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.

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: 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.