War Memoirs. [v.2] : Unity, 1942- 1944
Author : c. de Gaulle
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File Size : 44,81 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : c. de Gaulle
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File Size : 44,81 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : Charles de Gaulle
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 1955
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : Charles de Gaulle
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Page : 298 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 1960
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : Charles de Gaulle
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Page : pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 1959
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : Charles de Gaulle
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Page : pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 1959
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : Charles de Gaulle
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File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 1959
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Author : Norman Polmar
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1574886630
Aircraft Carriers is the definitive history of world aircraft carrier development and operations. Norman Polmar’s revised and updated, two-volume classic describes the political and technological factors that influenced aircraft carrier design and construction, meticulously records their operations, and explains their impact on modern warfare. Volume I provides a comprehensive analysis of carrier developments and warfare in the first half of the twentieth century, and examines the advances that allowed the carrier to replace the battleship as the dominant naval weapons system. Polmar gives particular emphasis to carrier operations from World War I, through the Japanese strikes against China in the 1930s, to World War II in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic, and Pacific theaters. It begins with French inventor Clément Ader’s remarkably prescient 1909 description of an aircraft carrier. The book then explains how Britain led the world in the development of aircraft-carrying ships, soon to be followed by the United States and Japan. While ship-based aircraft operations in World War I had limited impact, they foreshadowed the aircraft carriers built in the 1920s and 1930s. The volume also describes the aircraft operating from those ships as well as the commanders who pioneered carrier aviation. Aircraft Carriers has benefited from the technical collaboration of senior carrier experts Captain Eric M. Brown and General Minoru Genda as well as noted historians Robert M. Langdon and Peter B. Mersky. Aircraft Carriers is heavily illustrated with more than 400 photographs—some never before published—and maps. Volume II, which is forthcoming from Potomac Books in the winter 2006-2007 (ISBN 978-1-57488-665-8), will cover the period 1946 to the present.
Author : John J. Sullivan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1476611394
On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched Operation Overlord, the largest, most hazardous amphibious assault in history. The objective: establishment of a lodgment area in Normandy from which the Allies could strike at the heart of Germany and destroy the German armed forces. Air supremacy over northwest Europe was an absolute prerequisite for the success of the invasion, and to achieve it the U.S. Army Air Forces launched two campaigns aimed at destroying the Germans' transportation advantages in the area. In the months and days leading up to the assault, the Army Air Forces ceaselessly bombed rail centers, rendering most of the railways in northern France and Belgium unusable. Once the actual invasion was underway, the Allies shifted to an interdiction campaign, using precise air attacks on critical transportation installations near the battlefield to neutralize Germany's efforts to resupply and reinforce their troops. This work makes use of many wartime records that had remained classified until recently.
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Page : 632 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 1956
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Includes entries for maps and atlases
Author : Rachel Chin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 19,68 MB
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1009302523
War of Words argues that the conflicts that erupted over French colonial territory between 1940 and 1945 are central to understanding British, Vichy and Free French policy-making throughout the war. By analysing the rhetoric that surrounded these clashes, Rachel Chin demonstrates that imperial holdings were valued as more than material and strategic resources. They were formidable symbols of power, prestige and national legitimacy. She shows that having and holding imperial territory was at the core of competing Vichy and Free French claims to represent the true French nation and that opposing images of Franco-British cooperation and rivalry were at the heart of these arguments. The selected case studies show how British-Vichy-Free French relations evolved throughout the war and demonstrate that the French colonial empire played a decisive role in these shifts.