Hot Skies of the Cold War: The Bulgarian Air Force in the 1950s, Paperback - Alexander Mladenov

DescriptionAfter the end of the Second World War, Bulgaria fell in total dependency upon the Soviet Union as a direct result of the 1944 Yalta agre...

Reducere. Since the end of the Cold War the United States and other major powers have wielded their air forces against much weaker state and non-state actors...

Documents the first time that the RAF struck back at Hitlers Reich.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Ken DelveIllustration(s): 200 B&W Pho...

Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Adam ZamoyskiIllustration(s): 30 PhotosNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 233 x 156 x...

Reducere. Choice Outstanding Academic Title A groundbreaking account of the Soviet Air Force in World War II, the original version of this book, Red Phoenix,...

In 1952, John T. "Jack" Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer, was shot down over Manchuria. He was captured by the Chinese and held for the ...

Reducere. World War II, British RoWith the outbreak of yal Air Force (RAF) officials sought to train aircrews outside of England, safe from enemy attack and ...

Anthropology At the Dawn of the Cold War. The Influence of Foundations, McCarthyism and the CIA - Dustin M. Wax

Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Paul OzorakIllustration(s): 170 illustrationsNumber of pages: 363Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 164 x...

Reducere. The 1960s represented a revolutionary moment around the globe. In rural Mexico, several guerrilla groups organized to fight against the ruling Inst...

Favourite cars of the 1950s are lavishly illustrated in this little books, with a lively text. They include models from Morris, Austin, Ford, MG, J...

Phil Carradice's account of growing up in Pembrokeshire after the Second World War ended.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAuthor(s): Phil CarradiceIll...

Reducere. "Written from the unusual perspective of a navigator, this is a compelling account of the air war against Germany." -Publishers WeeklyThey began op...

More than a footnote to the Second World War, or a foreword to the youth-obsessed exhilaration of the Sixties, the Fifties was a thrilling decade d...

DescriptionPrior to the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces - including the Air Force - prepared to engage the Litt...

Reducere. First-person account of the famous New York City Cedar Bar in the 1950s when it was regularly visited by what came to be known as the "greatest gen...

Scoring the Hollywood Actor in the 1950s theorises the connections between film acting and film music using the films of the 1950s as case studies....

Reducere. The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was a major military confrontation between India and Pakistan. Fought on two fronts of the Indian subcontinent betwe...

Photographic history of the French air force in the First World War

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Michael NapierIllustration(s): Fully illustrated throughout in colour and black and whiteNumber of p...

Reducere. Once the East African Campaign was concluded, some of the SAAF Fighter Squadrons, operating in Ethiopia and Sudan, moved north to Egypt to partake ...

Before Bunny Yeager was old enough to be one, she fantasized about becoming a Pin-Up girl. She realized her dream and much more. After building a s...

Copenhagen Street was no different from any street in any industrial town or city in the 1950s. Not only were the streets similar, their inhabitant...

Investigates the intertwining of fiction, documentary and memory in filmPublisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Maurizio CinquegraniIllustr...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Joy ShihIllustration(s): over 250 color photosNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 1997Dimensions: 21...

Richard Johns' illustrious career gave him the privilege of a rare, if not singular, perspective of the RAF, our sister services and national defen...

Why would an American girl-child, born into a good, Irish-Catholic family in the thick of the McCarthy era - a girl who, when she came of age, ente...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Thomas McKelvey CleaverIllustration(s): 16-page black and white plate section.Number of pages: 336Pu...

This study demonstrates how the social consequences of mass immigration became intertwined with the ideological battles of Cold War Germany and how...

The forgotten story of Greece's heroic airmen and their contribution to victory.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): John CarrIllustration(s)...

Reducere. The first "manned" hot-air balloon is about to take offBut what are those noises coming from the basket? Based on the (POSSIBLY) true report of a d...

Reducere. There must be something in our souls that cries out to explain to the world not only who we are but also how it was we got to be the person our fri...

With over 200 photos, Luftwaffe provides a full pictorial history of the aircraft and key figures of the German Air Force in WWII, from the Blitzkr...

Reducere. From South Africa to Israel and war in 1947. 800 young South African Jewish men and women answered the call to help the fledgeling State of Israel ...