Roaring Glory Warbirds: B17 Flying Fortress
English | AVI | 720x480 | MP3 128kbps | 00:43:41 | XviD | 865 MB | 1992
Genre: Documentary
Live the dream, as pilot Jeff Ethell takes left seat and you strap in for preflight and start-up of the legendary B-17 Flying Fortress. It's an unforgettable experience in flight; turn up the volume and lift off into the sky with a full crew of ten men: turret gunners, waist gunners, bombardier, nose gunner, radioman and cockpit crew; they're all here and the mission is sheer excitement! The Roaring Glory Warbird series is your passage to adventure on board the most famous bomber of them all!
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Mycenaen Citadels c. 1350-1200 BC (Fortress Series # 22)
Size: 5 MB
Format: PDF
Published: Osprey Publishing (July 25, 2004)
ISBN-10: 184176762X
Page count: 64
Mycenaean society was constantly geared for battle and invasion. Their ‘cities’ were heavy fortresses with unimaginably thick perimeter walls. Legendary sites such as Mycenae, Tiryns, Argos, Krisa, the Athenian Acropolis and Gla are all representative of their fortified citadels that dominated the Greek countryside for some 300 years until their sudden decline and abandonment around 1100 BC. This title describes the golden age of these fortifications; it details how these formidable structures were constructed and extended, as well as revealing the elaborate palace complexes built by the great Mycenaean warlords immortalised in the verses of Homer’s Iliad.
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Crusaders Castles in the Holy Land (Fortress Series # 21)
Size: 50 MB
Format: PDF
Published: Osprey Publishing (July 25, 2004)
ISBN-10: 1841767158
Page count: 64
The Crusaders that landed in the Middle East in the late-11th century brought with them their own traditions of military architecture, but it was not long before their defensive construction began to reflect a broad array of local influences. Most early Crusader structures were relatively small, and tended to increase the existing natural and defensive features of a site. The basic forms comprised freestanding towers, castra, and hilltop and spur-castles, but urban centres, religious sites and rural dwellings were also fortified. From the 1160s, bigger, stronger and more expensive castles began to appear, in response to developments in Islamic siege weaponry. This title examines the early fortifications erected by the Crusaders in modern-day Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and south-eastern Turkey.
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British Home Defences 1940-45 (Fortress Series # 20)
Size: 22 MB
Format: PDF
Published: Osprey Publishing (May 25, 2004)
ISBN-10: 1841767670
Page count: 64
In the summer of 1940, the question Britain asked itself was not 'will Hitler invade?' but 'when?' SEALION, the German invasion plan, provoked the construction of pillboxes, anti-tank stop-lines and islands, coastal defences, heavy-gun emplacements and anti-aircraft batteries, as well as the formation of the Home Guard and covert groups. New threats replaced SEALION: radar detection systems were expanded during the Blitz years, as were intelligence-gathering systems and listening posts. In 1944 and 1945, Britain was once again faced with a new and deadly threat,Hitler's 'Vengeance weapons'. This title provides a concise assessment of Britain's defensive systems, and presents a vivid picture of war on the home front.
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Binary Fortress Display Fusion Pro 3.1.2
Binary Fortress Display Fusion Pro 3.1.2 | 1 MB
This is rather nice ! It allows you to have different wallpapers on each monitor, separate taskbars and you can move wallpaper position to allow for thing like Windows Sidebar.
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Crusader Castles of the Teutonic Knights (2) (Fortress Series # 19)
Size: 55 MB
Format: PDF
Published: Osprey Publishing edition (May 25, 2004)
ISBN-10: 1841767123
Page count: 64
The original forced conversion of pagan Livonia, what is now the Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia, was carried out by a military order known as the Brethren of the Sword. In 1236 this order was incorporated into the Teutonic Knights following a catastrophic military defeat. The knights had always consolidated their conquests through networks of castles and fortified places, and the Livonian Chapter of the Teutonic Order built castles of stone. This title covers the developmental and operational history of these fortresses over the length of the Middle Ages. It details how the Baltic fortifications of the Teutonic Knights evolved to reflect the changing nature of siege warfare and the increasing dominance of gunpowder in warfare.
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Norman Stone Castles (2) (Fortress Series # 18)
Size: 57 MB
Format: PDF
Published: Osprey Publishing (March 25, 2004)
ISBN-10: 1841766038
Page count: 64
Following the creation of the Duchy of Normandy, the Normans were soon introduced to the castle and they built them in large numbers. In the mid-11th century, other Norman adventurers began carving out dominions for themselves in Southern Italy: some crossed to Sicily in 1061 and by 1091 had conquered the whole island. As in Normandy, they were keen to assimilate new ideas, including architectural styles, resulting in some striking buildings. This title, a companion to Fortress 13: Norman Stone Castles (1) The British Isles 1066-1216, provides a detailed guide to the castles built in Normandy, Southern Italy and Sicily, covering defensive principles, daily life, the events of siege warfare, and the fate of the castles.
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Troy c. 1700-1250 BC (Fortress Series # 17)
Size: 16 MB
Format: PDF
Published: Osprey Publishing (January 22, 2004)
ISBN-10: 1841767034
Page count: 64
Hisarlik is a small place, a sandy stone strewn hillock cut up into gullies and hummocks. Yet its historical significance is immense, for this is the site of Troy - the legendary city whose story sprawls across cultures, time and geography. The tale of the siege of Troy is the greatest secular story ever told, and has captured the imagination of the Western World for some 3,000 years. Although there are many difficulties in using Greek myths, oral traditions and the Homeric epics to reconstruct the Trojan War, this title uses the latest archaeological evidence to reconstruct in detail the fortifications of Troy as well as making more general observations about the possible historical events behind the epics of Homer.
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The Fortification of Malta 1530-1945 (Fortress Series # 16)
Size: 17 MB
Format: PDF
Published: Osprey Publishing (January 22, 2004)
ISBN-10: 1841766933
Page count: 64
The Island of Malta occupies a pivotal position in the Mediterranean, forming an outpost between North Africa and the soft underbelly of Europe. Such has been its strategic importance throughout the years that it has become one of the most fortified places in the world. Following the successful defence of the island during the Great Siege of 1565, the Knights Hospitaller built new walls and fortifications. These defences failed when Napoleon occupied Malta in 1798, and the island was retaken by the British in 1800. From this point onwards, Malta’s defences were modernised throughout the 19th century and the island’s final test came during World War II. This book examines all these different styles of fortification from the 16th to the 20th century.
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Fortress, ¹56. Rome's Saxon Shore. Coastal Defences of Roman Britain AD 250-500
Fortress, ¹56. Rome's Saxon Shore. Coastal Defences of Roman Britain AD 250-500
Osprey Publishing | PDF | English | 66 pages | 14,3 MB | ISBN 1846030943 | 2006
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Binary Fortress Software DisplayFusion Pro 3.1.0 Multilanguage
WinApp | Binary Fortress Software DisplayFusion Pro 3.1.0 Multilanguage | 1.19 Mb
DisplayFusion will make your dual monitor (or triple monitor or more) experience smooth and painless. With DisplayFusion you can add a taskbar to every monitor that works and looks just like the Windows Taskbar. Or take advantage of advanced multi-monitor wallpaper support, Flickr Integration for image searching and fully customizable window management hotkeys. These are just a few of the many things that DisplayFusion can do.
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Germany's West Wall (Fortress Series # 15)
Size: 25 MB
Format: PDF
Published: Osprey Publishing (January 22, 2004)
ISBN-10: 184176678X
Page count: 64
The West Wall (or the Siegfried Line as the Allies called it) played a crucial role in the bitter fighting of 1944 and 1945 in North-West Europe.
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Fortifications in Wessex (Fortress Series # 14)
Size: 16 MB
Format: PDF
Published: Osprey Publishing (October 22, 2003)
ISBN-10: 1841766399
Page count: 64
The defence of the 9th-century kingdom of Wessex under King Alfred against the 'Great Viking Army' is one of the major military achievements of Early Medieval history.
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Norman Stone Castles 1 (Fortress Series # 13)
Size: 50 MB
Format: PDF
Published: Osprey Publishing (October 22, 2003)
ISBN-10: 184176602X
Page count: 64
Descended from the Viking raiders who settled in Northern France under the leadership of Rollo in around 911, the Normans were amongst the most feared warriors of their time.
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Fortresses of the Peninsular War 1808-14 (Fortress Series # 12)
Size: 12 MB
Format: PDF
Published: Osprey Publishing (November 21, 2003)
ISBN-10: 1841765775
Page count: 64
In the course of the Peninsular War, Wellington’s army fought several hard battles and smaller actions, but it was the bloody sieges that troubled him more than anything else.
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