Название: Wings of Fame Volume 18
Издательство: Aerospace Publishing
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 160
Язык: English
Размер: 102 MB

Wings of Fame Volume 18

Название: Warriors of Eurasia: From the VIII Century BC to the XVII Century AD
Автор(ы): Mikhael Gorelik
Издательство: Montvert Publications
Год: 1995
ISBN: 1874101078
Страниц: 50
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 21 MB

In ancient and medieval times the lands of what is now referred to as the former Soviet Union provided the battlegrounds for some of the most fantastic warriors history has known. The purpose of this book is to give us a glimpse of what they looked like. It features twenty-two full colour plates showing expert reconstructions of nearly seventy exotic warriors from places as far apart as from the Danube in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east, where Chuckchi warriors even terrorised the inhabitants of the western coasts of America! Each plate is accompanied by its own text giving a short historical outline and a description of the military characteristics and arms and armour of its principals.

Название: Warriors of Medieval Japan
Автор(ы): Stephen Turnbull (Author), Angus McBride (Illustrator), Wayne Reynolds (Illustrator), Howard Gerrard (Il
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: General Military
Год: 2005
ISBN: 978-1841768649
Страниц: 290
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 112 MB

Combines material previously published as Warrior 29: Ashigaru 1467-1649, Warrior 64: Ninja AD 1460-1650, Warrior 70: Japanese Warrior Monks AD 949-1603, with a new section on Samurai, new images, and a new introduction and conclusion. The samurai remain the best known warriors of medieval Japan, but they were by no means the only fighting elite. There were the ashigaru, who were first recruited to swell army numbers but later became a vital part of any samurai force. Trained to protect their monasteries, warrior monks were formidable enemies, mastering a range of martial traditions. Finally, the Ninja catered to an increasing demand for spies, informants and sometimes assassins, developing the arts of armed and unarmed combat and explosives.

Автор: James P. Delgado
Название: Wrecks of American Warships
Издательство: Franklin Watts
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 68
Язык: English
Размер: 18 MB

Examines the excavation of sunken American Navy warships from the Revolutionary War to World War II and discusses what they tell us about life on board these vessels.

Название: Military Vehicles: 300 of the World's Most Effective Military Vehicles
Автор(ы): Chris McNab
Издательство: Grange Books Ltd.
Серия: Expert Guide
Год: 2008
ISBN: 978-1840135398
Страниц: 320
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 84 MB

This comprehensive guide provides a wealth historical information and technical detail on over 300 military vehicles, from World War I transports to the huge and complex prime movers of today's forces. Military Vehicles covers a broad range of wheeled and tracked machines, from reconnaissance vehicles to amphibious troop carriers, trucks and tractors. Each vehicle is illustrated with a full-color artwork, alongside informed text giving a detailed account of its development. Full specifications are given for each type, including maximum speed, range and power plant. Contents include: Amphibious vehicles, Tracked Infantry vehicles, light vehicles, tractors, trucks, prime movers and motorcycles.

Автор: James D. Hornfischer
Название: The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
Издательство: Bantam Books
Год: 2004
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 552
Язык: English
Размер: 72 MB

Told from the point of view of the men who waged this steel-shattering battle, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors captures Navy pilots attacking enemy battleships with makeshift weapons and sacrificial valor, a veteran commander improvising tactics never taught at Annapolis, and young crews from across America rising to an impossible challenge. It takes us into the heart and mind of an iron-willed, self-made executive officer leading his men through a sea of carnage and two hellish days and nights clinging to survival amid oil, blood, sharks, and madness. And it dramatizes how the overmatched U.S. force, enduring the loss of five gallant ships and nearly a thousand brave men, turned a certain crushing defeat into a momentous victory that would lead to the final surrender of America's ruthless imperial foe.Filled with riveting detail and based on the author's extensive interviews and correspondence with veterans, unpublished eyewitness accounts, declassified documents, and rare Japanese sources, this is war at sea as it has seldom been presented before - an unforgettable narrative that captures the essence of heroism, the power of loyalty, and the way in which the unadorned truth is more stirring than legend itself.

Название: An Illustrated Guide to Pistols and Revolvers
Автор(ы): Frederick Myatt
Издательство: Salamander Books Ltd.
Серия: An Illustrated Guide to
Год: 1981
Страниц: 160
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 54 MB

An illustrated directory of Pistols and Revolvers. Included photographs, illustrations and specifications.

Название: Хроники и документы времен Столетней войны
Автор: Малинин Ю.П. (ред.)
Издательство: СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петерб. ун-та
Год: 2005
Страниц: 433
Формат: djvu
Размер: 44.1 Мб

В издание вошли западноевропейские хроники и документы, освещающие подготовительный этап Столетней войны (1337–1453) и самую раннюю её стадию, завершившуюся подписанием Эсплешенского перемирия между английским и французским королями (1340). Представленные источники отражают точки зрения разных сторон, участвовавших в войне, и взаимно дополняют друг друга. Благодаря этому читатель может получить яркое и достаточно полное представление о том, как зарождался и развивался крупнейший военно-политический конфликт эпохи Позднего Средневековья. Издание снабжено подробными научными комментариями и богатым вспомогательным материалом в виде генеалогических таблиц и историко-географических карт.Все тексты издания никогда ранее в русском переводе не публиковались.

Название: An Illustrated Guide to Modern US Air Force
Автор(ы): Bill Gunston
Издательство: Salamander Books Ltd.
Серия: An Illustrated Guide to
Год: 1982
Страниц: 160
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 87 MB

An illustrated directory of modern US Air Force. Included photographs, illustrations and specifications.

Автор: Хаупт В.
Название: Битва за Москву. Первое решающее сражение Второй мировой. 1941-1942
Издательство: М.: ЗАО Центрполиграф
Год: 2010
ISBN: 978-5952447035
Язык: Русский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 51,1 mb
Страниц: 220

Книга Вернера Хаупта повествует об операции «Тайфун» — штурме столицы Советского Союза.