Название: World War Two - Cardiff and the Valleys at War 1939-45
Автор: Gary Dobbs
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473864615
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 120
Размер: 10,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

When Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, Cardiff and its surroundings, like every other city, town, hamlet and village in the country, sent forth large numbers of young men to fight against the oppression of Hitler and the Nazis. This is a story not only of the war itself, but of the way war affected those far away from the battlefields, and of how a nation stood together in the face of a seemingly unstoppable force.

Название: General Sir James Scarlett: The Life and Letters of the Commander of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava
Автор: Martin Sheppard
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399089986
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 352
Размер: 10,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The morning of the Battle of Balaklava, on 25 October 1854, saw a desperate charge against a greatly superior Russian force. Epitomized by the reckless courage of the British cavalry in the face of heavy odds, the charge was a complete success, putting the Russians to flight.

Название: The Blackhorse in Vietnam: The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam and Cambodia, 1966–1972
Автор: Donald Snedeker
Издательство: Casemate
ISBN: 1612008461
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 336
Размер: 15,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The story of how the 11th Armored Cavalry overcame the perception that Vietnam was an infantry war, and demonstrated what armor could do in an insurgency.

Название: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War - Bognor in the Great War
Автор: Clifford Norman Mewett
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1783462825
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 176
Размер: 11,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Bognor at the time of the Great War was a small seaside town, quiet in winter but full of visitors in the summer. At that time it was barely one hundred and thirty years old, developed from a hamlet by Sir Richard Hotham, a hatter, who wanted to create his own purpose built bathing resort, to attract the nobility to take the sea air and as a rival to other towns along the Sussex coast.

Название: Voices from the Peninsula: Eyewitness Accounts by Soldiers of Wellington's Army, 1808–1814
Автор: Ian Fletcher
Издательство: Frontline Books
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 18,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Peninsular War was one of the most successful campaigns ever fought by the British Army. Between 1808, when British troops landed in Portugal, and 1814, when Wellington's Army advanced into the south of France, British soldiers were involved in countless battles and sieges against Napoleon's vaunted French veterans.

Название: Darkness Bravo: A Soldier Remembers
Автор: Edward R Fedrick
Издательство: Covenant Books
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 326
Размер: 18,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

This is a story of how one young soldier recalls the events of war. He remembers the men he served with who had such a great impact on his life during and after war. His love and respect for the leaders who became his mentors and role models, SSG Ben Garza and 1SG Bill Perry, are evident in his story. These are the people he regards as "true heroes." He recalls the sheer terror, pain, grief, and physical hardships that come with combat in a foreign country.

Название: The Foresters' Scribe: Remembering the Newfoundland Forestry Companies Through the First World War Letters
Автор: Ursula A. Kelly
Издательство: ISER Books
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 354
Размер: 20,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Foresters' Scribe is the first comprehensive study of the Newfoundland Forestry Companies (NFC) of the First World War. It adds a long-overdue and essential chapter to the Great War history of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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.