Jedna z najsłynniejszych jednostek warszawskiej konspiracji wojskowej została zorganizowana przez człowieka, który wcześniej z armią nie miał w ogóle do czynienia. Ludwik Berger był z...
Myśl o produkcji motocykli kontynuujących tradycje przedwojennego Sokoła towarzyszyła wielu pokoleniom Polaków. W wytwórni WSK projektowano produkcję motocykla noszącego tę historyczn...
W podręczniku w przystępny sposób przedstawiono podstawowe zagadnienia teoretyczne i praktyczne problemy związane z wentylacją pożarową.Książka polecana studentom uczelni technic...
A momentous look at the private companies driving the revolutionary new space race, from the 3-million copy, New York Times bestselling author of Elon MuskIn 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX be...
Inspired by the success of the Ford Mustang “pony car” in the USA, Ford UK launched “The Car You Always Promised Yourself” in 1969 and it was an instant hit, with its long b...
Austria, as a separate and independent country, only emerged after World War 1 following the defeat of the Austro-Hungarian empire after four years of war. The new Austria was a much-reduced countr...
An essential and compelling exploration of the design, history, and culture of the motorcycle - an icon of the machine ageMotorcycles are ubiquitous in the world's streets and cities, e...
A superbly illustrated new account of how Germany's High Seas Fleet was built, operated and fought, as it challenged the world's most powerful navy in World War I.Seven years before the...
A celebration of trucks and trucking, from the first motorised wagons to the advent of driverless freight vehicles.Charting decade after decade of innovation and change, The Truck Book ...
During more than two decades of uninterrupted flying Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown enjoyed the most extraordinary career of any test pilot and no pilot has a logbook with list a greater variety o...
n 1963, Eugen Sänger, became head of the Eurospace organisation which promoted the ‘AeroSpace Transporter’. In response to a Eurospace call, aircraft makers in France, Germany and ...
Having completed the revision of his series of British Secret Projects titles, Tony Buttler has now begun the same treatment for his early volumes on American Secret Projects. This first revised bo...
By the end of the Second World War the USA and Great Britain had developed viable jet fighters, even if these aircraft came a bit too late to have a significant impact on the course of the conflict...
This book completes the process of revising Tony Buttler’s successful British Secret Projects titles, which have described the design and development of the UK’s military aircraft since...
The second of two volumes charting the development of American airlifter design from the 1940s to the present day. Makes extensive uses of primary source material and includes many t...
This book examines the last generation of high-performance British propellor-driven fighters, types such as the Firecrest, late mark Spitfires and Seafires, Spiteful and Seafang, Sea Fury, late mar...
After the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union tried to exert its political influence on the Asian continent. A major pillar of this cold‐war policy was the widespread supply of arms to th...
The Tactical Aviation branch (FA – Frontovaya aviatsiya) has always occupied an important place in the structure of the Soviet, and subsequently Russian, Air Force. In the 20-odd post-Soviet ...
At the height of the Cold War it was Britain’s V-Force and its Valiant, Vulcan and Victor bombers that carried the UK’s nuclear deterrent from the mid Fifties until the end of the Sixti...