Автор: Andre Zbigniewski
Издательство: Kagero
Год издания: 2003
isbn: 8389088142
Количество страниц: 106
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Язык: польский / английский A monograph devoted to the history of the controversial WW2 fighter, Brewster Buffalo, covers its design and development, operational history and camouflage and markings. Discusses the particular versions, their field modifications and combat operations in the U.S., British, Dutch and Finnish service, illustrated with maps. Lists aces of the Finnish Air Force and paints used to paint Buffalo. Includes technical data. 102 pages, 107 photographs, 18 sheets of technical drawings in 1:24 and 1:48 scale with specification of external changes on production-run versions of the aircraft, 11 color charts with 18 examples of camouflage schemes. Free 1:48 and 1:72 decals for 4 schemes: Brewster F2A-1 (BuNo 1338), 3-F-18 of VF-3, 1940. Brewster Model 339 (B-3110), flown by Lt. August Deibel of 2-VLG-V, Kallang, 1941. Brewster Model 239 (BW-378), flown by Lt. P.E. Sovelius of 4./LeLv 24, Karelia, jesien 1941. Brewster Model 339E (W8138), flown by Sqn. Ldr. Noel Sharp of 488 Sqn RNZAF, Singapur, 1941. About the Series Monographs focuses on an individual type of aircraft. Each monograph contains descriptions of the aircraft’s origin, its variants and combat history. Each volume includes several hundred archive photographs, technical scale drawings and color profile artwork.
Автор: Roger F. Sarty
Издательство: CEF Books
Год издания: 2001
isbn: 1896979440
Количество страниц: 50
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Access to History No. 9. A suberb modern work on the longest battle of World War II, the Battle of the Atlantic. Fought largely by Canadian ships and staffed by Canadian crew, this is the story of the efforts by the allies to ships supplies, materials and men to Europe to feed the armed forces and civilians and their intense battle against Germany's dreaded U-boats.
Автор: Alex Imrie
Издательство: Arms and Armour
Год издания: 1990
isbn: 1854090151
Количество страниц: 50
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
A collection of archive photographs of the first German warplanes used in World War I, this book provides important data for historians and modellers about primitive aeronautics.
Автор: Christopher Chant
Издательство: Delprado
Год издания: 2001
isbn: 8483726254
Количество страниц: 65
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
In 1961 the United Kingdom granted formal independence to the protectorate of Kuwait, which then became the Emirate of Kuwait. This small but oil-rich nation had for long been coveted by Iraq, its much larger northern neighbour, which became completely independent of the UK's League of Nations (and later United Nations) mandate in 1958, the year in which the monarchy was overthrown by the Ba'athist republic. Iraq never recognised Kuwait, and on several occasions in the following 30 years laid claim to parts or the entirety of Kuwait, Apart from its large oil reserves, reckoned in 1995 at 96.5 billion barrels to Iraq's 100 billion barrels, Kuwait was wanted by Iraq for the fact that it had a comparatively extensive coast along the western side of the Persian Gulfs northern end, whereas Iraq proper has only a very short coast that lies within the military reach of Iran. Iraq adheres mainly to the Sunni branch of Islam and has a strong antipathy to Iran and its adherence to the Shi'a branch of Islam. Coupled with the desire to seize the oil-rich regions along Iran's western border, this was sufficient to persuade the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, to launch a major war against Iran in 1980. This conflict, which was very costly in terms of casualties and money, lasted to 1988 without any real resolution...
Автор: Alex Imrie
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год издания: 1978
isbn: 0850452902
Количество страниц: 50
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This book traces the combat history of German fighter units. Major aircraft types are all covered, and their missions detailed. Aircraft markings and aircrew uniforms are shown in full colour illustrations.
Автор: Tim Ripley
Издательство: Delprado
Год издания: 2001
isbn: 8483726262
Количество страниц: 65
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The politics behind the break-up of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the summer of 1991 are long and complex. There were a number of distinct conflicts during the period from 1591 to the end of 1999. The firsr was the Slovenian war of independence in June-July 1991, followed by the Croat-Serb conflict of 1991-92. This battle front remained largely quiet until the spring of 1995 when the Croats launched a decisive series of offensives. Then in Apiil 1992 Bosnia-Herzegovina was engulfed in war between rival Serb, Croat and Muslim forces. United Nations (UN) peacekeeping troops and NATO airpower intervened in this three sided conflict from the summer of 1992 onwards, but with little impact until the autumn of 1995. The November 1995 Dayton Peace Accords and the Erdut Agreement formally ended the wars in both Bosnia and Croatia. This opened the way for NATO peacekeeping troops to enter the Balkans and separate the warring factions in Bosnia. The NATO-led Implementation Force (IFOR) and Stablisation Force (SFOR) achieved their limited military tasks with case. Dayton, however, ignored the problem of ethnic Albanians, or Kosovars, living in the Serbian controlled province of Kosovo. A hint of trouble in the southern Balkans came in 1997 when Albania collapsed into turmoil, necessitating the deployment of an Italian-led European peacekeeping force. Tension in Kosovo led to war in 1998 and NA'FO intervention the following spring.
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