Название: Australians on the Western Front 1918 Volume II: Spearheading the GreatBritish Offensive
Автор: David W. Cameron
Издательство: Viking
ISBN: 067007828X
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 560
Размер: 15,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Following on from volume 1 of Australians on the Western Front 1918: Resisting the Great German Offensive, volume 2, Spearheading the Great British Offensive, concludes with a detailed account of the final battles of World War I and the defeat of German armed forces on the Western Front.

Название: Форсирование рек (1942-1945)
Автор: Батов П.И.
Издательство: М.: Воениздат
Год: 1986
Cтраниц: 170
Формат: pdf
Размер: 11 мб
Язык: русский

В книге рассматриваются боевые действия 65-ой армии в 1942-1945 годах, связанные с форсированием водных преград. Предлагаемая читателю книга является завершением большой работы, проделанной офицерами-ветеранами 65-й армии но обобщению опыта форсирования рек войска¬ми армии в годы Великой Отечественной войны.

Название: Marshal Of France; The Life And Times Of Maurice, Comte De Saxe, 1699-1750
Автор: Jon Manchip White
Издательство: Normanby Press
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 465
Размер: 17,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

MAURICE DE SAXE was the brilliant adornment of a brilliant age, one of the most renowned and admired men in the Europe of his day. It is not surprising that the writing of the biography of this vivid, talented and entertaining figure should have provided the author with a genial and absorbing task.

Название: Lost Wings of WWI: Downed Airmen on the Western Front 1914 -1918
Автор: Martin W Bowman
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783831952
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 240
Размер: 11,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

This new publication from eminent military historian Martin Bowman chronicles the stories of airmen downed on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918, representing a contribution on the author's part to the 100th anniversary of the Great War.

Название: Аэроснимки в военном деле
Автор: Вельцер В.
Издательство: М.: Воениздат
Год: 1990
Cтраниц: 286, цвет.ил.
Формат: djvu
Размер: 67 мб
Язык: русский

В книге, хорошо иллюстрированной, рассматриваются принципы аэрофотосъемки с помощью различных технических средств, в том числе и самых современных: инфракрасных, радиолокационных, телевизионных, и на примерах даются практические рекомендации по выполнению дешифрирования топографических элементов местности и военных объектов. Задачей аэрофотосъемки в военном деле, или аэрофоторазведки, является получение достоверных сведений о противнике и местности по аэрофотоснимкам.

Название: The Royal Navy and the Arctic Convoys: A Naval Staff History
Автор: Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 0415861772
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 192
Размер: 11,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Published here for the first time, this volume presents a superb range of insights into this crucial effort of the Second World War.
This Naval Staff History describes the vital role of the Arctic Convoys, 1941-1945 and was first issued by the Historical Section of the Admiralty as a confidential study for use within the Royal Navy in 1954.

Название: Across A Deadly Field - The War in the West (American Civil War)
Автор: John Hill
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1472802640
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 148
Размер: 50,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The War in the West, the new supplement for Across A Deadly Field brings to the tabletop the bitter struggles of the Western Theatre of the American Civil War. The special rules and scenarios included in this volume give players everything they need to recreate the battles, both great and small, of this theatre of the war. Battles such as Shiloh, Stone River, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Atlanta are presented in great detail, offering players of Across a Deadly Field not only a range of scenario options, but the ability to play through a full campaign.

Название: From Kites to Cold War: The Evolution of Manned Airborne Reconnaissance
Автор: Tyler Morton
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1682474658
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 328
Размер: 8,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

From Kites to Cold War tells the story of the evolution of manned airborne reconnaissance. Long a desire of military commanders, the ability to see the terrain ahead and gain foreknowledge of enemy intent was realized when Chinese airmen mounted kites to surveil their surroundings. Kite technology was slow to spread, and by the late nineteenth century European nations had developed the balloon and airship to conduct this mission.

Название: Your Towns and Cities in World War Two - Leeds at War, 1939-45
Автор: Stephen Wade
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473867770
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 152
Размер: 11,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Leeds at War 1939-1945 is a comprehensive account of the city's experience of the war, covering in expert detail life on the Home Front set against the background of the wider theaters of war. The narrative of that global conflict is given with a focus on the trials and ordeals that faced the people of Leeds as they cheered their men and women fighters off to war, were bombed and saw their children evacuated to rural areas.

Название: Valor: The Astonishing World War II Saga of One Man's Defiance and Indomitable Spirit
Автор: Dan Hampton
Издательство: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250275857
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 352
Размер: 17,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Valor is the magnificent story of a genuine American hero who survived the fall of the Philippines and brutal captivity under the Japanese, from New York Times bestselling author Dan Hampton. Lieutenant William Frederick "Bill" Harris was 25 years old when captured by Japanese forces during the Battle of Corregidor in May 1942. This son of a decorated Marine general escaped from hell on earth by swimming eight hours through a shark-infested bay; but his harrowing ordeal had just begun.