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.

Название: Martin Bormann: Hitler’s Executioner
Автор: Volker Koop
Издательство: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1473886929
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 248
Размер: 1,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

The author explores how Bormann achieved his rise to power, detailing his ability to manage and manipulate the power struggle in the Nazi Party.
Born on 17 June 1900, Martin Ludwig Bormann became one of the most powerful and most feared men in the Third Reich. An obsessive bureaucrat, it was Bormann who helped steer Hitler’s apparatus of terror so effectively that he became the clandestine ruler of Nazi Germany.

Название: Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War
Автор: Jason Lyall
Издательство: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069119243X
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 528
Размер: 50,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

How do armies fight and what makes them victorious on the modern battlefield? In Divided Armies, Jason Lyall challenges long-standing answers to this classic question by linking the fate of armies to their levels of inequality. Introducing the concept of military inequality, Lyall demonstrates how a state's prewar choices about the citizenship status of ethnic groups within its population determine subsequent battlefield performance.

Название: Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War
Автор: Noriko Kawamura
Издательство: University of Washington Press
Год: 2016
Страниц: 315
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, mobi, epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

This reexamination of the controversial role Emperor Hirohito played during the Pacific War gives particular attention to the question: If the emperor could not stop Japan from going to war with the Allied Powers in 1941, why was he able to play a crucial role in ending the war in 1945? Drawing on previously unavailable primary sources, Noriko Kawamura traces Hirohito actions from the late 1920s to the end of the war, analyzing the role Hirohito played in Japanese expansion. Emperor Hirohito emerges as a conflicted man who struggled throughout the war to deal with the undefined powers bestowed upon him as a monarch, often juggling the contradictory positions and irreconcilable differences advocated by his subordinates. Kawamura shows that he was by no means a pacifist, but neither did he favor the reckless wars advocated by Japanese military leaders.