Название: Japan's Secret Weapon: The Kata Factor Автор: Boye De Mente Издательство: Phoenix Books Год: 1990 Формат: PDF Страниц: 200 Размер: 28,3 МБ Язык: Английский
Kata [kah-tah], which translates as “form, process, way of doing things,” is the Rosetta stone of Japan’s traditional culture – the key that unlocked both the mystery and the mystique associated with how the Japanese did business and conducted their personal and professional affairs. Expressed another way, kata were the cultural molds that created and controlled the traditional behavior of the Japanese and were the source of both their strengths and weaknesses.
Название: Hitler's Undercover War: The Nazi Espionage Invasion of the U.S.A. Автор: William B. Breuer Издательство: St. Martin's Press Год: 1989 Формат: PDF Страниц: 408 Размер: 57,6 МБ Язык: Английский
Soon after Hitler came to power in 1933, his secret service chief, Wilhelm Canaris, launched a large number of undercover agents across the Atlantic. As the author points out, the U.S. in the 1930s was a spy's paradise, a booming industrial giant with hardly any security safeguards in place.
Название: Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact Автор: John Cornwell Издательство: Viking Год: 2003 Формат: PDF Страниц: 584 Размер: 70,4 МБ Язык: Английский
Nazi Germany had a head start in the science and technologies that dramatically transformed armed conflict in the twentieth century, leading to ultimate weapons of mass destruction, and the means of delivering them, ballistic missiles. John Cornwell's powerful history tells the story of Germany's scientists, from Hitler's rise to power in 1933 to his fall in 1945. He describes the behaviour of researchers in the huge span of scientific disciplines in which Germany excelled and led the world. Some were Nazi enthusiasts, many more were fellow travellers.
Название: All About History: Book of the American Revolution - 4th Edition, 2022 Автор: Коллектив Издательство: Future Год: 2022 Формат: PDF Страниц: 164 Размер: 44,0 МБ Язык: Английский
As tensions grew between the residents of Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the colonial government representing the British crown, the revolution turned into a full-scale war with independence hanging in the balance. Over the following pages, you will discover the key figures who played major roles in the war, from George Washington to King George III of England, the defining battles of Lexington, Concord and Saratoga, where the lives of many were lost, and how America finally won its freedom from the greatest military force of its time.
Название: American Outlaws (All About History) Издательство: Future Publishing Limited Год: 2022 Формат: True PDF Страниц: 148 Размер: 65,9 Mb Язык: English
American Outlaws (All About History) Have you ever wondered how Bonnie met Clyde? How the Mob came to rule the east coast? Or how some of the most notorious criminals escaped Alcatraz? The All About History Book of American Outlaws has the answers.
Название: Germans Against Hitler: The Stauffenberg Plot and Resistance Under the Third Reich Автор: Hans Mommsen Издательство: I.B. Tauris Год: 2008 Формат: PDF Страниц: 328 Размер: 2,6 МБ Язык: Английский
Those Germans, such as Count Claus von Stauffenberg, who fought the Third Reich from within have often been mythologised as heroes in the fight against tyranny but the truth is far more complex. This seminal book traces the history of the German resistance from the ascent of the Nazi party to the July 1944 attempted assassination of Hitler. Informed by more than four decades of research and written by the premier historian of the German Resistance, "Germans Against Hitler" offers the most authoritative history of the tens of thousands of Germans who tried to resist Nazism.
Название: Germans Against Hitler Автор: Terence Prittie Издательство: Little, Brown & Company Год: 1964 Формат: PDF Страниц: 312 Размер: 36,8 МБ Язык: Английский
Prittie observed the responses of ordinary citizens to Hitler and the Nazis. His coverage of the Protestant and Catholic resisters is especially interesting in view of the on-going accusations that are made to the effect that Christians did nothing. He presents some stirring stories of courage and integrity-of-faith.
Название: Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe Автор: Stephen E. Ambrose Издательство: W. W. Norton & Company Год: 1967 Формат: PDF Страниц: 134 Размер: 16,9 МБ Язык: Английский
In the final months of World War II, with the Allied forces streaming into Germany on two fronts, a major decision had to be made; where to draw a stop line to prevent an accidental clash between the Russian and the Anglo-American armies. Behind this decision lay another.
Название: African Americans in the Civil War (Untold History of the Civil War) Автор: Victor Brooks Издательство: Chelsea House Publishers Год: 2000 Формат: PDF Страниц: 72 Размер: 20,1 МБ Язык: Английский
Black soldiers' combat experiences fighting in the Union and Confederate Armies were at times vastly different from those of their white counterparts.
Название: SBS: The Inside Story of the Special Boat Service Автор: John Parker Издательство: Headline Book Publishing Год: 1997 Формат: PDF Страниц: 360 Размер: 30,5 МБ Язык: Английский
Parker was granted unprecedented help by the SBS for this account of the most secret of Britain's armed services which concentrates on the personalities and their heroic actions.
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