Название: Operation Barbarossa: Strategy and Tactics on the Eastern Front, 1941 Автор: Bryan I. Fugate Издательство: Presidio Press Год: 1984 Формат: PDF Страниц: 464 Размер: 69,0 МБ Язык: Английский
This insightful book covered the initial year of the German invasion of Soviet Russia. The book is well written and the author was able to go beyond the basic assessment as he tries with certain success, what went wrong and what went right during the initial seven months of this campaign. The author made it clear that it took a lot more then bad weather, Hitler's interferences and over extension of German forces to cost Germany any chance for victory during this period.
Название: D-Day: Intelligence and Deception Автор: Jock Haswell Издательство: Times Books Год: 1980 Формат: PDF Страниц: 230 Размер: 29,8 МБ Язык: Английский
In D-Day: Intelligence and Deception, Jock Haswell provides a unique account of the intelligence work carried out on both sides of the English Channel during the period leading up to the D-Day landings. The book covers four main aspects of the story. The first, the operational aspect, concerns the problems of landing a huge invasion force on the beaches of a heavily-defended coast, by far the most difficult operation of war, and is discussed with reference to a selection of historical examples.
Название: Hitler's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall Автор: Jeremy Bernstein Издательство: Copernicus Books Год: 2001 Формат: PDF Страниц: 420 Размер: 38,5 МБ Язык: Английский
From April through December of 1945, ten of Nazi Germany's greatest nuclear physicists were detained by Allied military and intelligence services in a kind of gilded cage at Farm Hall, an English country manor near Cambridge. The physicists knew the Reich had failed to develop an atomic bomb, and they soon learned, from a BBC radio report on August 6, that the Allies had succeeded in their own efforts to create such a weapon.
Название: Victory at Sea: Flattops Автор: Cristopher Douglas Издательство: Rutledge Books Год: 1961 Формат: PDF Страниц: 68 Размер: 21,1 МБ Язык: Английский
Victory at Sea Flattops - How brave men in a new kind of ship wrote a new page in naval warfare. The story of the aircraft carrier in world war II told in words and pictures to remember, and based on the TV award-winning program.
Название: Great Sailing Ships Автор: Otmar Schaauffelen Издательство: Adlard Coles Год: 1969 Формат: PDF Страниц: 288 Размер: 44,7 МБ Язык: Английский
Great Sailing ships: An illustrated encyclopaedia of 150 existing barks, barkentines, brigs, brigantines, frigates, schooners and other large sailing vessels built since 1628.
Название: Crete 1941: The Battle and the Resistance Автор: Antony Beevor Издательство: Penguin Books ISBN: 0143126423 Год: 2014 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 432 Размер: 3,5 МБ Язык: Английский
Nazi Germany expected its airborne attack on Crete in 1941 to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. Little did they know that the British, using Ultra intercepts, had already laid a careful trap. It should have been the first German defeat of the war when a fatal misunderstanding turned the battle around.
Название: The Real History of Peaky Blinders (All About History) Издательство: Future Publishing Limited Год: 2022 Страниц: 134 Формат: True PDF Размер: 75 MB Язык: English
The Real History of Peaky Blinders (All About History)
Название: A Shot of History: Attack on Sydney Harbour Автор: Tom Lewis Издательство: Big Sky Publishing ISBN: 1922765384 Год: 2022 Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv) Страниц: 224 Размер: 14,5 МБ Язык: Английский
On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney Harbour was attacked by midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. An accommodation vessel of the Royal Australian Navy was torpedoed, and 21 sailors died. The midget submarines were hunted down, and two sunk.
Название: Churchill's Generals Автор: John Keegan Издательство: Grove Weidenfeld Год: 1991 Формат: PDF Страниц: 406 Размер: 65,1 МБ Язык: Английский
An authoritative look at the men who helped Churchill win World War II--a companion volume to Hitler's Generals. Beginning with an essay that examines Churchill's rise and strategic cast of thought, the book goes on to provide an intimate portrait of each general. Black-and-white photographs.