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.

Название: One Hundred Days: Napoleon's Road to Waterloo
Автор: Alan Schom
Издательство: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Год: 1993
Формат: PDF, djvu
Страниц: 417
Размер: 100,04 mb
Язык: английский

In One Hundred Days, Alan Schom offers us an epic tale of intrigue, high drama, and ultimate tragedy. By turns harrowing and exhilarating--and always charged with an undercurrent of impending doom--One Hundred Days is nothing less than the definitive account of Napoleon's final campaign, told with the characteristic panache of one of our premier narrative historians...

Название: The Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France, 1870-1871
Автор: Michael Howard
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf, djvu
Страниц: 446
Размер: 10,38 Мб
Язык: английский

Исследование одного из наиболее судьбоносных конфликтов в Европейской истории XIX века. Конфликта, изменившего не только систему государств Европейского континента, но и всего климата европейской морали и политической мысли. Подавляющий триумф немецкой военной мощи, вызывавший у современников смесь восхищения и ужаса, а также стремление к подражанию, стал началом эпохи политики силы, достигшей своей драматической кульминации в 1914 г.

Название: Spies on the Mekong: CIA Clandestine Operations in Laos
Автор: Ken Conboy
Издательство: Casemate
ISBN: 1636240194
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 11,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

The first detailed look at the CIA's clandestine operations in Laos during the Cold War.
During the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency’s biggest and longest paramilitary operation was in the tiny kingdom of Laos. Hundreds of advisors and support personnel trained and led guerrilla formations across the mountainous Laotian countryside, as well as running smaller road-watch and agent teams that stretched from the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the Chinese frontier.

Название: The Greco-Persian Wars: A Short History with Documents
Автор: Erik Jensen
Издательство: Hackett Publishing Company
ISBN: 1624669557
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 234
Размер: 5,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Hackett's Passages: Key Moments in History series titles include original-source documents in accessible editions, intended for the student-user or general audience. This edition, The Greco-Persian Wars, taps our knowledge of the Persian Empire and its interactions with the Greek world.

Название: The Lost Fleet: The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy
Автор: Barry Clifford, Kenneth Kinkor
Издательство: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 0060957794
Год: 2003
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 304
Размер: 1,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast. This proved disastrous for French naval power in the region, and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy.

Название: A Tiger among Us: A Story of Valor in Vietnam's A Shau Valley
Автор: Bennie G. Adkins
Издательство: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306902028
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 35,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Adaptable. Cunning. Ferocious. Fearless. The Indochinese tiger is just one of the formidable predators roaming Vietnam's jungle. In 1966 a small band of US Special Forces soldiers--most especially Bennie Adkins--spent four grueling days facing down the "tiger" among them.

Название: From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada's Siberian Expedition, 1917-19
Автор: Benjamin Isitt
Издательство: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774818018
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 320
Размер: 7,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

As the last guns sounded on the Western Front, 4,200 Canadian soldiers, some of them conscripts, travelled from Victoria to Vladivostok to open a new theatre of war in Siberia. Part of the Allied intervention in Russia’s civil war, the force sought to defeat Bolshevism, but grim conditions, conflict among the Allies, and local opposition eventually forced Canada to evacuate the troops.