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Free Download The History of Dive Bombing: A Comprehensive History from 1911 Onward by Peter Smith
English | November 1, 2020 | ISBN: 1844155927 | 245 pages | PDF | 3.17 Mb
This is the incredible history of the dive bomber told from both official records and eyewitness accounts. It tears away the many myths and misrepresentations that surrounded this type of warplane and presents a truly original and detailed history, from the first true combat dive bombing by an RAF pilot in 1917 to the last stirring wartime actions. Interviews with the pilots who flew the combat missions in dive bombing aircraft of all the combatant nations give unique first-hand eyewitness viewpoints on many of the major actions and methods employed.

Free Download Andy Saunders, "Stuka Attack!: The Dive-Bombing Assault on England during the Battle of Britain"
English | 2013 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1908117354, 1911621475 | EPUB | 32,0 mb
The Junkers 87 Stuka was an iconic weapon of WWII and an aircraft name that was, and still is, instantly recognised worldwide. Its roles in Poland and the Battles of France and the Low Countries are almost legendary, but in the UK its import during the Battle of Britain is one that has never been covered in any specific detail. Here, Andy Saunders takes a critical look at every operation by Ju87s against British targets in 1940 – including those on land and at sea. Each raid is charted, covering all aspects of the attacks including participants, defending RAF fighters and those on the receiving end. Myth and reality and truth and legend are all examined and analysed in this highly illustrated new book, which adds to our knowledge of one of the most significant periods in the whole of British history.

Free Download Herman Knell, "To Destroy a City: Strategic Bombing and Its Human Consequences in World War II"
English | 2003 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0306811693 | EPUB | 4,2 mb
Herman Knell was nineteen and living in Würtzburg in March of 1945 when hundreds of Allied planes arrived overhead, unleashing a torrent of bombs on the city. Würtzburg’s tightly packed medieval housing exploded in a firestorm, killing six thousand people in one night and destroying 92 percent of the city’s structures. Despite the fact that Würtzburg had no strategic value, the city emerged from World War II second only to Dresden in material destruction inflicted from the air. The experience led Knell to years of research on the history, development, and effects of the strategy of area bombing.To Destroy a City is the result of the author’s long and unrelenting investigation. His analysis of this form of warfare, which reached its zenith during World War II, covers the history and the development of wide-area bombing since 1914, examines its wartime effectiveness and the consequences. But the extra dimension that Knell’s book offers is his firsthand experience of the tension, fear, tentative defiance, and, finally, utter catastrophe of being on the receiving end of overwhelming air power. For Americans, who fortunately did not experience bombing during the war, this is essential reading.

Free Download Mike Friscolanti, "Friendly Fire: The Untold Story of the U.S. Bombing that Killed Four Canadian Soldiers in Afghanistan"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0470836865, 047083918X | EPUB | pages: 596 | 0.6 mb
The text below is an excerpt from Friendly Fire. it is the early morning of April 18, 2002, following the mayhem of a bomb attack on a section of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, outside Kandahar, Afghanistan. the Edmonton-based soldiers were conducting a live-fire training exercise at a former al-Qaeda compound when a U.S. fighter pilot mistook them for the enemy.

Free Download The Bombing of London 1940-41 : The Blitz and its impact on the capital
by John Conen
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1803134879 | 411 Pages | ePUB | 2.1 MB

Free Download The History of Dive Bombing: A Comprehensive History from 1911 Onward by Peter C. Smith
English | January 24th, 2020 | ISBN: 1844155927 | 245 pages | True EPUB | 1.95 MB
The incredible story of the dive bomber is told through official reports and personal accounts from combat pilots in this sweeping military history.

Free Download Target London: Bombing the Capital, 1915-2005 by Peter Reese
English | October 5th, 2011 | ISBN: 1848841221 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 4.71 MB
London was a target for Zeppelins and bombers during the First World War, for bombers, V1s and rockets in the Second, and for Cold War missiles and for terrorists in more recent times, yet rarely has the history of twentieth-century attacks on the capital been studied as a whole. Peter Reese, in this thought-provoking account, vividly describes how the destructive potential of aerial bombing and terrorist actions has increased and how Londoners have struggled to protect themselves and their city.

Free Download Black Ops and Beaver Bombing: Adventures with Britain’s Wild Mammals (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781004108114 | 2023 | 10 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 262 MB
Author: Fiona Mathews, Tim Kendall
Narrator: Sam Devereaux