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Postwar Armored Fighting Vehicles 1945-Present (The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide)


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Amber Books | 2010 | ISBN: 1907446281 | English | 200 pages | PDF | 147.52 MB
The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide: Postwar Armored Fighting Vehicles 1945 Present offers a highly illustrated guide to the world s main armored units and their fighting vehicles used since the end of World War II. This compact volume includes sample unit structures and orders of battle from divisional to corps and army level, providing an organizational context for key wars fought since 1945. Organized chronologically, the book offers a comprehensive survey of units and their armored fighting vehicles by war, including Korea, Vietnam, the Arab Israeli conflicts, Indo-Pakistan wars, the Cold War in Europe, the Yugoslav civil war, the Iraq wars and Afghanistan. All the major and many minor tanks are featured, with variations of the T-72, M1 Abrams and Centurion, for example, as well as personnel carriers, engineering and mine-clearing vehicles. Lesser known models such as armored cars, halftracks, trucks and amphibious vehicles combine to make this a rounded compendium of modern armored fighting vehicles. Packed with more than 200 full-color artworks and photographs with exhaustive specifications, The Essential Vehicle Identification Guide: Postwar Armored Fighting Vehicles 1945 Present is a key reference guide for military modelers and vehicle enthusiasts.REVIEWS concise and well illustrated detailed full color drawings that depict camouflage patterns and provide key specifications such as the crew size, weight, dimensions, engine details, speed, and armament for each vehicle. Organizational charts for selected armored units are also included as well as dozens of photographs (many of them color) of various AFVs with in action or on parade.

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Merchant Sailors at War 1943-1945 Beating the U-Boat (Images of War)


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Pen & Sword | 2015 | ISBN: 1783463058 | English | 132 pages | PDF | 162.23 MB
"The Battle of the Atlantic was the dominating factor all through the war. Never for one moment could we forget that everything happening elsewhere, on land, at sea, or in the air, depended ultimately on its outcome." – Winston Churchill

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Imagining Ireland Abroad, 1904-1945 Conceiving the Nation, Identity, and Borders in Central Europe


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English | ISBN: 3030778150 | 2021 | 332 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Offering a unique account of identity formation in Ireland and Central Europe, this book explores and contextualises transfers and comparisons between Ireland and the successor states of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It reveals how Irish perceptions of borders and identities changed after the (re)birth of the small states of Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia and the creation of the Irish Free State. Adopting a transnational approach, the book documents the outward-looking attitude of Irish nationalists and provides original insights into the significance of personal encounters that transcended the borders of nation-states. Drawing on a wide range of official records, private papers, contemporary press accounts and journal articles, Imagining Ireland Abroad, 1904-1945 bridges the gap between historiographies of the East and West by opening up a new perspective on Irish national identity.

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Anglican Confirmation 1820-1945


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English | ISBN: 103266097X | 2024 | 218 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 1222 KB
This book focuses on Anglican Confirmation in theology, liturgy, and practice from 1820 to 1945. This was a period of great change in the ways Anglicans approached Confirmation. The Tractarian movement transformed the Communion, and its ideas were carried overseas with the missionary movement. The study examines the development of a two-stage theology and its reception. It analyses the wave of liturgical revision expressed in England in the 1928 Prayer Book. It explores the episcopal changes in practice from the eighteenth-century paradigm to a new way of confirming. The revolution of the time has left a legacy that still informs practice, while doubts about theology and its liturgical application have left an existential crisis. The author reflects on how the current situation in various provinces has its roots in this period and the diffusion of ideas in the Communion. The book offers a fresh systematic examination of the neglected ecclesial practice of Confirmation, providing a more holistic view and clarifying developments to help us better understand the present. It will be of particular interest to scholars of Christian theology, liturgy, ecclesiology, and church history.

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US Airborne Tanks, 1939-1945


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English | March 23, 2021 | ISBN: 1526785021 | 208 pages | EPUB | 21 Mb
This book explores the design and deployment of American airborne tanks from the earliest concepts to their actual use.

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The Dutch-Indonesian War 1945-49 Armies of the Indonesian War of Independence (Men-at-Arms, 550)


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English | June 20, 2023 | ISBN: 1472854748 | 48 pages | MOBI | 12 Mb
Highly detailed and colourful, this account illustrates the struggle of Indonesian forces in their War of Independence against the Netherlands, following the surrender of occupying Japanese forces in 1945.

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Syria’s Quest for Independence 1939-1945


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1997 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 0863721753 | PDF | 11 MB
An account of the Syrian nationalists’ struggle for independence and democracy during World War II, written from the perspective of the author’s father, Jamil Mardam Bey – a prominent leader of that time.

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