Название: Mine Warfare: 1st Australian Task Force's struggle for South Vietnam Автор: Andrew Ross Издательство: Big Sky Publishing ISBN: 1922488267 Год: 2021 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 170 Размер: 4,2 МБ Язык: Английский
Mine warfare, in its various forms, is a favoured weapon used by insurgents against government forces. By June 1966, when the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) arrived in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, the Viet Cong and People's Army of Vietnam forces were well entrenched in the province and used mines extensively.
Название: Watches Without Time: An American Soldier in Afghanistan Автор: Matt Zeller Издательство: Just World Books ISBN: 1935982206 Год: 2012 Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv) Страниц: 302 Размер: 9,7 МБ Язык: Английский
For eight months in 2008, U.S. Army Capt. Matt Zeller served as an embedded combat adviser with Afghan security forces in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Watches Without Time is a compilation of the emails he sent home to family and friends during that period—so that, as he writes in the Preface, "should anything have ever happened to me, they would know what I went through.
Название: Missing: A World War II Story of Love, Friendships, Courage, and Survival Автор: Kenneth D. Evans Издательство: Starhaven Publishing ISBN: 1732370230 Год: 2020 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 518 Размер: 18,4 МБ Язык: Английский
Student-body president with all-state sports honors, Don was destined for a bright future. His plans included college and marrying the love of his life, Laura Jeanne. Then fate stepped in. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and America entered World War II.
Название: British Military Intelligence in the Crimean War, 1854-1856 Автор: Stephen M. Harris Издательство: Frank Cass Publishers Год: 1999 Формат: PDF Страниц: 182 Размер: 80,1 МБ Язык: Английский
British Military Intelligence in the Crimean War, 1854-1856
Название: Relics of the Reich: The Buildings the Nazis Left Behind Автор: Colin Philpott Издательство: Pen and Sword ISBN: 147384424X Год: 2016 Формат: PDF Страниц: 216 Размер: 15,3 МБ Язык: Английский
Relics of the Reich is the story of what happened to the buildings the Nazis left behind. Hitler’s Reich may have been defeated in 1945 but many buildings, military installations and other sites remained. At the end of the War, some were obliterated by the victorious Allies but others survived.
Название: Mutiny of Rage: The 1917 Camp Logan Riots and Buffalo Soldiers in Houston Автор: Jaime Salazar Издательство: Prometheus ISBN: 1633886883 Год: 2021 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 240 Размер: 2,6 МБ Язык: Английский
Salado Creek, Texas, 1918: Thirteen black soldiers stood at attention in front of gallows erected specifically for their hanging. They had been convicted of participating in one of America's most infamous black uprisings, the Camp Logan Mutiny, otherwise known as the 1917 Houston Riots.
Название: African American Faces of the Civil War: An Album Автор: Ronald S. Coddington Издательство: Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN: 142140625X Год: 2012 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 384 Размер: 10,3 МБ Язык: Английский
Discover the men of color who fought for their freedom during the Civil War through profiles illustrated with original wartime photographs. A renowned collector of Civil War photographs and a prodigious researcher, Ronald S. Coddington combines compelling archival images with biographical stories that reveal the human side of the war.
Название: Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War Автор: Peter R. Mansoor Издательство: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300172354 Год: 2013 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 384 Размер: 6,2 МБ Язык: Английский
Surge is an insider’s view of the most decisive phase of the Iraq War. After exploring the dynamics of the war during its first three years, the book takes the reader on a journey to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where the controversial new U.S. Army and Marine Corps counterinsurgency doctrine was developed; to Washington, D.C., and the halls of the Pentagon, where the Joint Chiefs of Staff struggled to understand the conflict; to the streets of Baghdad, where soldiers worked to implement the surge and reenergize the flagging war effort before the Iraqi state splintered; and to the halls of Congress, where Ambassador Ryan Crocker and General David Petraeus testified in some of the most contentious hearings in recent memory.
Название: Pacific Payback: The Carrier Aviators Who Avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway Автор: Stephen L. Moore Издательство: Dutton Caliber ISBN: 0451465539 Год: 2015 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 448 Размер: 17,7 МБ Язык: Английский
Sunday, December 7, 1941, dawned clear and bright over the Pacific.... But for the Dauntless dive-bomber crews of the USS Enterprise returning to their home base on Oahu, it was a morning from hell. Flying directly into the Japanese ambush at Pearl Harbor, they lost a third of their squadron and witnessed the heart of America’s Navy broken and smoldering on the oil-slicked waters below.
Название: Images of War - Battleships of the United States Navy Автор: Michael Green Издательство: Pen & Sword ISBN: 1783030356 Год: 2014 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 192 Размер: 32,0 МБ Язык: Английский
This pictorial history of US battleships illustrates the power, versatility, and many combat operations of this naval stalwart across the 20th century. Between 1895 and 1944, the US Navy commissioned some 60 steel-clad battleships; from the USS Indiana (BB-1) to the USS Missouri (BB-63). After an impressive showing in the Spanish-American War and the Great White Fleet's circumnavigation of the world, US battleships played only a minor role in the First World War.
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