Название: Target Rommel: The Allied Attempts to Assassinate Hitler's General Автор: Stephen Wynn Издательство: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1399007122 Год: 2022 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 128 Размер: 4,4 МБ Язык: Английский
From a German perspective, the highly decorated and well respected General Erwin Rommel was one of their biggest and brightest assets: a military strategist who thought ‘outside of the box’, a tactic which more than once either brought him an unexpected victory, or saved him from almost certain defeat. His reputation had been gained early in the Second World War, whilst commander of the 7th Panzer Division during the invasion of France, and as the commander of German forces during the North African campaign between 1941 and 1943.
Название: Night of the Intruders: The Slaughter of Homeward Bound USAAF Mission 311 Автор: Ian McLachlan Издательство: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1848842945 Год: 2010 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 240 Размер: 24,7 МБ Язык: Английский
This WWII history recounts the harrowing Allied bombing mission that led to heavy losses for American pilots as German fighters followed them home. On April 22nd, 1944, Allied forces launched an audacious assault on Germany's largest railway marshalling yards, located in the city of Hamm.
Название: The Lost Samurai School: Secrets of Mubyoshi Ryu Автор: Antony Cummins, Mieko Koizumi Издательство: Blue Snake Books ISBN: 1623170882 Год: 1016 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 111 Размер: 44,7 МБ Язык: Английский
This stunning English translation of a medieval Japanese text is an illustrated martial arts manual and a historical account of the teachings of a samurai grandmaster. Available for the first time in English, this book explores the essential practices of the samurai school known as Mubyoshi Ryu.
Название: Crimson Waters: True Tales of Adventure. Looting, Kidnapping, Torture, and Piracy on the High Seas Автор: Don Mann, Kraig Becker Издательство: Skyhorse Год: 2022 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 296 Размер: 17,7 МБ Язык: Английский
A New York Times bestsellling author separates history from myth from the Pharaohs to Blackbeard and Captain Kidd to today. Soon after the first maritime trade routes became operational, seafaring bandits appeared to prey upon the cargo, crews, and ships of others.
Название: Images of War - Corregidor: Siege and Liberation, 1941-1945 Автор: John Grehan, Alexander Nicoll Издательство: Frontline Books (imprint of Pen & Sword) ISBN: 1526799758 Год: 2021 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 216 Размер: 81,2 МБ Язык: Английский
Singapore and Hong Kong had fallen to the forces of Imperial Japan, Thailand and Burma had been invaded and islands across the Pacific captured. But one place, one tiny island fortress garrisoned by a few thousand hungry and exhausted men, refused to be beaten.
Название: Images of Aviation - The Berlin Airlift: The World's Largest Ever Air Supply Operation Автор: John Grehan Издательство: Air World (imprint of Pen & Sword ) ISBN: 1526758261 Год: 2019 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 192 Размер: 28,0 МБ Язык: Английский
During the multinational occupation of post-World War II Germany, Stalin decided to make the Allied hold on West Berlin untenable by shutting down all the overland routes used to keep the city supplied. The choice faced by the Allies was a stark one—let Berlin fall, or risk war with the Soviets by breaking the Soviet stranglehold.
Название: The Road to Yorktown: The French Campaigns in the American Revolution, 1780-1783 Автор: Norman Desmarais Издательство: Savas Beatie Год: 2021 Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv) Страниц: 312 Размер: 11,6 МБ Язык: Английский
The fate of the American Revolution had yet to be decided when a remarkable 21-year-old Frenchman arrived in America. Louis-François-Bertrand, the Count of Lauberdière, belonged to an old noble family that traced its heritage back to the Crusades. His father, François-Charles-Mathieu, was musketeer of the guard of King Louis XV. More important, his uncle was General Rochambeau, the commander of all French forces in America.
Название: The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power: France’s Quest for an Independent Naval Policy 1940–1963 Автор: Hugues Canuel Издательство: Naval Institute Press Год: 2021 Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv) Страниц: 368 Размер: 12,0 МБ Язык: Английский
The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power explores the renewal of French naval power from the fall of France in 1940 through the first two decades of the Cold War. The Marine national continued fighting after the Armistice, a service divided against itself.
Название: Secret Weapons of World War II Автор: Gerald Pawle Издательство: Ballantine Books Год: 1967 Формат: PDF Страниц: 380 Размер: 67,5 МБ Язык: Английский
This is a well-written compendium of the scientists and the many weapons and other items developed by Britain's 'Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapon Development' during World War Two. The group, sometimes called the 'Wheezers and Dodgers,' were key players in inventing weapons such as the Hedgehog mortar for use against German submarines, the Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun, the bizarre Panjandrum intended to destroy beach defenses, various types of rockets, and the Holman Projector, a compressed-air grenade launcher.
Название: Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes Автор: Christopher Hibbert Издательство: W.W. Norton & Company Год: 1990 Формат: PDF Страниц: 424 Размер: 63,8 МБ Язык: Английский
The story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British generals and their rigidly disciplined red-coated troops on the one side and heroic American patriots in their homespun shirts and coonskin caps on the other. In this fresh, compelling narrative, Christopher Hibbert portrays the realities of a war that raged the length of an entire continent—a war that thousands of George Washington's fellow countrymen condemned and that he came close to losing.
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