Название: Hope and Honor: Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust
Автор: Rachel L. Einwohner
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190079444
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 304
Размер: 124,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

A powerful account of Jewish resistence in Nazi-occupied Europe and why such resistance was so remarkable. Most popular accounts of the Holocaust typically cast Jewish victims as meek and ask, "Why didn't Jews resist?" But we know now that Jews did resist, staging armed uprisings in ghettos and camps throughout Nazi-occupied Europe.

Название: After the Wall Came Down: The British Army and Its Soldiers After the Cold War
Автор: Andrew Richards
Издательство: Casemate
ISBN: 1612008305
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 240
Размер: 8,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

The generation of young men and women who joined the British Army during the mid to late 1980s would serve their country during an unprecedented period of history. Unlike the two world war generations, they would never face total war - there was never any declaration of war and there was no one single country to defeat. In fact, it was supposed to have been the end of war, a time of peace and stability. Politicians started to use the term, Peace Dividend, with government officials even planning on how and where it should be spent.

Название: Учебник сапера
Автор: коллектив
Издательство: Интернет-издательство
Год издания: 2001
Количество страниц: 46
Язык: русский
Формат: PDF
Размер: 10,9 Мб

В данном пособии описываются основные опасности для сапера, приведена классификация взрывчатки, и рассмотрены составные элементы взрывчатых устройств, разновидность гранат и снарядов, а так же описаны основные ловушки с использованием взрывчатки которые встречаются на практике у саперов.

Название: The Roman Emperor Aurelian: Restorer of the World
Автор: John F. White
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473845696
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 3,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for 1000 years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached in the middle of the third century AD, the empire was lapsing into chaos, with seemingly interminable civil wars over the imperial succession.

Название: Battle Over the Atlantic: Royal Australian Air Force in Coastal Command 1939-1945
Автор: John Quaife
Издательство: Big Sky Publishing
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 314
Размер: 11,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

At the outbreak of World War II, somewhat by accident — and just as the first shots of the war were fired — young Australian airmen from the Royal Australian Air Force were engaged in operations that would become known collectively as the Battle of the Atlantic.

Название: The New Model Army: Agent of Revolution
Автор: Ian Gentles
Издательство: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300226837
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 400
Размер: 11,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The New Model Army was one of the most formidable fighting forces ever assembled. Formed in 1645, it was crucial in overthrowing the monarchy and propelling one of its most brilliant generals, Oliver Cromwell, to power during the English Revolution.

Название: US Sky Spies Since World War 1
Автор: Michael O'Leary
Издательство: Blandford Press
Год: 1986
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 132
Размер: 54,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Captioned photographs plus text describe the history of specialized aircraft and the men and equipment associated with them in the US Air Force since WW I.

Название: Famous Aircraft of all Time (Arco Color Series)
Автор: Kenneth Munson
Издательство: Arco Publishing Company
Год: 1977
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 204
Размер: 60,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

A book by famous author Kenneth Munson and famous publisher Arco on famous aircraft of all time. Many illustrations and technical data on them.

Название: Warplanes of Yesteryear
Автор: Kenneth Munson
Издательство: Arco Publishing Company
Год: 1966
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 140
Размер: 18,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

When Orville and Wilbur Wright evolved the successful man-carrying aeroplane, they saw in it a machine to prohibit war; by 1914 there were many who still thought it useless for waging war—though they were soon to be disproved. In 1940, air supremacy became the key to the future course of a new world conflict; and in the two decades since then, air power has played a vital part in preventing small conflicts from developing into global proportions.

Название: Romans and Barbarians: Four Views from the Empire's Edge, 1st Century AD
Автор: Derek Williams
Издательство: St Martins Pr
ISBN: 0312199589
Год: 1998
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 300
Размер: 1,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

From 27 B.C. to A.D. 117, the Roman dreams of boundless empire began to falter. The very size of their conquests made them hard to manage, and the caesars also had to accept the scale and intractability of the problems posed by the barbarians.