Название: The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson’s Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi
Автор: Timothy B. Smith
Издательство: Savas Beatie
ISBN: 1611214289
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 336
Размер: 5,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Benjamin Grierson’s Union cavalry thrust through Mississippi is one of the most well-known operations of the Civil War. The last serious study was published more than six decades ago. Since then other accounts have appeared, but none are deeply researched full-length studies of the raid and its more than substantial (and yet often overlooked) results.

Название: Australians and the First World War: Local-Global Connections and Contexts
Автор: Kate Ariotti, James E. Bennett
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 3319515195
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 269
Размер: 2,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book contributes to the global turn in First World War studies by exploring Australians’ engagements with the conflict across varied boundaries and by situating Australian voices and perspectives within broader, more complex contexts.

Название: The Berlin Candy Bomber
Автор: Gail S. Halvorsen
Издательство: Horizon Pub & Dist Inc
ISBN: 1462121098
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 311
Размер: 22,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Berlin Candy Bomber is the story of how two sticks of gum and one man's kindness to the children of a vanquished enemy grew into an epic of goodwill‚-spanning the globe and touching the hearts of millions in both Germany and America. In June 1948, Russia cut off the flow of food and supplies to Berlin.

Название: Lifeline in Helmand: RAF Front-Line Air Supply in Afghanistan: 1310 Flight in Action
Автор: Roger Annett
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848842740
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 288
Размер: 23,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

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Название: Concise Guide to Military Aircraft of the World
Автор: Chris Chant
Издательство: Temple Press
ISBN: 0600349667
Год издания: 1981
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 228
Формат: PDF
Размер: 135,3 MB

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Название: Julius Caesar’s Invasion of Britain
Издательство: Frontline Books
Год: 2019
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 180
Размер: 21 Mb
Язык: English

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Название: Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier
Автор: Guy de la Bedoyere
Издательство: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022675023X
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 352
Размер: 32,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in the ancient world. More than that, it was the single largest organization in Western antiquity, taking in members from all classes, from senators to freed slaves. The Roman Empire depended on its army not just to win its wars, defend its frontiers, and control the seas, but to act as the very engine of the state.

Название: Secret Service in the Cold War: An SIS Officer from Philby to the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Balkans
Автор: Lieutenant John B Sanderson, Myles Sanderson
Издательство: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1526740908
Год: 2019
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 288
Размер: 39,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

The action-packed biography of a British intelligence officer who took part in major political events of the 20th Century before and during the Cold War.

Название: Robin Hood: The Life and Legend of an Outlaw
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2019
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 202
Размер: 37 Mb
Язык: English

Robin Hood: The Life and Legend of an Outlaw

Название: The Irish Brigade 1670–1745: The Wild Geese in French Service
Автор: D P Graham
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526766243
Год: 2019
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 488
Размер: 14,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Irish troops had fought for Louis XIV in the 1670s, under Irish officers who had little choice but to fight in foreign service, with the blessing of Charles II. With the accession of James II, and the religious politics of who might earn the English crown, they became embroiled in the Jacobite succession crisis, fighting in Ireland, then sent to France under Lord Mountcashel in 1689.