Название: 1812: Napoleon in Moscow
Автор: Paul Britten Austin
Издательство: Frontline Books
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 11,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

At the gates of Moscow, Napoleon's Grand Army prepares to enter in triumphal procession. But what it finds is a city abandoned by its inhabitants – save only the men who emerge to fan the flames as incendiary fuses hidden throughout the empty buildings of Moscow set the city alight. For three days Moscow burned, while looters dodged the fires to plunder and pillage. And so begins 1812: Napoleon in Moscow, Paul Britten Austin's atmospheric second volume in his acclaimed trilogy on Napoleon’s catastrophic invasion of Russia.

Название: No Place for Glory: Major General Robert E. Rodes and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg
Автор: Robert J. Wynstra
Издательство: The Kent State University Press
ISBN: 1606354108
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 384
Размер: 9,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Over the years, many top historians have cited Major General Robert E. Rodes as the best division commander in Robert E. Lee's vaunted army. Despite those accolades, Rodes faltered badly at Gettysburg, which stands as the only major blemish on his otherwise sterling record. Although his subordinates were guilty of significant blunders, Rodes shared the blame for the disjointed attack that led to the destruction of Alfred Iverson's brigade on the first day of the battle.

Название: Austerlitz: Napoleon and The Eagles of Europe
Автор: Ian Castle
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2006
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 224
Размер: 10,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

In this authoritative and beautifully illustrated new account of Napoleon's greatest victory and the campaign that preceded it, Ian Castle sheds new light on the actions of the commanders and questions the assumptions - and explores the myths - that have shaped our understanding of the event ever since.

Название: The Mountain War: A Doctor's Diary of the Italian Campaign 1914-1918
Автор: Isaak Barasch
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 139909310X
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 232
Размер: 22,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

The diary Dr Isaak Barasch kept while serving in the Austro-Hungarian army on the Italian front during the First World War gives the reader a remarkable insight into the conflict and into the man himself. Few personal accounts of service on the Italian front have been published in English and diaries from the Habsburg side are rarer still, so his writing is exceptional.

Название: American Forts: Yesterday and Today
Автор: Bruce Grant
Издательство: E. P. Dutton & Co.
Год: 1965
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 352
Размер: 57,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

This is a definitive account of the more than 1200 forts built in America, from early settlement when hastily constructed trading posts, log cabins, or even churches went by the name of "fort," to the more recent past and the elaborate fortifications that remain today.

Название: Warfare: A Visual History
Автор: Tim Newark
Издательство: Ivy Press
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 324
Размер: 111,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Warfare: A Visual History combines historical engravings and diagrams with an engaging modern text to create a visual study of humankind’s extraordinary ingenuity in inventing new ways to wage war. A chronological and geographical study of arms and armour is followed by a separate section that provides thumbnail studies of individual items of militaria-from swords to siege engines, from helmets to handguns-so that the researcher can choose to study a particular era or seek an evolutionary overview. Navigational features include coloured tabs with cross-references, timelines of key battles and inventions, and silhouettes of warriors through time.

Название: Die Eisernen Sarge
Автор: Herbert A. Werner
Издательство: Weltbild Verlag
Год: 1990
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 440
Размер: 104,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Die Eisernen Sarge

Название: The Meuse-Argonne 1918: The Right Bank to the Armistice
Автор: Maarten Otte
Издательство: Pen and Sword Military
Год: 2021
Страниц: 288
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 55.3 MB

The Americans had considerable initial success when they launched their huge offensive against the Germans in the Meuse-Argonne in the last days of September 1918. However, not everything went smoothly and the attack became bogged down, held up by the several lines of the Hindenburg System and logistical challenges. A major additional obstacle was the presence of batteries of German artillery on the high ground on the right bank of the Meuse, almost untroubled by any significant assaults by the allied forces. These guns created severe problems for the American commanders and their troops.

Название: Section D for Destruction: Forerunner of SOE: The Story of Section D of the Secret Intelligence Service
Автор: Malcolm Atkin
Издательство: Pen and Sword Military
Год: 2017
Страниц: 410
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

When Neville Chamberlain made his famous Peace in Our Time statement in 1938, after the Munich Agreement with Hitler, he may, or may not, have been aware that the new Section D of the Secret Intelligence Service was already making plans to mount an all-out political and sabotage war against Nazi Germany. This was a new form of warfare, encompassing bribery, black propaganda and sabotage by agents described as having no morals or scruples. To the horror of many, it disregarded the conventions of neutrality and was prepared to hit the Nazi state wherever it could do most damage. Malcolm Atkin reveals how Section D's struggle to build a European wide anti-Nazi resistance movement was met with widespread suspicion from government, to the extent of a systematic destruction of its reputation. It was, however, a key pioneer of irregular warfare that led to the formation of the famous Special Operations Executive (SOE). His study is the first in-depth account of it to be published since the release of previously secret documents to the National Archives.

Название: The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
Автор: Neal Bascomb
Издательство: Head of Zeus, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Год: 2016
Страниц: 471
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann and The Perfect Mile, an epic adventure and spy story about the greatest act of sabotage in all of World War II. Its 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They have the physicists, they have the uranium, and now all their plans depend on amassing a single ingredient: heavy water, which is produced in Norways Vemork, the lone plant in all the world that makes this rare substance. Under threat of death, Vemorks engineers push production into overdrive. For the Allies, the plant must be destroyed. But how would they reach the castle fortress set on a precipitous gorge in one of the coldest, most inhospitable places on Earth? Based on a trove of top secret documents and never-before-seen diaries and letters of the saboteurs, The Winter Fortress is an arresting chronicle of a brilliant scientist, a band of spies on skies, perilous survival in the wild, sacrifice for ones country, Gestapo manhunts, soul-crushing setbacks, and a last-minute operation that would end any chance Hitler could obtain the atomic bomb”and alter the course of the war.