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: Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier
Автор: R. Conrad Stein
Издательство: Children's Press
Год: 1997
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 40
Размер: 16,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Relates how the young pilot distinguished himself in World War II and subsequently became the first person to break the sonic barrier.

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.

Название: Secret Weapons in the Civil War (Untold History of the Civil War)
Автор: Victor Brooks
Издательство: Chelsea House Publishers
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 72
Размер: 27,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Describes some of the new weapons and devices which both Confederates and Yankees produced during the Civil War making it the first truly "modern" war in history.

Название: Modern Military Helicopters
Автор: Paul Beaver
Издательство: Patrick Stephens
Год: 1987
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 168
Размер: 91,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The book covers the most of the modern military helicopters with illustrations and technical specifications.