Автор: Brown, Paul Название: Britain`s historic ships ISBN: 1844860930 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844860937 Издательство: Anova Рейтинг: Цена: 3025 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This lavish new volume explores twenty of the most celebrated and accessible ships and offers a comprehensive history of each vessel`s design, construction, active service and subsequent restoration and preservation. In addition to the featured entries, an appendix presents all of the necessary contact details and opening times where applicable.
Автор: Azzarito Amy Название: Past & Present ISBN: 1617690201 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617690204 Издательство: Abrams Рейтинг: Цена: 2313 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Since the times of ancient Egypt, humans have had a passion for style, decor, and architecture. Amazingly, styles from many of these bygone eras are still enjoyed and are often implemented into our modern decor and architecture. Past + Present is a collection of 24 pairs of essays and craft projects that explore this connection between decorative arts history and present day design trends. The projects have been contributed by some of the best known modern designers of today, such as Todd Oldham, Jonathan Adler, Erica Domesek, Grace Bonney, and David Stark, adding extra allure to an already fascinating topic. The book, which is based on Azzarito's successful Past + Present column for Design*Sponge, takes the academic subject of decorative arts history and makes it accessible, approachable, and engaging to the average design and craft enthusiast. Included here are not just dates and events, but also the stories, passions, and quirky facts behind many great decorative arts movements. Each essay is accompanied by whimsical illustrations by beloved illustrator Julia Rothman, as well as a few representative historical photos when relevant. Each project has been beautifully photographed in a modern home setting, and the instructions are clear and accessible, even to novice DIYers.
Автор: Ballantyne, Andrew Название: Key Buildings from Prehistory to the Present ISBN: 1856698378 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781856698375 Издательство: Thames & Hudson Рейтинг: Цена: 4764 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book features around 150 of the most important buildings in the history of world architecture - from the pyramids and Parthenon to some of the most significant works by recent architects.
Автор: Ron Mackay Название: Britain`s Fleet Air Arm in World War II ISBN: 0764321315 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780764321313 Издательство: Schiffer Рейтинг: Цена: 8317 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Air Branch of the Royal Navy that was to carve its name into maritime history as the Fleet Air Arm faced an orphan existence up to 1937 when the Admiralty, having handed over control in 1918 to the RAF, resumed charge of its aviators. The Force was poorly equipped and dangerously short of qualified personnel with which to effectively challenge its Axis adversaries, and suffered accordingly in the initial stages of World War II. The provision of superior carrier aircraft designs (primarily from the U.S. Grumman and Chance-Vought companies), and a similar whole-sale expansion in Fleet and Escort carriers (most of the latter supplied from American shipyards), as well as the personnel with which to operate the warships and aircraft ensured that by 1943 the Fleet Air Arm was an all-round, efficient Force capable of independent combat operations in all the major War Zones right up to VJ-Day.
Название: Soldiers And Citizens ISBN: 8872923301 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788872923306 Издательство: ACC-distribution titles Цена: 4813 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the American Revolution to the present day, African Americans have stepped forward in their nations defense. This book breathes new vitality into a stirring subject, emphasizing the role men who have come to be known as "buffalo soldiers" played in opening the Trans-Mississippi West. This concise overview reveals a cast of characters as big as the land they served. Over 150 images painstakingly gathered nearly a half century from public and private collections enhance the written word as windows to the past. Now, 150 years after Congress authorized blacks to serve in the Regular Army the reader literally can peer into the eyes of formerly enslaved men who bravely bought their freedom on the bloody battlefields of the Civil War, then trekked westward, carried the "Stars and Stripes" to the Caribbean, and pursued Pancho Villa into Mexico with John "Black Jack" Pershing.
Название: Britain`s best ISBN: 1862058059 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781862058057 Издательство: Anova Рейтинг: Цена: 2721 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Provides information on a series from UKTV History that is a part of a national campaign to encourage the public to visit, nominate and vote for the historical places that matter most to them. The five programmes in the series feature 25 of the best-loved historical sites in Britain, culminating in a final show revealing the nation`s favourites.
Название: Save Britains Heritage: Thirty Yrs Cam ISBN: 1857594401 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781857594409 Издательство: ACC-distribution titles Рейтинг: Цена: 2750 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Presents an illustrated survey of campaigns fought by Save Britain`s Heritage to rescue churches, stations, markets, country houses, and other landmarks of British heritage.
Описание: A new telling of the brutal siege of Bastogne, where vastly outnumbered American forces held off a savage German onslaught and sealed the fate of the Third Reich
Автор: Molina Franco, Lucas Ramos, Jose Ma Arias Название: Soldiers of von thoma ISBN: 076432926X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780764329265 Издательство: Schiffer Рейтинг: Цена: 5595 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In October 1936 two German ships arrived in Spain loaded with a Panzer I company and all the services and personnel to establish Francos armys first armored unit, the so-called Panzer-Gruppe Drohne. The Third Reich chose a pioneer in the development of German ground forces to command this contingent - Oberstleutnant Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma. This book presents the history of von Thomas units in the Spanish Civil War, from the tank crews to the infantry, and specialties.
Описание: Women have participated in war throughout history, but their experience in Russia during the First World War was truly exceptional. Between the war's
beginning and the October Revolution of 1917, approximately 6,000 women answered their country's call. These courageous women became media stars throughout Europe and
America, but were brushed aside by Soviet chroniclers and until now have been largely neglected by history.
Laurie Stoff draws on deep archival research into previously
unplumbed material, including many first-person accounts, to examine the roots, motivations, and legacy of these women. She reveals that Russia was the only nation in World War I
that systematically employed women in the military, marking the first time that a government run by men had organized women for combat. And although they were originally envisioned
as propaganda - promoting patriotism and citizenship to inspire the thousands of males who had been deserting or refusing to fight - Russian women also proved themselves more than
capable in combat.
Describing the formation, provisioning, and training of the units, Stoff sheds light on their social and educational backgrounds, while recounting a number
of amazing individual stories. She tells how Maria Bochkareva, commander of the First Russian Women's Battalion of Death, and her unit met its baptism of fire in combat and how
Bochkareva later traveled to the U.S. and met President Wilson.
We also meet Maria Bocharnikova, who served with the First Petrograd Women's Battalion that defen
ed the Winter Palace during the Bolshevik Revolution. Stoff also chronicles the exploits of the Second Moscow Women's Battalion of Death, Third Kuban Women's Shock Battalion,
and the First Women's Naval Detachment. Stoff's remarkable account rescues from oblivion an important but still little-known aspect of Russia's experience in World War I.
It
also provides new insights into gender roles during a pivotal period of Russia's development and resonates with the current debates over the role of women in warfare.
