Название: Supreme Commander: MacArthur's Triumph in Japan
Автор: Seymour Morris Jr.
Издательство: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062287931
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 364
Размер: 1,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Seymour Morris Jr. combines political history, military biography, and business management to tell the story of General Douglas MacArthur's tremendous success in rebuilding Japan after World War II in Supreme Commander, a lively, in-depth work of biographical history complementary to The Generals, The Storm of War, and Truman.

Название: Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
Автор: Dan Jones
Издательство: Apollo
ISBN: 1789543533
Год: 2021
Формат: MOBI
Страниц: 720
Размер: 23,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built. It is a thousand-year adventure that moves from the ruins of the once-mighty city of Rome, sacked by barbarians in AD 410, to the first contacts between the old and new worlds in the sixteenth century.

Название: The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
Автор: Helen Graham
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192803778
Год: 2005
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 176
Размер: 2,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Amid the many catastrophes of the twentieth century, the Spanish Civil War continues to exert a particular fascination among history buffs and the lay reader alike. This Very Short Introduction integrates the political, social and cultural history of the Spanish Civil War.

Название: Электрооборудование танков
Автор: Белогуров И.
Издательство: Военное издательство народного комиссариата обороны
Год: 1944
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 156
Размер: 10.1 MB
Язык: Русский

В книге популярно излагаются вопросы устройства и работы основных приборов электрооборудования танков, приведены практические примеры по устранению неисправностях в системах электрооборудования и уходу за ними.
Книга является пособием для подготовки экипажей танков и курсантов бронетанковых училищ.

Название: Espionage in the Divided Stuart Dynasty, 1685–1715
Автор: Julian Whitehead
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526748525
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 457
Размер: 11,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

A historian and intelligence expert explores intrigue, betrayal, and spying in Stuart England after the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
King James II was the Catholic king of a Protestant nation. Though he had inherited a secure crown, he would soon find himself isolated and flee to France in exile. His throne was seized by his Protestant son-in-law William and daughter Mary. For James it was a personal tragedy of King Lear proportions; for most of his subjects it was a Glorious Revolution that saved his kingdoms from popery.

Название: The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean
Автор: Brendan O'Carroll
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526777371
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 590
Размер: 16,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

A history of the British Army unit’s deployment to and defense of a group of islands between Greece and Turkey during World War II.
Shortly after the invasion of Sicily, in order to distract German attention from the Italian campaign, Churchill ordered the occupation of the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean.

Название: Your Towns and Cities in World War Two - Sunderland at War 1939–45
Автор: Craig Armstrong
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473891256
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 590
Размер: 33,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

This local history explores the wartime contributions and sacrifices of a strategically significant English port town during WWII.

Название: From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog: Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot
Автор: Steven K Ladd
Издательство: Air World
ISBN: 1526761246
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 587
Размер: 12,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

From Baron von Richthofen to Robin Olds, the mystique of the fighter pilot endures. The skill, cunning, and bravery that characterizes this distinctive band of brothers is well known, but there are other dimensions to those who take to the skies to do battle that have not been given the emphasis they deserve—until now.

Название: Thunderer: Thomas Kydd 24
Автор: Julian Stockwin
Издательство: Mobius
ISBN: 1473698847
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 432
Размер: 1,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

1812. Arriving back in England after his successes in the Adriatic, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is bestowed with honours. In London he's greeted by the Prince Regent who, despite Kydd's protestations that he's happy with his present command, insists he be given a bigger ship - HMS Thunderer, a 74-gun ship of the line. But she's old, and being part of a standing fleet Kydd's chances of further fame and distinction are slim indeed.

Название: Remembering the English Civil Wars (Remembering the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds)
Автор: Lloyd Bowen, Mark Stoyle
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 0367467127
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 221
Размер: 3,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The English Civil Wars were perhaps the most calamitous series of conflicts in the country’s recorded history. Over the past twenty years there has been a surge of interest in the way that the Civil Wars were remembered by the men, women and children who were unfortunate enough to live through them.