Название: Egypt 1801: The End of Napoleon's Eastern Empire
Автор: Stuart Reid
Издательство: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1526758466
Год: 2021
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 274
Размер: 25,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The first campaign medal awarded to British soldiers is reckoned to be that given to those men who fought at Waterloo in 1815, but a decade and a half earlier a group of regiments were awarded a unique badge – a figure of a Sphinx - to mark their service in Egypt in 1801.

Название: Waterloo Witnesses: Military and Civilian Accounts of the 1815 Campaign
Автор: Kristine Hughes
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399003623
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 312
Размер: 20,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The events of Sunday, 18 June, stand as the defining moment of the year 1815, if not of an entire era. The allied victory over Napoleon's French army at the Battle of Waterloo reshaped governments and boundaries, made or broke fortunes and touched thousands of lives in ways both large and small, and it has been analysed, dissected and refought on paper a hundred times.

Название: Pictorial History of the US 3rd Armored Division in World War Two
Автор: Darren Neely
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526775514
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 322
Размер: 50,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Third Armored Division, famously known as the “Spearhead Division," had an illustrious combat career in WW2. One of only two “heavy armored” divisions of the war, the 3rd Armored joined the battle in the ETO in late June of 1944, was bloodied almost immediately and was at the front of the American advance through the hedgerows of Normandy and the rapid advance through France into Belgium by September 1944.

Название: Fighting for the United States, Executed in Britain: US Soldiers Court-Martialled in WWII
Автор: Simon Webb
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526790955
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 210
Размер: 35,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book relates a chapter of American military history which many people would rather forget. When the United States came to the aid of Britain in 1942, the arrival of American troops was greeted with unreserved enthusiasm, but unfortunately, wartime sometimes brings out the worst, as well as the best, in people.

Название: The Ottoman Sieges of Vienna: The History of the Ottoman Empire’s Unsuccessful Attempts to Conquer the Habsburg Capital
Автор: Charles River Editors
Издательство: Charles River Editors
Год: 2021
Страниц: 111
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.8 MB

In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the 4th century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late 5th century. n the wake of taking Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire would spend the next few centuries expanding its size, power, and influence, bumping up against Eastern Europe and becoming one of the world’s most important geopolitical players. It would take repeated efforts by various European coalitions to prevent a complete Ottoman takeover of the continent, and one of the most important battles among those efforts took place at Vienna in 1529.

Название: The Long War for Britannia 367–664: Arthur and the History of Post-Roman Britain
Автор: Edwin Pace
Издательство: Pen and Sword Military
Год: 2021
Страниц: 400
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

The Long War for Britannia is unique. It recounts some two centuries of ‘lost’ British history, while providing decisive proof that the early records for this period are the very opposite of ‘fake news’. The book shows that the discrepancies in dates claimed by many scholars are illusory. Every early source originally recorded the same events in the same year. It is only the transition to Anno Domini dating centuries afterward that distorts our perceptions. Of equal significance, the book demonstrates that King Arthur and Uther Pendragon are the very opposite of medieval fantasy. Current scholarly doubts arose from the fact that different British regions had very different memories of post-Roman British rulers. Some remembered Arthur as the ‘Proud Tyrant’, a monarch who plunged the island into civil war. Others recalled him as the British general who saved Britain when all seemed lost. The deeds of Uther Pendragon replicate the victories of the dread Mercian king Penda. These authentic--yet radically different--narratives distort history to this very day.

Название: Great American Guns and Frontier Fighters
Автор: Will Bryant
Издательство: Grosset & Dunlap
Год: 1961
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 178
Размер: 30,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

An unusual history of firearms in America for the gun collector's library. Chapters include: the Kentucky Rifle, the Shut-eye Hunter 1778, the plains rifle, Mojave massacre 1827, the cap & ball Colt, John Cremony's ride 1850, the buffalo gun, the Freeze-out Bunch 1862, the repeating rifle, Smoke Wagon Medicine 1868, the broken medicine of Roman Nose 1868, the buffalo wallow 1874, the Peacemaker Colt, the fastest gun 1900.

Название: The Essential Aircraft Guide: Vintage Warbirds to Modern Airliners
Автор: Robert Jackson
Издательство: Silverdale Books
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 226
Размер: 146,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

To enthusiastic aircraft spotters, each airborne machine has a unique profile and presence in the sky. Here is a handy spotting guide suitable for beginners, but with plenty of fascinating facts and drawings for the more experienced. Each aircraft entry includes the development history, a full-color photograph, and a three-view drawing illustrating key recognition features that will enable the reader to spot the subtle differences between similar aircraft types. More than 200 currently flying aircraft are featured—from warplanes to airliners to executive jets.

Название: Osprey New Vanguard 216 - Super-Heavy Tanks of World War II
Автор: Kenneth W Estes
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 48
Размер: 2,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

This title explores the conception and design of a range of enormous and powerful tanks that came to be designated as 'super-heavy'. The fascinating super-heavy tanks of World War II were heirs to the siege machine tradition - a means of breaking the deadlock of ground combat. As a class of fighting vehicle, they began with the World War I concept of the search for a "breakthrough" tank, designed to cross enemy lines.

Название: The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy
Автор: Andrew Lambert
Издательство: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300250738
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 544
Размер: 4,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Leading historian Andrew Lambert shows how, as a lawyer, civilian, and Liberal, Julian Corbett (1854–1922) brought a new level of logic, advocacy, and intellectual precision to the development of strategy.
Corbett skillfully integrated classical strategic theory, British history, and emerging trends in technology, geopolitics, and conflict to prepare the British state for war.