Download or read book Attack of the Atomic Airships written by Steven R Harrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Air Group Captain Sebastopol Valiant, the Steampunk missing link between Harry Flashman and Biggles. The Great War was in its eighth year. The British Empire and Imperial Russia both threw men into a never ending meat grinder. Step forward Valiant, described as 'A damn fine man to have standing beside you in a fight as well as at a bar.' Recalled to Blighty, Valiant contends with Bible bashing Confederates, French (ahem) ambassadors and an unprovoked attack upon the troopship RMS Titanic. Still, it could be worse....
Download or read book Digital Yesterdays written by Steven R. Harrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronological Explorer Steve Wilberforce has the whole of recorded history to save when his time machine falls into the wrong hands, a thief out to correct a mistake on her last heist. With car chases, scrapes with the law and time travel spanning five centuries, that's a lot to sort out. Add in bad costume choice and an automated man servant whose upgrade to distinguish himself from Action Man costs aC--500, things can only get worse. Bonus sneak peak material! The 1st chapter of 'Attack of the Atomic Airships!' Introducing Air Group Captain Sebastopol Valiant, the steampunk missing link between Harry Flashman and Biggles. Can be found at the end of 'Digital Yesterdays'
Download or read book US Air Power written by Thomas E. Mackin and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Command Of The Air written by General Giulio Douhet and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pantheon of air power spokesmen, Giulio Douhet holds center stage. His writings, more often cited than perhaps actually read, appear as excerpts and aphorisms in the writings of numerous other air power spokesmen, advocates-and critics. Though a highly controversial figure, the very controversy that surrounds him offers to us a testimonial of the value and depth of his work, and the need for airmen today to become familiar with his thought. The progressive development of air power to the point where, today, it is more correct to refer to aerospace power has not outdated the notions of Douhet in the slightest In fact, in many ways, the kinds of technological capabilities that we enjoy as a global air power provider attest to the breadth of his vision. Douhet, together with Hugh “Boom” Trenchard of Great Britain and William “Billy” Mitchell of the United States, is justly recognized as one of the three great spokesmen of the early air power era. This reprint is offered in the spirit of continuing the dialogue that Douhet himself so perceptively began with the first edition of this book, published in 1921. Readers may well find much that they disagree with in this book, but also much that is of enduring value. The vital necessity of Douhet’s central vision-that command of the air is all important in modern warfare-has been proven throughout the history of wars in this century, from the fighting over the Somme to the air war over Kuwait and Iraq.
Download or read book Study of Airpower written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Makers of the United States Air Force written by John L. Frisbee and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1987 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om 12 ledere, der repræsenterer forskellige sider af lederskabet og udfordringerne i udviklingen af det amerikanske flyvevåben gennem et halvt århundrede.
Download or read book Air Service News Letter written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Corps News Letter written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Department of the Navy Appropriations for 1953 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Army Navy Air Force Journal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Air Power History written by Sebastian Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he 20th century saw air power transformed from novelists' fantasy into stark reality. From string and canvas to precision weaponry and stealth, air power has progressed to become not only the weapon of first political choice, but often the only conceivable option. This rapid development has given rise to considerable debate and controversy with those holding entrenched views rarely slow to shout their case. Many myths have grown over the period, ranging from the once much vaunted ability of air power to win wars alone through to its impact as a coercive tool. This volume examines the theory and practice of air power from its earliest inception. The contributors have been drawn from academia and the military and represent some of the world's leading proponents on the subject. All significant eras on air power employment are examined: some are evidently turning points, while others represent continuous development. Perhaps more importantly, the book highlights the areas that could be considered to be significant, and invites the reader to enter the debate as to whether it constitutes a continuum, a turning point, or indeed a revolution.
Download or read book With Courage The U S Army Air Forces in World War II written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manual of Navy Officer Classifications written by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Next War in the Air written by Brett Holman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, the new technology of flight changed warfare irrevocably, not only on the battlefield, but also on the home front. As prophesied before 1914, Britain in the First World War was effectively no longer an island, with its cities attacked by Zeppelin airships and Gotha bombers in one of the first strategic bombing campaigns. Drawing on prewar ideas about the fragility of modern industrial civilization, some writers now began to argue that the main strategic risk to Britain was not invasion or blockade, but the possibility of a sudden and intense aerial bombardment of London and other cities, which would cause tremendous destruction and massive casualties. The nation would be shattered in a matter of days or weeks, before it could fully mobilize for war. Defeat, decline, and perhaps even extinction, would follow. This theory of the knock-out blow from the air solidified into a consensus during the 1920s and by the 1930s had largely become an orthodoxy, accepted by pacifists and militarists alike. But the devastation feared in 1938 during the Munich Crisis, when gas masks were distributed and hundreds of thousands fled London, was far in excess of the damage wrought by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz in 1940 and 1941, as terrible as that was. The knock-out blow, then, was a myth. But it was a myth with consequences. For the first time, The Next War in the Air reconstructs the concept of the knock-out blow as it was articulated in the public sphere, the reasons why it came to be so widely accepted by both experts and non-experts, and the way it shaped the responses of the British public to some of the great issues facing them in the 1930s, from pacifism to fascism. Drawing on both archival documents and fictional and non-fictional publications from the period between 1908, when aviation was first perceived as a threat to British security, and 1941, when the Blitz ended, and it became clear that no knock-out blow was coming, The Next War in the Air provides a fascinating insight into the origins and evolution of this important cultural and intellectual phenomenon, Britain's fear of the bomber.
