Название: Admiral Collingwood: Nelson's Own Hero
Автор: Max Adams
Издательство: Head of Zeus
Год: 2005
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 320
Размер: 13,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

From the day he went to sea as a 13-year-old boy to his death (at sea) aged 62, Admiral Collingwood—a great friend of Nelson—kept a diary. His diaries, letters, and recently discovered log books enable us to hear his story in his own words.

Название: The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War
Автор: Brandon Friedman
Издательство: Zenith Press
ISBN: 0760331502
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 2,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Growing up in the shadows of the giant B-52 Stratofortresses that thundered away from the nearby Barksdale Air Force Base, Brandon Friedman dreamed of becoming a warrior and defending his country. But dreams of heroism and the realities of war can look very different, and when Brandon joined the army as a second lieutenant in peacetime, he had no way of knowing how his world was about to change.

Название: A History of the British Merchant Navy: Omnibus edition
Автор: Richard Woodman
Издательство: Sharpe Books
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 3232
Размер: 26,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

By the 19th century, Great Britain truly ruled the waves. But where did the journey to dominance began? Starting in 1500, the narrative begins with emergence of the Tudor navy during the Elizabethan period when England defied the might of the Spanish Empire on the world stage.

Название: The Complete Book of U.S. Naval Power
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Publications International, Ltd.
Год: 1991
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 326
Размер: 33,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

A detailed history of U.S. Naval Power, including Surface Fleet, Submarines, Aircraft and Helicopters.

Название: Sherman and the Burning of Columbia
Автор: Marion B. Lucas
Издательство: University of South Carolina Press
Год: PDF
Формат: 2000
Страниц: 192
Размер: 8,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

In this edition of his widely acclaimed study, Marion B. Lucas tackles one of the most debated questions about the Civil War: Who burned South Carolina's capital city on February 17, 1865? Before the fires had finished smoldering, Confederates and Federals accused each other of starting the blaze, igniting a controversy that has raged for more than a century.

Название: Into Touch: Rugby Internationals Killed in the Great War
Автор: Nigel McCrery
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1781590877
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 29,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Among the million plus British and Empire soldiers that fell in the slaughter of The Great War were an elite band of International Rugby players. Tragically, over 130 ‘caps’ from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa – and France - lost their lives on land, in the air and at sea.

Название: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War - South Devon in the Great War
Автор: Tony Rea
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473834252
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 144
Размер: 8,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

South Devon in the Great War provides the first definitive history of events in this part of Devon during the First World War, with more than fifty pictures, some unpublished for 100 years. The author's succinct and engaging text is further enhanced by a unique set of then and now photographs, and provides readers with an incomparable pictorial overview of events on the Home Front.

Название: Kampania ukrainska 1920 roku
Автор: Wyszczelski L.
Издательство: Neriton
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 374
Размер: 79.36 MB
Язык: польский

Wojna polsko-rosyjska lat 1919 - 1920 byla nie tylko najwiekszym polskim starciem militarnym w okresie walk o granice prowadzonych w latach 1918-1921. Miala takze wymiar szerszy, co najmniej europejski. Kleska bolszewikow w tej wojnie praktycznie na wiele lat powstrzymala realizacje ich strategii politycznej i militarnej - eksportu rewolucji na zachod Europy. Tym samym Polska, wla?ciwie osamotniona, z nieledwie symboliczn? pomoc? mocarstw zachodnich, wniosla wklad w powojenny rozwoj kontynentu.

Название: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War - Maidstone in the Great War
Автор: Stephen Wynn
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473827914
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 216
Размер: 2,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Maidstone in the Great War tells the remarkable story of this Kent county town's immense contribution to the Great War effort from the outbreak of war in 1914, to the long-awaited Allied victory in 1918.

Название: Germans against Germans: The Fate of the Jews, 1938-1945
Автор: Moshe Zimmermann
Издательство: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253062292
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 261
Размер: 2,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Among the many narratives about the atrocities committed against Jews in the Holocaust, the story about the Jews who lived in the eye of the storm—the German Jews—has received little attention. Germans against Germans: The Fate of the Jews, 1938–1945, tells this story—how Germans declared war against other Germans, that is, against German Jews.