Название: China Station: The British Military in the Middle Kingdom, 1839–1997
Автор: Mark Felton
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1526781735
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 2,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The author, who lives in Shanghai, sets out to demonstrate that the British military has been at the forefront of many of the great changes that have swept China over the last two centuries.
He devotes chapters to the various wars, military adventures and rebellions that regularly punctuated Sino/British relationships since the 1st Opium War 1839-1842.

Название: War of the U-Boats: British Merchantmen Under Fire
Автор: Bernard Edwards
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1844155013
Год: 2007
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 256
Размер: 2,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

From the earliest days of the Second World War, Hitler's U-Boats were unleashed with the mission of sinking as much Allied merchant tonnage as possible. From the sinking of the Glasgow-based ship Olivegrove by U-23, to the end of hostilities six years later officers and seamen of the Merchant Marine played a key role in winning the war by their blatant disregard of the risks from Axis forces.

Название: Disciplining the Empire: Politics, Governance, and the Rise of the British Navy
Автор: Sarah Kinkel
Издательство: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674976207
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 320
Размер: 15,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

“Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the waves,” goes the popular lyric. The fact that the British built the world’s greatest empire on the basis of sea power has led many to assume that the Royal Navy’s place in British life was unchallenged. Yet, as Sarah Kinkel shows, the Navy was the subject of bitter political debate.

Название: Shipcraft 7 - British Battlecruisers of the Second World War
Автор: Steve Backer
Издательство: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1844156982
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 64
Размер: 42,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sisterships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profiles and highly-detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit.

Название: British Infantry Battalion Commanders in the First World War
Автор: Peter E. Hodgkinson
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 1472438256
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 208
Размер: 1,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Recent studies of the British Army during the First World War have fundamentally overturned historical understandings of its strategy and tactics, yet the chain of command that linked the upper echelons of GHQ to the soldiers in the trenches remains poorly understood.

Название: Heroes and Landmarks of British Military Aviation: From Airships to the Jet Age
Автор: Peter J. Edwards, Richard Edwards
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 294
Размер: 73,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Heroes and Landmarks of British Aviation tells the dramatic story of a world leading aviation industry, from the sweat and grease of the workshop, to the board rooms and government nationalisations that ultimately fashioned its destiny.

Название: A Historical Dictionary of the Railways of the British Isles
Автор: David Wragg
Издательство: Wharncliffe
ISBN: 1844680479
Год: 2009
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 288
Размер: 5,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Railways played a key role in Britain's social, economic and industrial history. These companies have long since gone, but all over the country relics remain to remind us of that pioneering age. David Wragg's Historical Dictionary of Railways in the British Isles is a comprehensive, single-volume reference guide to the old railway companies and their heritage.

Автор: Geoff M Plumb
Название: British Railways in the 1960s: Southern Region
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473823935
Язык: Английский
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Размер: 168
Кол-во страниц: 46,7 МБ

After the Second War, Britain's railways were rundown and worn out, requiring massive investment and modernization. The Big Four railway companies were nationalized from 1948, and the newly formed British Railways embarked on a program of building new Standard steam locomotives to replace older types. These started to come on stream from 1951.

Название: The Victorians at War, 1815-1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History
Автор: Harold E. Raugh Jr.
Издательство: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 1576079252
Год: 2004
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 405
Размер: 13,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Capturing the strength of the British Army from 1815 to 1914, this groundbreaking reference presents the most recent research on the most significant wars, campaigns, battles, and leaders.
The Victorians at War*, 1815–1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History surveys the major wars, campaigns, battles, and expeditions of the British Army as well as its weaponry, tactics, and all other aspects of its operations from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the dawn of World War I.

Название: British Aircraft Carriers: Design, Development and Service Histories
Автор: David Hobbs
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1591140749
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 400
Размер: 41,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book is a meticulously detailed history of British aircraft-carrying ships from the earliest experimental vessels to the Queen Elizabeth class, currently under construction and the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy. Individual chapters cover the design and construction of each class, with full technical details, and there are extensive summaries of every ship's career. Apart from the obvious large-deck carriers, the book also includes seaplane carriers, escort carriers and MAC ships, the maintenance ships built on carrier hulls, unbuilt projects, and the modern LPH.