Название: The Middle East Conflicts: From 1945 to the Present
Автор: John Pimlott
Издательство: Crescent Books
Год: 1983
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 132
Размер: 25,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Middle East Conflicts: From 1945 to the Present describes how and why the long succession of wars has taken place. It goes into detail about the major conflicts themselves, showing how decisions taken under great stress on the battlefield have meant the difference between victory and defeat . The book is illustrated with more than 200 photographs, maps and diagrams that give a fully rounded view of the struggles in the Middle East.

Название: The Battle of Britain, July-September 1940
Автор: Marcel Jullian
Издательство: Fawcett Publications, Inc.
Год: 1968
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 260
Размер: 39,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

This superb close-up of the tremendous drama of the air battles over Britain during World War II brilliantly re-creates one of the greatest flying adventures of all time. In July 1940 Hitler promised to invade England and began to amass the greatest invasion armada in history. But first he had to smash the Royal Air Force. Hopelessly outnumbered ... at least five to one . . . the immortal warriors of the RAF faced the deadly might of Hitlers air power with a courage and gallantry that were incredible.

Название: Rebels Resurgent - Fredericksburg to Chancellors (The Civil War Series)
Автор: William K. Goolrick
Издательство: Time-Life Books
Год: 1985
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 184
Размер: 34,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Time Civil War Series is a great comprehensive overview of the the Civil War from the causes up through reconstruction. Rebels Resurgent: Fredericksburg to Chancellorsville is a essential part of this series as this is the period when Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was at its best, not only defeating the Army of the Potomac, but literally fighting circles around them despite being at an extreme numerical disadvantage.

Название: High-Tech Warfare
Автор: Bill Gunston, Doug Richardson, Ian Hogg
Издательство: Crescent Books
Год: 1991
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 184
Размер: 44,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Aircraft, ships, tanks and guns may have a similar appearance to those in service twenty or thirty years ago, but under the skin they are a completely different generation. While there have been advances in materials, structures, propulsion and aerodynamics, the true revolution has been in the field of electronics. New systems for navigation, all-weather reconnaissance and target detection, command and control, weapon aiming and missile guidance have transformed the battlefield.

Название: The Black Douglases: War and Lordship in Medieval Scotland, 1300–1455
Автор: Michael Brown
Издательство: Barnes & Noble
ISBN: 0760756759
Год: 1998
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 557
Размер: 3,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

During the century and a half of their power the Black Douglases earned fame as Scotland’s champions in the front line of war against England. On their shields they bore the bloody heart of Robert Bruce, the symbol of their claim to be the physical protectors of the hero-king’s legacy. But others saw the power of these lords and earls of Douglas in a different light.

Название: Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government During World War II
Автор: Pawel Markiewicz
Издательство: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1612496792
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 366
Размер: 11,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Unlikely Allies offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language analysis of German-Ukrainian collaboration in the General Government, an area of occupied Poland during World War II. Drawing on extensive archival material, the Ukrainian position is examined chiefly through the perspective of Ukrainian Central Committee head Volodymyr Kubiiovych, a prewar academic and ardent nationalist.

Название: Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World
Автор: Richard Middleton
Издательство: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300196806
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 440
Размер: 41,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty years―the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered America, India, Britain, and Ireland
Charles, First Marquis of Cornwallis (1738–1805), was a leading figure in late eighteenth-century Britain. His career spanned the American War of Independence, Irish Union, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the building of the Second British Empire in India―and he has long been associated with the unacceptable face of Britain’s colonial past.

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.