Название: The Underground Railroad and the Civil War (Untold History of the Civil War)
Автор: Albert A. Nofi
Издательство: Chelsea House Publishers
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 72
Размер: 21,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Describes the loosely organized networks of people, both free and slave, who helped fugitives from the South escape slavery to freedom in the North or in Canada.

Название: Images of War - Himmler: Hitler's Henchman: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Автор: Ian Baxter
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 139909663X
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 128
Размер: 99,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Heinrich Himmler has a strong claim to be Adolf Hitler's most powerful subordinate. He was certainly the main architect of the Holocaust. Appointed Reichsfuhrer-SS in 1929 he built the SS into a million strong paramilitary force and took control of the Nazi concentration camps system. From 1943 he became Chief of German Police and Minister of the Interior with command of the Gestapo as well as the Einsatzgruppen, who committed appalling atrocities and murder in occupied Eastern Europe and Russia.

Название: О военной доктрине и Русской Армии
Автор: Квачков В.
Издательство: Народный протест
Год: 2007
Cтраниц: 114
Формат: pdf
Размер: 11 мб
Язык: русский

Имя Владимира Квачкова известно сегодня всей России. Командира легендарной 15-й отдельной бригады спецназа ГРУ, прошедшего Афганистан, Таджикистан, Чечню, упрятали за решетку, обвинив его в покушении на А. Чубайса. Полковника Квачкова арестовали накануне защиты докторской работы по теории специальных операций Вооруженных сил РФ в современных условиях.

Название: Johnnie Johnson's Great Adventure: The Spitfire Ace of Ace's Last Look Back
Автор: Dilip Sarkar MBE
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526799103
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 288
Размер: 12,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

The World War II fighter Ace's previously unpublished draft—an account of the "Long Trek" from Normandy into the heart of the Third Reich itself. Having published two of his own books, Wing Leader and The Circle of Air Fighting, Air Vice-Marshal Johnnie Johnson co-authored several more with another fighter ace, namely Wing Commander P.B. "Laddie" Lucas. In 1997, the "AVM" suggested to his friend, the prolific author Dilip Sarkar, that the pair should collaborate on The Great Adventure.

Название: Tsushima: Great Battles Series
Автор: Rotem Kowner
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: ‎0198831072
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF, EPUB
Страниц: 328
Размер: 10,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Battle of Tsushima was the most decisive naval engagement in the century that elapsed since the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Although these two battles are often compared, the Battle of Tsushima, in which the Japanese Imperial Navy defeated the Russian Imperial Navy, was also unprecedented in many ways.

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.