Battlecruiser Iv

Author : David SchLeifer
Publisher : Author House
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452060040

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Battlecruiser Iv by David SchLeifer Pdf

A COMMANDER... OF HONOR A CREW... OF HEROIC COURAGE AN ENEMY... OF LETHAL CUNNING Our most desperate time is at hand. The Drazakii war machine moves through the stars, crushing one fleet after another. Now after yet another defeat, the Earth Empire faces their ultimate challenge. For as yet have the Drazakians landed on any of our colony worlds... until now! Face with desperation, the Earth Imperial Navy has no choice but to commit a damaged task force led by the battle scared Battlecruiser Pegasus. With minimal repairs to her hull and to the rest of her escort ships, the sixteen ship task force is all that stands in the way of the Rigel Colony, and ninety Drazakian warships of their Third Armada.

Author : David Schleifer
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452060002

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Battlecruiser V: Battle-Cry by David Schleifer Pdf

The fifth installment of the Battlecruiser Books continues the adventures of the crew of the Battlecruiser Pegasus and the Task Force 1-Able. Saatori is back! He has a new plan as he taps into the memory of his exploits from the attempt of stealing the Battlecruiser Equus and the start of the war. Now he is designing and building two Drazakii warships, Battlecruisers! The Kraken and the Medusa are designed for a purpose and one purpose only; to destroy the Battlecruiser Pegasus. Meanwhile, fleet command has handed Commander Janice Anders Daria and the Battlecruiser Pegasus its biggest mission, to hunt down the Drazakian Third Armada and find the secret base where Saatori is building his new weapon. The Passion of war continues...

Author : David Schleifer
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452060071

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Battlecruiser Vi by David Schleifer Pdf

The Final Battle. Saatori is back in the final clash between the ravages of his Daakim Warriors and the Battlecruiser Pegasus and his most hated enemy, Commander Janice Anders Daria. Hunted by his own race, Saatori has only one last tactic left, using the AI program from his theft of the Battlecruiser technology, he will unleash the entity known as Medusa. Once again Commander Daria and the crew of the Battlecruiser Pegasus are put in harms way, a desperate hour and a desperate battle around the Yamaris Black Hole.

Author : David Schleifer
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481770590

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Fukuda's Five by David Schleifer Pdf

His name is Ken Fukuda, retired from EarthGov, code name Kanji, he is about to discover the hidden truth to his existance. Her code name is Glyph, she found out her truth through the dreams, and now she is out to reveal it to the world. His name is Rune, his mission is to bury the truth at all costs. In the traditions of near-future espionage action thrillers like Minority Report and Total Recall comes this hard hitting spectacular branching across a future Earth, Mars and to the lunar Moon. Prepare to be revealed the truth of Fukuda's Five.

Author : Angus Konstam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472831583

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Sink the Tirpitz 1942–44 by Angus Konstam Pdf

This is the story of an air campaign in which each bomb could dramatically influence the course of the war. In January 1942, the powerful German battleship Tirpitz sailed into her new base in a Norwegian fjord, within easy reach of the Arctic Convoys. Her destruction suddenly became a top Allied priority. But sinking a modern and formidably armed battleship was no easy task, especially when she lay secure in a remote, mountainous fjord, protected by anti-torpedo nets, radar, flak guns and smoke generators. This book charts the full, complex story of the air war against Tirpitz, from the Fleet Air Arm's failed torpedo attack at sea, the RAF's early Halifax raids, and the carrier-borne Barracuda airstrikes of Operations Mascot, Tungsten and Goodwood, to the three Tallboy attacks that finally crippled and sank her. With detailed maps and diagrams, it explains the aircraft and ordnance the British had to work with, the evolving strategic situation, and why the task was so difficult.

Author : Bruce Taylor
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783469802

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The Battlecruiser HMS Hood by Bruce Taylor Pdf

“A wonderfully illustrated biography” of one of history’s greatest warships whose sinking “signaled the end of the surety that Britannia ruled the waves” (War History Online). Unmatched for beauty, unequalled for size, for twenty years the HMS Hood was the glory ship of the Royal Navy, flying the flag across the world in the twilight years of the British Empire. Here, in words, photos and color illustrations, is the story of her life, her work and her people from keel-laying on the Clyde in 1916 to destruction at the hands of the Bismarck in 1941. Among the eyecatching strengths of the book is a unique gallery of photos, including stills from a recently discovered piece of color footage of the ship, plus a spectacular set of computer-generated images of both the exterior and interior by the world’s leading exponent of the art—a man who worked with the film director James Cameron (of Titanic fame). A wealth of new information on Hood’s structure and operation make it essential reading for the enthusiast, modeler and historian alike. Hugely successful from its first publication, this is the third printing of the ultimate book on the ultimate ship of the pre-war era. “The most comprehensive study of a modern warship ever undertaken.”—Warship World

Author : Richard J Aldrich
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748678600

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Spying on the World by Richard J Aldrich Pdf

20 case studies explore key moments in the Joint Intelligence Committee's history, from WWII to the War in Iraq, and from the Falklands War to the IRA. Each case study includes an introduction, a full reproduction of an original JIC document that influenc

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Battlecruisers of Germany by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Roberts
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781526757296

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Battlecruiser Repulse by John Roberts Pdf

An outstanding illustrated reference revealing the painstaking work of draftsmen in recording every detail of the famed British warship. The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the “as fitted” general arrangements, these drawings represented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. Intended to provide a permanent reference for the Admiralty and the dockyards, these highly detailed plans were drawn with exquisite skill in multi-colored inks and washes that represent the acme of the draftsman’s art. Today they form part of the incomparable collection of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, which is using the latest scanning technology to make digital copies of the highest quality. This book is one of a series based entirely on these drafts which depict famous warships in an unprecedented degree of detail—complete sets in full color, with many close-ups and enlargements that make every aspect clear and comprehensible. Extensive captions point the reader to important features to be found in the plans, and an introduction covers the background to the design. The subject of this volume was one of the last battlecruisers, elegant ships that combined a powerful armament with high speed, but were much criticized for their light protection. Throughout their existence, they were controversial—three were sunk at Jutland—and Repulse herself was famously lost to Japanese air attack at the outset of the Pacific War. Nevertheless, the type was highly prized: Repulse and her sister Renown were the only capital ships given sufficient priority to be designed, built, and completed during the course of the First World War, and substantial sums were spent on large-scale reconstruction during the 1930s. Both of these phases of the ship’s life are fully documented in two separate sets of plans, which allow this novel form of anatomy to cover the whole life of the ship.

Author : Mark Stille
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780960975

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British Battlecruiser vs German Battlecruiser by Mark Stille Pdf

The rival battlecruisers first clashed in January 1915 at Dogger Bank in the North Sea and although the battle was a British tactical victory with neither side losing any of its battlecruisers, the differences in the designs of the British and German ships were already apparent. The two sides responded very differently to this first clash; while the Germans improved their ammunition-handling procedures to lessen the risk of disabling explosions, the British drew the opposite lesson and stockpiled ammunition in an effort to improve their rate of fire, rendering their battlecruisers more vulnerable. These differences were highlighted more starkly during the battle of Jutland in May 1916. Of the nine British battlecruisers committed, three were destroyed, all by their German counterparts. Five German battlecruisers were present, and of these, only one was sunk and the remainder damaged. Fully illustrated with specially commissioned artwork, this is the gripping story of the clash between the rival battlecruisers of the Royal Navy and the Kaiserliche Marine at the height of World War I.

Author : Gary Staff
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848322134

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German Battlecruisers of World War One by Gary Staff Pdf

This is the most comprehensive study yet in the English language of the German Imperial Navy's battlecruisers that served in the First World War. Known as Panzerkreuzer, literally 'armoured cruiser', the eight ships of the class were to be involved in several early North Sea skirmishes before the great pitched battle of Jutland where they inflicted devastating damage on the Royal Navy's battlecruiser fleet.?In this new book the author details their design and construction, and traces the full service history of each ship, recounting their actions, largely from first-hand German sources and official documents, many previously unpublished in English. Detailed line drawings and maps augment the text throughout, as do a wealth of contemporary photos that depict the vessels at sea as well as in dock, where details of damage sustained in action and many aspects of their design can be viewed in close up. A superb series of full-colour, specially-commissioned computer graphics show full length profiles and top-down views of each ship in precise and clear detail. ?This stunning book is a major new contribution to German naval history in this country and will become a 'must-have' volume on the shelves of historians, enthusiasts and modellers and indeed for anyone interested in the navies of the First World War and steel warships in general.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Warships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105072002889

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Warship International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gary Staff
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612519661

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German Battlecruisers of World War One by Gary Staff Pdf

This is the most comprehensive, English-language study of the German Imperial NavyÕs battlecruisers that served in the First World War. Known as Panzerkreuzer, literally Òarmored cruiser,Ó the eight ships of the class were to be involved in several early North Sea skirmishes before the great pitched battle of Jutland where they inflicted devastating damage on the Royal NavyÕs battlecruiser fleet. This book details their design and construction, and traces the full service history of each ship, recounting their actions, drawing largely from first-hand German sources and official documents, many previously unpublished in English.

Author : Tim Cooke,Edward Horton,Christer Jorgensen
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0761474854

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History of World War II. by Tim Cooke,Edward Horton,Christer Jorgensen Pdf

Presents a comprehensive discussion of the origins, events, campaigns and personalities of World War II.

Author : John Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040376868

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Battlecruisers by John Roberts Pdf

This second volume in the ShipShape series covers the development of one of the largest, fastest and most charismatic warship types. Combining the armament of a battleship with the speed of a cruiser in some of the largest hulls then built, these ships were the cutting edge of early 20th-century naval technology. The brainchild of Admiral Fisher, the concept of this class began as large, fast armoured cruisers for trade protection, but the last-minute decision to equip them with 12-inch guns led them to be seen as a high-speed element of the battle fleet. The British battlecruisers fought in numerous battles in World War I, such as the battles of the Falklands, Heligoland Bight and Dogger Bank. But it is for the battle of Jutland in 1916, when three battlecruisers exploded and sank in one day, that these ships are best remembered.