Название: The Italian Vetterli Rifle: Development, Variants and History in Service
Издательство: Andrew Mowbray Publishing
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 170
Размер: 232 Mb
Язык: English

The Italian Vetterli Rifle: Development, Variants and History in Service

Название: Japanese-trained Armies in Southeast Asia
Автор: Joyce C. Lebra
Издательство: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
ISBN: 9814279447
Год: 2011
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 240
Размер: 13,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

This is the first study by a Western scholar of a significant facet of the history of the Second World War - Japanese-trained independence and volunteer armies as agents of revolution and modernisation. At the time, the Japanese did not see that their military imprinting would affect a whole generation of political/military leadership of nations of post-Second World War Southeast Asia. Leaders like Suharto, Ne Win and Park are all products of Japanese military training.

Название: Albatros D.I - D.III (Warpaint 122)
Издательство: Guideline Publications
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 52
Размер: 45 Mb
Язык: English

Albatros D.I - D.III

Название: MiG-19 Farmer in Action (Squadron Signal 1143)
Издательство: Squadron/Signal Publications
Год: 1994
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 60
Размер: 88 Mb
Язык: English

MiG-19 Farmer in Action

Название: Canada in the Great Power Game: 1914-2014
Автор: Gwynne Dyer
Издательство: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307361683
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 448
Размер: 4,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014 is a serious contemplation of what it means to engage in major world conflicts, and the price we pay when we do.

Название: The Lion, the Fox & the Eagle: A Story of Generals and Justice in Rwanda and Yugoslavia
Автор: Carol Off
Издательство: Random House Inc
ISBN: 0679310495
Год: 2000
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 416
Размер: 2,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

In this riveting, original and explosive book, Carol Off explores the failure of peacekeeping missions in Sarajevo and Rwanda, and the international community's attempt to redeem itself by prosecuting the people responsible for the genocides.

Название: Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Автор: D. Colin Jaundrill
Издательство: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501703099
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 244
Размер: 6,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill rewrites the military history of nineteenth-century Japan. In fifty years spanning the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the Meiji nation-state, conscripts supplanted warriors as Japan's principal arms-bearers.

Название: Deadly Seas: The Duel Between the St. Croix and the U305 in the Battle of the Atlantic
Автор: David Bercuson, Holger H. Herwig
Издательство: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0679308547
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 346
Размер: 5,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

A brilliant work of naval history, Deadly Seas tells the dramatic story of the birth, life, and death of two wartime vessels, one Allied, the other Axis, and, through them, the larger story of the epic Battle of the Atlantic itself.

Название: A Perfect Hell: The Forgotten Story of the Canadian Commandos of the Second World War
Автор: John Nadler
Издательство: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 038566141X
Год: 2006
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 416
Размер: 2,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

It’s 1942 and Hitler’s armies stand astride Europe like a colossus. Germany is winning on every front. This is the story of how one of the world’s first commando units, put together for the invasion of Norway, helped turn the tide in Italy.

Название: A Doctor's Sword: How an Irish Doctor Survived War, Capitivity and the Atomic Bomb
Автор: Bob Jackson
Издательство: The Collins Press
ISBN: 1848893205
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 293
Размер: 55,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

This is the story of the incredible life of Dr. Aidan MacCarthy (1913-95) the only person to have survived the two events that mark the beginning and end of the Second World War. He was evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk after three days of relentless attacks in May 1940, and he was trembling in a makeshift bomb shelter in the center of Nagasaki when the atomic bomb destroyed the city in August 1945.