The Bombing War (Inbunden)
avOvery, Richard
ISBN: 9780713995619 - UTGIVEN: 2013-09-26Presents the history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War. This book examines not just the most well-known parts of the campaign, but the significance of bombing on many other fronts - the German use of bombers on the Eastern Front for example, or the Allied campaigns against Italian cit[...]
ICP Design Methods for Driven Piles in Sands and Clays (Pocket)
avRichard Jardine, Fiona Chow, Robert Overy
ISBN: 9780727732729 - UTGIVEN: 2005-03While axial capacity is often the governing design criterion with driven piles, the reliability of predictions made by conventional procedures is generally poor. A long-term research program run at Imperial College London in conjunction with Industry, the UKs Health and Safety Executive and Engineer[...]
The Air War: 1939 - 1945 (Pocket)
avOvery, Richard J.
ISBN: 9781574887167Originally published in 1980 and still the best one-volume aerial history of World War II, Richard Overy's classic work remains profound and highly origi-nal. Far from just an account of the various air battles, Professor Overy treats the air war as a complex and fascinating historical web, woven ou[...]
The Fuhrer (Häftad)
avKonrad Heiden, Richard J. Overy
ISBN: 9781616086084 - UTGIVEN: 2012-07Journalist Konrad Heiden was one of the first to hear the young Adolf Hitler's rousing orations and to recognize his political ingenuity and perverse, self-serving ideology. As a staff reporter on the "Frankfurter Zeitung," Heiden was one of the first writers to take a stand against Nazism, and his [...]
Life of Castruccio Castracani: Related by Niccolo Machiavelli and Sent to Zanobi Buondelmonte and Luigi Alamanni, His Dearest Friends (Häftad)
avNiccolo Machiavelli, Richard J. Overy
ISBN: 9781843910640 - UTGIVEN: 2003-10A charismatic warlord of the early fourteenth century, Castruccio Castracani came from humble beginnings as a foundling, and ended his life as ruler of Lucca, Pisa, Pistoia and Florence. In this Life, Machiavelli extols Castracani for his acute understanding of the politics of warfare and statecraft[...]
From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima: The War in the Pacific 1941-1945 (Inbunden)
avRichard J. Overy, Dale Dye
ISBN: 9781847328946 - UTGIVEN: 2012-02"From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima" takes readers on an up-close-and-personal journey through the relentless war against Japan in the Pacific Islands, the capstone to Allied victory in World War II. Here is the story of the heroic men who toiled on islands whose names have become synonymous with bloods[...]
