Название: Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945: Volume 4
Автор: Geoffrey P. Megargee
Издательство: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253060893
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 808
Размер: 41,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Volume IV examines an under-researched segment of the larger Nazi incarceration system: camps and other detention facilities under the direct control of the German military, the Wehrmacht.

Название: Captured Behind Japanese Lines: With Wingate's Chindits – Burma 1942–1945
Автор: Daniel Berke
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 184
Размер: 18,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

No-one meeting Frank Berkovitch, a quiet, reserved tailor, could have guessed that he had served with the Chindits in Burma and suffered prolonged Japanese captivity. Yet not only had he fought as a Bren-gunner on Operation LONGCLOTH, their first deep penetration mission, but he was the legendary General Orde Wingate’s batman.

Название: Your Towns and Cities in World War Two - Hull at War 1939–45: The Air Raids
Автор: David Bilton, Malcolm K Mann
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 160
Размер: 18,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

As in the Great War, Hull was a prime target for the bombs of the German air force when the Second World War began, particularly as it was common knowledge that prior to September 1939, German planes had over flown the city taking pictures, and German sailors had visited the port and city. Throughout the war, each night the citizens of the city waited for the sound of the sirens telling them to get to their shelters.

Название: Your Towns and Cities in World War Two - Birmingham at War 1939-45
Автор: Julie Phillips
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 208
Размер: 20,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Barely 17 years after the Great War that had brought Britain to its knees, the country was once again asked to make sacrifices and give their all to the war effort. With its strong industrial background, Birmingham was already geared to help manufacture the vehicles that could be adapted for war use, and with the threat of the German Luftwaffe screaming across the skies, it was only right that the production of planes, most notably the spitfire, was ramped up to help protect the British public.

Название: Waterloo General: The Life, Letters and Mysterious Death of Major General Sir William Ponsonby 1772 - 1815
Автор: John Morewood
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 280
Размер: 20,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

At the Battle of Waterloo Sir William Ponsonby, a man who the Duke of Wellington stated had ‘rendered very brilliant and important services and was an ornament to his profession’, was killed by French lancers after leading the Union Brigade (the three Dragoon Regiments of the Royals, Iniskillings and Scots Greys) in a charge that wrecked a French advance that threatened Wellington with defeat.

Название: Blackhorse Tales: Stories of 11th Armored Cavalry Troopers at War
Автор: Don Snedeker
Издательство: Casemate
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 304
Размер: 19,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The war stories and combat narratives of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment during 5.5 years of combat in Vietnam. When the U.S. Army went to war in South Vietnam in 1965, the general consensus was that counterinsurgency was an infantryman’s war; if there were any role at all for armored forces, it would be strictly to support the infantry.

Название: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War - Mansfield in the Great War
Автор: Carol Lovejoy Edwards
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 176
Размер: 19,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Mansfield was the largest town near the Duke of Portland’s home at Welbeck Abbey. The duke and duchess often held house parties for their friends who included the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Lord Kitchener – one whose death triggered the war and the other who lost his life on a ship halfway through the war. The archduke visited Welbeck Abbey only a few months before his death.

Название: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War - Tunbridge Wells in the Great War
Автор: Stephen Wynn
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 202
Размер: 19,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Using original material and letters from the First World War, this captivating and eye-opening account uncovers the unnerving realities of the First World War and the impact it had on the town of Tunbridge Wells. It looks at world events, which ultimately determined the outbreak of the war, and how these same events affected the small town in Kent and the people who made up the community.From an early stage the hostilities of the war became very real for the people of Tunbridge Wells.

Название: Reporting the Great War (The Great War on the Home Front)
Автор: Stuart Hylton
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 20,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Great War of 1914-1918 was the world’s first total conflict. It drew the whole population into the war effort as never before. The armed forces recruited on a scale that was previously unimaginable, and the munitions industries drew more and more citizens into the labor market.

Название: Уничтожение еврейского населения Украины в 1941-1944 гг. Хроника событий
Автор: Круглов А.И.
Издательство: Могилев-Подольская райтипография
Год: 1997
Формат: PDF/DjVu
Страниц: 105
Размер: 50,9 Мб
Язык: Русский

Данная хроника нацистского геноцида в отношении евреев на Украине, охватывающая период с 22 июня 1941 г. до 21 июля 1944 г., дает представление о масштабах, формах и методах уничтожения евреев. Составляя эту хронику, использованы как документы немецких карательных органов, так и архивные материалы комиссий по установлению и расследованию преступлений, совершенных оккупантами и их пособниками, свидетельства очевидцев и выживших евреев.