Название: Favourite of Fortune: Captain John Quilliam, Trafalgar Hero
Автор: Andrew Lambert, Andrew Bond, Frank Cowin
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1399012703
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 36,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Royal Navy of Nelson’s time was not short of heroes, nor of outstanding achievements, but even in this crowded field the career of Captain John Quilliam stands out – so often the right man in the right place at the right time, he was justly described by a contemporary as ‘the favourite of fortune’.

Название: The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader: An Eyewitness History of the Civil War s Greatest Battle
Автор: Rod Gragg
Издательство: Regnery History
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 498
Размер: 10,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

One hundred and fifty years after the Battle of Gettysburg, the words of the soldiers and onlookers present for those three fateful days still reverberate with the power of their courage and sacrifice. The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader: An Eyewitness History of the Civil War's Greatest Battle gathers letters, journals, articles and speeches from the people who lived through those legendary three days.

Название: Short History of the First World War
Автор: Gary Sheffield
Издательство: Oneworld Publications
ISBN: 1780743645
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 3,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The First World War was a watershed in world history. Tragic but far from futile, its origins, events and legacy have roused impassioned debate, creating multiple interpretations and confusion for those encountering the period for the first time.

Название: Sieges of the English Civil War
Автор: John Barratt
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1844158322
Год: 2009
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 3,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Sieges determined the course of the English Civil Wars, yet they receive scant attention. In contrast, the major set-piece battles are repeatedly analyzed and reassessed. As a result our understanding of the conflict, and of its outcome, is incomplete.

Название: Modern Combat Aircraft and Insignia
Автор: Andrew Kershaw
Издательство: Arco Publishing Inc.
Год: 1982
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 130
Размер: 173,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

The book describes major combat military aircraft and their insignia with a lot of illustrations.

Название: Explorer Guides: Guide to Military Uniforms
Автор: Andrew Kershaw
Издательство: Rourke Publishing Company
Год: 1981
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 24
Размер: 46,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Here is a well written and illustrated history, concerning uniforms, from the functional khaki of World War I to the present day. Great color; nicely done.

Название: The Final Hours: The Luftwaffe Plot Against Goring (Aviation Classics)
Автор: Johannes Steinhoff
Издательство: Potomac Books Inc.
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 204
Размер: 1,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Fighter ace Col. Johannes Steinhoff commanded an elite group of pilots trained to fly the first jet aircraft employed in combat, the famous Messerschmitt Me-262, at a time when Reich Marshal Hermann Goring, by then out of favor with Hitler for his failure to stop the Allied bombing raids, denounced his own pilots as cowards.

Название: The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare 2nd Edition
Автор: Geoffrey Parker
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131663275X
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 554
Размер: 101,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The new edition of The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare, written and updated by a team of nine distinguished military historians, examines how war was waged by Western powers across a sweeping timeframe, beginning with classical Greece and Rome, moving through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.

Название: The Order of the Death's Head - The Story of Hitler's SS
Автор: Heinz Hohne
Издательство: Penguin Books
Год: 1971
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 715
Размер: 24,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

The SS was the terror of Europe. Swearing eternal allegiance to Adolf Hitler, it infiltrated every aspect of German life and was responsible for the deaths of millions. This gripping history recounts the strange and, at times, absurd true story of Hitler's SS.

Название: The Forgotten Soldier
Автор: Guy Sajer
Издательство: Flarper & Row, Publishers
Год: 1971
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 531
Размер: 14,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Forgotten Soldier recounts the horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the eyes of a teenaged German soldier. At first an exciting adventure, young Guy Sajer’s war becomes, as the German invasion falters in the icy vastness of the Ukraine, a simple, desperate struggle for survival against cold, hunger, and above all the terrifying Soviet artillery. As a member of the elite Gross Deutschland Division, he fought in all the great battles from Kursk to Kharkov.