Название: Decisive Battles of the U.S.A., 1776-1918
Автор: J. F. C. Fuller
Издательство: UNP - Bison Books
Год: 2007
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 428
Размер: 25,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Believing that our past wars have been a major factor in making this country what it is, Maj. Gen. J. F. C. Fuller (1878–1966) presents in this comprehensive study a complete roster of those crucial actions on which our national life has turned. A professional soldier, military writer, and historian of international repute, Fuller has written a lucid, nontechnical, and absorbing account of every decisive American battle from Revolutionary times to the outbreak of World War II, including all the historic conflicts that have become epics of American courage and strength, from Trenton and Vicksburg to San Juan Hill and Meuse-Argonne.

Название: Как Суворов перешел через Альпы
Автор книги: Олег Орлов
Художник: Р.Попов
Издательство: Детская литература
Год выпуска: 1983
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 36
Язык: русский
Размер: 18,8 Mb

Изучая историю жизни Александра Васильевича Суворова, не устаешь восхищаться этим великим человеком, пламенным патриотом России и величайшим полководцем. В его жизни было более трехсот больших и малых сражений, от крупнейших битв, до небольших стычек с противником. И во всех Суворов одержал победу. Случай в военной истории уникальный.

Название: Two Houses, Two Kingdoms: A History of France and England, 1100-1300
Автор: Catherine Hanley
Издательство: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300253583
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 480
Размер: 18,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

An exhilarating, accessible chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary story. The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of personal monarchy, when the close friendship or petty feuding between kings and queens could determine the course of history. The Capetians of France and the Angevins of England waged war, made peace, and intermarried.

Название: Mohawk Recon: Vietnam from Treetop Level with the 1st Cavalry, 1968-1969
Автор: Russell Pettis
Издательство: McFarland & Company, Inc.
Год: 2021
Страниц: 192
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub (true)
Размер: 10.18 MB

Before unmanned combat drones, there was the Grumman OV-1C Mohawk, a twin-engine turboprop fixed-wing reconnaissance aircraft loaded with state-of-the-art target detection systems. Crewed by a pilot and observer, it flew at treetop level by day, taking panoramic photographs. By night it scanned the landscape from 800 feet with side-looking airborne radar (SLAR) and infrared. This lively, detailed memoir recounts the author's 1968-1969 tour with the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam, serving as a technical observer (T.O.) aboard an unarmed Mohawk, searching for elusive enemy forces near the DMZ and along the Laotian and Cambodian borders, dodging mountains in the dark and avoiding anti-aircraft fire.

Название: Before the Military Revolution: European Warfare and the Rise of the Early Modern State 1300–1490
Автор: Alexander Querengasser
Издательство: Oxbow Books
Год: 2021
Страниц: 349
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (conv), epub (true), mobi
Размер: 10.3 MB

Before the Military Revolution examines European Warfare in the Late Middle Ages from 1300 to 1490. It is not restricted only to well-covered conflicts, like the Anglo-Scottish Wars or the Hundred Years War, but gives due weight to all regions of Europe, including the Empire, the Baltic, the Balkans and the Mediterranean, and considers developments in naval warfare. The Hussite Wars and the wars of the Teutonic Order and the Hanseatic League are covered, as is the expansion of Moscow, the Ottomans and Venice, and battles like Aussig (1426), Copenhagen (1428), Chojnice (1454) are discussed alongside Bannockburn and Agincourt.

Название: Inside the Battle That Changed the Course of the Civil War (Witness to Gettysburg)
Автор: Richard Wheeler
Издательство: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811739856
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 288
Размер: 32,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

From the events that led to the clash at Gettysburg in July 1863 to the retreat of Robert E. Lee's defeated Confederates, Richard Wheeler uses the words of participants—both Northern and Southern—to bring one of the Civil War's bloodiest, most pivotal battles to life. Wheeler blends these compelling personal accounts into a startlingly vivid tapestry of war and a dramatic narrative that entertains as well as informs. This is eyewitness history at its best.

Название: All About History Heroes of World War II - 2nd Edition, 2022
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Future
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 131
Размер: 48,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

All About History Heroes of World War II - 2nd Edition, 2022

Название: Reading Hitler's Mind: The Intelligence Failure that led to WW2
Автор: Norman Ridley
Издательство: Frontline Books
Год: 2022
Страниц: 183
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.6 MB

Most strongly associated with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, it is often stated that Britain’s policy of appeasement was instituted in the 1930s in the hope of avoiding war with Hitler’s Nazi Germany. At the time, appeasement was viewed by many as a popular and seemingly pragmatic policy. In this book the author sets out to show how appeasement was not a naïve attempt to secure a lasting peace by resolving German grievances, but a means of buying time for rearmament. By the middle of the 1930s, British policy was based on the presumption that the balance of power had already dramatically shifted in Germany’s favour. It was felt that Britain, chiefly for economic reasons, was unable to restore the balance, and that extensive concessions to Germany would not satisfy Hitler, whose aggressive policies intensified the already high risk of war..

Название: Persia Triumphant in Greece: Xerxes' Invasion: Thermopylae, Artemisium and the Destruction of Athens
Автор: Manousos E Kambouris
Издательство: Pen and Sword Military
Год: 2022
Страниц: 241
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 24.1 MB

This is the epic story of the Great Persian War of 481-479 BC, the major land and sea Persian invasion of Greece under Xerxes. Starting from the Persian decision to avenge the outrage caused to imperial prestige by the battle of Marathon, this book details the policy, diplomacy and religion as they intermingle with matters of strategy and tactics. It includes detailed coverage of the legendary Battle of Thermopylae, immortalized in literature and film as the ultimate defiant last stand. There is similarly in-depth coverage, in terms of events, tactics, methods and intentions, afforded to the relatively unknown sea battles off Cape Artemisium, only recently dramatized for the Big Screen; a naval engagement that primed the Battle of Salamis. Special attention has been paid to the events following these two battles, leading to the bloody conquest of Athens and the implementation of vengeance by the Persian Empire, which for a brief time stood triumphant, victorious and awesome as never before, but also sowed the seeds of eventual defeat.

Название: The Medieval Crossbow: A Weapon Fit to Kill a King
Автор: Stuart Ellis-Gorman
Издательство: Pen and Sword Military
Год: 2022
Страниц: 238
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 26.1 MB

The crossbow is an iconic weapon of the Middle Ages and, alongside the longbow, one of the most effective ranged weapons of the pre-gunpowder era. Unfortunately, despite its general fame it has been decades since an in-depth history of the medieval crossbow has been published, which is why Stuart Ellis-Gorman’s detailed, accessible, and highly illustrated study is so valuable. The Medieval Crossbow approaches the history of the crossbow from two directions. The first is a technical study of the design and construction of the medieval crossbow, the many different kinds of crossbows used during the Middle Ages, and finally a consideration of the relationship between crossbows and art.