Название: Battleship: The Greatest Fighting Ships in History Автор: Richard Hough Издательство: Canelo History ISBN: 180032538X Год: 2022 Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv) Страниц: 320 Размер: 1,9 МБ Язык: Английский
The importance of the fighting ship is as considerable today as ever before. Battleships are built, counted, assessed and exercised with the same determination now as at the beginning of the twentieth century, and during the Napoleonic Wars.
Название: Radio Operator on the Eastern Front: An Illustrated Memoir, 1940-1949 Автор: Erhard Steiniger Издательство: Greenhill Books ISBN: 1784386189 Год: 2020 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 320 Размер: 34,1 МБ Язык: Английский
Covers fighting in Russia, the Baltics and East Prussia, as well as the author’s ordeal as a Prisoner of War in Siberia, accompanied by more than one hundred previously unpublished photographs. This is the true and dramatic testimony of a German grenadier during World War II. Erhard Steiniger joined his Wehrmacht unit on 12 October 1940 as a radio operator, a role which required his constant presence with troops at the Front, right in the midst of combat. On 22 June 1941, he accompanied his division to Lithuania where he experienced the catastrophic first day of Operation Barbarossa.
Название: A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868 Автор: Anne Sarah Rubin Издательство: The University of North Carolina Press ISBN: 0807829285 Год: 2005 Формат: PDF Страниц: 334 Размер: 2,6 МБ Язык: Английский
Historians often assert that Confederate nationalism had its origins in pre-Civil War sectional conflict with the North, reached its apex at the start of the war, and then dropped off quickly after the end of hostilities. Anne Sarah Rubin argues instead that white Southerners did not actually begin to formulate a national identity until it became evident that the Confederacy was destined to fight a lengthy war against the Union.
Название: Развитие системы организации воздушного движения. Оборонный аспект Автор: Моисеенко И. Н. Издательство: Юнити-Дана Год: 2016 Cтраниц: 207 с. : цвет.ил., табл., схем. Формат: pdf (ocr) Размер: 17 мб Язык: русский
Рассматриваются организационно-экономические, военно-экономические отношения пользователей воздушного пространства как в нашей стране, так и в мире. Несомненный научный и практический интерес для широкой читательской аудитории представляют оригинальные авторские трактовки воздушного пространства, а также системы организации воздушного движения в интересах обеспечения военно-экономической безопасности государства.
Название: Illustrated History of Aircraft Автор: Brendan Gallagher Издательство: Gallery Books Год: 1977 Формат: PDF Страниц: 168 Размер: 20,5 МБ Язык: Английский
This history is a concise introduction to the great developments in aviation from its origins to modem times. The splendid and classic achievements of Sir George Cayley, Otto Lilienthal, the Wright brothers and the many other pioneers are engrossingly portrayed. The importance of the two world wars to the aviation story is recognized and a chapter is devoted to each.
Название: Testing Time: The Story of British Test Pilots and Their Aircraft Автор: Constance Babington-Smith Издательство: Harper & Brothers Год: 1961 Формат: PDF Страниц: 272 Размер: 25,2 МБ Язык: Английский
Testing Time traces the development of the combined art and science of test piloting throughout the whole fifty years of powered flight. Constance Babington-Smith, though not a pilot herself, has for years been closely associated with aeronautics and Photo Intelligence.
Название: Pursuit to Appomattox: The Last Battles (The Civil War Series) Автор: Jerry Korn Издательство: Time-Life Books Год: 1987 Формат: PDF Страниц: 184 Размер: 31,4 МБ Язык: Английский
For the casual Civil War enthusiast it's hard to beat the Time Life Series. Well researched with lots of excellent photographs (photography was in it's infancy at the time) and illustrations. This particular book does an excellent job of wrapping up the last days of the civil war.
Название: Gettysburg: Three Days That Saved the United States Автор: Ben Nussbaum Издательство: Fox Chapel Publishing ISBN: 1497103266 Год: 2022 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 96 Размер: 11,0 МБ Язык: Английский
Between July 1 and July 3, 1863, massive Union and Confederate armies fought in the fields and hills around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. By the time the smoke cleared close to 50,000 men were casualties. Remembered as one of the bloodiest battles in American history, 7,863 Americans lost their lives on the fields of southeastern Pennsylvania during the Battle of Gettysburg, including 3,155 Union and 4,708 Confederate troops.
Название: Hitler's Island War: The Men Who Fought for Leros Автор: Julie Peakman Издательство: I.B. Tauris ISBN: 135015637X Год: 2018 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 368 Размер: 4,5 МБ Язык: Английский
In September 1943, at the height of World War II, the Aegean island of Leros became the site of the most pivotal battle of the Dodecanese campaign as the British tried, in vain, to retain control of the island. Over the course of two short months - from 15 September 1943 to 17 November 1943 - almost 1500 men lost their lives and hundreds more ended up in Prisoner-of-War camps.
Название: Russia in War and Revolution: The Memoirs of Fyodor Sergeyevich Olferieff Автор: Gary M. Hamburg Издательство: Hoover Institution Press ISBN: 0817923640 Год: 2021 Формат: PDF Страниц: 672 Размер: 90,1 МБ Язык: Английский
Fyodor Sergeyevich Olferieff (1885-1971) led a remarkable life in the shadows of history. This book presents his memoirs for the first time, translated and annotated by his granddaughter Tanya A. Cameron. Born into a noble family, Olferieff was a Russian career military officer who observed firsthand key events of the early twentieth century, including the 1905-7 revolution, the Great War, the collapse of the imperial state, and the civil wars in Ukraine and Crimea.