Название: Story of Sheffield at War 1939 to 1945
Автор: Margaret Drinkall
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473833612
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 204
Размер: 14,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

This is a unique account of the impact that the Second World War had on the city of Sheffield. Soon after the declaration of war, the government and the people of Sheffield realised that the Germans would make the city one of their prime targets, due to the importance of the steel industry.

Название: Cromwell in Ireland: A History of Cromwell’s Irish Campaign
Автор: Rev. Denis Murphy
Издательство: Borodino Books
ISBN: 1361656751
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 270
Размер: 16,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible.

Название: Reckless Fellows: The Gentlemen of the Royal Flying Corps
Автор: Edward Bujak
Издательство: I.B. Tauris
ISBN: 1784534420
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 224
Размер: 14,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Royal Flying Corps, later the Royal Air Force, was formed in 1912 and went to war in 1914 where it played a vital role in reconnaissance, supporting the British Expeditionary Force as 'air cavalry' and also in combat, establishing air superiority over the Imperial German Air Force. Edward Bujak here combines the history of the air war, including details of strategy, tactics, technical issues and combat, with a social and cultural history.

Название: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War - Leeds in the Great War
Автор: Stephen Wade
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473861543
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 109
Размер: 6,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 1914, when the call came for Kitchener's new army to be recruited, Leeds was at the heart of the West Riding conurbation, where many men joined the Pals' Battalions. However, the city was to participate in the war effort in so many other ways.

Название: Russia's Second Revolution: The February 1917 Uprising in Petrograd
Автор: E.N. Burdzhalov
Издательство: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253350379
Год: 1987
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 432
Размер: 13,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Capturing the drama and human side of the revolution, Burdzhalov’s comprehensive and meticulously researched history of the social and political course of the February 1917 uprising in Petrograd challenged Stalinist orthodoxy in Soviet historical scholarship when it was published in Moscow in 1967, and Western historians have since characterized this as a landmark book.

Название: Оружие древнего Востока (IV тысячелетие - IV в.до н.э.)
Автор: Горелик М.В.
Издательство: М.: Восточная литература
Год: 1993
Cтраниц: 323
Формат: pdf
Размер: 25 мб

В книге впервые исследуется история наступательного и оборонительного вооружения у народов древнего Востока - от Египта до Китая, включая и степные регионы Евразии, на протяжении почти трех тысячелетий (IV тысячелетие - IV век до н.э.). Исследование основано на археологическом и изобразительном материале, привлечены письменные источники и этнографические параллели.

Название: War in the Air: Fighting Planes and Pilots in Action
Автор: John Byrnes Walker
Издательство: Random House
Год: 1941
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 80
Размер: 65,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

War in the Air: Fighting Planes and Pilots in Action

Название: The Knights Hospitaller: A Military History of the Knights of St John
Автор: John Carr
Издательство: Pen and Swor
ISBN: 1473858887
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 240
Размер: 15,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Knights of St John evolved during the Crusades from a monastic order providing hostels for Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. The need to provide armed escorts to the pilgrims began their transformation into a Military Order.

Название: Wars of the Cold War
Автор: David Stone
Издательство: Brasseys Uk Ltd
ISBN: 1857533429
Год: 2004
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 376
Размер: 16,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The 'Cold War' was a period of specific international tension during which, although no anticipated 'Third World War' took place, saw many wars, conflicts and armed disputes around the world, often but not always sponsored, overtly or covertly, by the rival poles of Communist Russia and capitalist America.

Название: The USS Tecumseh in Mobile Bay: The Sinking of a Civil War Ironclad (Civil War Series)
Автор: David Smithweck
Издательство: The History Press
ISBN: 154025013X
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 162
Размер: 14,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

In April 1861, Lincoln declared a blockade on Southern ports. It was only a matter of time before the Union navy would pay a visit to the bustling Confederate harbor in Mobile Bay. Engineers built elaborate obstructions and batteries, and three rows of torpedoes were laid from Fort Morgan to Fort Gaines. Then, in August 1864, the inevitable came.