Название: Images of War - The Americans on D-Day & in Normandy: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Автор: Brooke S. Blades
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1526743965
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 176
Размер: 23,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The experiences and achievements of the United States land sea and air forces on 6 June 1944 and the weeks following have been deservedly well chronicled. Omaha Beach saw the fiercest fighting of the whole OVERLORD invasion and the opposition faced in the US sector shocked commanders and men at all levels.

Название: Hitler's Mistakes: New Insights Into What Made Hitler Tick
Автор: Ronald Lewin
Издательство: Quill
Год: 1987
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 184
Размер: 25,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

This thought-provoking book is the last work of Ronald Lewin, one of England's most distinguished military historians. Lewin was fascinated with the complexities of Hitler's character and what made the Nazi leader tick. What were Hitler's shortcomings as a political leader, as a military commander, and as a man? In this book Lewin displays a sure grasp of the complicated makeup of one of the greatest evil geniuses of our time. Based on an impressive and wide-ranging study of many sources unfamiliar to the general reader, Hitler's Mistakes is an eminently readable and important work of history.

Название: Leeds Rifles: The Prince of Wales's Own
Автор: Andrew J Kirk
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526711486
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 376
Размер: 13,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Leeds Rifles is a detailed chronicle of the four Battalions of Riflemen who left Leeds for the Western Front. In 1914, just as now, they were more numerous and less fashionable than the City Battalion, The Pals and their full war time story has never been told. This volume describes their volunteer origins and how they came to be woven into the social fabric of Leeds from where they drew their enduring esprit de corps, discipline and resolve.

Название: Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them
Автор: John Bainbridge Jr.
Издательство: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250266866
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 352
Размер: 16,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

John Bainbridge, Jr.'s Gun Barons is a narrative history of six charismatic and idiosyncratic men who changed the course of American history through the invention and refinement of repeating weapons. Love them or hate them, guns are woven deeply into the American soul. Names like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington are legendary.

Название: The Hangman and His Wife: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich
Автор: Nancy Dougherty
Издательство: Knopf
ISBN: 0394543416
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 656
Размер: 37,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

An astonishing journey into the heart of Nazi evil: a portrait of one of the darkest figures of Hitler’s Nazi elite—Reinhard Heydrich, the designer and executor of the Holocaust, chief of the Reich Main Security, including the Gestapo—interwoven with commentary by his wife, Lina, from the author's in-depth interviews.

Название: The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals: The Definitive Guide to the 426 Leaders of the South's War Effort
Автор: Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.
Издательство: Regnery History
ISBN: 1684512441
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 800
Размер: 102,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

A renown military historian and frequent television commenter brings to life the generalship of the South during the Civil War in sparkling, information-filled vignettes. For both the Civil War completist and the general reader!

Название: Waterloo: A New History of the Battle and its Armies
Автор: G. Corrigan
Издательство: Atlantic Books
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 368
Размер: 13,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Fought on Sunday, June 18th, 1815, by some 220,000 men over the rain-sodden ground in what is now Belgium, the Battle of Waterloo brought an end to twenty-three years of almost continual war between imperial France and her enemies.

Название: Hermann Goring: Hitler's Second-in-Command
Автор: Fred Ramen
Издательство: Rosen Publishing Group
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 118
Размер: 12,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

One man- Hermann Goring- was with Hitler from his beginnings as a minor politician in Munich to his triumph as commander of the German army. Soldier, politician, and general, Goring was an important and influential member of the Nazi Party who did more to bring about both its successes and its ultimate failure than any other man.

Название: A History of War and Weapons, 1660 to 1918
Автор: G. A. Shepperd
Издательство: Thomas Y. Crowell Company
Год: 1972
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 232
Размер: 19,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Featuring 170 exceptionally handsome and authentically detailed line drawings, this book focuses on the ordinary soldier in the ranks and the weapons he has used through the centuries. The author shows how new inventions in weaponry have influenced the tactics of their day and helped to determine the course of world history. Alongside descriptions of weapons of all kinds, from bayonet, saber, and musket to machine gun, tank, and Zeppelin, are accounts of great commanders, how they trained their Loops, and the key battles they fought.

Название: Wings Over the Seven Seas: U.S. Naval Aviation's Fight for Survival
Автор: Wilbur H. Morrison
Издательство: A. S. Barnes and Co.. Inc.
Год: 1975
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 274
Размер: 33,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The story of US naval aviation's fight for survival, from its origins to the modern times.