Название: A History of War and Weapons, 1660 to 1918
Автор: G. A. Shepperd
Издательство: Thomas Y. Crowell Company
Год: 1972
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 232
Размер: 19,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Featuring 170 exceptionally handsome and authentically detailed line drawings, this book focuses on the ordinary soldier in the ranks and the weapons he has used through the centuries. The author shows how new inventions in weaponry have influenced the tactics of their day and helped to determine the course of world history. Alongside descriptions of weapons of all kinds, from bayonet, saber, and musket to machine gun, tank, and Zeppelin, are accounts of great commanders, how they trained their Loops, and the key battles they fought.

Название: Wings Over the Seven Seas: U.S. Naval Aviation's Fight for Survival
Автор: Wilbur H. Morrison
Издательство: A. S. Barnes and Co.. Inc.
Год: 1975
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 274
Размер: 33,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The story of US naval aviation's fight for survival, from its origins to the modern times.

Название: Winged Warfare: The Exciting True Experiences of a Fighting Ace of World War I
Автор: Billy Bishop
Издательство: Ace Books
Год: 1967
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 260
Размер: 25,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Winged Warfare is the first of an authentic and exciting series of true air-combat classics, bringing back the great days of man-to-man aerial battles as told by the famous aces themselves. Credited with seventy-two victories, Canadian Ace William Bishop tells his own story of what it was like.

Название: Freely I Served: The Memoir of the Commander, 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade 1941 – 1944
Автор: Stanislaw Sosabowski
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783462612
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 208
Размер: 14,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

After seeing service with the Austrian Army in World War I, the author joined the newly created Polish Army in 1918. By September 1939 he was commanding 21st Infantry Regiment in the Battle of Warsaw against overwhelming German forces. Taken prisoner, he escaped to join the Polish Army in France before evacuating to England.

Название: General Gordon Granger: The Savior of Chickamauga and the Man Behind "Juneteenth"
Автор: Robert C Conner
Издательство: Casemate
ISBN: 1612001858
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 264
Размер: 14,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

This is the first full-length biography of the Civil War general who saved the Union army from catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga, and went on to play major roles in the Chattanooga and Mobile campaigns. Immediately after the war, as commander of U.S. troops in Texas, his actions sparked the “Juneteenth” celebrations of slavery’s end, which continue to this day.

Название: Gettysburg's Other Battle: The Ordeal of an American Shrine during the First World War
Автор: Mark A. Snell
Издательство: The Kent State University Press
ISBN: 1606353314
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 320
Размер: 14,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Gettysburg is known as the second bloodiest battle of the 19th century and as the site of Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 speech that gave new meaning to America’s Civil War. By the turn of the next century, the battlefield was enshrined as a national park under the jurisdiction of the War Department.

Название: Special Operations in WWII: The SOE and OSS (Casemate Short History)
Автор: James Stejskal
Издательство: Casemate
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 157
Размер: 13,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

A brief history of secret British and American World War II organizations, their training, tools, successes, and their legacy.
Winston Churchill famously instructed the head of the Special Operations Executive to “Set Europe ablaze!” Agents of both the British Special Operations Executive and the American Office of Strategic Services underwent rigorous training before making their way, undetected, into occupied Europe to do just that.

Название: Последние сто дней рейха
Автор: Толанд Джон
Цикл/серия: Мир в войнах
Издательство: Русич
Год выпуска: 2001
ISBN: 5-8138-0340-8
Страниц: 427
Формат: fb2, mobi, epub
Размер: 12,3 Mb
Язык: Русский

В истории человечества едва ли найдутся дни более драматичные и более насыщенные событиями чем те сто дней, которые предшествовали капитуляции гитлеровского рейха. Автор дает широкую панораму событий последней военной весны: Ялтинская конференция и наступление союзников на Рейне, бомбардировка Дрездена и падение Берлина изображены с хронологической точностью.

Название: War in the Persian Gulf Biographies: From Operation Desert Storm to Operation Iraqi Freedom
Автор: Laurie Collier Hillstrom
Издательство: UXL
ISBN: 0787665649
Год: 2004
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 320
Размер: 14,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

War in the Persian Gulf Biographies: From Operation Desert Storm to Operation Iraqi Freedom presents profiles of thirty men and women who participated in or were affected by the U.S.-led wars against Iraq that took place in 1991 and 2003.

Название: War in the Persian Gulf Reference Library: From Operation Desert Storm to Operation Iraqi Freedom
Автор: Julie L. Carnagie
Издательство: UXL
ISBN: 0787665630
Год: 2004
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 200
Размер: 24,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

War in the Persian Gulf Almanac: From Operation Desert Storm to Operation Iraqi Freedom presents a comprehensive overview of the U.S.-led wars against Iraq that took place in 1991 and 2003. The volume's twelve chapters are arranged chronologically and cover all aspects of the conflict.