Название: The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina
Автор: Philip Gerard
Издательство: The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 146964956X
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 376
Размер: 15,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War--a personal war waged by Confederates and Unionists, free blacks and the enslaved, farm women and plantation belles, Cherokees and mountaineers, conscripts and volunteers, gentleman officers and poor privates. In the state's complex loyalties, its sprawling and diverse geography, and its dual role as a home front and a battlefield, North Carolina embodies the essence of the whole epic struggle in all its terrible glory.

Название: D-Day Dakotas: 6th June 1944
Автор: Martin W Bowman
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526746158
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 352
Размер: 7,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

On 18 December 1935 when the first flight of the Douglas DC-3 took place, few could have imagined that it would become one of the world’s most celebrated aircraft of all time, not just as a commercial airliner but also as the C-47 military transport. When production ceased in the summer of 1945, a total of 10,926 had been built.

Название: Thunder Gods: The Kamikaze Pilots Tell Their Story
Автор: Hatsuho Naitao
Издательство: Kodansha International
Год: 1989
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 224
Размер: 29,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Thunder Gods is a definitive, absorbing, comprehensive, fascinating tale that breaks new ground. The best account of the kamikaze yet, It Illustrates planning, weapon, and organization of this specific suicide unit, and depicts pilots as humans, not desperates strapped to bombs.

Название: The Role of the Bomber
Автор: Ronald W Clarke
Издательство: Thomas Y. Crowell Company
Год: 1977
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 168
Размер: 16,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Lavishly illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, The Role of the Bomber describes the changing strategic and tactical operations of the bomber from the days of ballooning to the present Within half a century of the Wright brothers' pioneering flight at Kittyhawk in 1903, the manned bomber grew from a military curiosity to become an apocalyptic threat looming over whole nations.

Название: Warships in Action
Автор: Al Adcock, T. Garth Connelly, D Doyle, и другие
Издательство: Squadron/Signal Publications inc.
Год: 1977-2010
Формат: pdf формат в zip-архиве
Размер: 903,5 mb
Язык: Английский


«Aircraft Mini in Action». Книги американского издательства «Squadron/Signal Publications inc.» из серии «... in Action» всегда пользуются у читателей, интересующихся военной техникой повышенным спросом и популярностью. Они содержат описание истории создания и применения знаменитых боевых машин (авто- броне-, авиатехники и кораблей) разных стран мира. Приведены, их технические характеристики, описание созданных модификаций и содержат исторические цветные и черно-белые фотографии, иллюстрации, схемы и чертежи конкретной описываемой техники, которой посвящен выпуск. В настоящее время, издательство «Squadron/Signal Publications inc.» к сожалению, прекратило свои публикации с января 2021 года.

Название: The Naval Academy Illustrated History of the United States Navy
Автор: E. B. Potter
Издательство: Thomas Y. Crowell Company
Год: 1971
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 328
Размер: 48,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

A comprehensive single volume history of the United States Navy from American Revolution to the Nuclear Age.

Название: The Red Knight of Germany: The Story of Baron von Richthofen
Автор: Floyd Phillips Gibbons
Издательство: Bantam Books
Год: 1959
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 228
Размер: 18,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

This well written book presents the thrilling story of Manfred von Richthofen, Germany s legendary "Red Baron" ace flyer of the First World War. Here is the classic, unforgettable account of the handsome, dashing fighter pilot who led the "Flying Circus" to one spectacular air victory after another.

Название: Savage Will: The Daring Escape of Americans Trapped Behind Nazi Lines
Автор: Timothy M. Gay
Издательство: Dutton Caliber
ISBN: 0451419146
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 352
Размер: 11,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the tradition of incredible true stories from The Great Escape to Argo, Savage Will recounts a tale of survival, daring, and evasion behind enemy lines: that of American medics and nurses stranded for two months in Nazi-occupied Albania.

Название: Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse
Автор: Jay Rubenstein
Издательство: Basic Books
Год: 2011
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 424
Размер: 5,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

At Moson, the river Danube ran red with blood. At Antioch, the Crusaders - their saddles freshly decorated with sawed-off heads -- indiscriminately clogged the streets with the bodies of eastern Christians and Turks. At Ma'arra, they cooked children on spits and ate them.

Название: The Kaiser's Lost Kreuzer: A History of U-156 and Germany's Long-Range Submarine Campaign Against North America, 1918
Автор: Paul N. Hodos
Издательство: McFarland & Company
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 229
Размер: 4,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the final year of World War I, Germany made its first attempt to wage submarine warfare off faraway shores. Large, long-range U-boats (short for unterseeboot or "undersea boat") attacked Allied shipping off the coasts of the U.S., Canada and West Africa in a desperate campaign to sidestep and scatter the lethal U-boat defenses in European waters.