Название: Unlike Anything That Ever Floated: The Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862
Автор: Dwight Sturtevant Hughes
Издательство: Savas Beatie
ISBN: 1611215250
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 251
Размер: 16,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

“Ironclad against ironclad, we maneuvered about the bay here and went at each other with mutual fierceness,” reported Chief Engineer Alban Stimers following that momentous engagement between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (ex USS Merrimack) in Hampton Roads, Sunday, March 9, 1862.

Название: The Secrets of Station 14: Briggens House, SOE's Forgery and Polish Elite Agent Training Station
Автор: Des Turner
Издательство: The History Press
ISBN: 0750996196
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 492
Размер: 33,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Initially Briggens was established to train Poland's elite fighting force, the Cichociemni, members of the Polish Home Army who had escaped the atrocities in Poland. Here they were taught to command men, parachute, fight hand to hand and carry out acts of sabotage.

Название: The Planes They Flew in World War I
Автор: David C. Cooke
Издательство: Dodd, Mead & Company
Год: 1969
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 74
Размер: 59,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Planes They Flew in World War I

Название: Modern Military Weapons
Автор: Robin Cross
Издательство: Franklin Watts Inc.
Год: 1991
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 46
Размер: 25,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

A guide to modern military weapons, the book includes sections on tanks, artillery, missiles, fighter aircraft, bombers, helicopters, battleships, submarines and amphibious craft.

Название: An Illustrated Data Guide to Modern Reconnaissance Aircraft
Автор: Christopher Chant
Издательство: Tiger Books International
Год: 1997
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 78
Размер: 36,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Looks at the different types of reconnaissance craft and spy planes used in military operations, providing information about the planes' history, dimensions, weights, and performance. A compact illustrated directory with full details and specifications . Timely knowledge of the enemy's dispositions and strengths has always been a key to the deduction of his intentions and the creation of counter-plans, and from the time of WWI reconnaissance to yield such knowledge has become increasingly vital on military thinking.

Название: The Violinist of Auschwitz
Автор: Jean-Jacques Felstein
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399002813
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 208
Размер: 15,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Arrested in 1943 and deported to Auschwitz, Elsa survived because she had the 'opportunity' to join the women's orchestra. But Elsa kept her story a secret, even from her own family. Indeed, her son would only discover what had happened to his mother many years later, after gradually unearthing her unbelievable story following her premature death, without ever having revealed her secret to anyone.

Название: Stackpole Military History Series - The Key to the Bulge: The Battle for Losheimergraben
Автор: Stephen M. Rusiecki
Издательство: Stackpole Books
Год: 2009
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 244
Размер: 126,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

At the start of the Battle of the Bulge, the green U.S. 394th Infantry Regiment of the 99th Division occupied a critical road junction. For thirty-six hours, the 394th defended the crossroads against repeated assaults by German forces, inflicting a delay from which the Germans would never recover.

Название: Germans in Uniform
Автор: Timm Rautert
Издательство: Steidl Verlag
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 96
Размер: 178,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

German photographer Timm Rautert’s (born 1941) 1974 series Germans in Uniform presents a range of Germans in their professional attire. This expanded English version of the 2006 publication includes biographical information and quotations from each of Rautert’s subjects, resulting in a complex portrait of postwar Germany.

Название: Carriers: The Men and the Machines (A Salamander Book)
Автор: David Miller, Lindsay Peacock
Издательство: Salamander Books
Год: 1991
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 182
Размер: 302,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Carriers: The Men and the Machines (A Salamander Book)

Название: Britain's Final Defence: Arming the Home Guard, 1940-1944
Автор: Dale Clarke
Издательство: The History Press
ISBN: 0750967315
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 288
Размер: 6,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Known affectionately as Dad s Army , the Home Guard was Britain s very serious attempt to protect our shores from invasion by Nazi Germany in World War II. Short on resources, it had to make do with what was available. This book is the first to explore the efforts made to arm the home defence force and describe the full range of weaponry available to it.