Название: The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece
Автор: Jennifer T. Roberts
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199996644 |
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 448
Размер: 7,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle. The war embroiled the entire Greek world, provoking years of butchery previously unparalleled in ancient Greece. Whole cities were exterminated, their men killed, their women and children enslaved.

Название: A British Lion in Zululand: Sir Garnet Wolseley in South Africa
Автор: William Wright
Издательство: Amberley Publishing
ISBN: 1445665484
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 420
Размер: 9,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley KP, GCB, OM, GCMG, VD, PC (4 June 1833–25 March 1913) was an Anglo-Irish officer. The number of letters after his name indicates just how glittering was his career. What first made him a household name – he is the original ‘Modern Major-General’ – was campaigning in Africa. In just one year he captured the two most powerful and dangerous potentates on the continent: Cetshwayo, whose Zulus had humbled the British in many battles including Isandlwana; and Sekhukhune of the Bapedi, whose warriors had twice beaten white armies, including a British one. Wolseley was ambitious, clever, lucky, insecure and a magnificent showman.

Название: The Gazelle
Автор: David Oliver
Издательство: Amberley Publishing
ISBN: 1445688689
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 96
Размер: 20,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Aerospatiale / Westland Gazelle is one of the longest serving and most successful reconnaissance and light attack helicopters.The Gazelle soon made an impression with its high speed, smooth looks, and design innovations such as the fenestron ducted tail rotor and composite main rotor blades.

Название: The Javelin
Автор: Martyn Chorlton
Издательство: Amberley Publishing]
ISBN: 1445681137
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 96
Размер: 9,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The RAF’s first and last jet-powered delta-winged fighter, the Javelin was also the very last aircraft to be built by the Gloster Aircraft Company. The twin-engine Javelin was a complex aircraft and development began as early as 1946, the intention being for the aircraft to be a replacement for the Gloster Meteor.

Название: Samurai: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introduction)
Автор: Michael Wert
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2021
Страниц: 144
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater, and even comedy, from the Tale of the Heike to the kabuki retellings of the 47 Ronin. This legacy remains with us today in the legendary Akira Kurosawa films, the shoguns of HBO's Westworld, and countless renditions of samurai history in anime, manga, and video games. Acknowledging these common depictions, this book gives readers access to the real samurai as they lived, fought, and served. Much as they capture the modern imagination, the samurai commanded influence over the politics, arts, philosophy and religion of their own time, and ultimately controlled Japan from the fourteenth century until their demise in the mid-nineteenth century. This book traces the samurai throughout this history, exploring their roles in watershed events such as Japan's invasions of Korea at the close of the sixteenth century and the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877.

Название: Самый длинный день. Высадка десанта союзников в Нормандии
Автор: Райан К.
Издательство: М.: Центрполиграф
Год: 2004
ISBN: 5-9524-0880-X
Формат: fb2, mobi, epub
Страниц: 228
Размер: 10,9 Мб
Язык: Русский

Классическое произведение Корнелиуса Райана, одного из самых лучших военных репортеров прошедшего столетия, рассказывает об операции "Оверлорд" - высадке союзных войск в Нормандии. Эта операция навсегда вошла в историю как день "D". Командующий мощнейшей группировкой на Западном фронте фельдмаршал Роммель потерпел сокрушительное поражение.

Название: German Troops in the American Revolution (1): Hessen-Cassel (Osprey Men-at-Arms 535)
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2021
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 51
Размер: 12 Mb
Язык: English

During the American Revolution (1775-83), German auxiliary troops provided a vital element of the British war effort. Some 30,000 German troops served in North America, continuing a long-established relationship between Britain and various German principalities. These troops were widely referred to as mercenaries, implying that they sold their services individually, but they were in fact regular troops hired as a body by the British. Initially feared by the American population, the German troops came to be highly respected by their opponents.

Название: Wings Over Eastern England
Автор: G.M. Dixon, J. Rippon
Издательство: Minimax Books
Год: 1992
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 68
Размер: 102,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Wings Over Eastern England

Название: Monografie Morskie 2 - Akagi
Автор: Miroslaw Skwiot, Adam Jarski
Издательство: AJ-Press
Год: 1994
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 42
Размер: 5,6 МБ
Язык: Польский

Monografie Morskie 2 - Akagi

Название: A Military History of the Ottomans: From Osman to Atat?rk (Praeger Security International)
Автор: Mesut Uyar ,? Edward J Erickson
Издательство: Praeger
ISBN: 0275988767
Год: 2009
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 379
Размер: 10,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Ottoman Army had a significant effect on the history of the modern world and particularly on that of the Middle East and Europe. This study, written by a Turkish and an American scholar, is a revision and corrective to western accounts because it is based on Turkish interpretations, rather than European interpretations, of events.