Soviet Design

DescriptionThe Soviet Union left behind a vast design heritage that is largely unknown in the West. Unlike Soviet-era architecture and graphic desi...

The intent of this volume is to detail the Sukhoi Su-33 (Su-27K) fourth generation naval strike fighter aircraft design procured for service aboard...

When it first appeared on the battlefield in July 1941, the Soviet T-34 was the best tank in the world. Ideal for modellers and tank enthusiasts, T...

Reducere. Russian/Soviet Aircraft Carrier & Carrier Aviation Design & Evolution Volume 1 The following is added ahead of the description as the volume has be...

Reducere. Russian/Soviet Aircraft Carrier & Carrier Aviation Design & Evolution Vol.2 The following is added ahead of volume description in response to the u...

Reducere. The Soviet Union was not renowned for its fashionable clothing. However, after the World War II the Soviet Government opened several parallel organ...

DescriptionOne of the most interesting strands in aviation history has been the development of wing-in-ground effect (WIG) vehicles, or as they are...

Examines the design, development and operational history of the Soviet Union's Cold War SPAAGs: the ZSU-37, ZSU-57-2, the infamous ZSU-23-4, and th...

Reducere. Submarines had a vital, if often unheralded, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War. Their crews carried out intelligence-collection ope...

Reducere. T-4 Sotka The intent of this volume is to detail the Soviet Union's Mach 3+ capable Sukhoi T-4 Sotka hypersonic missile carrier/Airborne Reconnaiss...

Spre deosebire de […] “totalitarismul” de tip sovietic, national-socialismul ramine in foarte mare masura recalcitrant la mijloacele analizei polit...

DescriptionAfter the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union tried to exert its political influence on the Asian continent. A major pillar of...

DescriptionThe N1 was the booster rocket for the Soviet manned moon program and was thus the direct counterpart of the Saturn V, the rocket that to...

Alexei Sciusev a fost un arhitect inzestrat cu abilitati unice si, probabil, singurul arhitect sovietic de rang inalt care a excelat in toate cele ...

The "Smelyi" type destroyer, Project 30 bis (Skoryi class, according to NATO classification), was the first destroyer designed and built after Worl...

Hotels Of Pyongyang takes the reader to North Korea, one of the world's most isolated countries, and captures the surprising variety of its archite...

DescriptionThe menacing silhouette of the T-54 tank prowling down streets of Eastern European capitals or roaring across fields in massive exercise...

DescriptionWhen the German army launched Operation Barbarossa - the invasion of the Soviet Union - on June 22, 1941, it was expecting to face and e...

Reducere. During the 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear devastation. America's hope for national security relied ...

Reducere. Translation of poems by Yuri Zhivago, the main character of the Nobel Prize winner Boris Pasternak's world- famous novel "Doctor Zhivago, " which w...

DescriptionThe Ukraine based Antonov company had its origins in the Soviet era Antonov Design Bureau which latterly had been working on large trans...

Reducere. As early as 1965, when the MiG-25 interceptor was in the midst of its test program, the Mikoyan Design Bureau started work on an even more capable ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ricardas GavelisTranslator: Elizabeth NovickasCover Design by: Stasys EidrigeviciusA dark, enigmatic, and visceral examinat...

DescriptionIn the wake of the T-72 tank's poor performance in the 1991 Gulf War, the Kremlin instructed the Russian tank industry to drop the discr...

This installation in R. P. Huunnicutt's legendary 10-volume history of American tanks and armored vehicles provides a detailed survey of the Americ...

Reducere. This important book, by the most distinguished Soviet psychologist of our time, is the product of almost forty years of extensive research aimed at...

The German Panther is one of the most famous, and greatest, tanks of World War II. Often considered the most elegant tank design of the war, it emb...

Monotown: Urban Dreams Brutal Imperatives examines the post-industrial transformation and transnational legacy of planned single-industry towns tha...

The all-American spirit of midcentury modernism, in three US State Department-sponsored exhibitionsThis revelatory volume recovers and presents the...

'Capitalist realism' implies that, ever since the fall of Soviet communism in 1989, capitalism has been the only realistic system of production and...

Reducere. In the 1980s, the first ballistic knives began to appear on the Western collectors market. Their sinister feature: the handle concealed a strong co...

In many ways, the Heinkel He 177 "Greif" (Griffon) was Nazi Germany's "lost" strategic bomber. With some fundamental creases ironed out, and built ...

Reducere. The Kalashnikov AK-47 is the most ubiquitous assault rifle in the world, with more AK-47s and its variants in use than any other individual small a...

DescriptionFocusing on its design, development and deployment during the Cold War, this title charts the history of the groundbreaking B-58 Hustler...

Reducere. DescriptionEngland and the rest of Europe are trying to recover from WWII and also cope with a belligerent Soviet Union intent on dominating the Co...

DescriptionThe Medium Tank, M4, better known to the British as the Sherman, was the most widely used medium tank by the United States and western A...

DescriptionThis lavishly illustrated volume details the design, development and operational history of British tanks from the end of World War II t...

DescriptionA fully illustrated study into the fighting between the Tempest V and Fw 190D-9, two aircraft that represented the cutting edge and pinn...