Tag: Fighting

Modern Armored Fighting Vehicles From 1946 to the Present Day


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Southwater | 2008 | ISBN: 1844764621 | English | 130 pages | PDF | 116.32 MB
This highly illustrated reference book opens with a history of armored fighting vehicles, covering the 60-year period from the start of the Cold War to the present day. The first section focuses on the vehicles that were developed when nuclear and chemical weapons were first introduced on the battlefield. Following this, a substantial A to Z guide to AFVs provides details about each vehicle, all entries being accompanied by wartime or museum photographs, mostly in color. From the Humber Pig to the Rooikat Armoured Car, the most important AFVs from around the world are described and illustrated.

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German Early War Armored Fighting Vehicles ( World War II AFV Plans) (2024)


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Stackpole Books | 2007 | ISBN: 0811733416 | English | 102 pages | PDF | 131.88 MB
This title contains fine scale drawings of German AFVs, covering the time period of the Blitzkrieg across Europe through the greatest tank battle in history, Kursk. Multiple angles provide a level of detail for the 8-wheeled Armoured Car, Sd. Kfz. Panzer I Tank, Sd. Kfz. Panzer II Tank, Sd. Kfz. Panzer 35 T Tank, Sd. Kfz. Panzer IIIm Sd. Kfz. Armored Halftrack, and dozens more.

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Fighting Words Persuasive Strategies for War and Politics


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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?

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Fighting Ships of the World Over 600 Carriers, Submarines & Destroyers


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Amber Books | 2004 | ISBN: 1904687016 | English | 616 pages | PDF | 256.03 MB
Features over 600 warships, each illustrated with full-color artwork; Contains detailed specifications for each vessel, with all measurements given in imperial and metric; Examines such famous fighting ships as the Bismarck, Enterprise, Yamato, and many more; Includes a detailed index for easy reference.

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Fighting Ships of World War II


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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.

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Fighting Ships of World War II (Vital Guide)


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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.

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Allied Armored Fighting Vehicles 172 Scale (World War II AFV Plans) (2024)


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Stackpole Books | 2009 | ISBN: 0811735702 | English | 62 pages | PDF | 129.71 MB
This title is filled with 1:72-scale drawings of armored vehicles from the U.S., Britain, Canada, and USSR, including: M4 Sherman medium tank (U.S.), T1E3 Aunt Jemima mine exploder (U.S.), M18 Hellcat tank destroyer (U.S.), Mk VI Crusader cruiser tank (Britain), Crocodile flamethrower (Britain), Ram I cruiser tank (Canada), T-34 medium tank (USSR), SU-100 tank destroyer (USSR), and dozens more.

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Bradley Americans Fighting to Free Europe [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CL5H4259 | 2023 | 5 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 279 MB
Author: Charles Whiting
Narrator: Dallas Britt

At the age of fifty Bradley was a career officer who had never seen a day of action on the battlefield. Yet, by the end of the war, he had led American soldiers through some of the bloodiest fighting of World War Two-the final defeat of the Germans’ Afrika Korps, the invasion of Sicily, and the historic Normandy invasion, before leading the advance across the Rhine. Despite being such an instrumental leader of World War Two he was a modest man, professing only to do the best he could for his calling and his country.

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