Название: A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II
Автор: Maury Klein
Издательство: Bloomsbury Press
ISBN: 1596916079
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 912
Размер: 25,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents–and to do so, it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war began.

Название: A Bomber Crew Mystery: The Forgotten Heroes of 388th Bombardment Group
Автор: David Price
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473870461
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 256
Размер: 17,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

An antique trophy inspires a quest to uncover the history of an outstanding crew of WWII airmen who first flew into combat on D-Day. After discovering a discarded trophy in an Edinburgh antique shop, author David Price endeavored to tell the stories of the men whose names had been engraved upon it. Praised as ‘Outstanding Crew of the Month’, the members of 388th Bombardment Group set out on their very first mission on June 6, 1944—D-Day.

Название: First to Fight: The U.S. Marines in World War I
Автор: Oscar E. Gilbert, Romain Cansiere
Издательство: Casemate
ISBN: 161200508X
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 360
Размер: 17,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Marines went to war as part of the American Expeditionary Force, bitterly resented by the Army and General Pershing. The Army tried to use them solely as labor troops and replacements, but the German spring offensive of 1918 forced the issue.

Название: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War - Isle of Thanet in the Great War: Broadstairs - Margate - Ramsgate
Автор: Stephen Wynn
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473834058
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 240
Размер: 7,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Because of the geographical location of the Isle of Thanet, it was always going to play a part in the First World War. For some wounded British and Commonwealth troops returning from the fighting in France and Belgium, it was their first sight of England in months.

Название: Above the Battle: An Air Observation Post Pilot at War
Автор: Ronald Lyell Munro
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 288
Размер: 10,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

In April 1943, a young officer arrived at Penshurst to join ‘C’ Flight, 653 Squadron. He was no ordinary pilot and this was no ordinary RAF outfit. Lyell Munro was a soldier and 653 was an Air Observation Post Squadron whose pilots were Royal Artillery and whose ground crew were RAF.
AOP pilots were expert gunners, skilled flyers and incurable rule breakers. Flying from airstrips just behind the front lines, without armament and often with no parachute, they controlled the fire of hundreds of guns and their enemies learnt to dread the sight of the little green Austers in the skies above the battlefield.

Название: Der Zweite Weltkrieg 1939-45
Автор: Raymond Cartier
Издательство: Pegasus Digital Publishing
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 1142
Размер: 20,8 МБ
Язык: Немецкий

Die Literatur zum Zweiten Weltkrieg füllt Bibliotheken. Aus den Werken der Militärhistoriker kennen wir bis ins minutiöse Detail einzelne Feldzüge und Operationen. Wirklich gute, alle Aspekte und Schauplätze umfassende Gesamtdarstellungen des Krieges sind seltener.

Название: I Flew With the Lafayette Escadrille
Автор: Edwin C. Parsons
Издательство: Pickle Partners Publishing / Tannenberg Publishing
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 274
Размер: 10,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

I Flew with the Lafayette Escadrille, first published in 1937 as The Great Adventure and updated and re-issued under the new title in 1963, is the classic account of young aviators fighting for France in World War I. The book details the pilot's personalities and backgrounds, their training and aircraft, and their harrowing (and too often fatal), combat exploits against the Germans.

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.