5 History / Military eBooks

Jon E. Lewis, "The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots"
Stephen F. Cohen, "Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War"
Development of German Warplanes in WWI
Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas: Tibet, Ladakh, Nepal and Bhutan (Osprey Fortress 104)
Lockheed P-38 Lightning cz.2 (Monografie Lotnicze 69)

Jon E. Lewis, "The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots"
ISBN: 0786710667 | 2002 | EPUB/MOBI | 512 pages | 563 KB/637 KB
From yesteryear's flying aces to today's top guns, The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots presents, in the words of the combat pilots who fought them, fifty incredible air battles that have shaped military history in the twentieth century. Veteran anthologist Jon E. Lewis has assembled firsthand accounts from all the great military campaigns of aerial warfare, including World Wars I and II, the Spanish Civil War, Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf, and Bosnia. Page after exciting page of this singular collection brings into vivid play the exploits of such legendary pilots as Manfred von Richtofen, Eddie Rickenbacker, Douglas Bader, and Johnnie Johnson; the Luftwaffe World War II aces Heinz Knoke, Gerd Barkhorn, and Johannes Steinhoff; and forty other brave airmen from America, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, and North Korea. Here, too, are the planes in which these pilots flew into modern history—the Spitfire, the Mustang, the Me 109, the Zero, the F-16, the MiG, and the Harrier. Together with the death-defying drama of combat, this volume vividly captures other facets of the fighter pilot's life, including the perils of bailing out in enemy territory, the daily horrors of internment in a Japanese POW camp, and a harrowing account of being shot down in a blazing Spitfire. The true-life aerial combat adventures in this stirring collection provide a vicarious, adrenaline-fueled expedition into the shell-blasted skies of war in the twentieth century.

Stephen F. Cohen, "Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War"
ISBN: 0231148976 | 2011 | EPUB, MOBI | 328 pages | 18 MB
With conflicts again dividing Russia and the United States, the need for balanced, accessible scholarship that benefits from new materials and critical perspectives is imperative. In seven lucid, groundbreaking essays, Stephen F. Cohen questions many conventional assumptions about the course of Soviet history, the fall of communism, and the effect of Russia's policies at home and abroad.
Written for specialists and general readers, Cohen's essays are framed by a chronological narrative that focuses on key turning points and lost alternatives. Beginning with Stalin's preeminent challenger and victim, Nikolai Bukharin, and the unexpected return of millions of survivors of Stalin's terror under Nikita Khrushchev, Cohen shows how their tragic fates shaped the latter-day Soviet Union. Turning to more recent events, he examines the political fates of the Soviet system's greatest reformer, Mikhail Gorbachev, and his leading conservative rival, Yegor Ligachev. Through these figures, Cohen raises even more provocative issues, including his argument that the Soviet Union was capable of reform and that its breakup was not inevitable. Most urgently, in two concluding chapters Cohen argues that Washington was the first to squander the opportunity for a fundamentally new U.S.-Russian relationship after the Cold War, and he presents a radically new approach for achieving a necessary partnership with today's Russia.

Development of German Warplanes in WWI
Jack Herris | 2012 | ISBN: 1935881507 | English | 194 Pages | True PDF | 68 MB

Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas: Tibet, Ladakh, Nepal and Bhutan (Osprey Fortress 104)
2011 | ISBN: 1849083967 | English | 66 Pages | True PDF| 7 MB

Lockheed P-38 Lightning cz.2 (Monografie Lotnicze 69)
AJ-Press | 2001 | ISBN: 8372370915 | Polish/English | 102 Pages | PDF | 17 MB