Название: Into Touch: Rugby Internationals Killed in the Great War
Автор: Nigel McCrery
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1781590877
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 29,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Among the million plus British and Empire soldiers that fell in the slaughter of The Great War were an elite band of International Rugby players. Tragically, over 130 ‘caps’ from England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa – and France - lost their lives on land, in the air and at sea.

Название: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War - South Devon in the Great War
Автор: Tony Rea
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473834252
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 144
Размер: 8,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

South Devon in the Great War provides the first definitive history of events in this part of Devon during the First World War, with more than fifty pictures, some unpublished for 100 years. The author's succinct and engaging text is further enhanced by a unique set of then and now photographs, and provides readers with an incomparable pictorial overview of events on the Home Front.

Название: Kampania ukrainska 1920 roku
Автор: Wyszczelski L.
Издательство: Neriton
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 374
Размер: 79.36 MB
Язык: польский

Wojna polsko-rosyjska lat 1919 - 1920 byla nie tylko najwiekszym polskim starciem militarnym w okresie walk o granice prowadzonych w latach 1918-1921. Miala takze wymiar szerszy, co najmniej europejski. Kleska bolszewikow w tej wojnie praktycznie na wiele lat powstrzymala realizacje ich strategii politycznej i militarnej - eksportu rewolucji na zachod Europy. Tym samym Polska, wla?ciwie osamotniona, z nieledwie symboliczn? pomoc? mocarstw zachodnich, wniosla wklad w powojenny rozwoj kontynentu.

Название: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War - Maidstone in the Great War
Автор: Stephen Wynn
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473827914
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 216
Размер: 2,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Maidstone in the Great War tells the remarkable story of this Kent county town's immense contribution to the Great War effort from the outbreak of war in 1914, to the long-awaited Allied victory in 1918.

Название: Germans against Germans: The Fate of the Jews, 1938-1945
Автор: Moshe Zimmermann
Издательство: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253062292
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 261
Размер: 2,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Among the many narratives about the atrocities committed against Jews in the Holocaust, the story about the Jews who lived in the eye of the storm—the German Jews—has received little attention. Germans against Germans: The Fate of the Jews, 1938–1945, tells this story—how Germans declared war against other Germans, that is, against German Jews.

Название: A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
Автор: Joshua Kurlantzick
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1451667868
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 336
Размер: 3,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The untold story of how America's secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy. In 1960, President Eisenhower was focused on Laos, a tiny Southeast Asian nation few Americans had ever heard of.

Название: Gustavus Adolphus, Sweden and the Thirty Years War, 1630–1632
Автор: Lars Ericson Wolke
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526749599
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 248
Размер: 11,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

As one of the foremost military commanders of the early seventeenth century Gustavus Adophus, king of Sweden, played a vital role in defending the Protestant cause during the Thirty Years War. In the space of two years – between 1630 and 1632 – he turned the course of the war, winning a decisive victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld and conquering large parts of Germany.

Название: Murderous Tommies
Автор: Mark Dunning, Julian Putkowski
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848846266
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 224
Размер: 18,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The British Army has always been reticent about publicizing courts martial and eighty years elapsed before the government was compelled to prematurely declassify the written proceedings of First World War capital courts martial.

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.