Birth of the RAF, 1918, Overy Richard

Автор: Richard Overy
Название: The Dictators
ISBN: 0140281495 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140281491
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Описание: Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal regimes in history, murdering millions. They fought the largest and costliest war in all history.

Автор: Richard Overy
Название: A New History of the Second World War
ISBN: 0141003243 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141003245
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Автор: Overy, Richard and Wheatcroft, Andrew
Название: Road to War, The
ISBN: 1845951301 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845951306
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Описание: Hailed on publication as a thought-provoking, authoritative analysis of the true beginnings of the Second World War, this revised edition of The Road to War is essential reading for anyone interested in this momentous period of history. Taking each major nation in turn, the book tells the story of their road to war;

Автор: Richard Overy
Название: 1939 Countdown to war
ISBN: 0141041307 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141041308
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Описание: 24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will now help him. The West must try to stop him. Nothing was predictable or inevitable. The West hoped that Hitler would see sense if they stood firm. Hitler was convinced the West would back down.

Автор: Overy, Richard
Название: The Birth of the RAF
ISBN: 0241274214 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241274217
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Описание: A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its foundingThe dizzying pace of technological change in the early 20th century meant that it took only a little over ten years from the first flight by the Wright Brothers to the clash of fighter planes in the Great War. A period of terrible, rapid experiment followed to gain a brief technological edge. By the end of the war the British had lost an extraordinary 36,000 aircraft and 16,600 airmen.

The RAF was created in 1918 as a revolutionary response to this new form of warfare - a highly contentious decision (resisted fiercely by both the army and navy, who had until then controlled all aircraft) but one which had the most profound impact, for good and ill, on the future of warfare. Richard Overy's superb new book shows how this happened, against the backdrop of the first bombing raids against London and the constant emergency of the Western Front. The RAF's origins were as much political as military and throughout the 1920s still provoked bitter criticism.

Published to mark the centenary of its founding this is an invaluable book, filled with new and surprising material on this unique organization.