Название: Fighting Back: Stan Andrews and the Birth of the Israeli Air Force
Автор: Jeffrey Weiss, Craig Weiss
Издательство: Wicked Son
ISBN: 1637583117
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 229
Размер: 2,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Fighting Backis the story of Stan Andrews, an assimilated American Jew and World War II veteran who became one of the first fighter pilots in the history of the Israeli Air Force. In 1948, Stan Andrews left a comfortable postwar life in Los Angeles to travel to the war-torn Middle East, where a four-front Arab invasion threatened to destroy the newly-declared State of Israel.

Название: Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged
Автор: Robert L. O'Connell
Издательство: Harper
ISBN: 0062883291
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 571
Размер: 16,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

From national bestselling author and acclaimed military historian Robert L. O'Connell, a dynamic history of four military leaders whose extraordinary leadership and strategy led the United States to success during World War I and beyond.

Название: Patton's Payback: The Battle of El Guettar and General Patton's Rise to Glory
Автор: Stephen L. Moore
Издательство: Dutton Caliber
ISBN: 0593183401
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 368
Размер: 39,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

In March 1943, in their first fight with the Germans, American soldiers in North Africa were pushed back fifty miles by Rommel’s Afrika Korps and nearly annihilated. Only the German decision not to pursue them allowed the Americans to maintain a foothold in the area. General Eisenhower, the supreme commander, knew he needed a new leader on the ground, one who could raise the severely damaged morale of his troops. He handed the job to a new man: Lieutenant General George Patton.

Название: At the Gates of Rome: The Fall of the Eternal City, AD 410
Автор: Don Hollway
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1472849981
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 467
Размер: 13,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

A dramatic retelling of the story of the final years of the Western Roman Empire and thedownfall of Rome itself from the perspective of the Roman general Stilicho andAlaric, king of the Visigoths.

Название: Armour in Action
Автор: Bruce Culver, Steve Zaloga, Ralph Riccio & Nicola Pignato и др.
Издательство: Squadron/Signal Publications inc.
Год: 1972-2010
Формат: pdf формат в zip-архиве
Размер: 1,19 Gb
Язык: Английский

«Armour 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: Fierce Valor: The True Story of Ronald Speirs and his Band of Brothers
Автор: Jared Frederick, Erik Dorr
Издательство: Regnery History
ISBN: 1684511992
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 400
Размер: 25,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Fans of Stephen E. Ambrose's Band of Brothers will be drawn to this complex portrait of the controversial Ronald Speirs, an iconic commander of Easy Company during World War II, whose ferocious courage in three foreign conflicts was matched by his devotion to duty and the bittersweet passions of wartime romance.

Название: Evelyn Wood VC: Pillar of Empire
Автор: Stephen Manning
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844156540
Год: 2008
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 276
Размер: 2,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Given the increasing interest in the Victorian era an authoritative biography of Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood VC is long overdue. By any standards his career was remarkable and began with him in the Royal Navy in the Crimea before he transferred to the cavalry to see more action.

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.