Название: Fighter Combat in the Jet Age (Jane's Air War №1)
Автор: David C. Isby
Издательство: Harper Collins Publishers
Год: 1997
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 208
Размер: 180,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Fighter Combat in the Jet Age covers the entire history of jet fighters in action, from the end of World War II to the present. Meticulously detailed, it features 300 photos, line drawings and graphs that reveal how jet fighters and their weapons have developed and improved, utterly changing the face of air combat.

Название: The Golden Age of Piracy: The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates
Автор: David Head
Издательство: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820353264
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 264
Размер: 2,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled piracy, and when and why piracy declined.

Название: Viking-Age Trade: Silver, Slaves and Gotland
Автор: Jacek Gruszczynski
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 1138293946
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 274
Размер: 14,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

That there was an influx of silver dirhams from the Muslim world into eastern and northern Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries is well known, as is the fact that the largest concentration of hoards is on the Baltic island of Gotland. Recent discoveries have shown that dirhams were reaching the British Isles, too. What brought the dirhams to northern Europe in such large numbers? The fur trade has been proposed as one driver for transactions, but the slave trade offers another – complementary – explanation.

Название: The Middle Stone Age of Nigeria in its West African Context
Автор: Philip Allsworth-Jones
Издательство: Archaeopress Archaeology;
ISBN: 1789691389
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 260
Размер: 149,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book provides a full up to date account of the evidence relating to the Middle Stone Age in Nigeria and the other countries of West Africa. It relies upon the author’s own fieldwork and extensive personal knowledge of the region and its archaeology. It is abundantly illustrated with maps, photographs, and drawings.