Название: The Gurkha Diaries of Robert Atkins MC: India and Malaya 1944 - 1958 Автор: Robert Atkins Издательство: Pen and Sword Military Год: 2021 Страниц: 144 Язык: английский Формат: epub Размер: 10.0 MB
How fortunate it is that Robert Atkins wrote up his experiences as a young Gurkha officer in India and later Malaya as, seventy years on, they form an important contemporaneous record of two historically significant periods. These diaries tell of a young Army officer’s journey of singular travel and excitement. As the Second World War drew to a close, Robert had set out for India, where his father and grandfather had served before him, armed with a commission in the Indian Army. At the modest age of eighteen he was to join the elite 8th Gurkha Rifles. Then, following Partition and the Independence of India in 1947, he transferred to the British Army along with four of the ten Gurkha Regiments of the Indian Army. Three years later, Robert returned to the East and his former soldiers, and for seven years he was to serve with the First Battalion of the 6th Gurkha Rifles in Malaya.
Название: Boy Soldiers of the Great War Автор: Richard van Emden Издательство: Pen and Sword Military Год: 2021 Страниц: 488 Язык: английский Формат: epub Размер: 10.1 MB
After the outbreak of the Great War, boys as young as twelve were caught up in a national wave of patriotism and, in huge numbers, volunteered to serve their country. The press, recruiting offices and the Government all contributed to the enlistment of hundreds of thousands of under-age soldiers in both Britain and the Empire. On joining up, these lads falsified their ages, often aided by parents who believed their sons’ obvious youth would make overseas service unlikely. Time made men out of boys. A seventeen-year-old lad serving overseas in 1915 might pass his nineteenth birthday (the minimum age for foreign service) in 1916 and would be no be longer eligible for evacuation to the safety of a base camp or a boat trip home.
Название: Spitfire II. The Canadians Автор: Robert Bracken Издательство: The Boston Mills Press Год: 1999 Формат: PDF Страниц: 138 Размер: 99,3 МБ Язык: Английский
Spitfire - The Canadians and Spitfire II - The Canadians both take an identical approach to the subject of Spitfires flown by Canadian pilots.
Название: The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Soviet Military Автор: Peter Whitewood Издательство: University Press of Kansas ISBN: 0700621172 Год: 2015 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 368 Размер: 1,3 МБ Язык: Английский
On June 11, 1937, a closed military court ordered the execution of a group of the Soviet Union's most talented and experienced army officers, including Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevskii; all were charged with participating in a Nazi plot to overthrow the regime of Joseph Stalin.
Название: For Valour: Canadians and the Victoria Cross in the Great War Автор: Gerald Gliddon Издательство: Dundurn ISBN: 1459728483 Год: 2015 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 488 Размер: 2,8 МБ Язык: Английский
The collected stories of the Canadian recipients of the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration. As Canada came into its own as a nation during the First World War, proving itself capable of standing alongside Britain on the world stage, scores of Canadians were awarded the Commonwealth's highest award for pre-eminent acts of valour, self-sacrifice, or extreme devotion to duty, the Victoria Cross.
Название: That Eternal Summer: Untold True Stories from the Battle of Britain Автор: Ralph Barker Издательство: Lume Books Год: 2018 Дата выхода на Amazon: March 13, 2020 Страниц: 246 Язык: английский Формат: pdf, mobi, epub Размер: 10.2 MB
In the balmy summer of 1940, Britain's most critical battle of the Second World War was fought out over the fields and towns of southern England. In this book, Ralph Barker unearths twelve little known but unforgettable stories of men whose names may be unfamiliar but without whose selfless tenacity, Britain would not have survived. The restoration of squadron morale after the debacle inFrance, the misunderstanding of the RAF's role at Dunkirk, the harnessing of the 'ace' mentality to the attritional contest - all these are recounted, together with the inside story, related here for the first time.
Название: Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan Автор: Kaoru Ueda Издательство: Hoover Institution Press ISBN: 0817924647 Год: 2021 Формат: PDF Страниц: 189 Размер: 28,1 МБ Язык: Английский
Following a period of strict isolationism from the West, Japan began a series of modernization efforts, starting in the Meiji Restoration, that transformed the nation from a scattered feudal state to an expansionist empire. Accompanying these changes, state-sponsored and grassroots commercial propaganda became an omnipresent influence in all aspects of Japanese life.
Название: On to Stalingrad: Operation Winter Thunderstorm and the attempt to relieve Sixth Army, December 1942 (Die Wehrmacht im Kampf) Автор: Horst Scheibert Издательство: Casemate ISBN: 1612008062 Год: 2022 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 144 Размер: 4,9 МБ Язык: Английский
In late November 1942, Soviet forces surrounded General Friedrich Paulus' Sixth Army in a pocket at the Russian city of Stalingrad. In response the Germans planned a relief operation, Operation Winter Thunderstorm, intended to break through the Soviet forces and open the pocket, releasing the encircled units.
Название: Images of War - The Rise of Hitler: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives Автор: Trevor Salisbury Издательство: Pen & Sword ISBN: 1473822181 Год: 2015 Формат: MOBI Страниц: 176 Размер: 9,7 МБ Язык: Английский
A Nazi propaganda book found in the ruins of a bomb-damaged German home in 1945 and recovered as a souvenir by a British soldier. It forms the basis for this photographic account of Hitlers' early days as he gains acceptance and eventually took over the hearts and minds of the German people.
Название: The Siege of Delhi Автор: Amarpal Singh Издательство: Amberley Publishing ISBN: 1445682354 Год: 2021 Формат: PDF Страниц: 544 Размер: 6,3 МБ Язык: Английский
On 10 May 1857, the most serious threat to British supremacy in India appeared at Meerut, a large military station near Delhi. After months of increasing tension, sepoys of the 3rd Light Cavalry along with the 11th and 20th Native Infantry pointedly refused to use the new cartridges supplied to them.
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Название: The Gurkha Diaries of Robert Atkins MC: India and Malaya 1944 - 1958
Название: Boy Soldiers of the Great War
Название: That Eternal Summer: Untold True Stories from the Battle of Britain
