Название: The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Warfare
Автор: Noble Frankland
Издательство: Orion Books
Год: 1989
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 470
Размер: 116,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Warfare provides for the first time in a single volume a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the wars and conflicts of the modern age. Its A to Z section contains more than 3,000 entries, defining and explaining for the nonspecialist the battles, the commanders, the weapons, and the strategic, tactical, and even political concepts involved in waging war. War was always a terrible scourge, but in the twentieth century it has become a complex and ambiguous activity, rarely fought with clear-cut notions of what total victory might mean, and more often than not ending inconclusively.

Название: World War II: Ground, Sea & Air Battles
Автор: Karen Farrington
Издательство: Abbeydale Press
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 244
Размер: 32,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

World War II Ground, Sea & Air Battles is the harrowing yet often uplifting story of World War II, told through narrative spiced with first-hand accounts by those who fought and lived through those 'dark hours' of the 2,000-day conflict.

Название: В осаде.
Автор: Мощанский И.
Издательство: БТВ-КНИГА
Год: 2008
Язык: Русский
Формат: rtf, fb2
Размер: 10 Мб


Наиболее трагическим периодом истории блокады Ленинграда стал 1942 год, в течение которого германское командование различными способами пыталось стереть с лица земли город на Неве и уничтожить его жителей.

Название: The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid - America's first World War II Victory
Автор: Craig Nelson
Издательство: Penguin Books
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 468
Размер: 53,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Immediately after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to restore the honor of the United States with a dramatic act of vengeance: a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo. On April 18, 1942, eighty brave young men, led by the famous daredevil Jimmy Doolittle, took off from a navy carrier in the mid-Pacific on what everyone regarded as a suicide mission but instead became a resounding American victory and one of the major turning points of World War II.

Название: Lost Airmen: The Epic Rescue of WWII U.S. Bomber Crews Stranded Behind Enemy Lines
Автор: Charles E. Stanley Jr.
Издательство: Regnery History
ISBN: 168451262X
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 320
Размер: 2,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Late in 1944, thirteen U.S. B-24 bomber crews bailed from their cabins over the Yugoslavian wilderness. Bloodied and disoriented after a harrowing strike against the Third Reich, the pilots took refugee with the Partisan underground. But the Americans were far from safety.

Название: With a Royal Engineers Field Company in France & Italy: April 1915 to the Armistice
Автор: V F Eberle
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526751321
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 208
Размер: 18,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

A memoir of the First World War from the rare perspective of an engineer. VF Eberle MC joined up upon the outbreak of the war in No 2 Field Company Royal Engineers, 48th (South Midland) Division, the same company as his brother, who was a captain. He was commissioned before sailing for France at the end of March 1915 and remained with it for the rest of the war.

Название: Medieval Chivalry (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)
Автор: Richard W. Kaeuper
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521761689
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 447
Размер: 36,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Emerging in the medieval period, chivalry embodied ideals that elite warriors cherished and practices that formed their profession. In this major new overview, Richard Kaeuper examines how chivalry made sense of violence and war, making it tolerable for elite fighters rather than non-knightly or sub-knightly populations.

Название: Extreme Violence and the ‘British Way’: Colonial Warfare in Perak, Sierra Leone and Sudan
Автор: Michelle Gordon
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 1350156884
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 256
Размер: 6,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Analysing three cases of British colonial violence that occurred in the latter half of the 19th century, this book argues that all three share commonalities, including the role of racial prejudices in justifying the perpetration of extreme colonial violence.

Название: Caesar’s Gallic Triumph: Alesia 52BC (Campaign Chronicles)
Автор: Peter Inker
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2008
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 192
Размер: 4,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 52 B.C. at Alesia in what is now Burgundy in France Julius Caesar pulled off one of the great feats of Roman arms. His heavily outnumbered army utterly defeated the combined forces of the Gallic tribes led by Vercingetorix and completed the Roman conquest of Gaul. The Alesia campaign, and the epic siege in which it culminated, was one of Caesar ‘s finest military achievements, and it has fascinated historians ever since.

Название: Gallipoli Diary 1915
Автор: Alec Riley
Издательство: Little Gully Publishing
ISBN: 0645235911
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 360
Размер: 31,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

So wrote Alec Riley in his account of an ordinary soldier in an extraordinary conflict, the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915. A signaller with the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division, Riley was well placed to serve as an eyewitness to the sharp end of the campaign, being with the infantry but not of it.