Название: Faithful in Adversity: The Royal Army Medical Corps in the Second World War
Автор: Broom John
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1526749556
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 369
Размер: 18,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

On 28 September 1945, Field Marshal Montgomery expressed his ‘admiration and high regard to a corps whose contribution to victory has been beyond all calculation'. The Royal Army Medical Corps was active during all engagements in the Second World War.

Название: 'Total Germany' : The Royal Navy' War Against the Axis Powers 1939-1945
Автор: David Wragg
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473844649
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 272
Размер: 20,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

On the declaration of war in 1939 the British Admiralty signalled all warships and naval bases 'Total Germany, Total Germany'.
It was fortunate that of Germany's three armed services, the Kriegsmarine under
Grosseradmiral Erich Raeder was the least well prepared. True, Admiral Karl Donitz's U-Boat force was to give the Allies many anxious times but Hitler was never comfortable or competent in his handling of naval surface forces.

Название: Rebuilding the Royal Navy: Warship Design Since 1945
Автор: D. K. Brown
Издательство: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848321503
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 208
Размер: 60,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

This design history of post-war British warship development, based on both declassified documentation and personal experience, is the fourth and final volume in the author’s masterly account of development of Royal Navy’s ships from the 1850s to the Falklands War. In this volume the author covers the period in which he himself worked as a Naval Constructor, while this personal knowledge is augmented by George Moore’s in-depth archival research on recently declassified material.

Название: Royal Statues in Egypt 300 BC-AD 220: Context and Function;Archaeopress Egyptology
Автор: Elizabeth Brophy
Издательство: Archaeopress Archaeology
ISBN: 1784911518
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 170
Размер: 9,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The aim of this book is to approach Ptolemaic and Imperial royal sculpture in Egypt dating between 300 BC and AD 220 (the reigns of Ptolemy I and Caracalla) from a contextual point of view. To collect together the statuary items (recognised as statues, statue heads and fragments, and inscribed bases and plinths) that are identifiably royal and have a secure archaeological context, that is a secure find spot or a recoverable provenance, within Egypt.

Название: The Princess Royal Pacifics (Locomotive Portfolios)
Автор: Tim Hillier-Graves
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473885787
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 224
Размер: 196,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

When Stanier joined the LMS in 1932, as their CME, he was expected to breathe new life into this ailing giant. Since its formation it had steadily lost ground to its main rival, the LNER. In Doncaster, Nigel Gresley and his team, with an eye to advancing locomotive design at the same time as making the company commercially successful, had quickly begun producing a series of high performance and iconic Pacific engines to pull their high profile express trains.