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Old Glories in Campania è il risultato di una ricerca che ho effettuato in Campania sui velivoli radiati. Di ogni esemplare ho ricostruito la storia con foto del periodo operativo. Le identità sono state ricavate dalla consultazione dei documenti di consegna e dalle targhette identificative interne anche se, come nel caso degli F 104, si tratta di veri e propri "collages" ottenuti con parti provenienti da vari esemplari.Old Glories in Campania is the result of a research I carried out in Campania on radiated aircraft. Of each example I reconstructed the history with photos of the operating period. The identities have been obtained from the consultation of the delivery documents and the internal identification plates even if, as in the case of the F 104s, these are real "collages" obtained with parts coming from various specimens.

The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is one of the most successful military aircraft programs in history. Skyhawks are still flying in military service in 2019, over 60 years after the first flight of the A-4. This latest entry in the Illustrated series contains over 250 photos and diagrams, most of them in color, many of them published here for the first time. The Skyhawk story is told by the men who flew it in testing and in combat and in peacetime. These first-person accounts are the highlight of the book, putting the reader in that tiny cockpit that has seen so much action in the Skyhawk's long and illustrious career.

Naval Aviation forces are forward, engaged and ready-every day. Expeditionary forces, amphibious forces, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, air wings, manned and unmanned platforms, rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft are on station, valued and in increasingly higher demand. No other service or community can deliver the capabilities Naval Aviation brings in support of our national interests. It is a national priority to sustain, resource and ultimately expand these capabilities to ensure that when called, Naval Aviation is at the hold short, takeoff checks complete... Ready to Go. This publication is part of the roadmap to ensuring Naval Aviation possesses the readiness, capabilities and capacity to deliver on the five essential functions outlined in the maritime strategy-All Domain Access, Deterrence, Sea Control, Power Projection and Maritime Security-are missions that depend upon Naval Aviation to guarantee their success. It is essential that our vision fully supports and aligns to this cooperative strategy.

The vivid and largely untold story of the dramatic Allied air campaign against Germany that was a turning point in World War II and ultimately crucial to the success of D-Day and the Allied invasion of Europe

Shortlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFrom the legendary Pentagon Papers whistle-blower, an eyewitness exposé of America's Top Secret, seventy-year nuclear policy that continues to this day.Here, for the first time, former high-level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s. From the remotest air bases in the Pacific Command, where he discovered that the authority to initiate use of nuclear weapons was widely delegated, to the secret plans for general nuclear war under Eisenhower, which, if executed, would cause the near-extinction of humanity, Ellsberg shows that the legacy of this most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization--and its proposed renewal under the Trump administration--threatens our very survival. No other insider with high-level access has written so candidly of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, and nothing has fundamentally changed since that era.Framed as a memoir--a chronicle of madness in which Ellsberg acknowledges participating--this gripping exposé reads like a thriller and offers feasible steps we can take to dismantle the existing "doomsday machine" and avoid nuclear catastrophe, returning Ellsberg to his role as whistle-blower. The Doomsday Machine is thus a real-life Dr. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful--and powerfully important--book about not just our country, but the future of the world.

The night of 16 May, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland, which provide the lifeblood to the industries supplying the Third Reich's war machine. From the outset it was an almost impossible task, a suicide mission: to fly low and at night in formation over many miles of enemy-occupied territory at the very limit of the Lancasters' capacity, and drop a new weapon that had never been tried operationally before from a precise height of just sixty feet from the water at some of the most heavily defended targets in Germany. More than that, the entire operation had to be put together in less than ten weeks. When visionary aviation engineer Barnes Wallis's concept of the bouncing bomb was green lighted, he hadn't even drawn up his plans for the weapon that was to smash the dams. What followed was an incredible race against time, which, despite numerous setbacks and against huge odds, became one of the most successful and game-changing bombing raids of all time.

A young man in West Virginia is thrust onto the world stage when America enters the Second World War. He and his best friend enlist and join the Army where they learn to fly heavy bombers. Barely out of high school, he and his friend fly from flight school in Topeka, Kansas, halfway across the world to Italy, where, from 1944 to 1945, they fly large formation missions into Germany, until Germany surrenders and the war in the European Theater ends. For reasons of his own, that young man, Charles "Chuck" Haynes, decides to keep a log, a diary if you will, of his day-to-day life as a B-24 co-pilot. Writing in the pages of service tablets he buys at the Army Post Exchange (PX), his gift for writing turns his experiences into a chronicle of a young man's life flying heavy bombers; doing his part to win a war against Nazi Germany, while facing his own mortality every time his plane leaves the ground. As you read the pages of his log, his direct, yet eloquent writing will take you on a journey he made some seventy years ago-a journey he didn't ask for, but nevertheless had to see through. You'll experience, through his eyes, the excitement of combat, the routine of life at an aviation airfield and the perils of two bailouts into enemy territory. His experiences in a world-spanning war changed his life in ways he never imagined and they will leave an indelible impression on your own.

The personal naming of military aircraft in the Vietnam War is not unique in American history. What is unique is the near total lack of documentation of the existence of those names on in-country Army helicopters during the 1961-'73 conflict in S. E. Asia. This book remedies that once and for all!-Over 3,000 Army copter names cross-referenced by Unit-Details on Origin, Time Period, Location, Function, Type, Serial Number, Artist, Crew and more-More than 2,000 contributor names listed and cross-referenced-Perfect for veterans, hobbyists, historical researchers, KIA families, sociologists, aviation enthusiasts and students of Americana-just to name a few-Includes 40 rare photographsU.S. Army Helicopter Names in Vietnam provides an essential and heretofore missing puzzle piece in helping to identify and better understand our warrior brothers, fathers, uncles, sons and friends who manned these incredible flying machines in the skies of Vietnam.

A fascinating and authoritative narrative history of the V-22 Osprey, revealing the inside story of the most controversial piece of military hardware ever developed for the United States Marine Corps.When the Marines decided to buy a helicopter-airplane hybrid “tiltrotor” called the V-22 Osprey, they saw it as their dream machine. The tiltrotor was the aviation equivalent of finding the Northwest Passage: an aircraft able to take off, land, and hover with the agility of a helicopter yet fly as fast and as far as an airplane. Many predicted it would reshape civilian aviation. The Marines saw it as key to their very survival. By 2000, the Osprey was nine years late and billions over budget, bedeviled by technological hurdles, business rivalries, and an epic political battle over whether to build it at all. Opponents called it one of the worst boondoggles in Pentagon history. The Marines were eager to put it into service anyway. Then two crashes killed twenty-three Marines. They still refused to abandon the Osprey, even after the Corps’ own proud reputation was tarnished by a national scandal over accusations that a commander had ordered subordinates to lie about the aircraft’s problems. Based on in-depth research and hundreds of interviews, The Dream Machine recounts the Marines’ quarter-century struggle to get the Osprey into combat. Whittle takes the reader from the halls of the Pentagon and Congress to the war zone of Iraq, from the engineer’s drafting table to the cockpits of the civilian and Marine pilots who risked their lives flying the Osprey—and sometimes lost them. He reveals the methods, motives, and obsessions of those who designed, sold, bought, flew, and fought for the tiltrotor. These stories, including never before published eyewitness accounts of the crashes that made the Osprey notorious, not only chronicle an extraordinary chapter in Marine Corps history, but also provide a fascinating look at a machine that could still revolutionize air travel.

"The Paris peace settlements following the First World War remain amongst the most controversial treaties in history. Bringing together leading international historians, this volume assesses the extent to which a new international order, combining old and new political forms, emerged from the peace negotiations and settlements after 1918. Taking account of new historiographical perspectives and methodological approaches to the study of peacemaking after the First World War, it views the peace negotiations and settlements after 1918 as a site of remarkable innovations in the practice of international politics. The contributors address how a wide range of actors set out new ways of thinking about international order, established innovative institutions, and revolutionised the conduct of international relations. They show how the ways in which these innovations layered upon existing practices, institutions and concepts shaped the emerging international order after 1918"--

I 2010 lækkede Chelsea Manning mere end 700.000 hemmeligstemplede militærdokumenter. Manning, der var udsendt som efterretningsanalytiker for den amerikanske hær, havde smuglet dokumenterne ud af Irak via sit kameras hukommelseskort. Hun blev idømt 35 års fængsel. Dagen efter erklærede hun sin identitet som kvinde og påbegyndte sin transition. Efter syv år forkortede præsident Obama Mannings straf, og hun blev løsladt.I denne erindringsbog lægger Chelsea Manning sin historie frem – om en svær barndom, om bevæggrundene for at sende dokumenterne til WikiLeaks og om kampen for at forsvare sine rettigheder som transkvinde.Mannings erindringer er en uomgængelig fortælling om vores digitale tidsalder fra en af tidens vigtigste aktivister.Chelsea Manning (f. 1987) er amerikansk aktivist, whistleblower og tidligere efterretningsanalytiker i den amerikanske hær. Hun sad i militærfængsel fra 2010 til 2017, hvor præsident Barack Obama forkortede hendes straf, og hun blev løsladt. Siden 2015 har Chelsea Manning skrevet opinionsstof om krig, køn og informationsfrihed for The Guardian.Anmeldelser"Giver et særdeles interessant indblik i et vanskeligt og dramatisk liv." - ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Politiken"En rørende historie ... som man skal være støbt i beton for ikke at lade sig påvirke af." - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Jyllands-Posten"En fængende personlig beretning" - Weekendavisen"Vigtigheden af hendes handling skriver sig ind i samtidshistoriens række af whistleblowere som Edward Snowden og Frances Haugen." - Information"Skærende personlige erindringer... Selvom det er foruroligende læsning, formår bogen at være opløftende." - The New York Times"Opslugende beretninger... sublim." - The Washington Post"Fantastisk læsning, fyldt med oplysninger, der strider imod fortidens antagelser om Manning." - The Guardian"Fængslende erindringer... Chelsea Manning er blevet en ny form for amerikansk heltinde." - The Observer"En af verdens modigste personer." - Yanis Varoufakis"Chelsea Manning er den største helt nogensinde" - Vivienne Westwood

The final part in a three-book series on the Battle of Stalingrad, examining the Soviet encirclement, German relief efforts, and the final surrender of Paulus' 6.Armee.Having fought hard just to reach the outskirts of Stalingrad, the Axis forces found themselves embroiled in a protracted urban battle amid the ruins of a devastated city on the Volga. The Soviet Red Army was able to hold onto the city then mount a surprise winter counter-offensive known as Operation Uranus, which succeeded in encircling the German 6.Armee at Stalingrad. Despite a desperate German relief operation, the Red Army eventually crushed the 6.Armee and hurled the remnants of the German southern front back in disorder. This third and final volume in the Stalingrad trilogy begins just after the German 6.Armee has been isolated at Stalingrad, and covers the period from 24 November 1942 to 2 February 1943. The specially commissioned maps and 3D diagrams guide the reader in step-by-step, easily to follow detail through the German relief operation (Wintergewitter), the fighting on the Chir River, and the Soviet operations Koltso and Little Saturn, and are complimented by the battlescene artworks that vividly depict the harsh conditions experienced by the common soldiers fighting on both sides.

Monty and the Canadian Army details the lasting influence of General B.L. Montgomery, whose military competence shaped the Canadian Army in the Second World War.

For the first time ever, compare the British and German World War II big guns duelling with each other and harrying shipping in the Channel.One of the longest-running battles of World War II took place across the English Channel, in which huge artillery guns attempted to destroy each other, created psychological terror among the local inhabitants living near the coast, and harassed shipping over a four-year period.Neil Short examines the array of powerful weapons located across the Strait of Dover. Superb colour artworks explore both fixed gun batteries (including 'Jane' and 'Clem', and batteries Todt and Lindemann) and railway artillery (such as the German K5 and K12 guns, and the British 18in. 'Boche Buster'). Construction and targeting technology used by each side are also covered in detail, and the locations of all the major sites around Dover and Calais are pinpointed on easy to follow maps.

Drawing on sources and perspectives from both sides, Nicole Eaton explores not only what Germans and Soviets thought about each other, but also how the war brought them together. She details an intricate timeline, first describing how Königsberg, a seven-hundred-year-old German port city on the Baltic Sea and lifelong home of Immanuel Kant, became infamous in the 1930s as the easternmost bastion of Hitler's Third Reich and the launching point for the Nazis' genocidal war in the East. She then describes how, after being destroyed by bombing and siege warfare in 1945, Königsberg became Kaliningrad, the westernmost city of Stalin's Soviet Union. Königsberg/Kaliningrad is the only city to have been ruled by both Hitler and Stalin as their own?in both wartime occupation and as integral territory of the two regimes.German Blood, Slavic Soil presents an intimate look into the Nazi-Soviet encounter during World War II. Eaton impressively shows how this outpost city, far from the centers of power in Moscow and Berlin, became a closed-off space where Nazis and Stalinists each staged radical experiments in societal transformation and were forced to reimagine their utopias in dialogue with the encounter between the victims and proponents of the two regimes.