Название: The Battle of Gettysburg: A Guided Tour
Автор: Edward J. Stackpole, Wilbur Nye
Издательство: Stackpole Books
Год: 1998
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 132
Размер: 17,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Intended for Civil War buffs, amateur and professional alike, this is a revised version of the 1960 classic.

Название: The Centurion Tank
Автор: Bill Munro
Издательство: Crowood
ISBN: 1861267010
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 194
Размер: 91,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Centurion was the British Armys first standard post-World War Two main battle tank. It first saw combat in the Korean War, and was used by a number of armed forces in many engagements over the next thirty years. Many different variants were produced, and many remain in service to this day.

Название: Vom alten Schlag: Der Zweite Weltkrieg am anderen Ende der Welt. Erinnerungen
Автор: E.B. Sledge
Издательство: Riva
ISBN: 3868833323
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 369
Размер: 20,3 МБ
Язык: Немецкий

Eugene B. Sledge diente als Soldat im 3. Bataillon, 5. Kompanie der berühmten 1. US-Marineinfanteriedivision – der ältesten, ruhmreichsten und größten aktiven Division des US Marine Corps. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde der 20-Jährige an die Front im Pazifik geschickt, wo er an den Gefechten der amerikanischen Armee gegen die Japaner um Peleliu und Okinawa teilnahm.

Название: Point of no Return
Автор: Wilbur H. Morrison
Издательство: Playboy Press
Год: 1980
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 292
Размер: 49,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book on the development of the US B29 bomber and the air attacks on Japan. Most of the first 50 pages the USSAAF organziation that was established to deploy the bomber in China and later in the Marianas Islands. After that,the book discusses the efforts to attack targets in Japan from high altitude and eventually the low altitude fire bombing raids staring in March of 1945.

Название: Duel with The Dragon at The Battle of Suoi Tre
Автор: Bill Comeau
Издательство: William Comeau
ISBN: 1950794857
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 480
Размер: 14,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book chronicles the story of the members of Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division from their Basic Training days in early 1966 through their fighting as a unit in Vietnam. It includes stories about the soldiers who led during that year and other soldiers who came, served, and went home to lead normal lives.

Название: The Enigma Story: The Truth Behind the 'Unbreakable' World War II Cipher
Автор: John Dermot Turing
Издательство: Sirius
ISBN: 1398815020
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 240
Размер: 19,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Enigma cipher was supposed to be the German's impenetrable defence for its military communications against prying eyes during World War II. All manner of secrets were entrusted to it. When the Allies finally managed to crack the code, it heralded a turning point in the war.

Название: Pauline Gower, Pioneering Leader of the Spitfire Women
Автор: Alison Hill
Издательство: The History Press
ISBN: 075099682X
Год: 2022]
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 256
Размер: 16,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

PAULINE GOWER was the leader of the Spitfire women during the Second World War. After gaining her pilot’s licence at 20, she set up the first female joyriding business in 1931 with engineer Dorothy Spicer and took 33,000 passengers up for a whirl, clocking up more than 2,000 hours overall.

Название: Военно-морские флоты России и США
Автор: Игорь, Хмельнов, Эдуард, Чухраев
Издательство: Литрес
Жанр: Военное дело, Публицистика
Год: 2022
Язык: Русский
Формат: fb2
Размер файла: 11.7 Мб

Эта книга представляет собой результат исследования авторами большого и разнообразного военного и исторического материала. Она написана на основе анализа различных документов, архивных материалов, российских и зарубежных исторических трудов и научных работ исследователей, военно-мемуарной литературы, а также личных архивов самих авторов.

Название: The Origins of the Second World War
Автор: Joachim Remak
Издательство: Prentice-Hall
Год: 1976
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 196
Размер: 32,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

In The Origins of ttie Second World War, Joachim Remak recreates the months and years before the war as seen through the eyes of the men who lived them. We meet Adolf Hitler silently watching an unresponsive crowd in Berlin and concluding the time is not yet ripe for war. We hear Neville Chamberlain explaining to his nation why he signed the Munich Pact. We read the secret dispatches to Japan's Washington embassy in November, 1941, alerting it to the coming war.

Название: The Origins of World War I, 1871-1914
Автор: Joachim Remak
Издательство: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Год: 1967
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 180
Размер: 12,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Appropriate for courses in Western civilization surveys, modern Europe, and twentieth-century Europe, this text examines in detail the origins of the first world war. An ideal supplementary text, it is concise, readable, and offers a combination of traditional and diplomatic history with the historical controversy of the origin of the First World War.