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Firepower The Most Spectacular Fraud in Australian History


Free Download Gerard Ryle, "Firepower: The Most Spectacular Fraud in Australian History"
English | 2009 | pages: 280 | ISBN: 1741753554 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
This is the scandalous tale of one of the greatest business scams in Australian business history-the controversial fuel pill, Firepower. A magic pill that cuts fuel consumption and reduces emissions-that was the miracle promised by Tim Johnston’s company, Firepower. Everyone believed him: prime ministers and presidents, doctors and diplomats, business leaders and sporting heroes. Millions of shares were sold to investors, and by 2007, Firepower had become the biggest sporting sponsor in the country-but it was all a sham. In this compelling account, Gerard Ryle demolishes the fairytale, exposing a wobbly financial pyramid and the greatest fraud ever committed in Australia. Tim Johnston divided his people into Oranges and Lemons. Those who didn’t know him enough yet, he called Oranges. They thought he was nice and sweet and juicy. But those who really got to know him became Lemons: he left them bitter and twisted.

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D-Day Gunners Firepower on the British Beaches and Landing Grounds (Battleground Normandy)


Free Download D-Day Gunners: Firepower on the British Beaches and Landing Grounds (Battleground Normandy) by Frank Baldwin
English | July 20, 2022 | ISBN: 1473834937 | 280 pages | PDF | 31 Mb
Part history book and part travel guide, D-Day Gunners is aimed at anyone interested in the artillery on the D-Day beaches and landing grounds. While the heritage of the D-Day beaches and landing sites is well documented, this rarely includes the artillery story. The author of this book aims to correct this by providing a visitors’ guide to the artillery stories associated with the battlefield heritage that remains on the D-Day beaches, mapping the fire-plan for D-Day against the known German locations, and looking at what happened at these places.

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Naval Firepower Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era


Free Download Norman Friedman – Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era
Naval Institute Press | 2008 | ISBN: 1591145554 | English | 328 pages | PDF | 229.14 MB
For more than a half a century the big gun was the arbiter of naval power, but it was useless if it could not hit the target fast and hard enough to prevent the enemy doing the same. Because the naval gun platform was itself in motion, finding a ‘firing solution’ was a significant problem made all the more difficult when gun sizes increased and fighting ranges lengthened and seemingly minor issues like wind velocity had to be factored in. This heavily illustrated book outlines for the first time in layman’s terms the complex subject of fire-control equipment and electro-mechanical computing.

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