Название: The Battle for Moscow Автор: Albert Seaton Издательство: Playboy Press Год: 1980 Формат: PDF Страниц: 340 Размер: 37,4 МБ Язык: Английский
The course of human civilization has turned on the outcome of a select few climactic battles throughout history, but never more so than when Stalin's enigmatic Soviet Union desperately rallied its resources to stave off Hitler's armies in the Battle for Moscow. From the drama in the command posts to the plight of the infantry and armor in the mud and snow, Seaton illuminates the titanic struggle that was the pivotal battle of WWII.
Название: The Underground Railroad and the Civil War (Untold History of the Civil War) Автор: Albert A. Nofi Издательство: Chelsea House Publishers Год: 2000 Формат: PDF Страниц: 72 Размер: 21,5 МБ Язык: Английский
Describes the loosely organized networks of people, both free and slave, who helped fugitives from the South escape slavery to freedom in the North or in Canada.
Название: Images of War - Himmler: Hitler's Henchman: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives Автор: Ian Baxter Издательство: Pen and Sword ISBN: 139909663X Год: 2022 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 128 Размер: 99,5 МБ Язык: Английский
Heinrich Himmler has a strong claim to be Adolf Hitler's most powerful subordinate. He was certainly the main architect of the Holocaust. Appointed Reichsfuhrer-SS in 1929 he built the SS into a million strong paramilitary force and took control of the Nazi concentration camps system. From 1943 he became Chief of German Police and Minister of the Interior with command of the Gestapo as well as the Einsatzgruppen, who committed appalling atrocities and murder in occupied Eastern Europe and Russia.
Название: О военной доктрине и Русской Армии Автор: Квачков В. Издательство: Народный протест Год: 2007 Cтраниц: 114 Формат: pdf Размер: 11 мб Язык: русский
Имя Владимира Квачкова известно сегодня всей России. Командира легендарной 15-й отдельной бригады спецназа ГРУ, прошедшего Афганистан, Таджикистан, Чечню, упрятали за решетку, обвинив его в покушении на А. Чубайса. Полковника Квачкова арестовали накануне защиты докторской работы по теории специальных операций Вооруженных сил РФ в современных условиях.
Название: Johnnie Johnson's Great Adventure: The Spitfire Ace of Ace's Last Look Back Автор: Dilip Sarkar MBE Издательство: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1526799103 Год: 2022 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 288 Размер: 12,5 МБ Язык: Английский
The World War II fighter Ace's previously unpublished draft—an account of the "Long Trek" from Normandy into the heart of the Third Reich itself. Having published two of his own books, Wing Leader and The Circle of Air Fighting, Air Vice-Marshal Johnnie Johnson co-authored several more with another fighter ace, namely Wing Commander P.B. "Laddie" Lucas. In 1997, the "AVM" suggested to his friend, the prolific author Dilip Sarkar, that the pair should collaborate on The Great Adventure.
Название: Tsushima: Great Battles Series Автор: Rotem Kowner Издательство: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198831072 Год: 2022 Формат: True PDF, EPUB Страниц: 328 Размер: 10,4 МБ Язык: Английский
The Battle of Tsushima was the most decisive naval engagement in the century that elapsed since the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Although these two battles are often compared, the Battle of Tsushima, in which the Japanese Imperial Navy defeated the Russian Imperial Navy, was also unprecedented in many ways.
Название: The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler Автор: Deborah Cadbury Издательство: PublicAffairs ISBN: 1541751191 Год: 2022 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 454 Размер: 26,6 МБ Язык: Английский
In 1933, the same year Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger saved her small, progressive school from Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler’s hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils, so she hatched a courageous and daring plan: to smuggle her school to the safety of England.
Название: Defying Vichy: Blood, Fear and French Resistance Автор: Robert Pike Издательство: The History Press ISBN: 0750985526 Год: 2019 Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv) Страниц: 320 Размер: 18,2 МБ Язык: Английский
July 1940 saw the collaborationist Vichy regime replace the French Republic after the country suffered heavily at the hands of the German onslaught during World War II. A small number of people sought to make a stand in whatever way they could, despite fear and mortal danger.
Название: Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan's Self-Defense Force during the Cold War Автор: Aaron Skabelund Издательство: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501764373 Год: 2022 Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv) Страниц: 348 Размер: 13,4 МБ Язык: Английский
In Inglorious, Illegal Bastards, Aaron Herald Skabelund examines how the Self-Defense Force (SDF)—the post–World War II Japanese military—and specifically the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF), struggled for legitimacy in a society at best indifferent to them and often hostile to their very existence.
Название: The Victoria Crosses of the Crimean War: The Men Behind the Medals Автор: James W Bancroft Издательство: Frontline Books Год: 2017 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 248 Размер: 5,0 МБ Язык: Английский
The Crimean War saw the introduction of the Victoria Cross, which was awarded to 111 men. Whilst the history of the Crimean War has been related many times, never before have the stories of those individuals who were awarded the VC been told.
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