Название: A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
Автор: Joshua Kurlantzick
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1451667868
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 336
Размер: 3,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The untold story of how America's secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy. In 1960, President Eisenhower was focused on Laos, a tiny Southeast Asian nation few Americans had ever heard of.

Название: Gustavus Adolphus, Sweden and the Thirty Years War, 1630–1632
Автор: Lars Ericson Wolke
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526749599
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 248
Размер: 11,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

As one of the foremost military commanders of the early seventeenth century Gustavus Adophus, king of Sweden, played a vital role in defending the Protestant cause during the Thirty Years War. In the space of two years – between 1630 and 1632 – he turned the course of the war, winning a decisive victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld and conquering large parts of Germany.

Название: Murderous Tommies
Автор: Mark Dunning, Julian Putkowski
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848846266
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 224
Размер: 18,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The British Army has always been reticent about publicizing courts martial and eighty years elapsed before the government was compelled to prematurely declassify the written proceedings of First World War capital courts martial.

Название: Napoleon: The End of Glory
Автор: Munro Price
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199934673
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 344
Размер: 7,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

On April 20, 1814, after a dizzying series of battles, campaigns, and diplomatic intrigues, a defeated Napoleon Bonaparte made his farewell speech to the Old Guard in the courtyard of the Chateau de Fontainebleau and set off for exile on the island of Elba.

Название: Torpedo Run: The Story of WWII Submarine Hero Eugene B. Fluckey (American War Heroes)
Автор: Don Keith
Издательство: Dutton Caliber
ISBN: 0593185988
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 304
Размер: 10,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Over the course of five combat patrols during the Pacific War, Commander Fluckey reinvented submarine warfare, pioneering audacious strategies to hunt and sink Japanese warships and merchant vessels. At the helm of the USS Barb, he directed his boat to attack warship convoys—never mind the lop-sided odds—and to slip into heavily defended enemy harbors to launch torpedoes at unsuspecting targets.

Название: ETA: A Bomber Command Navigator Shot Down and on the Run
Автор: Gordon Mellor
Издательство: Fighting High Publishing
ISBN: 0993415253
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 208
Размер: 16,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Gordon Mellor served as a navigator with RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War, and ETA is the firsthand account of a conflict that tests not only his initiative and resilience, but also the ability to survive amidst the extreme dangers of a Nazi occupied Europe.

Название: Орден «Победа» — полководцам (О командующих фронтами в Великой Отечественной войне, награжденных высшим военным орденом СССР)
Автор: Светлишин Н. А.
Издательство: М.: Знание
Качество: Отсканированные страницы, OCR, хорошее
Год: 1988
Формат: PDF/DjVu
Размер: 9,6 Mb
Количество страниц: 240 с. +8 с. вкл.

8 ноября 1943 года в нашей стране был учрежден орден «Победа». В книге рассказывается о видных советских военачальниках, которые в годы Великой Отечественной войны командовали фронтами и чьи полководческие заслуги перед Отечеством отмечены этой высшей военной наградой. Орден «Победа» за номером первый был вручен Маршалу Советского Союза Г. К. Жукову.

Название: Hitler, Donitz, and the Baltic Sea: The Third Reich's Last Hope, 1944-1945
Автор: Howard D. Grier
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 314
Размер: 1,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The popular conception of Hitler in the final years of World War II is that of a deranged Fuhrer stubbornly demanding the defense of every foot of ground on all fronts and ordering hopeless attacks with nonexistent divisions. To imply that Hitler had a rational plan to win the war flies in the face of widely accepted interpretations, but historian Howard D. Grier persuasively argues here that Hitler did possess a strategy to regain the initiative in 1944-45 and that the Baltic theater played the key role in his plan.

Название: Nautilus: The Story of Man Under the Sea
Автор: Roy Davies
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 1995
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 256
Размер: 26,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

"Nautilus' tells the story of the submarine, a vessel which revolutionized naval warfare in the course of 50 years, and the men who designed them and worked on them. In their short history submarines and submersible craft have played a decisive role in two world wars and today they roam the oceans, bearers of nuclear arsenals, ready to surface anywhere and strike any target. The book starts with the dramatic story of how Russian scientists and naval officers set about the task of constructing a nuclear submarine from scratch and with little knowledge of advances in nuclear physics in the rest of the world.

Название: Mighty Mo, the U.S.S. Missouri. A Biography of the Last Battleship
Автор: Gordon Newell, Allan E. Smith
Издательство: Superior Publishing Co.
Год: 1969
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 200
Размер: 26,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Mighty Mo is part pictorial part history of the USS Missouri. There are interesting parts such as the grounding in 1949 and her role in the mine sweeping of Wonsan Harbor during the Korean War but the rest is an impassioned plea by the authors to make the Missouri a monument. Later the Missouri was recommissioned into the Navy and served in the First Gulf War and then made into a monument. This book is easy to read but obviously a cheerleading piece of why the Missouri should be a monument.