Название: Secret Flotillas: Vol. 2: Clandestine Sea Operations in the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Adriatic 1940-1944 Автор: Brooks Richards Издательство: Frank Cass Год: 2004 Формат: PDF Страниц: 485 Размер: 11,7 МБ Язык: Английский
This authoritative publication by the official historian, the late Sir Brooks Richards, vividly describes and analyses the clandestine naval operations that took place during World War II. The account has been made possible through Sir Brooks' access to closed government archives, combined with his own wartime experiences and the recollections of many of those involved.
Название: Flights of Discovery: 50 Years at the Nasa Dryden Flight Research Center Автор: Lane E. Wallace Издательство: National Aeronautics & Space Administration Год: 1996 Формат: PDF Страниц: 214 Размер: 85,8 МБ Язык: Английский
This book chronicles the very inception of the Dryden Flight Research Center and the Flights of the Discovery with a glimpse toward the future. This book examines the aircraft, people and the center operation to give you a complete picture of the importance of this center.
Название: The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 2 Автор: Carl von Clausewitz Издательство: University Press of Kansas ISBN: 0700630341 Год: 2021 Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv) Страниц: 334 Размер: 12,3 МБ Язык: Английский
Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) is best known for his masterpiece of military theory On War, yet that work formed only the first three of his ten-volume published writings. The others, historical analyses of the wars that roiled Europe from 1789 through 1815, informed and shaped Clausewitz’s military thought, so they offer invaluable insight into his dialectical, often difficult theoretical masterwork.
Название: Father Browne's First World War Автор: E E O'Donnell Издательство: Messenger Publications ISBN: 1910248029 Год: 2014 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 128 Размер: 15,7 МБ Язык: Английский
Best known for his remarkable photographs, few people are aware of Francis Browne's astonishing war record. Joining the British Army as a Chaplain in 1916, he served for most of the war with the Irish Guards, ministering to the troops at the Somme, Messines Ridge, Paschendaele, Ypres, Amiens, and Arras. Determined to stay at the front with his men, he was wounded five times, starting with a broken jaw in 1916, and was gassed in 1918.
Название: The Hitler Assassination Attempts: The Plots, Places and People that Almost Changed History Автор: John Grehan Издательство: Frontline Books ISBN: 1399018906 Год: 2022 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 288 Размер: 16,6 МБ Язык: Английский
Throughout his political life, Adolf Hitler was the subject of numerous assassination plots, some of which were attempted, all of which failed. While a few of these have become well known, particularly the bomb explosions at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich in 1939 and the Stauffenberg Valkyrie attempt carried out at the Wolfsschanze on 20 July 1944, many others have received far less attention – until now.
Название: Surgeon with the Kaiser's Army Автор: Stephen Kurt Westmann Издательство: Pen & Sword ISBN: 1399020285 Год: 2014 Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv) Страниц: 168 Размер: 12,3 МБ Язык: Английский
The author, Stephen Kurt Westmann, gave up his medical studies at Freiburg University in 1914 to enlist in the German Army. He was soon involved in bloody hand-to-hand fighting against the French before moving to the Russian front.
Название: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War - Folkestone in the Great War Автор: Stephen Wynn Издательство: Pen & Sword ISBN: 1473827922 Год: 2017 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 144 Размер: 5,9 МБ Язык: Английский
Folkestone became one of the most important British towns during the First World War. Through its harbor, an estimated 10 million troops and nurses either departed from or arrived back in England between 1914 and 1919.
Название: The Last of the 357th Infantry: Harold Frank's WWII Story of Faith and Courage Автор: Mark Hager Издательство: Regnery History ISBN: 168451245X Год: 2022 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 324 Размер: 20,6 МБ Язык: Английский
For those who loved Stephen E. Ambrose's Band of Brothers and E.B. Sledge's With the Old Breed. Drawing on toughness and skills forged in hardscrabble Depression-era North Carolina, Bronze Star recipient and expert B.A.R. rifleman Harold Frank invades Normandy, fights Germans, and endures a grueling stint in a German POW camp where he witnesses the fire-bombing of Dresden.
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