Название: Titan II: A History of a Cold War Missile Program
Автор: David Stumpf
Издательство: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557286019
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 352
Размер: 13,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Titan II ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) program was developed by the United States military to bolster the size, strength, and speed of the nation’s strategic weapons arsenal in the 1950s and 1960s. Each missile carried a single warhead—the largest in U.S. inventory—used liquid fuel propellants, and was stored and launched from hardened underground silos.

Название: Sharpshooter in the Crimea: The Letters of the Captain Gerald Goodlake VC 1854-56
Автор: Michael Springman
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844152375
Год: 2005
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 256
Размер: 13,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The letters home to his family by Gerald Goodlake, a young officer in the Coldstream Guards, make remarkable reading. They vividly describe the ill-preparedness of the British Army and the dire conditions experienced by all ranks in the Crimea.

Название: A Muddy Trench: A Sniper's Bullet: Hamish Mann, Black Watch, Officer-Poet, 1896–1917
Автор: Jacquie Buttriss
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526745097
Год: 2019EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 240
Размер: 13,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The recent discovery of a wooden chest, unopened for 100 years revealed a treasure trove of eloquent trench diaries, letters and poetry. The author was Hamish Mann, a young Black Watch subaltern killed in France in 1917 just five days after his 21st birthday.

Название: Public Schools and The Great War
Автор: David Walsh, Sir Anthony Seldon, Anthony Seldon
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1781593086
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 336
Размер: 15,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The book examines the impact which the Great War had on the Public Schools and the sacrificial contribution made to the victory which came in 1918. The war consumed about a fifth of all the public schoolboys who fought, while the survivors were scarred by the loss of so many friends.

Название: Coming Down in the Drink
Автор: Sean Feast
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473891531
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 208
Размер: 13,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Coming Down in the Drink is the story of Flight Lieutenant John Brennan DFC. John is an Irishman who need not have fought in the war at all. A sense of adventure took him to London where he trained as a chef before joining the RAF and qualifying as a wireless operator/air gunner.

Название: Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station
Автор: Jeffrey Wm Hunt
Издательство: Savas Beatie
ISBN: 1611215390
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 324
Размер: 14,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Contrary to popular belief, the Eastern Theater during the late summer and fall of 1863 was anything but inconsequential. Generals George Meade and Robert E. Lee continued where they had left off, boldly maneuvering the chess pieces of war to gain a decisive strategic and tactical advantage.

Название: "Lee is Trapped, and Must be Taken": Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg: July 4 - 14, 1863
Автор: Thomas J. Ryan, Richard R. Schaus
Издательство: Savas Beatie
ISBN: 1611214599
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 384
Размер: 14,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Countless books have examined the battle of Gettysburg, but the retreat of the armies to the Potomac River and beyond has not been as thoroughly covered. “Lee is Trapped, and Must be Taken”: Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg: July 4 to July 14, 1863, by Thomas J. Ryan and Richard R. Schaus goes a long way toward rectifying this oversight.

Название: Your Towns and Cities of the Great War - Chichester in the Great War
Автор: John J. Eddleston
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1783463287
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 176
Размер: 6,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Tangmere Airfield had a prominent role in the Air War from 1916 onwards and many local men joined the Royal Sussex Regiment. This book looks at how the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German Kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Chichester were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years.

Название: American Airpower Strategy in World War II: Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil
Автор: Conrad C. Crane
Издательство: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700622098
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 288
Размер: 13,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Resistance is a product of will times means, Carl von Clausewitz postulated in his treatise On War. In his 1993 Bombs, Cities, and Civilians, which the American Historical Review judged “must reading for anyone interested in the subject of air warfare,” Conrad C. Crane focused on the moral dimension of American air strategy in World War II—specifically, the Allied effort to break the enemy’s will through targeting civilians.

Название: The Morenci Marines: A Tale of Small Town America and the Vietnam War (Modern War Studies)
Автор: Kyle Longley
Издательство: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700619348
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 360
Размер: 14,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 1966, nine young men left the Arizona desert mining camp of Morenci to serve their country in the far-flung jungles of Vietnam, in danger zones from Hue to Khe Sanh. Ultimately, only three survived. Each battled survivor’s guilt, difficult re-entries into civilian life, and traumas from personally experiencing war—and losing close friends along the way.