Название: Forgotten Voices Of The Second World War: A New History of the Second World War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There
Автор: Max Arthur
Издательство: Ebury Digital
ISBN: 0091897351
Год: 2005
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 408
Размер: 4,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly-acclaimed Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Max Arthur and his team of researchers spent hundreds of hours digging deep into this unique archive, uncovering tapes, many of which have not been listened to since they were created in the early 1970s.

Название: Panzer Combat Reports
Автор: Bob Carruthers
Издательство: Coda Books Ltd
Год: 2011
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 186
Размер: 23,01 Мб
Язык: английский

This fascinating collection of Allied reports focusing on the combat actions of the Wehrmacht in Russia is drawn from a variety of wartime sources. Compiled and edited by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers, this absorbing assembly of primary source intelligence reports encompasses rare material drawn from both German and Russian original sources, to provide the reader with a unique insight into how the bitter war in Russia was conducted at the tactical level.

Название: The day of the Panzer: A story of American heroism and sacrifice in Southern France
Автор: Danby Jeff
Издательство: Casemate Publishers
Год: 2008
Формат: PDF, epub
Страниц: 372
Размер: 11,35 Мб
Язык: английский

This is a rarely detailed “you are there” account of World War II combat, describing a brief but bloody tank/infantry action in August 1944. Based on six years of research―drawing from interviews, primary documents, and visits to the battlefield―”The Day of the Panzer” transports the reader into the ranks of L Company, 15th Regiment, Third Infantry Division, and its supporting M4s of the 756th Tank Battalion as they grapple head-on with the Wehrmacht.

Название: The I.R.A. at War 1916-1923
Автор: Peter Hart
Издательство: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0199252580
Год: 2004
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 296
Размер: 9,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Between 1916 and 1923, Ireland experienced rebellion and mass mobilization, guerrilla and civil war, partition and ethnic conflict, and the transfer of power from British to Irish governments. The essays in The I.R.A. at War propose a new history of this Irish revolution: one that encompasses the whole of the island as well as Britain, all of the violence and its consequences, and the entire period from the Easter Rising to the end of the Civil War.

Название: First Blue: The Story of World War II Ace Butch Voris and the Creation of the Blue Angels
Автор: Robert K. Wilcox
Издательство: Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN: 0312322496
Год: 2004
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 352
Размер: 2,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The U.S. Navy's Blue Angels are the most famous flight demonstration team in the world. While millions of aviation enthusiasts see their shows every year, the story of the man who formed the squadron has never been told. He is Roy Marlin "Butch" Voris, a World War II Ace and one of only two aviators ever to command the Blue Angels twice.

Название: Lieutenant Dangerous: A Vietnam War Memoir
Автор: Jeff Danziger
Издательство: Steerforth
ISBN: 1586422731
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 208
Размер: 3,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Jeff Danziger, one of the leading political cartoonists of his generation, captures the fear, sorrow, absurdity, and unintended but inevitable consequences of war with dark humor and penetrating moral clarity.
If there is any discipline at the start of wars it dissipates as the soldiers themselves become aware of the pointlessness of what they are being told to do.

Название: Flight Surgeon: A War Diary, 1941-1945
Автор: Thurman Shuller
Издательство: Texas Christian University Press
ISBN: 0875657796
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 368
Размер: 78,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Colonel Thurman Shuller’s war diary traces his story from Las Vegas Army Airfield in the summer of 1941 to the desperate days of the air war in Europe. The group surgeon character in the motion picture Twelve O’clock High was based on Shuller during his time as Group Surgeon of the famed 306th Bomb Group at Thurleigh, England, where he struggled with finding medical solutions for high altitude frostbite, oxygen deprivation, combat fatigue, and a growing crisis of hopelessness among the air crews.

Название: Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
Автор: Radley Balko
Издательство: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1541774531
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 528
Размер: 2,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Now updated with new material, the groundbreaking history of how police forces have become militarized, both in equipment and mindset, and what that means for American democracy.

Название: Военные противники России. В 2 книгах
Автор: Фролов Б. П.
Издательство: Полигон
Год: 2005
ISBN: 5-89173-311-0
Серия: Историческая библиотека
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 640+688
Размер: 10,9 Mb
Язык: Русский

В этом издании, состоящем из двух книг, даны исторические портреты наиболее известных военачальников Запада, сражавшихся против России в Отечественной войне 1812 г. и Великой Отечественной войне 1941–1945 гг. В общеисторических трудах упоминания обо всех этих деятелях имеются, но не более того. Поэтому и специалистам-историкам, и широкому кругу читателей несомненно будет интересно узнать подробнее о жизни и деятельности маршалов Наполеона (книга 1), военачальников Третьего рейха (книга 2).

Название: Springboks on the Somme: South Africa in the Great War, 1914-1918
Автор: Bill Nasson
Издательство: Penguin Global
ISBN: 014302535X
Год: 2008
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 240
Размер: 4,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Great War of 1914-18 was a conflict which engulfed the whole world, directly or indirectly. An imperialist world war tugged the new Union of South Africa and its people into a series of separate but connected conflicts - from the domestic Afrikaner Rebellion on the highveld, through the sands of German South West Africa, the steamy bush of German East Africa, and on to the mud and blood of France and Flanders.