Epic soviet air

  Soviet Air Force National Insignia (PA52) * Item is brand new, and in stock. * Embroided Patch.   Please note:  Hobby Paints, glues and Paint brushes are also available on my user name:  The Aviation Shop   Payment within 48 - 72 hours. Once payment is completed, a tracking number will follow in 24 - 48 working hours. Combine shipping are allowed with small items. Feel free to ask a question, if needed.                                   

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From the outset, the export of revolution and Communist ideology had been one of the cornerstones of Soviet Russia's (and later the Soviet Union's) foreign policy and by the mid-1950's the export of Soviet arms expanded into Africa with Algeria being amongst the first African countries to receive Soviet combat aircraft. By the 1960's and 1970's, a large number of African states had gained independence and the Soviet Union increased supply. This situation persisted until the early 1990's when most of the former Soviet allies shed socialism and switched allegiance to the West. Having often been flown by foreign volunteer or mercenary pilots such as the Cubans in Angola and South Africans in Sierra Leone, Soviet/Russian military aircraft can now be seen in countries as varied as Algeria, Libya, the Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Uganda, and Sudan. Combat types from the MiG-15 to the latest Su-30MK fighters, Su-24MK tactical bombers, Su-25 attack aircraft, Mi-24/25/35 helicopters and transports from the Antonov An-12 to the Il yushin Il-76 can all be seen across Africa. Arranged by country and using previously classified sources, Soviet and Russian Military Aircraft in Africa includes comprehensive fleet lists of all known Soviet/Russian military aircraft together with their Chinese derivatives. Highly illustrated with contemporary photographs, air force insignia and colour profiles this book forms an invaluable reference for modellers, enthusiasts and aviation historians alike.  HARDCOVER, 272 pages with over 300 photographs and 100 colour profiles.  Published April 2013 The title is imported on demand and a waiting period might apply.

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ATTRACTIVE  192 PAGE LARGE HARDCOVER BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION                                              FIRST WORLD WAR ACES, WW 1 ACES, AIR WARFARE WW1, AIRCRAFT OF THE WW1, FIGHTER PILOT, MILITARY AIRCRAFT 

  Faith, Hope and Charity - Three planes Against an Air Force by Kenneth Poolman   The story of three old aircraft used to meet constant raids by the Maltese, graphically describing the epic of the siege of Malta and the immortal page of history written by that island from 1940 to 1943.   First edition published 1954, hardcover no dust wrapper, 200 pages, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Wear commiserate with age but a nice reading copy.   Postnet to Postnet R110.00            

As the Soviet Union teetered on the edge of collapse during the late 1980s, and America prepared to claim its victory, a bloody war still raged in Southern Africa, where proxy forces from both sides vied for control of Angola. The result was the largest battle on the dark continent since Al Alamein, with forces from both sides paying in blood what U.S.-Soviet diplomats were otherwise spending in diplomacy. The socialist government of Angola and its army, FAPLA, fully stocked with Soviet weapons, had only to wipe out a massive resistance group, UNITA, secretly supplied by the U.S, in order to claim full sovereignty over the country. A giant FAPLA offensive so threatened to succeed in overcoming UNITA that apartheid-era South Africa stepped in to protect its own interests. The white army crossing the border prompted the Angolan government to call on their own foreign reinforcementsthe army of Communist Cubas. Thus began the epic battle of Cuito Cuanavale, largely unknown in the U.S., but which raged for three months in the entirely odd match-up of South African Boers vs. Castros armed forces, which for the first time in the Cold War proved what it could achieve. And it turned out the Cubans were very good. The South Africans were no slouches at warfare themselves, but had suffered under a boycott of weapons since 1977. The Cubans and Angolan troops, instead, had the latest Soviet weapons, easily delivered. But UNITA had its secret U.S. supply line and the South Africans knew how to fight, mainly at a disadvantage in air power for lack of spare parts. Meantime the Cubans overcame their logistic difficulties with an impressive airlift of troops over the Atlantic, while the Boers simply needed to drive next door. As a case study of ferocious fighting between East and Westalbeit proxies for the great powers on all sidesthis book unveils a remarkable episode of the end-game of the Cold War largely unknown to the public. The Angolans on both sides suffered heavily, but it was the apartheid South Africans versus Castros armed forces that provides utter fascination in one of historys rare match-ups. Paperback / 232 pages 54 b/w photos Published December 2013  

9TH COMPANY Synopsis: "Impressive" Film Review "****" London Paper "A full throated and very exciting war film" Evening Standard "One of the best war movies in recent times" Robert Lee @ The Movies "Some of the best on screen battles you will see this year... takes brutal realism to a new level" DKN News "Terrific hard hitting war movie: Film Review "Blood guts and action...A cracking war epic" The Sun" "Four Star Entertainment" Channel 4 Film Post-communist Russia’s highest grossing film to date, 9th COMPANY is a stirring and extremely timely modern day war movie on a par with Hollywood blockbusters ‘Full Metal Jacket’ and and ‘Platoon’. In , a band of 39 Soviet soldiers held “Hill ” against 400 Afghan rebels in a remarkable chapter in military history. Based on real events, the film follows ill-fated fortunes of a small group of young Russian soldiers, from the trials of boot camp to their arrival in the heart of the war zone and the climactic, bloody battle that made them all heroes.   Starring: Arthur Smolya Konstantin Kryukov   Category: War   Age Restriction: 16 LVNS

Soft cover. 472 pages. Very good condition. Under 1kg. Solzhenitsyn's gripping epic masterpiece, the searing record of four decades of Soviet terror and oppression, in one abridged volume    

Paperback in fair condition. An Epic, presenting the history of forced labour, the victims of Stalin in Soviet prisons and labour camps. B/w photographs. A small tear at top of cover page. Name of previous owner on first title page. Postage in RSA = R

  Cassell, 2002. Book Condition: Used. This Book is in Very good Condition. Clean Copy With Light Amount of Wear. 256 pp. Summary: The impact of World War II opened the door for weak and impoverished nations to develop military means of defeating modern armies. In China, Korea, Vietnam, Palestine, Cuba, Ireland, Africa, and the former Soviet Union, where battles still rage today--indeed, all over the globe--impassioned revolutions, marked by irregular warfare, guerilla insurgency, and terrorism, turned nations upside down in the name of liberation. Vividly illustrated and packed with punch, this dynamic account of endemic violence, epic character, and the astonishing resourcefulness of commanders and combatants probes the nation in arms as a product of the Western legacy and of communism, religion, and tribal or familial loyalties. A chronology and biographies of crucial figures help delineate the lines leading backward to the prewar era.

Ukraine 2 hryvnia Mykola Bazhan Outstanding person writer poet nickel coin 2004 Edition Technical Specs Presentation Country: Ukraine Metal Purity: Nickel Silver Box: No Year of Issue: 2004 Weight: 12.8 CoA: No Face Value: 2 hryvnias Dimensions: 31 Quality: ordinary Mintage: 30000 New coin with capsule The coin is dedicated to the birth centenary of Mykola P.Bazhan (1904 - 1983), a poet, editor, specialist in drama study, film critic, script writer, translator, state and public figure. He was born in the town of Kamianets-Podilskyi (now Khmelnytsk region). Mykola P.Bazhan was a man of great learning, a person of encyclopaedic knowledge, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the UkrSSR (1951), an honoured worker of science of the UkrSSR (1966), whose sphere of interest covered almost all fields of cultural life of Ukraine. He was an initiator and scientific supervisor of the `Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia` publication. Though above all, Bazhan went down in the history of Ukraine as a poet. His poetry is characterized by sublimity of inflexions, epic sounding, predominance of poetic and civic motives.On the coin obverse above there is the small National Emblem of Ukraine is depicted, under it there is ??????? (Ukraine) inscription; in the centre of the coin a composition made of a pencil, a pen with Pegasus` wing and a brush is depicted; to the right there are inscriptions: 2/??????, (2 hryvnia); beneath: 2004, the coin mintage year and the Mint logotype of the National Bank of Ukraine.On the coin reverse a portrait of Mykola Bazhan is depicted, on its both sides there are semicircular inscriptions: left ﾖ ?????? ????? (Mykola Bazhan), right ﾖ 1904 ﾖ 1983, his years of life. ____________________________________________________ Feel free to e-mail me with any questions.