Название: Medieval Warfare (The Putnam Pictorial Sources Series)
Автор: Geoffrey Hindley
Издательство: G P. Putnam's Sons
Год: 1971
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 134
Размер: 21,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Examines the instruments, tactics, and strategies that characterized military conflicts between the seventh and sixteenth centuries.

Название: Military Motorcycles
Автор: Michael Green
Издательство: Capstone Press
Год: 1997
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 56
Размер: 24,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Discusses the history and use of military motorcycles, highlighting specific models and their roles in various battles.

Название: Fire & Steel - Israel's 7th Armored Brigade
Автор: Samuel M. Katz
Издательство: Pocket Books
Год: 1996
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 316
Размер: 72,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Israel's 7th Armored Brigade has rewritten the manuals of armored warfare, surpassed the limits of courage under fire, and impressed military experts everywhere as the finest tank unit in the world. The men: They're the elite of a nation's youth, marked by gun grease, suffused with the stench of cordite, and devoted to guarding some of modern history's hardest-won ground. The armor: To begin with it was bought and stolen World War II surplus tanks; now the Brigade uses the Merkava—the world's most awesome tank.

Название: Freedom's Forge: How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II
Автор: Arthur Herman
Издательство: Random House
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 319
Размер: 3,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States could pick up the phone and ask the president of General Motors to resign his position and take the reins of a great national enterprise. And the CEO would oblige, no questions asked, because it was his patriotic duty.

Название: Medieval Military Medicine: From the Vikings to the High Middle Ages
Автор: Brian Burfield
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: ‎1526754746
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 240
Размер: 5,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Soldiers of the Middle Ages faced razor-sharp swords and axes that could slice through flesh with gruesome ease, while spears and arrows were made to puncture both armour and the wearer, and even more sinister means of causing harm produced burns and crush injuries.

Название: Cultural Heritage of the Great War in Britain (Heritage, Culture and Identity)
Автор: Ross J. Wilson
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 1409445739
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 256
Размер: 3,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

As the hundredth anniversary approaches, it is timely to reflect not only upon the Great War itself and on the memorials which were erected to ensure it did not slip from national consciousness, but also to reflect upon its rich and substantial cultural legacy.

Название: The Home Front 1914-1918: How Britain Survived the Great War
Автор: Ian F.W. Beckett
Издательство: The National Archives
ISBN: 1472908899
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 56,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Great War had a profound impact on Britain. Not only did families risk their sons in active combat; every member of society was required to make a contribution to the war effort. National initiatives like rationing affected all, and civilians were now regarded as a legitimate military target.

Название: The Visible Confederacy: Images and Objects in the Civil War South
Автор: Ross A. Brooks
Издательство: LSU Press
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 344
Размер: 13,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Visible Confederacy is a comprehensive analysis of the commercially and government-generated visual and material culture of the Confederate States of America. While historians have mainly studied Confederate identity through printed texts, this book shows that Confederates also built and shared a sense of who they were through other media: theatrical performances, military clothing, manufactured goods, and an assortment of other material.

Название: Колчак и интервенция на Дальнем Востоке: Документы и материалы
Автор: Мухачев Б.И., Светачев М.И. (отв. ред.).
Год издания: 1995
Издательство: Наука
Страниц: 216
Формат: PDF
Размер: 11,43 Мб

Публикуются документы центральных и местных государственных архивов России, материалы из зарубежных публикаций (американской, английской), газетные сообщения периода существования Омского правительства А.В. Колчака о его внешней политике, характере интервенции держав Антанты на Дальнем Востоке, их помощи Колчаку, причинах краха колчаковского режима. Сборник подготовлен как научно-популярное издание. Рассчитан на исследователей и самую широкую читательскую аудиторию.

Название: Storming the Wheatfield: John Caldwell's Union Division in the Gettysburg Campaign
Автор: James M. Smith II
Издательство: Gettysburg Publishing
ISBN: 0999304933
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 208
Размер: 10,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

This gripping narrative is an in-depth study of the valiant men of General John Caldwell’s Union Division during the Gettysburg Campaign. Caldwell’s Division made a desperate stand against a tough and determined Confederate force in farmer George Rose's nearly 20-acre Wheatfield.