Название: China and the Great War: China's Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization
Автор: Guoqi Xu
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521842123
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 342
Размер: 7,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

China's role in the First World War has been a curiously neglected topic. This 2005 book is a full-length study of China's involvement in the conflict from perspectives of international history, using largely unknown archival materials from China, France, Germany, UK, and USA.

Название: The Black Ship
Автор: Dudley Pope
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2009
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 431
Размер: 9,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Dudley Pope meticulously recounts the butchering of the officers aboard His Majesty’s Frigate Hermione in the West Indies in 1797. The captain of the frigate, Hugh Pigot, was a brutal and sadistic commander who flogged his men mercilessly and drove them beyond the limits of endurance.

Название: Out of Afghanistan: The Inside Story of the Soviet Withdrawal
Автор: Diego Cordovez, Selig S. Harrison
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 1995
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 471
Размер: 32,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

When the Soviet Union pulled its forces out of Afghanistan, the American media had a simple explanation: Soviet troops had been hounded out of the mountains by U.S.-armed guerrillas--the skies cleared of Soviet aircraft by Stinger missiles--until the Kremlin was forced to cry uncle.

Название: Адмирал Канарис - "Железный" адмирал
Авторы: А. Волков, С. Славин
Издательство: Русич, Олимп
Серия: Мир в войнах
Год: 1999
ISBN: 5-7390-0574-4, 5-88590-839-7
Страниц: 568
Формат: pdf
Размер: 112 Мб
Язык: Русский

Абвер, третий рейх, армейская разведка… Что скрывается за этими понятиями: отлаженный механизм уничтожения? Безотказно четкая структура? Железная дисциплина? Мировое господство? Страх? Книга о "хитром лисе", Канарисе, бессменном шефе абвера, - это неожиданно откровенный разговор о реальных людях, о психологии войны, об интригах и заговорах, покушениях и провалах в самом сердце Германии, за которыми стоял "железный" адмирал.

Название: Indian Army Uniforms Under the British From the 18th Century to 1947
Автор: W.Y. Carman
Издательство: Leonard Hill Books Ltd.
Год: 1961
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 302
Размер: 38,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

The partition of India in 1947 brought about the end of a notable period in the history of that sub-continent, for it saw the end of direct guidance and control by the British, a phase of the spreading of Western civilization begun in the trading days of the sixteenth century.

Название: Dog-Fight: Aerial Tactics of the Aces of World War I
Автор: Norman Franks
Издательство: Greenhill Books
ISBN: 1853675512
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 256
Размер: 108,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Dog-Fight: Aerial Tactics of the Aces of World War I

Название: Osprey Order of Battle 3 - Quebec 1759
Автор: Rene Chartrand
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 185532847X
Год: 1999
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 101
Размер: 32,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

The 1759 siege of Quebec and the battle of the Plains of Abraham is considered one of the world's epics. This history of the battle uses strategic and tactical maps and order-of-battle diagrams to recount the course of the battle. It is supported by contemporary photos, unit insignia and colours.

Название: Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 27 - Typhoon and Tempest Aces of World War 2
Автор: Chris Thomas
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1855327791
Год: 1999
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 95
Размер: 23,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Hawker Typhoon and Tempest - two aircraft types with widely differing reputations. The former was a technical nightmare redeemed as a ground attack machine, whilst the latter proved to be the most superlative low and medium level fighter to see service with the RAF, and arguably any air force, during the latter stages of World War 2.

Название: A People's History of the U.S. Military: Ordinary Soldiers Reflect on Their Experience of War, from the American Revolut
Автор: Michael A. Bellesiles
Издательство: The New Press
ISBN: 159558935X
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 384
Размер: 4,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Military service can shatter or give meaning to lives–it is rarely a neutral ­encounter―and it has resulted in a rich outpouring of personal testimony from the men and women who have literally placed their lives on the line.

Название: Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945, UK Edition
Автор: Richard Overy
Издательство: Allen Lane
ISBN: 0713995629
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 1040
Размер: 17,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a century of global imperial expansion which reached its peak in the ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s, before descending into the largest and costliest war in human history and the end, after 1945, of all territorial empires.