Название: The E-Boat Threat
Автор: Bryan Cooper
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473827833
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 144
Размер: 4,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

One of the major lessons of World War II was the importance of coastal waters. It was not widely recognised beforehand just how vital the control of such waters would become, both in defending essential convoys as well as attacking those of the enemy, and in paving the way for amphibious landings.

Название: State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011
Автор: Paul A.C. Koistinen
Издательство: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700618740
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 320
Размер: 106,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

In his farewell speech, President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned us of the dangers of a military-industrial complex (MIC). In Paul Koistinen’s sobering book, that warning appears to have been both prophetic and largely ignored.

Название: Stay the Rising Sun: The True Story of USS Lexington, Her Valiant Crew, and Changing the Course of World War II
Автор: Phil Keith
Издательство: Zenith Press
ISBN: 0760347417
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 272
Размер: 1,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Her crew called her the "Lady Lex" - see how her fierce battle turned the tide in the Allies' favor.
In May 1942, the United States' first naval victory against the Japanese in the Coral Sea was marred by the loss of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington. Another carrier was nearly ready for launch when the news arrived, so the navy changed her name to Lexington, confusing the Japanese.

Название: Onward, Dear Boys: A Family Memoir of the Great War
Автор: Philippe Bieler
Издательство: McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN: 0773544682
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 315
Размер: 20,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Bieler family's vast collection of wartime letters and photographs tell intimate, firsthand stories of five young brothers and their parents.

Название: John Forbes: Scotland, Flanders and the Seven Years' War, 1707-1759
Автор: John Oliphant
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 1472511182
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 208
Размер: 8,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

In November 1758 Brigadier General John Forbes's army expelled the French army from Fort Duquesne at the forks of the Ohio River. Over seven months Forbes had co-ordinated three obstructive and competitive colonies, managed Indian diplomacy, and cut a road through over a hundred miles of mountain and forest.

Название: Women at War 1939-45 (The War Archives)
Автор: Pat Ware
Издательство: Key Publishing
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 100
Размер: 19,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

In June 1939, the working population of Britain totalled 19.75 million, comprising 14.66 million men, and just over five million women. Around half a million men were employed by the armed forces, but there were negligible numbers of women.

Название: Children of Ash and Elm
Издательство: Basic Books
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB, PDF (Conv)
Страниц: 624
Размер: 98 Mb
Язык: English

Children of Ash and Elm

Название: FN Mauser Rifles: Arming Belgium and the World
Издательство: Wet Dog Publications
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 430
Размер: 510 Mb
Язык: English

FN Mauser Rifles: Arming Belgium and the World

Название: Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War Two
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 1992
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 450
Размер: 488 Mb
Язык: English

Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War Two

Название: Images of Kursk: History's Greatest Tank Battle, July 1943
Автор: Nik Cornish
Издательство: Spellmount Publishers Ltd
Год: 2002
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 224
Размер: 31,21 Мб
Язык: английский

Это иллюстрированный отчет о решающей битве на Восточном фронте во время Второй мировой войны. Под Курском немцы бросили 900 000 человек и 2 500 танков против 1 300 000 солдат и 3 000 танков Красной Армии.