Название: De Gaulle
Автор: Julian Jackson
Издательство: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674987217
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 928
Размер: 183,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the early summer of 1940, when France was overrun by German troops, one junior general who had fought in the trenches in Verdun refused to accept defeat. He fled to London, where he took to the radio to address his compatriots back home. “Whatever happens,” he said, “the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.” At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered history.

Название: Common Destiny: Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Автор: MacGregor Knox
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521582083
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 276
Размер: 2,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book offers a genuinely comparative analysis of the dictatorships that launched the Second World War: their origins, nature, dynamics, and common ruin. It provides an unconventional and compelling overview from territorial unification in the 1860s to national catastrophe in 1943/45 that places Fascism and Nazism firmly in the tradition of revolutionary mass politics inaugurated in the French Revolution.

Название: Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853-1945
Автор: Edward J. Drea
Издательство: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700616632
Год: 2009
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 444
Размер: 7,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Popular impressions of the imperial Japanese army still promote images of suicidal banzai charges and fanatical leaders blindly devoted to their emperor. Edward Drea looks well past those stereotypes to unfold the more complex story of how that army came to power and extended its influence at home and abroad to become one of the world's dominant fighting forces.

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.