В годы Первой Мировой войны авиация Франции была достойным соперником кайзеровских ВВС – французские «ньюпоры» и «спады» ни в чем не уступали германским «фоккерам» и «альбатросам», а имена прославленных «галльских» асов вписаны в историю золотом. Куда исчезла вся эта громкая слава к началу Второй Мировой? Почему в 1940 году хваленые Армэ де л'Эр (военно-воздушные силы Франции) не смогли дать отпор Люфтваффе? В чем причина сокрушительного разгрома французской авиации – виноваты ли авиаконструкторы и промышленники, не обеспечившие ее современными самолетами, или генеральные штабы, принявшие порочную программу авиастроения, или недостаточная подготовка французских пилотов?
Новая книга ведущего историка ВВС отвечает на эти вопросы, проанализировав боевые возможности всех без исключения французских истребителей Второй Мировой (как новейших, так и устаревших, не только массовых, но и экспериментальных машин) и особенности их боевого применения на всех этапах Французской кампании – и во время «Странной войны», и в ходе немецкого Блицкрига. Особый интерес представляет информация о действиях вишистской авиации в Северной Африке, Сирии, Индокитае, Сенегале и Мадагаскаре, а также о боевых операциях истребительных частей Свободной Франции, в том числе и легендарного полка «Нормандия-Неман».

словари, справочники

публицистическая литература

энциклопедии

военное дело / спецслужбы

историческая научная и учебная литература

Вторая мировая война

общая история

самолетостроение

военная техника

военная история

история авиации

знания и навыки

Французские истребители Второй Мировой

Me 163 «Komet» – истребитель «Летающих крепостей»

«Зимородок». «Старый, медлительный и противный»

Арийский «сокол»

Сделано в Украине

«Кинг-Конг». Самоходная артиллерийская установка М12

«Вихрь», не ставший бурей

Артиллерия Вермахта

Боевые самолеты Второй Мировой

Энциклопедия авиации

entsiklopediia-aviatsii

любовные романы

фэнтези

учебная и научная литература

современная русская литература

современные любовные романы

современная зарубежная литература

детективы

об истории серьезно

приключения

книги о приключениях

ужасы / мистика

учебники и пособия для вузов

cтихи, поэзия

книги по психологии

стихи и поэзия

гуманитарные и общественные науки

русская классика

мистика

боевики, остросюжетная литература

Three stunning novels from Sunday Times bestselling author Freya NorthLOVE RULESHOME TRUTHSPILLOW TALK

периодические издания

сборники

публицистика и периодические издания

Freya North 3-Book Collection: Love Rules, Home Truths, Pillow Talk

Available for the first time as an ebook bundle, three sassy novels following the fun and fortunes of the McCabe sisters.A great value ebook containing the three interlinked McCabe sister stories – Cat, Fen and Pip.Cat is in for the ride of her life. Fleeing from a messy break-up, she lands a job reporting on the Tour de France and quickly realises it’s not all about bikes. With sex, drugs, large bulges and larger egos, as the spectacle unfolds, Cat’s life mirrors the peaks and perils of the race.Fen has waited ages for a man – and then two have turned up at once! Torn between a handsome publisher and a rugged landscape architect, Fen finds herself falling for both of them in a haze of sex, art and severe indecision.Pip makes a living clowning for children’s parties and hospital wards, so when she meets a sophisticated high-flying exec, it seems like they have nothing in common. But it seems that opposites often attract…

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Freya North 3-Book Collection: Cat, Fen, Pip

Capturing the magic and finest festive traditions of Fortnum & Mason, Christmas and Other Winter Feasts gathers together everything you need to enjoy a truly delicious winter.A joyous celebration of Fortnum & Mason’s love for extraordinary seasonal food, Christmas and Other Winter Feasts is filled with flavoursome recipes for Christmas and New Year’s Eve, as well as Guy Fawkes and Burns’ Night.From seasonable soups to hearty January eating, and featuring exclusive stories from the Fortnum & Mason archives, Christmas and Other Winter Feasts is the essential accompaniment to any party, gathering or feast.

кулинария

медицина и здоровье

Fortnum & Mason: Christmas & Other Winter Feasts

Craft delicious wild cocktails from foraged and grown ingredientsThe art of foraged, or ‘wild’, cocktails is a growing phenomenon all over the world – from the pop-up bars of London to the farmers’ markets and speakeasies of New York City. Forager’s Cocktails is one of the very first books on the market to capture this growing mixology movement – in a beautiful hardback gift format!Full of lavish full-colour photographs, delicious recipes, and beautiful prose by cocktail expert Amy Zavatto, this inspirational guide to imbibing the great outdoors is a delightful treat for all cocktail drinkers and amateur bartenders.This gorgeous book features 40 incredible recipes divided by season, as well as tips on how best to grow and forage the tastiest ingredients, from berries to herbs, chillis to veggies, flowers to fruit, as well as seasonal suggestions and tips on preserving and storing.Forager’s Cocktails is a delicious toolkit for getting the most from gardens, common spaces, and hedges and crafting delectable, one-of-a-kind cocktails.

природа и животные

спорт, здоровье, красота

дом, дача

Forager’s Cocktails: Botanical Mixology with Fresh Ingredients

The first three books in George MacDonald Fraser’s uproarious bestselling Flashman series, now available in one ebook for the first time.FLASHMAN: 1839–42.Soldier, duellist, lover, imposter, coward, cad and hero, Harry Flashman triumphs in this first instalment of The Flashman Papers. His adventures as the reluctant secret agent in Afghanistan and his entry into the exclusive company of Lord Cardigan’s Hussars culminate in his foulest hour – his part in the historic disaster of the Retreat from Kabul.ROYAL FLASH: 1842–43.Flashman matches his wits, his talents for deceit and malice, and above all his speed in evasion against the most brilliant European statesman and against the most beautiful and unscrupulous adventuress of the era.From London gaming-halls and English hunting-fields to European dungeons and throne-rooms, he is involved in a desperate succession of escapes, disguises, amours and (when he cannot avoid them) hand-to-hand combats.FLASHMAN’S LADY: 1842–45.When Flashman accepts an invitation from his old enemy, Tom Brown of Rugby, to join a friendly cricket match, he doesn’t realise he is letting himself in for the most desperate game of his scandalous career – a deadly struggle that would see him scampering from the hallowed wicket of Lords’ to the jungle lairs of Borneo pirates, from a Newgate hanging to the torture pits of Madagascar, from Chinatown dens to slavery in the palace of a mad black queen.

книги о войне

историческая литература

шпионские детективы

серьезное чтение

Flashman Papers 3-Book Collection 1: Flashman, Royal Flash, Flashman’s Lady

‘Nominally a history of the hot air balloon, Falling Upwards is really a history of hope and fantasy—and the quixotic characters who disobeyed that most fundamental laws of physics and gave humans flight.’ —The New Republic, Best Books of 2013CHOSEN AS BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR IN ** Guardian ** New Statesman ** Daily Telegraph ** New Republic ****TIME Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013** **The New Republic Best Books of 2013** **Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)*From ambitious scientists rising above the clouds to test the air, to brave generals floating over enemy lines to watch troop movements, this wonderful book offers a seamless fusion of history, art, science, biography and the metaphysics of flight. It is a masterly portrait of human endeavour, recklessness, vision and hope.In this heart-lifting book, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the daring and enigmatic men and women who risked their lives to take to the air (or fall into the sky). Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet is a compelling adventure that only Holmes could tell.It is not a conventional history of ballooning. In a sense it is not really about balloons at all. It is about what balloons gave rise to. It is about the spirit of discovery itself and the extraordinary human drama it produces.From the dramatic and exhilarating early Anglo-French balloon rivalries, the crazy firework flights of the beautiful Sophie Blanchard, the long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise and French photographer Felix Nadar to the balloons used to observe the horrors of modern battle during the Civil War (including a flight taken by George Armstrong Custer); the legendary tale of at least sixty-seven manned balloons that escaped from Paris (the first successful civilian airlift in history) during the Prussian siege of 1870-71; the high-altitude exploits of James Glaisher who rose seven miles above the earth without oxygen, helping to establish the new science of meteorology; and how Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jules Verne felt the imaginative impact of flight and allowed it to soar in their work.

научно-популярная литература

биографии и мемуары

Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

‘Elegance is a fantastic book . . . funny, moving, tongue in cheek’ Cat DeeleyELEGANCELouise Canova is at a crossroads in her life. Browsing in a second-hand bookshop, she stumbles across a faded grey volume. Written by a formidable French fashion expert, Elegance is an encyclopedia of style. Within the book's pages Louise discovers a courage she never thought possible. For true elegance cannot be attained until she is comfortable in her own skin: only then might love flourish.INNOCENCEIt's 1987 and Evie is leaving home for the first time, headed for London to study acting. Along with her fellow students and roommates, Imogene (a born again Laura Ashley poster child and frustrated virgin) and Robbie (native New Yorker, budding bohemian, and very much not a virgin), Evie's determined to make her mark both on stage and off. But then life and love intervene. And everything changes.

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Elegance and Innocence: 2-Book Collection

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