Название: British Infantry Colours
Автор: Dino Lemonofides
Издательство: Almark Publishing
Год: 1971
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 56
Размер: 25,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

SINCE earliest times, man has fought behind a recognisable sign. Firstly, as a distinguishing mark of his own side, and as a rallying point in the melee of battle. These early symbols were most often a brightly coloured animal or bird. With the development of body and horse armour in the Middle Ages,this too was covered with colours and devices and brought about the beginning of heraldry.

Название: Historyczne Bitwy 16 - Stalingrad 1942-1943
Автор: K. Kaczmarek
Издательство: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej
Год: 1985
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 248
Размер: 11,5 МБ
Язык: Польский

Od połowy września centrum miasta i jego południowa część stały się areną zaciętych walk, które, to przygasając, to znów wybuchając ze świeżą siłą, trwały do końca obronnego etapu bitwy stalingradzkiej.

Название: Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II. Weapons Book №18 - Barrage: The Guns in Actions
Автор: Ian V. Hogg
Издательство: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345018257
Год: 1970
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 162
Размер: 69,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

A barrage is a line or barrier of exploding artillery shells, created by the co-ordinated aiming of a large number of guns firing continuously. Its purpose is to deny or hamper enemy passage through the line of the barrage, to attack a linear position such as a line of trenches or (as a creeping or rolling barrage) to neutralize the enemy in the path of an advance by friendly troops.

Название: Four Flags: The Odyssey of a Professional Soldier. Part 1: US Marine Corps Vietnam 1969-72, Israeli Defence Force 1975-77
Автор: Dave Barr
Издательство: Helion and Company
ISBN: 1909982709
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 300
Размер: 3,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Dave Barr had had a penchant for trouble since day one, born in the back of a car, shooting by the time he was five, riding a motorbike at seven, Dave regularly got into fights at school. The only reading Dave would do growing up involved motorbikes, shooting, westerns and the military.

Название: Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance
Автор: Robert Gildea
Издательство: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674286103
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 608
Размер: 35,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The French Resistance has an iconic status in the struggle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, but its story is entangled in myths. Gaining a true understanding of the Resistance means recognizing how its image has been carefully curated through a combination of French politics and pride, ever since jubilant crowds celebrated Paris’s liberation in August 1944.

Название: The Zeppelins of World War I: The History and Legacy of Zeppelin Air Raids during the Great War
Автор: Charles River Editors
Издательство: Charles River Editors
Год: 2021
Страниц: 75
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, mobi, epub
Размер: 10.19 MB

World War I, also known in its time as the Great War or the War to End all Wars, was an unprecedented conflict in terms of its sheer scale. Fought by men who hailed from all corners of the globe, it saw millions of soldiers do battle in brutal assaults of attrition which dragged on for months with little to no respite. Tens of millions of artillery shells and untold hundreds of millions of rifle and machine gun bullets were fired in a conflict that demonstrated man's capacity to kill each other on a heretofore unprecedented scale, and as always, such a war brought about technological innovation at a rate that made the boom of the Industrial Revolution seem stagnant. The Zeppelins, slow and large as they were, proved to be easy targets for fire from the ground, so they were too vulnerable for reconnaissance in the warzone. Instead, they were used for the task of bombing targets. Bombs were dropped on Paris in August 1914, and Zeppelins bombed Belgian forces as the Germans advanced on Liège. The Germans also used them to bomb England's eastern ports and London in an attempt to disrupt military supplies. On the other side, British pilots destroyed a Zeppelin on the ground at Düsseldorf. This was bombing at its most simple; the explosives were kept on hooks on the side of the machines and dropped by a crew member by hand.

Название: Immortal Valor: The Black Medal of Honor Winners Of World War II
Автор: Robert Child
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2022
Страниц: 288
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

The remarkable story of the seven African American soldiers ultimately awarded the World War II Medal of Honor, and the 50-year campaign to deny them their recognition. In 1945, when Congress began reviewing the record of the most conspicuous acts of courage by American soldiers during World War II, they recommended awarding the Medal of Honor to 432 recipients. Despite the fact that more than one million African-Americans served, not a single black soldier received the Medal of Honor. The omission remained on the record for over four decades.

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.