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.

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.