Название: Osprey New Vanguard 72 - Austrian Napoleonic Artillery 1792 - 1815
Автор: David Hollins
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 48
Размер: 12,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Austrian artillery of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars was a creation of the renowned Lichtenstein system of the early 1750s. This weight system produced a series of weapons of 3-, 6- and 12-pdr. calibre along with 7- and 10-pdr. howitzers. In the 1780s they were joined by Cavalry artillery guns with their Wurst seats.

Название: Osprey New Vanguard 90 - Napoleonic Naval Armaments 1792–1815
Автор: Chris Henry
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2004
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 48
Размер: 18,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

There were many elements to British Napoleonic naval success but one of the key factors was gunnery. Other countries developed different naval weapons to fit their maritime strategies. The French and Spanish systems developed on similar lines, while those of the Baltic navies tended to rely on smaller craft and weapons. Holland, during this period, was part of the French sphere of influence and this had an effect on the development of its naval weapons.

Название: Искусство войны. С комментариями, иллюстрациями и каллиграфией
Автор: Сунь-цзы
Язык: русский
Издательство: АСТ
Год: 2021
Страниц: 220
Формат: pdf
Размер: 43,9 Мб

«Искусство войны» – древний китайский трактат, написанный человеком, взявшим себе псевдоним Сунь-цзы. В книге раскрываются тонкости дипломатии и ведения войны, тактические ходы и стратегии, умение вести себя на поле боя, а также ставятся проблемы выбора и указываются пути развития тех или иных событий. Трактат оказал огромное влияние на политику и экономику разных государств, и прежде всего восточных.

Название: Osprey New Vanguard 85 - M60 Main Battle Tank 1960–91
Автор: Richard Lathrop, John McDonald
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 48
Размер: 2,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Entering service in the early 1960s, the M60 tank was in production for 23 years and formed the backbone of US Army and Marine armoured units during the Cold War. Over 15,000 were built in four basic models: the M60, M60A1, M60A2, and the M60A3. Although the M60 had been phased out of US Army service by the time Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, M60s were amongst the first Allied tanks to enter Kuwait City with the US Marines. This book examines the design and deployment of the M60, a very widely used vehicle that is still in service today.

Название: Osprey New Vanguard 88 - British Battlecruisers 1939-45
Автор: Angus Konstam
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 48
Размер: 11,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

When war broke out in 1939, only three true battlecruisers remained in the Royal Navy including HMS ‘Hood’, the world's largest and fastest capital ship for much of her life, which would be destroyed in action against the German battleship ‘Bismarck’. Out of the remaining two battlecruisers (‘Repulse’ and ‘Renown’) one was sunk by Japanese aircraft off Singapore, whilst the other served with distinction until the end of the war.

Название: Osprey Fortress 6 - American Civil War Fortifications (1): Coastal Brick and Stone Forts
Автор: Angus Konstam
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 64
Размер: 4,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The 50 years before the American Civil War saw a boom in the construction of coastal forts in the United States of America. These stone and brick forts stretched from New England to the Florida Keys, and as far as the Mississippi River. At the start of the war some were located in the secessionist states, and many fell into Confederate hands.

Название: Osprey Fortress 38 - American Civil War Fortifications (2): Land and Field Fortifications
Автор: Ron Field
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 64
Размер: 3,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The American Civil War saw a massive development in the use of field fortifications, the result of the practical application of antebellum West-Point teaching, and the deadly impact of rifled infantry weapons and artillery. Both the Federal and Confederate armies began to develop far more sophisticated systems of field fortification, and the larger field works and fortifications surrounding Washington, DC and Richmond, VA were redesigned and rebuilt several times.

Название: Osprey Fortress 68 - American Civil War Fortifications (3). The Mississippi and River Forts
Автор: Ron Field
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2007
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 64
Размер: 4,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Mississippi River played a decisive role in the American Civil War. The Confederate fortifications that controlled the lower Mississippi valley were put to the test in the lengthy Federal campaign of 1862-63. Vicksburg was a fortress city, known as the 'Gibraltar of the Confederacy', whose capture was seen as the key to victory in the war.

Название: The French empire at War, 1940–1945
Автор: Martin Thomas
Издательство: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 0719065194
Год: 2007
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 304
Размер: 6,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

The French empire at war draws on original research in France and Britain to investigate the history of the divided French empire – the Vichy and the Free French empires – during the Second World War. What emerges is a fascinating story.

Название: В коммандо
Автор: Дитлоф ван Вармело
Издательство: Литрес, Самиздат
Год: 2020
Страниц: 110
Язык: русский
Формат: pdf, fb2, epub
Размер: 10.16 MB

Дневник участника англо-бурской войны, показывающий ее изнанку – трудности, лишения, страдания народа. Эта книга была написана в 1901 году, когда ее автор был пленным в Ахмаднагаре. Она была написана на голландском языке и переведена на английский молодой особой, проживающей в бывшем Оранжевом Свободном Государстве.