Название: To War with a 4th Hussar: Fighting in Greece, North Africa and The Balkans
Автор: Peter Crichton
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526755106
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 240
Размер: 12,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Peter Crichton seized the outbreak of the Second World War to escape his journalistic job in London. Ever adventurous and somewhat impetuous he quickly transferred regiments to the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars who were destined for North Africa.

Название: Секретные операции люфтваффе. От Гренландии до Ирака. 1939–1945
Автор: Дмитрий Дёгтев
Издательство: Центрполиграф
Год: 2015
Серия: Сражения в воздухе: Военная авиация XX века
ISBN: 978-5-227-06280-2
Страниц: 228
Формат: fb2, mobi, epub
Размер: 10,7 Mb
Язык: Русский

Данная книга посвящена деятельности специальных и секретных подразделений люфтваффе, занимавшихся заброской шпионов и диверсантов в глубокий тыл противника и другими особыми миссиями. Об операциях и задачах этих подразделений знал лишь ограниченный круг лиц, строгие меры секретности соблюдались даже внутри эскадрилий.

Название: A Road Trip Through American History: Volume I: Native Americans and Revolutionary Times
Автор: James T Parks
Издательство: European Creative Communication Inc
ISBN: 1513660160
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 66
Размер: 13,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book is the first volume of a collection of RoadRUNNER travelogues written by James T. Parks, which focus on locations and routes steeped in American history.

Название: Western Front 1914-1916: Mons, La Cataeu, Loos, the Battle of the Somme
Автор: John Grehan, Martin Mace
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 224
Размер: 14,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914, to the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the fighting on the Western Front in France and Flanders never stopped. There were quiet periods, just as there were the most intense, savage, huge-scale battles.

Название: Your Towns and Cities in World War Two - Southampton at War, 1939-45
Автор: John J. Eddleston
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473870542
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 136
Размер: 6,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the Great War of 1914-1918, Southampton played a vital role in the war effort. Designated as Port Number One it saw hundreds of thousands of men and many tons of equipment sail for the fields of Belgium and France.

Название: Images of War - The Americans on D-Day & in Normandy: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Автор: Brooke S. Blades
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1526743965
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 176
Размер: 23,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The experiences and achievements of the United States land sea and air forces on 6 June 1944 and the weeks following have been deservedly well chronicled. Omaha Beach saw the fiercest fighting of the whole OVERLORD invasion and the opposition faced in the US sector shocked commanders and men at all levels.

Название: Hitler's Mistakes: New Insights Into What Made Hitler Tick
Автор: Ronald Lewin
Издательство: Quill
Год: 1987
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 184
Размер: 25,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

This thought-provoking book is the last work of Ronald Lewin, one of England's most distinguished military historians. Lewin was fascinated with the complexities of Hitler's character and what made the Nazi leader tick. What were Hitler's shortcomings as a political leader, as a military commander, and as a man? In this book Lewin displays a sure grasp of the complicated makeup of one of the greatest evil geniuses of our time. Based on an impressive and wide-ranging study of many sources unfamiliar to the general reader, Hitler's Mistakes is an eminently readable and important work of history.

Название: Leeds Rifles: The Prince of Wales's Own
Автор: Andrew J Kirk
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526711486
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 376
Размер: 13,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Leeds Rifles is a detailed chronicle of the four Battalions of Riflemen who left Leeds for the Western Front. In 1914, just as now, they were more numerous and less fashionable than the City Battalion, The Pals and their full war time story has never been told. This volume describes their volunteer origins and how they came to be woven into the social fabric of Leeds from where they drew their enduring esprit de corps, discipline and resolve.

Название: Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them
Автор: John Bainbridge Jr.
Издательство: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250266866
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 352
Размер: 16,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

John Bainbridge, Jr.'s Gun Barons is a narrative history of six charismatic and idiosyncratic men who changed the course of American history through the invention and refinement of repeating weapons. Love them or hate them, guns are woven deeply into the American soul. Names like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington are legendary.

Название: The Hangman and His Wife: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich
Автор: Nancy Dougherty
Издательство: Knopf
ISBN: 0394543416
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 656
Размер: 37,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

An astonishing journey into the heart of Nazi evil: a portrait of one of the darkest figures of Hitler’s Nazi elite—Reinhard Heydrich, the designer and executor of the Holocaust, chief of the Reich Main Security, including the Gestapo—interwoven with commentary by his wife, Lina, from the author's in-depth interviews.