Название: Бомбометание
Автор: Кириллов В.И.
Издательство: М.: Военное издательство Министерства обороны СССР
Год: 1960
Cтраниц: 376
Формат: pdf
Размер: 36 мб
Язык: русский

В книге рассматриваются теоретические основы бомбометания и выполнение бомбометания с горизонтального и негоризонтального полета, даются элементарные сведения по теории вероятностей и основы оценки эффективности бомбометания. Книга рассчитана на летный состав всех родов авиации. Она может быть также полезной для курсантов военно-авиационных училищ ВВС и аэроклубов ДОСААФ.

Название: The Tunnels of Cu Chi: A Harrowing Account of America's Tunnel Rats in the Underground Battlefields of Vietnam
Автор: Tom Mangold
Издательство: Presidio Press
ISBN: 030436715X
Год: 2005
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 304
Размер: 10,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The story of an extraordinary campaign in the Vietnam War - fought in a 200-mile labyrinth of underground tunnels and chambers. The campaign in the tunnels of Cu Chi was fought with cunning and savagery between Viet Cong guerrillas and special teams of US infantrymen called 'Tunnel Rats'. The location: the 200-mile labyrinth of underground tunnels and secret chambers that the Viet Cong had dug around Saigon.

Название: Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life
Автор: Carlo D'Este
Издательство: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 0805056874
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 880
Размер: 146,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Born into hardscrabble poverty in rural Kansas, the son of stern pacifists, Dwight David Eisenhower graduated from high school more likely to teach history than to make it. Casting new light on this profound evolution, Eisenhower chronicles the unlikely, dramatic rise of the supreme Allied commander.

Название: The Handy Armed Forces Answer Book: Your Guide to the Whats and Whys of the U.S. Military
Автор: Richard Estep
Издательство: Visible Ink Press
ISBN: 1578597439
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 464
Размер: 53,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

The story of the United States military is the story of the country itself. Both have grown and changed over time. Learn about the unique histories, traditions, weapons, leaders, stats, and fun facts of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Air Force, and Space Force, and their roles within the military in this fun and fascinating guide!

Название: The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
Автор: David I. Kertzer
Издательство: Random House
ISBN: 0812989945
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 672
Размер: 45,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Based on newly opened Vatican archives, a groundbreaking, explosive, and riveting book about Pope Pius XII and his actions during World War II, including how he responded to the Holocaust, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Pope and Mussolini.

Название: Jane's Fighting Ships 1989-90
Автор: John E. Moore
Издательство: Jane's Information Group
Год: 1981
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 947
Размер: 137,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Jane's Fighting Ships sets the standard in ship reference, providing exhaustive technical detail on variety of ships currently being produced or under development.

Название: The Origins of the First World War
Автор: James Joll
Издательство: Longman Group
Год: 1984
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 244
Размер: 41,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The outbreak of the First World War has always presented a challenge to historians: they have sought to understand its causes in many different ways, from many different angles, and with very different results. The subject has a double fascination for the modern reader, therefore, since the debate throws light not only on the crisis of July-August 1914 itself, but also on the very nature of historical explanation and causality.

Название: Small Arms
Автор: Frederick Wilkinson
Издательство: Hawthorn Books
Год: 1965
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 266
Размер: 30,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Containing the complete history of small firearms; the techniques of the gunsmith; equipment used by combatants, sportsmen and hunters, Small Arms is the authoritative survey of one of the most fascinating aspects of the craft of weaponry. In addition, it traces the development of the match-lock, wheel-lock, flint-lock and percussion lock. The chapters on collectors and collecting, fakes and copies, repairs and restoration, and books and collections make Small Arms a collector's treasure of both practical information and sensible advice.

Название: The Rise of Persia and the First Greco-Persian Wars: The Expansion of the Achaemenid Empire and the Battle of Marathon
Автор: Manousos E Kambouris
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399093290
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 240
Размер: 36,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Manousos Kambouris revisits the epic events of the first Greco-Persian War and the Persian invasion of Greece. He gives excellent detail on the Persian perspective and sets the war in the context of the rise of Achaemenid Persia as the superpower of the day and the expansion of their empire into Europe.

Название: The Greatest Escape: A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure
Автор: Neil Churches
Издательство: Macmillan
ISBN: 1529060338
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 400
Размер: 13,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy. In August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place – 106 Allied prisoners were freed from Maribor camp, in present-day Slovenia.