Название: The Vikings: Voyagers of Discovery and Plunder
Автор(ы): M. Magnusson, M. Harrison, K. Durham, I. Heath, R. Chartrand
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: General Military
Год: 2008
ISBN: 1846033403
Страниц: 209
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 64 MB

The history of the Vikings is bloody and eventful, and Viking warriors capture the popular imagination to this day. Viking raids reached from Norway to North Africa, they established the dukedom of Normandy, provided the Byzantine Emperor's bodyguard and landed on the shores of America 500 years before Columbus. In The Vikings the authors provide a detailed examination of the Viking Hersir, the raiding warrior of the Viking world, and the famed Viking longship that transported the Vikings through treacherous waters to their bloody raids. This beautifully illustrated book also includes a fascinating insight into the Vikings in North America and the lives the Viking led at home.

Название: Don Troiani's Soldiers in America 1754-1865.
Art by Don Troiani
Автор(ы): James L. Kochan, Earl J. Coates, Don Troiani (Illustrator)
Издательство: Stackpole Books
Год: 1998
ISBN: 0811705196
Страниц: 257
Язык: English
Формат: PDF HQ
Размер: 141 MB

This sweeping tour through America's military past provides a fascinating glimpse into the life of the soldier of the colonial wars, the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. Supporting nearly 200 photos of rare equipment and uniforms is text by two leading artifact experts that analyzes and evaluates the arms and accoutrements of the different periods, using firsthand accounts to describe military fashion in Europe and America. How regulations were decided upon - and how they often were ignored - is illustrated in narrative and correspondence.
Of course, this new book also features Troiani's meticulously crafted full-color scenes of grand action and great characters, including Bushy Run, George Washington, the Battle of Cowpens, Stonewall Jackson, Emmitsburg Road, and Hampton's Dues, as well as his famously detailed figures, from a Shawnee warrior to the Richmond Howitzers.

Название: Битва при Грюнвальде
Автор: Карамзин Г.Б.
Издательство: Государственное учебно-педагогическое изд-во министерства просвещения РСФСР
Год издания: 1961
Страниц: 112
Язык: Русский
Формат: djvu
Размер: 1,65 Мб

Книга посвящена Грюнвальдской битве. Популярный очерк к 550-летию битвы, победы Польши и Литвы над Германией.

Название: Секретная служба в тылу немцев (1914–1918 гг.)
Автор: Генри Ландау
Издательство: Военное изд-во народного комиссариата обороны Союза ССР
Год издания: 1943
Страниц: 47
Язык: Русский
Формат: RTF
Размер: 2,03 Мб

В книге довольно подробно изложены методы работы английской разведки в тылу немцев во время первой мировой войны и показаны способы наблюдения за железнодорожными перевозками войск.

Название: Corvette La Creole 1827
Автор(ы): Jean Boudriot
Издательство: Jean Boudriot
Серия: Historique de la Corvette 1650-1850
Год: 1990
Страниц: 192
Язык: French
Формат: PDF
Размер: 207 MB

The corvette takes its place in our navy only beginning in 1696 when it is referred to as a "corvette or long bark." It appears in annual inventories until 1746 when the term "long bark" falls off and only the name "corvette"is retained. We felt it was important to choose a distinctive example of this type of ship in our navy during the Restoration. Hence the choice of the Creole, whose celebrity is heightened by the role she played in San Juan de Ulloa, Mexico, in 1838, under the command of the young prince de Joinville.

Название: Galleons and Galleys
Автор(ы): John F. Guilmartin, Jr.
Издательство: Cassell & Co.
Серия: Military History - Medieval, Early Modern
Год: 2002
ISBN: 0-304-35263-2
Страниц: 226
Язык: English
Формат: PDF OCR
Размер: 93 MB

The turn of the 16th century saw the start of a revolution in sea warfare--one long in the making but, once begun, remarkably swift. The driving force: gunpowder. The principal agents: galleys (long, low boats propelled principally by oars) and galleons (heavy, square rigged sailing ships). Suddenly, Europe, formerly on a technological par with India and China, dominated the waters. They crossed the Atlantic, reached America, and became world powers. A beautifully written account of the age conveys exactly how a country like Portugal could establish outposts from South America to the Pacific, how Christian fleets wrested control of the Mediterranean from the Ottoman Empire, and why the "invincible" Spanish armada met with disaster in its attempt to invade England. A vivid page-turner.

Название: Le Fleuron: Vaisseau de 64 Canons 1729
Автор(ы): Jean Boudriot, Gerard Delacroix
Издательство: Omega
Год: 1995
Страниц: 162
Язык: French
Формат: DJVU
Размер: 193 MB

Cette monographie est la premiere que nous avons consacre a un vaisseau de ligne et nous avons choisi pour cela un batiment particulierement interessant: il s'agit du FLEURON qui est le premier vaisseau de notre marine concu de facon moderne par Blaise OLLIVIER ; il est en outre un pur produit de l'ecole francaise d'architecture navale.

Название: Modeles Historiques au Musee de la Marine
Автор(ы): Jean Boudriot
Издательство: Ancre
Год: 1996
Страниц: 215
Язык: French
Формат: PDF
Размер: 214 MB

Dans les collections du Musee de la Marine, figurent de tres nombreux modeles d'une qualite et d'un interet exceptionnel. Les plus representatifs de la grande periode de notre marine a voile ont ete retenus pour cette publication, certes le choix pouvait etre etendu, mais ce n'est pas un mais deux livres qui auraient ete necessaires.

Название: The Seventy-Four Gun Ship: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Naval Architecture. Volume I: Hull Construction
Автор(ы): Jean Boudriot
Издательство: Jean Boudriot Publications
Год: 1986
Страниц: 170
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 204 MB

As the main naval war machine at the end of the 18th century, the 74 Gun Ship was the result of a compromise, like every successful vessel. Her balance between strong guns and manoeuvrability offered by the 28 gun lower gundeck and firing 36 pound cannon-balls, made the "74" the perfect ship of the line. Since she moved more easily, she was much more useful in combat than the heavy 100 gun three-decker.

Название: The Seventy-Four Gun Ship: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Naval Architecture. Volume II: Fitting Out the Hull
Автор(ы): Jean Boudriot
Издательство: Jean Boudriot Publications
Год: 1986
Страниц: 276
Язык: English
Формат: DJVU
Размер: 190 MB

As the main naval war machine at the end of the 18th century, the 74 Gun Ship was the result of a compromise, like every successful vessel. Her balance between strong guns and manoeuvrability offered by the 28 gun lower gundeck and firing 36 pound cannon-balls, made the "74" the perfect ship of the line. Since she moved more easily, she was much more useful in combat than the heavy 100 gun three-decker.