Название: Boxer Rebellion: A History from Beginning to End
Автор: Hourly History
Издательство: Hourly History
Год: 2021
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, mobi, epub
Размер: 10.18 MB

Discover the remarkable history of the Boxer Rebellion... The Boxer Rebellion saw impoverished Chinese peasants strike a blow against the Western powers, particularly the British, who had come to challenge China’s sovereignty. The uprising was both a harbinger of things to come for China and a by-product of simmering decades of friction between the Chinese and the British. The Chinese had been able to call the shots during the initial engagement of trade with the West but lost control after the British began smuggling opium into the country. What was a lucrative product for British trade was devastating to the Chinese as addiction began to take its toll on the population. The British fought and won the Opium Wars, and with the victory came trade advantages that eroded China’s autonomy.

Название: Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War
Автор: Lorien Foote
Издательство: The University of North Carolina Press
Год: 2021
Страниц: 312
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.2 MB

During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, and civilians claimed their approach to the conflict was civilized, in keeping with centuries of military tradition meant to restrain violence and preserve national honor. One hallmark of civilized warfare was a highly ritualized approach to retaliation. This ritual provided a forum to accuse the enemy of excessive behavior, to negotiate redress according to the laws of war, and to appeal to the judgment of other civilized nations. As the war progressed, Northerners and Southerners feared they were losing their essential identity as civilized, and the attention to retaliation grew more intense. When Black soldiers joined the Union army in campaigns in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, raiding plantations and liberating enslaved people, Confederates argued the war had become a servile insurrection. And when Confederates massacred Black troops after battle, killed white Union foragers after capture, and used prisoners of war as human shields, Federals thought their enemy raised the black flag and embraced savagery.

Название: Loyal Service: Perspectives on French-Canadian Military Leaders
Автор: Colonel Bernd Horn, Roch Legault
Издательство: Dundurn Press
Год: 2007
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 336
Размер: 16,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

French Canadians have a long, proud history of serving their nation. From the earliest beginnings, French Canadians assisted in carving out and defending the nascent country. They were critical as defenders and as allies against hostile Natives and competing European powers.

Название: The First Stroke: Lexington, Concord, and the Beginning of the American Revolution
Автор: Thomas Fleming
Издательство: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 141022306X
Год: 2005
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 108
Размер: 1,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

On April 19, 1775, thirty-eight Americans formed two uneven lines on the wet grass of the two-acre common in Lexington, Massachusetts. They were summoned by the rolling beat of sixteen-year-old William Diamond's brightly painted drum. The order to sound the call to arms had been given by Lexington's militia captain, John Parker.

Название: Historyczne Bitwy 100 - Kynoskefalaj 197 p.n.e.
Автор: Krzysztof Keciek
Издательство: Dom Wydawniczy Bellona
Год: 2002
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 295
Размер: 10,1 МБ
Язык: Польский

Серия книг издательского дома Bellona, посвящена военным битвам различных времен и эпох.

Название: The Waffen SS In The West (World War Two from Primary Sources)
Автор: Bob Carruthers
Издательство: Archive Media Publishing Ltd
Год: 2011
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 148
Размер: 10,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

This photgraphic journal was originally published in the spring of 1941. It was edited by and carried a forward by Hauptsturmführer Gunter d'Alquen, commander of the SS Propaganda Kompanie and editor of the official SS paper, Das Schwarze Korps. Many of the pictures taken in this book feature the men of Waffen SS Standarte "Germania".

Название: A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front
Автор: Winston Groom
Издательство: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Год: 2003
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 288
Размер: 7,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

A Storm in Flanders is novelist and prizewinning historian Winston Groom's gripping history of the four-year battle for Ypres in Belgian Flanders, the pivotal engagement of World War I that would forever change the way the world fought - and thought about - war.

Название: The Twilight Of A Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats And European Conflicts, 1560-1800
Автор: Gregory Hanlon
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 1138158275
Год: 2008
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 384
Размер: 10,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Both in providing accessible information and in offering a far more nuanced and unprejudiced view of the military activities of the Italian princes and their nobilities, Hanlons book is invaluable.

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.