Название: All Roads Led to Gettysburg: A New Look at the Civil War's Pivotal Battle
Автор: Troy D. Harman
Издательство: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 081177063X
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 360
Размер: 22,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

It has long been a trope of Civil War history that Gettysburg was an accidental battlefield. General Lee, the old story goes, marched blindly into Pennsylvania while his chief cavalryman Jeb Stuart rode and raided incommunicado.

Название: Churchill's Admiral in Two World Wars: Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge & Dover GCB KCVO CMG DSO
Автор: Jim Crossley
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526748398
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 4,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Roger Keyes was the archetype of 19th to 20th century Royal Navy officers. A superb seaman, inspiring leader, and fearless fighter he immediately caught the eye of senior figures in the naval establishment, as well as an up-and-coming politician, Winston Churchill.

Название: Aircrew: Dramatic, first-hand accounts from World War 2 bomber pilots and crew
Автор: Bruce Lewis
Издательство: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1474626289
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 224
Размер: 19,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

The British and American bomber crews of the Second World War often had to endure the most terrifying conditions. Not for them the glorious, all-or-nothing exhilaration of the Battle of Britain pilots - rather, the slow dwindling of courage as mission followed mission, the long, freezing, ear-shattering journey to the target, the bursting flak, the prowling night fighters.

Название: Книга будущих адмиралов
Автор: Митяев А.
Издательство: М.: Молодая гвардия
Год: 1986 - изд. 3-е, перераб. и дополн.
Cтраниц: 361, цвет.ил.
Формат: pdf
Размер: 79 мб
Язык: русский

Книга о военно-морском искусстве, об истории военно-морского флота с древних времен до сегодняшних дней. В книге семь разделов, основной из них посвящен рассказу об участии Советского Военно-Морского Флота в Великой Отечественной войне, подвигу советских моряков. Содержание книги дополняют схемы и красочное оформление.

Название: The Origins of the Crimean War (Origins of Modern Wars)
Автор: David M. Goldfrank
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 1138179019
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 358
Размер: 10,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Crimean War (1853-56) between Russia, Turkey, Britain, France and the Kingdom of Sardinia was a diplomatically preventable conflict for influence over an unstable Near and Middle East. It could have broken out in any decade between Napoleon and Wilhelm II; equally, it need never have occurred. In this masterly study, based on massive archival research, David Goldfrank argues that the European diplomatic roots of the war stretch far beyond the `Eastern Question' itself, and shows how the domestic concerns of the participants contributed to the outbreak of hostilities.

Название: The Saxon War
Автор: Bruno of Merseburg
Издательство: The Catholic University of America Press
ISBN: 0813234956
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 232
Размер: 9,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Bruno, a cleric who served the archbishop of Magdeburg and subsequently the bishop of Merseburg during the course of the 1060s to the 1080s, composed one of the most important historical works treating the tumultuous period in the history of the German kingdom in the second half of the eleventh century.

Название: Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings
Автор: Thomas Williams
Издательство: William Collins
ISBN: 0008171963
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 432
Размер: 19,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

In Lost Realms, Thomas Williams, bestselling author of Viking Britain, uncovers the forgotten origins and untimely demise of nine kingdoms that hover in the twilight between history and fable, whose stories hum with saints and gods and miracles, with giants and battles and the ruin of cities.

Название: The Emperor Commodus: God and Gladiator
Автор: John S McHugh
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473827558
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 320
Размер: 14,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Commodus is synonymous with debauchery and megalomania, best remembered for fighting as a gladiator. Ridiculed and maligned by historians since his own time, modern popular culture knows him as the patricidal villain in Ridley Scott's Gladiator.

Название: The Ice Pilots : Flying with the Mavericks of the Great White North
Автор: Michael Vlessides
Издательство: Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN: 1553659392
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 272
Размер: 45,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Ice Pilots follows renegade Arctic airline Buffalo Airways, and pilots who defy the cold and the competition by using WWII era propeller planes likes the DC-3 to haul vital fuel, supplies, and passengers to remote outposts across the world’s last great wilderness. From rookie pilots trying to earn their wings in sometimes hellish conditions to vintage planes that flew over Normandy on D-Day, The Ice Pilots brings its readers on an engaging romp through Arctic skies.

Название: The Men Who Flew the Heavy Bombers: RAF and USAAF Four-Engine Heavies in the Second World War
Автор: Martin W Bowman
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2022
Формат: MOBI, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 232
Размер: 14,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Martin Bowman’s considerable experience as a military historian has spanned over forty years, during which time he has amassed a wealth of material on the participation by RAF and Commonwealth and US 8th and 15th Air Force crews in the series of raids on the cities and oil transportation and industrial targets in the Third Reich, culminating in ‘Round-the-Clock’ bombing by the RAF, operating at night on the largely forgotten Stirling, the gamely Halifax and ultimately the more successful Lancaster, and the US 8th Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator crews by day on a target list so long and wide ranging that it defies the imagination.