Название: Exiled Emissary: George H. Earle III, Soldier, Sailor, Diplomat, Governor, Spy
Автор: Christopher J. Farrell
Издательство: Academica Press
ISBN: 168053887X
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 210
Размер: 3,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Exiled Emissary is a biography of the colorful life of George H. Earle, III – a Main Line Philadelphia millionaire, war hero awarded the Navy Cross, Pennsylvania governor, Ambassador to Austria and Bulgaria, friend and supporter of Franklin Roosevelt, humanitarian, playboy, and spy.

Название: Reluctant Warrior: Former German POW Finds Peace in Texas
Автор: Heino R. Erichsen
Издательство: Eakin Press
Год: 2001
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 270
Размер: 14,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Heino Erichsen invited the reader to walk with him as he looks back upon his childhood in Nazi Germany, his surrender as an 18-year-old private with the German Afrika Korps, his survival in POW camps in Texas and Kentucky, and his return to his broken country. But the journey does not end there. It takes an unexpected twist when the former POW returns to the United States to begin a new life.

Название: European & American Arms, c. 1100-1850
Автор: Claude Blair
Издательство: Bonanza Books
Год: 1962
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 248
Размер: 43,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN ARMS is the most complete visual encyclopaedia of its subject to have been published in a single volume. For the collector, dealer or museum curator in need of a representative corpus of illustrations of the weapons used in the western world from about 1100 to 1850, the book will be indispensable.

Название: Disaster Before D-Day: Unravelling the Tragedy at Slapton Sands
Автор: Stephen Wynn
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526735113
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 184
Размер: 12,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

This is a book of two stories. The first is the sad tale of how at least 749 American servicemen lost their lives on a pre-D-Day landing exercise, code-named "Operation Tiger," on the evening of 23/24 April 1943. The second, was the unanswerable question of whether the attacking E-Boats of the German Kriegsmarine had fully grasped the importance of what they had stumbled across.

Название: Рождение советской штурмовой авиации. История создания «летающих танков». 1926–1941
Автор: Жирохов Михаил Александрович
Издательство: Центрполиграф
Год: 2014
Серия: Военная авиация XX века
ISBN: 978-5-227-05654-2
Формат: fb2, mobi, epub, pdf
Страниц: 211
Размер: 10,7 Mb
Язык: Русский

Советская штурмовая авиация сыграла выдающуюся роль в Великой Отечественной войне, став незаменимым средством авиационной поддержки наземных войск в наступательных и оборонительных операциях. В данной работе показан процесс зарождения штурмовой авиации в 1920—1930-х гг., возникновение и первая реализация идеи штурмовых действий, трудный путь, пройденный к созданию и освоению в производстве «летающего танка» – самолета-штурмовика.

Название: Titan II: A History of a Cold War Missile Program
Автор: David Stumpf
Издательство: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557286019
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 352
Размер: 13,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Titan II ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) program was developed by the United States military to bolster the size, strength, and speed of the nation’s strategic weapons arsenal in the 1950s and 1960s. Each missile carried a single warhead—the largest in U.S. inventory—used liquid fuel propellants, and was stored and launched from hardened underground silos.

Название: Sharpshooter in the Crimea: The Letters of the Captain Gerald Goodlake VC 1854-56
Автор: Michael Springman
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844152375
Год: 2005
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 256
Размер: 13,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The letters home to his family by Gerald Goodlake, a young officer in the Coldstream Guards, make remarkable reading. They vividly describe the ill-preparedness of the British Army and the dire conditions experienced by all ranks in the Crimea.

Название: A Muddy Trench: A Sniper's Bullet: Hamish Mann, Black Watch, Officer-Poet, 1896–1917
Автор: Jacquie Buttriss
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526745097
Год: 2019EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 240
Размер: 13,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The recent discovery of a wooden chest, unopened for 100 years revealed a treasure trove of eloquent trench diaries, letters and poetry. The author was Hamish Mann, a young Black Watch subaltern killed in France in 1917 just five days after his 21st birthday.

Название: Public Schools and The Great War
Автор: David Walsh, Sir Anthony Seldon, Anthony Seldon
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1781593086
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 336
Размер: 15,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The book examines the impact which the Great War had on the Public Schools and the sacrificial contribution made to the victory which came in 1918. The war consumed about a fifth of all the public schoolboys who fought, while the survivors were scarred by the loss of so many friends.

Название: Coming Down in the Drink
Автор: Sean Feast
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473891531
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 208
Размер: 13,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Coming Down in the Drink is the story of Flight Lieutenant John Brennan DFC. John is an Irishman who need not have fought in the war at all. A sense of adventure took him to London where he trained as a chef before joining the RAF and qualifying as a wireless operator/air gunner.