Название: A Military Life of Constantine the Great
Автор: Ian Hughes
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526724267
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 337
Размер: 23,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Much of Constantine I’s claim to lasting fame rests upon his sponsorship of Christianity, and many works have been published assessing whether his apparent conversion was a real religious experience or a cynical political maneuver.

Название: Armies of Ancient Italy 753-218 BC: From the Foundation of Rome to the Start of the Second Punic War
Автор: Gabriele Esposito
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526751852
Год: 2021
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 193
Размер: 29,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Before becoming the masters of the Mediterranean world, the Romans had first to conquer the Italian peninsula in a series of harsh conflicts against its other varied and warlike residents. The outcome was no foregone conclusion and it took the Romans half a millennium to secure the whole of Italy.

Название: Artillery of the Napoleonic Wars: A Concise Dictionary, 1792-1815
Автор: Kevin F Kiley
Издательство: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1848329539
Год: 2021
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 642
Размер: 44,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Napoleon began his military career as an artillery cadet and artillery played a fundamental part in all his great battles. Until the Napoleonic Wars artillery had been seen merely as a supporting arm to the infantry, but Napoleon changed everything. He massed his guns in huge batteries to blast holes in his opponent’s line. He even used the artillery to charge the enemy, the gunners galloping up to the enemy to open fire at pointblank range.

Название: The Military History of the Bicycle: The Forgotten War Machine
Автор: John Norris
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526763518
Год: 2021
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 201
Размер: 51,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Almost as soon as a viable metal-framed bike was invented, it was put to military use, offering a much cheaper, less fragile and less logistically demanding alternative to horse transport. Widely used in many armies from the late 19th century, through both world wars and beyond, the bicycle really is the forgotten war machine. John Norris traces traces the development of military cycling from first experiments, including early (often flawed) designs for armed and multi-passenger versions. He explains how any why bikes were used for rapid movement of infantry units as well as carrying messages and other tasks.

Название: Pearl: December 7, 1941
Автор: Daniel Allen Butler
Издательство: Casemate
ISBN: 1612009387
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 360
Размер: 4,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is one of those rare moments where, in the space of a few hours, the "hinge of Fate" turned and the course of history was utterly changed. Nearly eight decades later, it has become one of those events which almost everyone knows of, but hardly anyone seems to know about.

Название: The Just: How Six Unlikely Heroes Saved Thousands of Jews from the Holocaust
Автор: Jan Brokken
Издательство: Scribe
ISBN: 191285421X
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 496
Размер: 8,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

In May 1940, desperate Jewish refugees in Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania, faced annihilation in the Holocaust ― until an ordinary Dutch man became their saviour.

Название: Development of Armored Vehicles, Volume 1: Tanks
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: AGF Board
Год: 1947
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 206
Размер: 37,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Development of Armored Vehicles, Volume 1: Tanks

Название: The Global First World War: African, East Asian, Latin American and Iberian Mediators
Автор: Ana Paula Pires, Jan Schmidt
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 0367341352
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 248
Размер: 7,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

This volume deals with the multiple impacts of the First World War on societies from South Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, usually largely overlooked by the historiography on the conflict. Due to the lesser intensity of their military involvement in the war (neutrals or latecomers), these countries or regions were considered "peripheral" as a topic of research. However, in the last two decades, the advances of global history recovered their importance as active wartime actors and that of their experiences.

Название: The Great Book of Combat Aircraft
Автор: Paolo Matricardi
Издательство: White Star Publishers
Год: 2006
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 440
Размер: 111,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

THE STORY OF A HUNDRED YEARS OF COMBAT FLIGHT Great Book of Combat Aircraft begins with the origins of military aviation, complete with vintage photos of pilots and machines of a bygone era. It traces the evolution of these devastating works of technology, with sections on the rise of the bomber, the birth of the monoplane, and the role of electronics and missiles.

Название: ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army
Автор: Robert K. Brigham
Издательство: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700630570
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 192
Размер: 3,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Scorned by allies and enemies alike, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) was one of the most maligned fighting forces in modern history. Cobbled together by U.S. advisers from the remnants of the French-inspired Vietnamese National Army, it was effectively pushed aside by the Americans in 1965. When toward the end of the war the army was compelled to reassert itself, it was too little, too late for all concerned.