Название: NATO and the Defense of the West
Автор: Laurence W. Martin
Издательство: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Год: 1985
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 166
Размер: 13,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Laurence Martin, acknowledged as one of the foremost authorities on world defense issues, is uniquely qualified to examine and assess the strategic and tactical options open to NATO in its efforts to defend Europe, America's first line of defense, from possible attack. Illuminated with over one hundred specially commissioned and authoritatively researched full color drawings and maps, covering weapons, strategy and tactics.

Название: Britain's Plot to Kill Hitler: The True Story of Operation Foxley and SOE
Автор: Eric Lee
Издательство: Greenhill Books
ISBN: 1784387274
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 217
Размер: 142,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Operation Foxley was the name of the secret plan supported by Winston Churchill to assassinate Hitler in 1944-45. More than 75 years after its conception, the assassination plan remains shrouded in mystery. Eric Lee’s new book is the product of painstaking research and sheds more light on this plan. Lee also asks what would have happened if Foxley had been executed successfully.

Название: Images of War - Siege of Malta 1940-42
Автор: Anthony Rogers
Издательство: Greenhill Books
ISBN: 1784384593
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 160
Размер: 54,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

For nearly two and a half years, from June 1940 until late 1942, Malta was subjected to one Axis air raid after another. The Mediterranean island was effectively beleaguered, reliant for defense on anti-aircraft guns and often-outnumbered fighter aircraft and dependent for survival on naval supply convoys.

Название: Destroyers: 60 Years
Автор: William G. Schofield
Издательство: Rand McNally & Company
Год: 1962
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 188
Размер: 24,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

In her sixty years of service, the destroyer has proved herself the most reliable, versatile and indispensable ship of the Navy Now for the first time, the complete story of destroyers and destroyermen in the United States Navy is recorded in dramatic detail. This book is a tribute to rugged men, gallant ships, and heroic deeds.

Название: The Struggle for Europe
Автор: Chester Wilmot
Издательство: Greenwood Press
Год: 1972
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 806
Размер: 96,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

This classic text describes the build-up of the invasion of Europe, and the scenes at the beach-head and in the "bocage" of Normandy. It also discusses the disputes among the Allies, the Anglo-American difficulties over Grand strategy, and the friction between Hitler and his generals which culminated in the plot of July 20th 1944, as well as the pincer movements of the Russians and the Anglo-American forces which brought Europe to victory.

Название: Советские силовики
Автор: Леонид Млечин
Язык: русский
Издательство: Молодая гвардия
Год: 2022
Страниц: 432
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10 Мб

Всероссийскую чрезвычайную комиссию по борьбе с контрреволюцией и саботажем большевики создавали для того, чтобы справиться с армией чиновников, которые бойкотировали новую власть и саботировали распоряжения Совета народных комиссаров. Но руководители партии быстро поняли цену органам госбезопасности как важнейшему инструменту контроля над страной. Так появились силовики, которых в старой России не было. Новая книга Л. Млечина рассказывает о треугольнике власти: партийные секретари, военачальники, руководители спецслужб…

Название: Arms of our Fighting Men
Автор: C. B. Colby
Издательство: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc.
Год: 1972
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 58
Размер: 24,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Personal Weapons, Bazookas, Big Guns... A parade of photographs and brief details of the weapons of servicemen.

Название: Strategy & Tactics of War
Автор: Ned Willmott, John Pimlott
Издательство: Chartwell Books Inc.
Год: 1979
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 250
Размер: 42,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

In The Strategy and Tactics of War Ned Willmott and John Pimlott explore the art of war historically, and with particular reference to its development in the twentieth century. The book breaks down into three main areas: land, sea and air, and within each one, the development of strategy and the implementation of tactics is detailed.

Название: Collier's Photographic History of World War II
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Bonanza Books
Год: 1985
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 160
Размер: 35,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Collier's Photographic History of World War II is a faithful and fascinating account of the war, providing a clear chronology of events and ranging over all theatres of operation. From formal portraits of world leaders to intimate views of benumbed civilians, exhausted soldiers, and battle scenes, the pictures collected here serve as a complete and informative chronicle of World War II.

Название: British Intelligence in the Second World War vol.1
Автор: F. H. Hinsley
Издательство: Her Majesty's Stationery Office
Год: 1979
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 622
Размер: 91,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

British Intelligence in the Second World War provides the only reliable account yet published of the key role played by British Intelligence in Allied strategy and operations in the Second World War. No such account could have been written without the unrestricted access that was afforded to Professor Hinsley and his colleagues to the full range of British government intelligence records and to political and military archives of the war and the interwar years.