Название: The Strategy of Defeat at the Little Big Horn: A Military and Timing Analysis of the Battle
Автор: Frederic C. Wagner III
Издательство: McFarland & Company
ISBN: 078647954X
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 296
Размер: 23,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The battle that unfolded at the Little Big Horn River on June 25, 1876, marked a watershed in the history of the Plains Indians. While a stunning victory for the Sioux and Cheyenne peoples, it initiated a new and vigorous effort by the U.S. government to rid the west of marauding tribes and to realize the ideal of "Manifest Destiny."

Название: Company of Heroes: A Forgotten Medal of Honor and Bravo Company’s War in Vietnam
Автор: Eric Poole
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1472819365
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 320
Размер: 17,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

There are many broad studies of the Vietnam War, but this work offers an insight into the harrowing experiences of just a small number of men from a single unit, deep in the jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia.

Автор: Louis L. Snyder
Название: The First Book of World War II
Издательство: Franklin Watts
Год: 1958
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 102
Язык: English
Размер: 12.2 MB

Spotlights the important historical events and history leading up to the outbreak of World War II. Many black and white photos, illustrations and maps throughout.

Название: The Royal Navy and the Falklands War
Автор: David Brown
Издательство: Guild Publishing
Год: 1987
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 404
Размер: 107,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Royal Navy and the Falklands War

Название: Voices from the Past - Britain's Wartime Evacuees
Автор: Gillian Mawson
Издательство: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1848324413
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 12,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

With the declaration of war in September 1939, the Government Evacuation Scheme was implemented, in which almost one and a half million civilians, mostly children, were evacuated from the British cities thought most likely to be the targets of aerial bombing. The fear of invasion the following year resulted in another mass evacuation from the coastal towns.

Название: Flight from Colditz: Would the Second World War’s Most Audacious Escape Plan Have Succeeded?
Автор: Anthony Hoskins
Издательство: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1473848547
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 184
Размер: 6,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Colditz Castle was one of the most famous Prisoner of War camps of the Second World War. It was there that the Germans interred their most troublesome or important prisoners. Hundreds of ingenious escape attempts were made but the most ambitious of all was to build a glider and fly to freedom.

Название: Eyewitness in the Crimea: The Crimean War Letters of Lieutenant Colonel George Frederick Dallas
Автор: Michael Hargreave Mawson
Издательство: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1853674508
Год: 2006
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 320
Размер: 10,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

George Frederick 'Fred' Dallas wrote 137 letters to his family and friends while on active service in the Crimea. A company commander in the 46th Foot, his first letters reflect a soldier's enthusiasm for the ‘brilliant affair’ that awaits the British Army overseas.

Название: Wellington in India
Автор: Jac Weller
Издательство: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1848327005
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 352
Размер: 27,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The third of Jac Weller’s trilogy concerns the period before the future Duke of Wellington faced Napoleon’s armies, but during which he earned his spurs as a military commander. It was in India that he gained his experience of strategy and tactics, which he would put to masterly effect against his most formidable opponent in years to come.

Название: Prelude to Waterloo: Quatre Bras: The French Perspective
Автор: Andrew W. Field
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783463848
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 26,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Battle of Quatre Bras was critical to the outcome of the Waterloo campaign – to the victory of the allied armies of Wellington and Blücher, the defeat of the French and the fall of Napoleon. But it has been overshadowed by the two larger-scale engagements at Ligny and at Waterloo itself.

Название: French Flying Boats of WWII (Mushroom White Series 9120)
Издательство: Stratus / Mushroom Model Publications
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 234
Размер: 273 Mb
Язык: English

French Flying Boats of WWII