Название: Hitler's Lost State: The Fall of Prussia and the Wilhelm Gustloff Tragedy Автор: Tim Heath, Michela Cocolin Издательство: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1526756107 Год: 2020 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 209 Размер: 16,1 МБ Язык: Английский
Seen as an agricultural utopia within Hitler’s Germany, it is often the view that both East and West Prussia had remained relatively untouched during the Second World War. Yet the violence, prejudice and murder associated with the National Socialist regime that brought most of Europe to ruin were widespread throughout Prussia during its brief existence.
Название: In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers: A Return to Easy Company's Battlefields with Sgt. Forrest Guth Автор: Larry Alexander Издательство: NAL ISBN: 0451229916 Год: 2010 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 368 Размер: 4,0 МБ Язык: Английский
An inspiring walk through World War II history from the national bestselling author of Biggest Brother. On the eve of the 65th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe, Larry Alexander returns to the very battlefields that made Easy Company a legend. Accompanied by Easy veteran Sgt. Forrest Guth on his final tour, Alexander crosses an ocean and a continent to follow the path to victory taken by the famed Band of Brothers, exploring the living history of the places where they went into action, and revealing what makes their story so meaningful for us to this day.
Название: Images of War - With Rommel in the Desert: Tripoli to El Alamein Автор: David Mitchelhill-Green Издательство: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1473878756 Год: 2020 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 216 Размер: 61,7 МБ Язык: Английский
This WWII pictorial history illustrates Nazi Germany's North African campaign, showing life under Rommel through vivid wartime photographs. Prior to the outbreak of World War II, the German Army had focused exclusively on preparations needed to wage war in continental Europe.
Название: Night of the Long Knives: Hitler's Excision of Rohm's SA Brownshirts, 30 June – 2 July 1934 (History of Terror) Автор: Phil Carradice Издательство: Pen & Sword ISBN: 1526728931 Год: 2020 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 128 Размер: 7,4 МБ Язык: Английский
The historian and author of The Shanghai Massacre presents an in-depth chronicle of Hitler's plot to eliminate political rivals and his own SA Brownshirts. In the summer of 1934, Adolf Hitler conducted a ruthless purge of his own fascist colleagues, many of whom had helped the Nazi Party rise to power. The brawling street thugs of the SA had bludgeoned Hitler's political opposition into submission and played a significant role in transforming Germany into a dictatorship. But in order to safeguard his absolute authority, Hitler chose to eliminate any potential rivals. And it was the SA that he feared most.
Название: Charles I's Executioners: Civil War, Regicide and the Republic Автор: James Hobson Издательство: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1526761842 Год: 2020 Формат: PDF Страниц: 234 Размер: 20,2 МБ Язык: Английский
On an icy winter’s day in January 1649, a unique event in English history took place on a scaffold outside of Whitehall: Charles I, King of England, was executed. The king had been held to account and the Divine Right of Kings disregarded. Regicide, a once-unfathomable act, formed the basis of the Commonwealth’s new dawn.
О ЦРУ и ФСБ слышали все. Но что известно о китайской разведке? Насколько эффективна китайская разведка в современном мире? Какие задачи она выполняет? Что такое китайский тотальный шпионаж? Что делают разведчики КНР в Африке и на Ближнем Востоке?
Название: Северные конвои. Исследования, воспоминания, документы. Выпуск 2 Автор: Коллектив авторов Издательство: М.: Наука Год: 1994 Формат: pdf Страниц: 256 Размер: 55 mb Язык: Русский
Издание представляет собой сборник статей и воспоминаний о северных конвоях в годы второй мировой войны. Освещены различные аспекты боевого сотрудничества на Севере советских людей с западными союзниками. Для историков и широкого круга читателей.
Название: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War - Exeter in the Great War Автор: Derek Tait Издательство: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1473823099 Год: 2015 Формат: PDF (conv) Страниц: 176 Размер: 14,4 МБ Язык: Английский
Exeter played a vital role during the First World War supplying men for the Army and raising funds to help troops overseas.
Название: The Veterans' Tale: British Military Memoirs of the Second World War Автор: Frances Houghton Издательство: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108496911 Год: 2019 Формат: PDF Страниц: 302 Размер: 2,8 МБ Язык: Английский
This is a unique account of the ways in which British veterans of the Second World War remembered, understood, and recounted their experiences of battle throughout the post-war period. Focusing on themes of landscape, weaponry, the enemy, and comradeship, Frances Houghton examines the imagery and language used by war memoirists to reconstruct and review both their experiences of battle and their sense of wartime self.
Название: Without Fear and with a Manly Heart : The Great War Letters and Diaries of Private James Herbert Gibson Автор: Bruce Newbold Издательство: Wilfrid Laurier University Press ISBN: 1771123451 Год: 2019 Формат: PDF Страниц: 369 Размер: 5,5 МБ Язык: Английский
Private James Herbert (Herb) Gibson was 26 years old when he volunteered for service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War. Born near Perth, Ontario and descended from Scottish settlers, Gibson enlisted against his father's wishes because he viewed the war as justified and felt he needed to do his part.