Название: The Royal Navy and the Mediterranean Convoys: A Naval Staff History
Автор: Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 0415390958
Год: 2006
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 220
Размер: 16,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book contains the Naval Staff History originally issued by the Admiralty in 1957 as a confidential book for use within the Royal Navy. It has since been declassified and is published here for the first time, along with an extended preface.

Название: Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory, CA Edition
Автор: Ben Macintyre
Издательство: Signal
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 432
Размер: 37,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The “brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining” (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker) true story of the most successful—and certainly the strangest—deception ever carried out in World War II, from the acclaimed author of The Spy and the Traitor.
Near the end of World War II, two British naval officers came up with a brilliant and slightly mad scheme to mislead the Nazi armies about where the Allies would attack southern Europe. To carry out the plan, they would have to rely on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man.

Название: The Siege of Derry: A Military History
Автор: Richard Doherty
Издательство: The History Press
ISBN: 1846820146
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 320
Размер: 10,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Macaulay called it the most important siege in English history and this book investigates how an event in Ireland could take on such a stature. This is a military history of one of the most iconic events in Irish history but one that is often relegated to a level of importance below that of the battles of the Boyne and Aughrim.

Название: Helmand Mission: With The Royal Irish Battlegroup in Afghanistan 2008
Автор: Richard Doherty
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848841485
Год: 2009
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 176
Размер: 4,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

After celebrating St. Patrick’s Day 2008, 1st Royal Irish Battlegroup deployed to Afghanistan’s Helmand province as part of 16 Air Assault Brigade. For six months the Royal Irish fought the Taliban in Helmand in some of the most difficult country on earth.

Название: Medieval Warfare
Автор: H. W. Koch
Издательство: Dorset Press
Год: 1988
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 264
Размер: 70,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Medieval Warfare is a comprehensive illustrated history of the way, why and how war was fought from the fall of the Roman Empire through and including the Renaissance and Protestant Reformation. This is the first serious work to analyze medieval warfare since the publication of Sir Charles Oman's classic study more than forty years ago.

Название: Medieval Warfare (The Putnam Pictorial Sources Series)
Автор: Geoffrey Hindley
Издательство: G P. Putnam's Sons
Год: 1971
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 134
Размер: 21,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Examines the instruments, tactics, and strategies that characterized military conflicts between the seventh and sixteenth centuries.

Название: Military Motorcycles
Автор: Michael Green
Издательство: Capstone Press
Год: 1997
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 56
Размер: 24,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Discusses the history and use of military motorcycles, highlighting specific models and their roles in various battles.

Название: Fire & Steel - Israel's 7th Armored Brigade
Автор: Samuel M. Katz
Издательство: Pocket Books
Год: 1996
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 316
Размер: 72,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Israel's 7th Armored Brigade has rewritten the manuals of armored warfare, surpassed the limits of courage under fire, and impressed military experts everywhere as the finest tank unit in the world. The men: They're the elite of a nation's youth, marked by gun grease, suffused with the stench of cordite, and devoted to guarding some of modern history's hardest-won ground. The armor: To begin with it was bought and stolen World War II surplus tanks; now the Brigade uses the Merkava—the world's most awesome tank.

Название: Freedom's Forge: How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II
Автор: Arthur Herman
Издательство: Random House
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 319
Размер: 3,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States could pick up the phone and ask the president of General Motors to resign his position and take the reins of a great national enterprise. And the CEO would oblige, no questions asked, because it was his patriotic duty.

Название: Medieval Military Medicine: From the Vikings to the High Middle Ages
Автор: Brian Burfield
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: ‎1526754746
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 240
Размер: 5,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Soldiers of the Middle Ages faced razor-sharp swords and axes that could slice through flesh with gruesome ease, while spears and arrows were made to puncture both armour and the wearer, and even more sinister means of causing harm produced burns and crush injuries.