RAF and East German Fast-Jet Pilots in the Cold War: Thinking the Unthinkable (Walpole Nigel)(Pevná vazba)

RAF and East German Fast-Jet Pilots in the Cold War: Thinking the Unthinkable (Walpole Nigel)(Pevná vazba)

_RAF and East German Fast-Jet Pilots in the Cold War_ is the result of ten years of research, involving many visits to the former German Democratic Republic by a small Anglo/German team of military specialists. Their purpose was to explore the lives of RAF and East German fighter and

Through Adversity: The Story of Life in the RFC and RAF Through Three Operational Pilots (Goodrum Alastair)(Pevná vazba)

How did the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) 'cavalry of the air' transform into the strategic RAF of the Cold War? The flying lives of these three pilots combine across the years to illustrate how it happened. Trained on Bristol Boxkites in 1912, Major Leonard Dawes helped shape the RFC in its infancy

Alarmstart East: The German Fighter Pilot's Experience on the Eastern Front 1941-1945 (Eriksson Patrick G.)(Pevná vazba)

For anyone who is interested in the air war 1941-45, the information provided here is of inestimable value. There are no more than a handful of Second World War Luftwaffe members alive today. Patrick Eriksson had the foresight to record these experiences first-hand before it was too late. Some

Phantom in the Cold War: RAF Wildenrath 1977 - 1992 (Gledhill David)(Pevná vazba)

The McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom was a true multi-role combat aircraft. Introduced into the RAF in 1968, it was employed in ground attack, air reconnaissance and air defense roles. Later, with the arrival of the Jaguar in the early 1970s, it changed over to air defense. In its heyday, it served as

Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War (Stanek Lukasz)(Pevná vazba)

How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet era In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West

Airlines at War: British Civil Aviation 1939-1944 (Wills Simon)(Pevná vazba)

The brave efforts of the pilots and crew of the RAF during the Second World War are well-known but there was another body of aviators that played a significant role in the conflict - the men and women of the civilian airlines. The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was formed shortly after

Alarmstart South and Final Defeat: The German Fighter Pilot's Experience in the Mediterranean Theatre 1941-44 and Normandy, Norway and Germany 1944-45 (Eriksson Patrick G.)(Pevná vazba)

Alarmstart South completes Patrick Eriksson's Alarmstart trilogy on Second World War German fighter pilots, detailing their experiences in the Mediterranean theatre (1941‒1944), and during the closing stages of the war over Normandy, Norway and Germany (1944‒1945). He utilises extensive

German Jet Aircraft: 1939-1945 (Diedrich Hans-Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Germany was one of the leading developers of jet propulsion during the Second World War - in August 1939 the world's first jet aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, took to the air on its maiden flight. This new book examines all of the developments, production and aircraft types: He 280, Me 262, Ar 234,

A History Shared and Divided: East and West Germany Since the 1970s (Bsch Frank)(Pevná vazba)

By and large, the histories of East and West Germany have been studied in relative isolation. And yet, for all their differences, the historical trajectories of both nations were interrelated in complex ways, shaped by economic crises, social and cultural changes, protest movements, and other

Crisis and Change in Post-Cold War Global Politics: Ukraine in a Comparative Perspective (Resende Erica)(Pevná vazba)

Offers an original contribution to re-thinking the study of crises in International RelationsCombines theoretical investigations with original research based on fieldwork in the regionTakes a comparative perspective through a broad array of researchers based in various countries, including Brazil

British Submarines in the Cold War Era (Friedman Norman)(Pevná vazba)

British Submarines in the Cold War Era shows how a combination of evolving strategic and tactical requirements and new technology produced successive types of submarines. It is based largely on unpublished and previously classified official documentation, and to the extent allowed by security

The Bayern Agenda: The Galactic Cold War, Book I (Moren Dan)(Paperback)

A new Cold War threatens the galaxy, in this fast-paced and wisecracking thriller of spies and subterfuge. Simon Kovalic, top intelligence operative for the Commonwealth of Independent Systems, is on the frontline of the burgeoning Cold War with the aggressive Illyrican Empire. He barely escapes

Military History of the Cold War, 1944-1962 (House Jonathan M.)(Pevná vazba)

The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive, multinational overview of military affairs during the early Cold War, beginning with

Free World - Art and Thought in the Cold War (Menand Louis)(Pevná vazba)

The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense - economic and political, artistic and

Screening Art: Modernist Aesthetics and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema (Allan Sen)(Pevná vazba)

With internationalist aspirations and wide-ranging historical perspectives, East German films about artists and their work became hotly contested spaces in which filmmakers could look beyond the GDR and debate the impact of contemporary cultural policy on the reception of their pre-war cultural

Writing in Red: The East German Writers Union and the Role of Literary Intellectuals (Goldstein Thomas W.)(Pevná vazba)

In the German Democratic Republic words and ideas mattered, both for legitimizing and criticizing the regime. No wonder, then, that the ruling SED party created a Writers Union to mold what writers publicly wrote and said. Its chief task was ideological: creating a socialist and antifascist

Dtente: The Chance to End the Cold War (Crowder Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Between 1968 and 1975, there was a subtle thawing of relations between East and West, for which Brezhnev coined the name D tente, and - perhaps - a chance to end the Cold War. The leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, hoped to forge a new relationship

Kursk 1943: Hitler's Bitter Harvest (Tucker-Jones Anthony)(Pevná vazba)

In 1943, as war raged along the Eastern Front, the German forces attempted to push further east in the brutal Operation Citadel, which saw one of the largest armoured clashes in history in the Battle of Prokhorovka. Countered by two Soviet attacks, this operation saw the tide turn on the Eastern

Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War (Kalb Marvin)(Pevná vazba)

'A personal journey through some of the darkest moments of the cold war and the early days of television newsMarvin Kalb, the award-winning journalist who has written extensively about the world he reported on during his long career, now turns his eye on the young man who became that journalist

Global Development: A Cold War History (Lorenzini Sara)(Pevná vazba)

In the Cold War, 'development' was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned with the security concerns of the great powers, for whom infrastructure and development projects were ideological tools for conquering hearts and minds

Greenfeast - Spring, Summer (Cloth-Covered, Flexible Binding) (Slater Nigel)(Pevná vazba)

The first in a pair of fast, season-led vegetable books from beloved author and cook Nigel Slater.'Much of my weekday eating contains neither meat nor fish ... It is simply the way my eating has grown to be over the last few years.'Greenfeast: spring, summer is a vibrant and joyous collection of

The Undying Flame: Olympians Who Perished in the Second World War (McCrery Nigel)(Pevná vazba)

Over 60,000,000 people died worldwide during the course of the Second World War and, in contrast to those slaughtered in The Great War, it was civilian populations that bore the brunt. They perished in the Holocaust, in internment camps, in bombed towns and cities and as 'collateral damage', in war

Alarmstart East: The German Fighter Pilot's Experience on the Eastern Front 1941-1945 (Eriksson Patrick G.)(Paperback)

For anyone who is interested in the air war 1941-45, the information provided here is of inestimable value. There are no more than a handful of World War II Luftwaffe members alive today. Patrick Eriksson had the foresight to record these experiences first-hand before it was too late. Some

Luftwaffe Pilots In World War II - The Veterans' Stories Volume 1 (Bergstrom Christer)(Pevná vazba)