Название: Air War Market Garden: A Bridge Too Far
Автор: Martin W. Bowman
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1781591768
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 11,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

This, the fourth and final volume of the series on Market-Garden in September 1944 reveals the final fate of the troops at Oosterbeek and the decision to evacuate all able bodied men in Operation ‘Berlin’ as well as the subsequent Operation ‘Pegasus’ when the Allies tried to return as many beleaguered troops back to Allied lines as possible.

Название: Bomber Boys on Screen: RAF Bomber Command in Film and Television Drama
Автор: S. P. MacKenzie
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 1350024848
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 216
Размер: 17,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Since the Second World War, depictions of Royal Air Force operations in film and television drama have become so numerous that they make up a genre worthy of scholarly attention. In this illuminating study, S. P. MacKenzie explores the different ways in which the men of RAF Bomber Command have been represented in dramatic form on the big and small screen from the war years to the present day.

Название: Masada: Mass Suicide in the First Jewish-Roman War, c. AD 73
Автор: Phil Carradice
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526728974
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 130
Размер: 35,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the spring of 73 AD the rock fortress of Masada on the western shore of the Dead Sea was the site of an event that was breathtaking in its courage and self-sacrifice. Here the last of the Jewish Zealots who, for nearly eight years, had waged war against the Roman occupiers of their country made their last stand.

Название: Panzerkampfwagen II Ausf.a/1, a/2, a/3, b, c, A, B and C (Panzer Tracts No.2-1)
Автор: Thomas L. Jentz, Hilary Louis Doyle
Издательство: Panzer Tracts
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 80
Размер: 100 Mb

Panzerkampfwagen II

Название: Latin American Soldiers: Armed Forces in the Region's History
Автор: John R. Bawden
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 1138492582
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 193
Размер: 6,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

In this accessible volume, John R. Bawden introduces readers to the study of armed forces in Latin American history through vivid narratives about four very different countries: Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, and Chile.

Название: Cambodia and Kent State: In the Aftermath of Nixon's Expansion of the Vietnam War
Автор: James A. Tyner, Mindy Farmer
Издательство: The Kent State University Press
ISBN: 1606354051
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 86
Размер: 2,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

President Nixon's announcement on April 30, 1970, that US troops were invading neutral Cambodia as part of the ongoing Vietnam War campaign sparked a complicated series of events with tragic consequences on many fronts.

Название: From Gaza to Jerusalem: The Campaign for Southern Palestine 1917
Автор: Stuart Hadaway
Издательство: Spellmount Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 0752499017
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 6,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The 1917 Palestine campaign saw Britain’s Army rise from defeat to achieve stunning victory.
After two failed attacks on Gaza using tactics employed on the Western Front, a new commander was appointed. General Allenby reinvigorated the Army and led it to stunning success in the Third Battle of Gaza.

Название: Cumbria at War 1939–45
Автор: Ruth Mansergh
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473877105
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 282
Размер: 50,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The outbreak of war marked a new era for the people of Cumbria. Many young men and women enlisted in the Forces, while older people joined the Home Guard or became Air Raid Precaution Wardens. Children from cities were sent to Kendal to escape the threat of bombing raids, members of the Women's Land Army began to arrive on at the local farms, and Silloth airfield near Carlisle trained thousands of pilots from allied countries.

Название: The Great Illyrian Revolt: Rome's Forgotten War in the Balkans, AD 6–9
Автор: Jason R Abdale
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526718170
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 2,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the year AD 9, three Roman legions were crushed by the German warlord Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. This event is well-known, but there was another uprising that Rome faced shortly before, which lasted from AD 6 to 9, and was just as intense. T

Название: Трагедия Германии: горе побежденным, беженцы III Рейха, 1944-1945
Автор: Гюнтер Беддекер
Издательство: Эксмо
Год: 2009
Формат: DjVu
Страниц: 384
Размер: 50.6 Мб
Язык: русский

Известное изречение "Посеешь ветер - пожнешь бурю" могло бы стать эпиграфом к книге известного современного немецкого автора Гюнтера Беддекера, повествующей о малоизвестной стороне Второй мировой войны.
Перед вами подробный рассказ о страданиях простых немцев, изведавших на себе все ужасы войны. Эти люди не были военными преступниками, не служили в войсках СС, да и вообще не были военными. После поражения нацистов на долю пятнадцати миллионов граждан Германии выпала судьба стать беженцами и изгнанниками в страхе перед надвигающейся Красной Армией.