Название: Osprey Combat Aircraft 40 - PBJ Mitchell Units of the Pacific War
Автор: Jerry Scutts
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 96
Размер: 52,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Flown exclusively by the US Marines, the PBJ was one of those rare examples of an air force type being procured by the navy due to its ability to do exactly the job that was required of it. Bought as a land-based patrol bomber for operations in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II (1939-1945), the PBJ (Patrol, Bomber, North American) was kitted out to hunt down submarines as well as surface vessels.

Название: Myths of the Civil War: The Fact, Fiction, and Science behind the Civil War's Most-Told Stories
Автор: Scott Hippensteel
Издательство: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 081173997X
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 264
Размер: 5,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the spirit of Robert Adair's cult classic The Physics of Baseball, here is a book that tackles the long-cherished myths of Civil War history—and ultimately shatters them, based on physics and mathematics.

Название: The War of Jenkins' Ear: The Forgotten Struggle for North and South America: 1739-1742
Автор: Robert Gaudi
Издательство: Pegasus Books
ISBN: 1643138197
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 408
Размер: 6,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the early 18th century, the British and Spanish Empires were fighting for economic supremacy in the Americas. Tensions between the two powers were high, and wars blossomed like violent flowers for nearly a hundred years, from the War of Spanish Succession (sometimes known as Queen Anne's War in the Americas), culminating in the War of Jenkins' Ear.

Название: Spymaster: The Man Who Saved MI6
Автор: Helen Fry
Издательство: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300255950
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 360
Размер: 15,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The dramatic story of a man who stood at the center of British intelligence operations, the ultimate spymaster of World War Two: Thomas Kendrick
Thomas Kendrick (1881–1972) was central to the British Secret Service from its beginnings through to the Second World War.

Название: Nationalist in the Viet Nam Wars: Memoirs of a Victim Turned Soldier
Автор: Nguyen Cong Luan
Издательство: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253356873
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 616
Размер: 4,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

This extraordinary memoir tells the story of one man's experience of the wars of Viet Nam from the time he was old enough to be aware of war in the 1940s until his departure for America 15 years after the collapse of South Viet Nam in 1975. Nguyen Cong Luan was born and raised in small villages near Ha Noi. He grew up knowing war at the hands of the Japanese, the French, and the Viet Minh.

Название: Blown to Hell: America's Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders
Автор: Walter Pincus
Издательство: Diversion Books
Год: 2021
Страниц: 416
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Pincus exposes the darkest secret in American nuclear history―sixty-seven nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands that decimated a people and their land. The most important place in American nuclear history are the Marshall Islands―an idyllic Pacific paradise that served as the staging ground for over sixty US nuclear tests. It was here, from 1946 to 1958, that America perfected the weapon that preserved the peace of the post-war years. It was here―with the 1954 Castle Bravo test over Bikini Atoll―that America executed its largest nuclear detonation, a thousand times more powerful than Hiroshima.

Название: Full Speed Ahead!: America's First Admiral: David Glasgow Farragut
Автор: Louise Borden
Издательство: Calkins Creek
ISBN: 1684379059
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 87,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

At the age of nine, David Glasgow Farragut was appointed a midshipman in the US Navy by President James Madison. It was the start of a celebrated career. Farragut sailed aboard ships along the Delaware River, in the Caribbean, and across the Atlantic Ocean, even rounding the tip of South America, all while rising through the naval ranks from midshipman to admiral.

Название: Camp Century: The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base Under the Greenland Ice
Автор: Henry Nielsen, Kristian Hvidtfeldt Nielsen
Издательство: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023120177X
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 352
Размер: 65,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

At the height of the Cold War, the United States Army secretly began work on a base embedded deep in the Greenland ice cap: Camp Century. Officially defined as a scientific research station, this facility had an undisclosed purpose: to aim up to 600 nuclear warheads, buried in the ice, at the Soviet Union.

Название: Osprey Combat Aircraft 39 - B-17 Flying Fortress Units Of The Pacific War
Автор: Martin Bowman
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 96
Размер: 57,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

The B-17 saw combat in the Pacific from the moment a formation of these bombers arrived at Pearl Harbor during the midst of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack. By the end of World War II (1939-1945), SB-17 rescue craft were saving combat crews in the waters off Japan. This book reveals why, to the public, the Flying Fortress was better known than the Spitfire, the Boeing 747, or Lindbergh's Spirit of St Louis.

Название: Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival
Автор: Tom Clavin
Издательство: ‎St. Martin's Press
Год: 2021
Страниц: 320
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 24.1 MB

An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story.