Название: Spring 1865: The Closing Campaigns of the Civil War
Автор: Perry D. Jamieson
Издательство: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803225814
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 287
Размер: 5,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

When Gen. Robert E. Lee fled from Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, in April 1865, many observers did not realize that the Civil War had reached its nadir. A large number of Confederates, from Jefferson Davis down to the rank-and-file, were determined to continue fighting.

Название: A Military History of the Cold War, 1962–1991
Автор: Jonathan M. House
Издательство: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806167084
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 468
Размер: 7,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Study of the Cold War all too often shows us the war that wasn’t fought. The reality, of course, is that many “hot” conflicts did occur, some with the great powers' weapons and approval, others without. It is this reality, and this period of quasi-war and semiconflict, that Jonathan M. House plumbs in A Military History of the Cold War, 1962–1991, a complex case study in the Clausewitzian relationship between policy and military force during a time of global upheaval and political realignment.

Название: Year of Glory: The Life and Battles of Jeb Stuart and His Cavalry, June 1862–June 1863
Автор: Monte Akers
Издательство: Casemate
ISBN: 1612001300
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 392
Размер: 10,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

No commander during the Civil War is more closely identified with the “cavalier mystique” as Major General J.E.B. (Jeb) Stuart. And none played a more prominent role during the brief period when the hopes of the nascent Confederacy were at their apex, when it appeared as though the Army of Northern Virginia could not be restrained from establishing Southern nationhood.

Название: The Battle for Iwo Jima, 1945
Автор: Derrick Wright
Издательство: Sutton Publishing
ISBN: 0750921676
Год издания: 1999
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 232
Формат: PDF
Размер: 107,9 MB

Iwo Jima was the US Marine Corps's toughest battle. In February 1945, 3 Marine Divisions stormed the island's shores in what was supposed to be a 10-day battle, but they had reckoned without General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the enemy commander. Do not plan for my return, he wrote in one of his letters to his wife.

Название: Aviation in the Second World War -Lluftwaffe Eagles
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Key Publishing
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 100
Размер: 73,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Aviation in the Second World War -Lluftwaffe Eagles

Название: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War - Isle of Man in the Great War
Автор: Caroline Smith
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1783831227
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 112
Размер: 1,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

In August 1914, the Isle of Man was in the middle of a very successful summer season. The tourist industry was crucial to the island, but suddenly holiday-makers left and the Steam Packet vessels that normally brought them were requisitioned.

Название: Small Arms Survey 2015: Weapons and the World
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107041988
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 287
Размер: 5,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Small Arms Survey 2015 examines the role of weapons and armed violence in humanity's appropriation of the earth's wildlife and mineral riches - in Africa, where the poaching of elephants and rhinos is becoming increasingly militarised, and near resource extraction sites around the world.

Название: Remembering the Dragon Lady: Memoirs of the Men who Experienced the Legend of the U-2 Spy Plane
Автор: Gerald McIlmoyle, Linda Rios Bromley
Издательство: Helion and Company
ISBN: 1907677208
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 400
Размер: 8,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

With heightened tensions mounting in the Cold War, President Dwight Eisenhower's request for more accurate intelligence information on the Soviet Union was the spark that ignited the U-2 project. Modified USAF bombers began overflights of the Soviet Union in 1951, but existing lower flying aircraft in the US inventory were vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire and a number of cross-border flights were shot down.

Название: Черные дни германской армии (разгром в 1918 г.)
Автор: Рыбин Д.И.
Издательство: Воениздат
Жанр: военная история
Год издания: 1938
Страниц: 43
Язык: Русский
Формат: PDF
Размер: 32 Мб

После длительной и безуспешной позиционной борьбы на Западном фронте Германия весной 1918 г. решилась еще раз испробовать свои вооруженные силы . грандиозного наступления и разгрома Антанты.

Название: The Battle for the Caucasus 1942-1943 (Images of War)
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB, PDF (Conv)
Страниц: 136
Размер: 35 Mb
Язык: English

The Battle for the Caucasus 1942-1943