Air Power And The Arab World 1909 1955

Author : David C. Nicolle
Publisher : Middle East@War
ISBN 13 : 9781912866434
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 written by David C. Nicolle and published by Middle East@War. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when multiple wars are raging across much of the Middle East, it is almost forgotten that it was Abu al-Qasim Abbas ibn Firnas ibn Wirdas at-Takurni - an Andalusian inventor, physician and engineer - who was the first person to undertake experiments in flying with any degree of success. That was back in the 9th Century A.D. Nigh on a thousand years later the Arab World's critical strategic location made it almost inevitable that these regions would be drawn into the imperial rivalries of the leading European powers, while the Ottoman Empire struggled to maintain its existing position in the area. This in turn meant that the first bombs to be dropped by military aircraft fell on Arab soil. Not surprisingly, as the Arab countries slowly achieved their independence, they too wanted to have air forces. In 1948 the first such Arab air forces were thrown into battle in an ill-fated attempt to keep Palestine as a primarily Arab country. Based on decades of consistent research, but also newly available sources in both Arabic and various European languages, and richly illustrated with a wide range of authentic photography, Volume 1 of the 'Air Power and the Arab World, 1909-1955' mini-series is telling the story of the men and machines of the first half century of military aviation in the Arab World.

Author : David Nicolle
Publisher : Middle East@War
ISBN 13 : 9781915070760
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955: Volume 6 - The World Crisis 1939 - March 1941 written by David Nicolle and published by Middle East@War. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 6 of this mini-series continues the story of the men and machines of the first half century of military aviation in the Arab World. It looks at the first efforts to revive both the REAF and the RIrqAF, along with events in the air and on the ground elsewhere in the Arab World until the beginning of 1941.

Author : David Nicolle
Publisher : Middle East@War
ISBN 13 : 9781914377235
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Power and the Arab World, 1909-1955 written by David Nicolle and published by Middle East@War. This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years leading up to the Second World War and into its early years saw the Arab countries and their military forces buffeted by forces far beyond their control. Nevertheless, Arab countries which had some independence or autonomy attempted to strengthen their small air forces.

Author : Dr David Nicolle
Publisher : Helion and Company
ISBN 13 : 1804515264
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 written by Dr David Nicolle and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of War in Ukraine focuses on the armed formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the largest of the two separatist entities in the east of Ukraine. Armed formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic aims to provide an overview of their formation in 2014, their status up to the end of February 2022, and combat equipment, while also exploring issues around identity and symbology. Loosely confederated with the armed formations of the neighbouring Luhansk People’s Republic into the so-called ‘United Armed Forces of Novorossiya’, in reality the armed formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic have retained a degree of autonomy over their units and planning. Often dismissed in existing literature as mere proxy extensions of Russian forces, since their formation in the fighting in eastern Ukraine during 2014 the armed formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic have developed into an integrated fighting force with more main battle tanks than several major Western military powers combined. The title also details some of the key military commanders who have shaped the armed formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic since 2014. One area of focus of the title explores the unusual and little-known ‘home grown’ military technological developments made by the Donetsk People’s Republic, including multiple launch rocket systems, armoured vehicles, sniper rifles, small arms and remote weapons stations. The emerging visual propaganda culture around the armed formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic is also explored, with military glory and fallen personnel commemorated in large scale military parades, murals, monuments and even postage stamps. War in Ukraine Volume 1: Armed formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic also presents a wealth of unique visual material including unit patches, a selection of unique photographs, diagrams and maps, and will be of interest to anyone studying the conflict in Ukraine.

Author : David Nicolle
Publisher : Middle East@War
ISBN 13 : 9781914059278
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Power and the Arab World, Volume 4 written by David Nicolle and published by Middle East@War. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4 of Air Power and the Arab World, 1909-1955 continues the story of the men and machines of the first half century of military aviation in the Arab world. This book continues with the story of the period from 1936-1941.

Author : David Nicolle
Publisher : Middle East@War
ISBN 13 : 9781913118761
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 written by David Nicolle and published by Middle East@War. This book was released on 2020-06-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on decades of research and newly available sources in Arabic and European languages, and illustrated with authentic photography, Volume 2 of the 'Air Power and the Arab World, 1909-1955' continues the story of the men and machines of the first half century of military aviation in the Arab World.

Author : David Nicolle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781804510353
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Power and Arab World 1909-1955 Volume 8 written by David Nicolle and published by . This book was released on 2022-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 8 of the Air Power and the Arab World, 1909-1955 mini-series continues the story of the men and machines involved in the first half century of military aviation in the Arab World. These years opened with the Arab countries and their military forces still caught up in the final years of the Second World War. This was followed by a brief period of soaring hopes and often unrealistic ambitions. Meanwhile, the crisis in Palestine was deepening. During the immediate post-war years Arab popular opinion grew increasingly angry, fearing that the Zionist settler community was determined to establish a specifically Jewish state in Palestine at the expense of the indigenous Arab population. Furthermore, it was also becoming clear that the so-called Great Powers which dominated the newly established United Nations Organization were unlikely to stand in the way. Following the Second World War, French influence in the Middle East had collapsed, though this was not as yet the case in North Africa. American influence was growing in the region, though the USA was emerging as pro-Zionist in its policy. The Soviet Union, though nominally also pro-Zionist, still remained a distant and largely insignificant player in Middle Eastern affairs; its only interest being to cause problems for its "Western Power" rivals. This left the British almost literally holding the ring as the dominant imperial power in the Arab Middle East, both in military and political terms. At the same time the British government, the British military establishment and indeed the British public, were showing themselves to be desperately eager to get rid of what was perceived as the burden of the Palestine Problem.

Author : David Nicolle
Publisher : Middle East@War
ISBN 13 : 9781804510346
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955: Volume 7 - The Arab Air Forces in Crisis, April 1941-December 1942 written by David Nicolle and published by Middle East@War. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 7 of the first and only book-series to cover the operational history of all Arab air forces through the early decades of their existence.

Author : David Nicolle
Publisher : Middle East@War
ISBN 13 : 9781913336325
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Power and the Arab World, 1909-1955 Volume 3 written by David Nicolle and published by Middle East@War. This book was released on 2020-12-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated, the first comprehensive and inclusive operational history of military flying in the Middle East and Northern Africa in the 1918-1936 period.

Author : David Nicolle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781804512302
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Power and Arab World 1909-1955, Volume 9 written by David Nicolle and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: