Название: The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler
Автор: Deborah Cadbury
Издательство: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1541751191
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 454
Размер: 26,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 1933, the same year Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger saved her small, progressive school from Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler’s hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils, so she hatched a courageous and daring plan: to smuggle her school to the safety of England.

Название: Defying Vichy: Blood, Fear and French Resistance
Автор: Robert Pike
Издательство: The History Press
ISBN: 0750985526
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 320
Размер: 18,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

July 1940 saw the collaborationist Vichy regime replace the French Republic after the country suffered heavily at the hands of the German onslaught during World War II. A small number of people sought to make a stand in whatever way they could, despite fear and mortal danger.

Название: Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan's Self-Defense Force during the Cold War
Автор: Aaron Skabelund
Издательство: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501764373
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 348
Размер: 13,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

In Inglorious, Illegal Bastards, Aaron Herald Skabelund examines how the Self-Defense Force (SDF)—the post–World War II Japanese military—and specifically the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF), struggled for legitimacy in a society at best indifferent to them and often hostile to their very existence.

Название: The Victoria Crosses of the Crimean War: The Men Behind the Medals
Автор: James W Bancroft
Издательство: Frontline Books
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 248
Размер: 5,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Crimean War saw the introduction of the Victoria Cross, which was awarded to 111 men. Whilst the history of the Crimean War has been related many times, never before have the stories of those individuals who were awarded the VC been told.

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.