Author: John Terraine
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473817668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 861
Book Description
Traditionally, the right of the line is the vanguard, the place of honour and greatest danger in battle. In this history of the Royal Air Force during the European War of 1939-45, John Terraine shows how the RAF, which in 1939 was small and inadequate for the task it was called upon to perform had, by the end of the war, taken up its proper position. He describes the build-up to war, the early tests in France and at Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of the Atlantic, the RAF in North Africa and the Mediterranean, the strategic air offensive over Germany and eventual victory in Europe.His best book yet The TimesJohn Terraine is a fine historian but he also believes that history should be exciting and readable The Listener
The Right of the Line
Author: John Terraine
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473817668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 861
Book Description
Traditionally, the right of the line is the vanguard, the place of honour and greatest danger in battle. In this history of the Royal Air Force during the European War of 1939-45, John Terraine shows how the RAF, which in 1939 was small and inadequate for the task it was called upon to perform had, by the end of the war, taken up its proper position. He describes the build-up to war, the early tests in France and at Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of the Atlantic, the RAF in North Africa and the Mediterranean, the strategic air offensive over Germany and eventual victory in Europe.His best book yet The TimesJohn Terraine is a fine historian but he also believes that history should be exciting and readable The Listener
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473817668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 861
Book Description
Traditionally, the right of the line is the vanguard, the place of honour and greatest danger in battle. In this history of the Royal Air Force during the European War of 1939-45, John Terraine shows how the RAF, which in 1939 was small and inadequate for the task it was called upon to perform had, by the end of the war, taken up its proper position. He describes the build-up to war, the early tests in France and at Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of the Atlantic, the RAF in North Africa and the Mediterranean, the strategic air offensive over Germany and eventual victory in Europe.His best book yet The TimesJohn Terraine is a fine historian but he also believes that history should be exciting and readable The Listener
Right of the Line
Author: Rana Chhina
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788123020037
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788123020037
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Elementary Geometry of the Right Line and Circle
Author: William A. Willock
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385227739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385227739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War
Author: Frederick Downs Jr.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393076067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
“The best damned book from the point of view of the infantrymen who fought there.”—Army Times Among the best books ever written about men in combat, The Killing Zone tells the story of the platoon of Delta One-six, capturing what it meant to face lethal danger, to follow orders, and to search for the conviction and then the hope that this war was worth the sacrifice. The book includes a new chapter on what happened to the platoon members when they came home.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393076067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
“The best damned book from the point of view of the infantrymen who fought there.”—Army Times Among the best books ever written about men in combat, The Killing Zone tells the story of the platoon of Delta One-six, capturing what it meant to face lethal danger, to follow orders, and to search for the conviction and then the hope that this war was worth the sacrifice. The book includes a new chapter on what happened to the platoon members when they came home.
On War
Author: Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Philosophical and Mathematical Commentaries on the First Book of Euclid's Elements, to which are Added, a History of the Restoration of Platonic Theology, by the Latter Platonists; and a Translation from the Greek of Proclus's Theological Elements
Author: Proclus Diadochus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
The Elements of Euclid; with Select Theorems Out of Archimedes. By the Learned Andrew Tacquet. To which are Added, Practical Corollaries ... The Whole Abridg'd, and Publish'd in English, by William Whiston, M. A. ... The Third Edition
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Thomas Reid on Mathematics and Natural Philosophy
Author: Thomas Reid
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748643397
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Reconstructs Reid's career as a mathematician and natural philosopher for the first time
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748643397
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Reconstructs Reid's career as a mathematician and natural philosopher for the first time
Artium Principia
Author: Henry Boad
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description