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.

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.