the region. Anglo-French assistance to the Serbs through Salonika produced a standoff between the Allies and the Central Powers which was only to be resolved in the last months of the war.

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Aviation Disasters The World’s Major Civil Airliner Crashes Since 1950


Free Download David Gero, "Aviation Disasters: The World’s Major Civil Airliner Crashes Since 1950"
English | ISBN: 0750966335 | 2017 | 416 pages | EPUB | 751 KB
Flying as an airline passenger is, statistically, one of the safest forms of travel. Even so, the history of civil aviation is littered with high-profile disasters involving major loss of life. This new edition of the authoritative work on the subject brings the grim but important story of air disasters right up to date. David Gero assembles a list of major air disasters since the 1950s across continents. He investigates every type of calamity, including those caused by appalling weather, mechanical failure, pilot error, inhospitable terrain and hostile action. The first incident of sabotage involving a commercial jetliner is covered, as is the first, much-feared crash of the jumbo jet era. Examined alongside less well-known disasters are high-profile episodes such as that of Pan American Flight 103 at Lockerbie in 1988, the Twin Towers tragedy of 11 September 2001 and, more recently, the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in 2014 – the greatest mystery of the commercial jet age. Aviation Disasters is the authoritative record of air disasters worldwide, fully illustrated with a fascinating selection of photographs.

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Sample Logic World Fury KONTAKT


Free Download Sample Logic World Fury KONTAKT | 5.9 GB
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Introducing WORLD FURY: Your passport to an inspiring palette of world instruments and vocals captured from around the globe. This adventurous collection is derived and fueled by the creative animated instruments of WORLD AI, conjuring imaginative and exquisite presets from a fusion of global timbres and effects processing. We’ve peeled away the sequenced layers of WORLD AI to discover treasured cultural sounds beneath the motion. Building off this authentic indigenous content rises a new world of virtual instruments for the Kontakt engine.

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