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.

Название: The United Irishmen, Rebellion and the Act of Union, 1798–1803
Автор: John Gibney
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526736675
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 176
Размер: 15,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

The 1790s is one of the most critical decades in the history of modern Ireland. The decade witnessed the birth of the modern ideology of separatist Irish republicanism, the creation of the Orange Order, and the greatest bloodletting in modern Irish history in the form of the 1798 rebellion.

Название: London: Bombed, Blitzed and Blown Up: The British Capital Under Attack Since 1867
Автор: Ian Jones MBE
Издательство: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1473878993
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 512
Размер: 17,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

When it comes to being bombed, London is unique. Although it cannot claim to be the most bombed capital city in terms of the weight of explosive detonated it has endured the most varied and unrelenting attack since the discovery of explosives.

Название: The AIF in Battle: How the Australian Imperial Force Fought, 1914-1918
Автор: Jean Bou
Издательство: MUP Academic
ISBN: 0522870228
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 344
Размер: 14,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

By the end of the First World War the combat formations of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in both France and the Middle East were considered among the British Empire's most effective troops. While sometimes a source of pride and not a little boasting, how the force came to be so was not due to any inherent national prowess or trait.