Название: Images of War - The Aftermath of Dunkirk: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Автор: Stephen Wynn
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526738694
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 176
Размер: 30,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Operation Dynamo, the successful evacuation of Belgian, British, Dutch, French and Polish troops from the beaches at Dunkirk between 27 May and 4 June 1940, was not only a pivotal moment of the war, but one that changed its final outcome.

Название: The German Way of War: A Lesson in Tactical Management
Автор: Jaap Jan Brouwer
Издательство: Pen & Sword Military
Год: 2021
Страниц: 430
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 21.4 MB

Includes more than 50 cases showing how the German Army successfully combined opposing characteristics, such as obedience and initiative, drill and creativity, authority and independent thinking, into a potent mix of fighting power. The German Army lost two consecutive wars and the conclusion is often drawn that it simply wasn't able to cope with its opponents. This image is constantly reinforced in literature and in the media, where seemingly brainless operating German units led by fanatical officers predominate. Nothing was as far from the truth. The records show that the Germans consistently outfought the far more numerous Allied armies that eventually defeated them: their relative battlefield performance was at least 1.5 and in most cases 3 times as high as that of its opponents.

Название: The Battle for York: Marston Moor 1644
Автор: John Barratt
Издательство: Tempus
ISBN: 0752423355
Год: 2002
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 189
Размер: 51,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Fought a mere 6 miles from the center of York, Marston Moor was the largest and bloodiest battle of the English Civil War. On July 2, 1644, 18,000 Royalists led by Prince Rupert, Charles I’s nephew, fought 27,000 Parliamentarians in an attempt to relieve the Royalist force besieged at York. He failed. The defeat was catastrophic and the north was lost to the Royalists.

Название: The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s Final Gamble
Автор: Patrick Delaforce
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783463597
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 376
Размер: 8,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

By late 1944 the Allies were poised to smash the Siegfried Line and break into Germany. Supply lines were shorter thanks to the port of Antwerp. Arnhem aside, there had been a long run of victories and there was no intelligence even from ULTRA to suggest a German counteroffensive.

Название: Stackpole Military History Series - Zhukov at the Oder: The Decisive Battle for Berlin
Автор: Tony Le Tissier
Издательство: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811736091
Год: 2009
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 384
Размер: 10,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

On January 31, 1945, the Red Army stood on a line along the Oder River, about thirty-five miles east of Berlin. They would not reach Berlin for another two months, after battles to cross the river, seize the fortress of Küstrin, and take the Seelow Heights.

Название: The British Navy in the Baltic
Автор: John D. Grainger
Издательство: Boydell Press
ISBN: 1843839474
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 304
Размер: 3,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Baltic Sea from the earliest times until the twentieth century. It traces developments from Anglo-Saxon times, through the medieval period when there were frequent disputes between English kings and the Hanseatic League, the seventeenth-century wars with the Dutch, and Britain's involvement in the Northern Wars in the early years of the eighteenth century.

Название: Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military
Автор: Thomas A. Guglielmo
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195342658
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 528
Размер: 20,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

America's World War II military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazism, it also managed to unify a famously fractious American people. At least that's the story many Americans have long told themselves.

Название: The Redcoats: The History of the British Army in the 18th Century
Автор: Charles River Editors
Издательство: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 1986068951
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 93
Размер: 2,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

World domination is a vision most kings, queens, and emperors can only dream of, and is a path less visited for good reason. It is one that requires above all, patience, as well as skill, tenacity, and an impenetrable plan of action. The only one to ever come close to this impossible level of prestige is none other than the legendary British Empire.

Название: Stonewall Jackson (Leaders of the Civil War Era)
Автор: Rachel A Koestler-Grack
Издательство: Chelsea House Publications
ISBN: 160413299X
Год: 2009
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 136
Размер: 4,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson was the great-grandson of indentured servants from Ireland who were sentenced to serve time in America for larceny. This book explores his life and career.

Название: The Soviet Union’s Invisible Weapons of Mass Destruction: Biopreparat’s Covert Biological Warfare Programme
Автор: Anthony Rimmington
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
Год: 2021
Страниц: 278
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 11.4 MB

This book focuses on Biopreparat, the Soviet agency created in 1974, which spearheaded the largest and most sophisticated biological warfare programme the world has ever seen. At its height, Biopreparat employed more than 30,000 personnel and incorporated an enormous network embracing military-focused research institutes, design centres, biowarfare pilot facilities and dual-use production plants. The secret network pursued major offensive R&D programmes, which sought to use genetic engineering techniques to create microbial strains resistant to antibiotics and with wholly new and unexpected pathogenic properties. During the mid-1980s, Biopreparat increased in size and political importance and also emerged as a major civil biopharmaceutical player in the USSR. In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, an acute struggle for control of Biopreparat’s most valuable assets took place and the network was eventually broken-up and control of its facilities transferred to a myriad of state agencies and private companies.