Название: Automatic Arms: Their History, Development and Use
Автор: Melvin M. Johnson, Charles T. Haven
Издательство: Skyhorse Publishing
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 394
Размер: 71,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The evolution of automatic weapons is one of the most significant developments in weapons history. While this development has been filled with disagreements, controversy, and stray hurdles, out of all of this tumult, shouting, and shooting has come the progress in firearms from the days when it was necessary to build a fire under a gun to make it go off to the “you press the button and they do the work” automatic firearms of the present day.

Название: Monarchs and Hydrarchs: The Conceptual Development of Viking Activity across the Frankish Realm
Автор: Christian Cooijmans
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 036720214X
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 292
Размер: 47,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

As the politico-economic exploits of vikings in and around the Frankish realm remain, to a considerable extent, obscured by the constraints of a fragmentary and biased corpus of (near)contemporary evidence, this volume approaches the available interdisciplinary data on a cumulative and conceptual level, allowing overall spatiotemporal patterns of viking activity to be detected and defined – and thereby challenging the notion that these movements were capricious, haphazard, and gratuitous in character.

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.