Автор: Robert Jackson
Название: Infamous Aircraft: Dangerous Designs and their Vices
Издательство: Casemate Publishers; Pen & Sword Aviation
Язык: Английский
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Размер: 3,2 МБ
Кол-во страниц: 208

Many aircraft, some famous and some rare, gained a reputation for being difficult to fly and sometimes downright dangerous. This book looks at some of the worst culprits over a period spanning World War One to the age of supersonic flight.

Название: Fighting for MacArthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines
Автор: John Gordon
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 2011
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 385
Размер: 5,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

For the first time the story of the Navy and Marine Corps in the 1941-42 Philippine campaign is told in a single volume. Drawing on a rich collection of both U.S. and recently discovered Japanese sources as well as official records and wartime diaries, Gordon chronicles the Americans' desperate defense of the besieged islands.

Название: Special Forces: The U.S. Army's Experts in Unconventional Warfare
Автор: C. B. Colby
Издательство: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
Год: 1964
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 56
Размер: 14,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

In United States doctrine, unconventional warfare (abbreviated UW) is the term for guerrilla warfare that is conducted or supported by units in the United States Special Operations Command. Guerrilla warfare is one aspect of the broader term insurgency. The American definition of UW is: Unconventional Warfare consists of activities conducted to enable a resistance movement or insurgency to coerce, disrupt or overthrow an occupying power or government by operating through or with an underground, auxiliary and guerrilla force in a denied area.

Название: Connaissance de l'Histoire 30 - La 2eme DB au combat: Profils et Histoire
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Hachette
Год: 1980
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 64
Размер: 32,8 МБ
Язык: Французский

Выпуск этого французского издания посвящен обзору армии 2 танковой армии ,боевые действия.

Название: Hachette Documents Histoire 12 - Artillerie et Blindes
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Hachette
Год: 1978
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 64
Размер: 104,6 МБ
Язык: Французский

Hachette Documents Histoire 12 - Artillerie et Blindes

Название: Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles of Cynthiana and Harrison County
Автор: William A. Penn
Издательство: University Press of Kentucky
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 400
Размер: 14,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

On April 22, 1861, within weeks of the surrender at Fort Sumter, fresh recruits marched to the Cynthiana, Kentucky, depot―one of the state's first volunteer companies to join the Confederate army. The soldiers boarded a waiting train as many sympathetic city and county officials cheered. A Confederate flag was raised at the Harrison County courthouse but it was taken down within six months, as the influence of pro-Southern officials diminished.

Название: Mr. Lincoln Goes To War
Автор: William Marvel
Издательство: Mariner Books
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 432
Размер: 15,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

This groundbreaking work of history investigates the mystery of how the Civil War began, reconsidering the big question: Was it inevitable? William Marvel vividly depicts President Lincoln's tumultuous first year in office, from his inauguration through the rising crisis of secession and the first several months of the war. Drawing on original sources, Marvel suggests that Lincoln not only missed opportunities to avoid conflict with the South but actually fanned the flames of war.

Название: Italy Invades
Автор: Christopher Kelly, Stuart Laycock
Издательство: Book Publishers Network
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 312
Размер: 14,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Italy Invades, full of restless adventurers, canny generals, and the occasional scoundrel, is a fast-paced and compelling read, the perfect sequel to America Invades. Recreating their success with America Invades, Christopher Kelly and Stuart Laycock take another global tour, this time starting from Italy and exploring that country's military involvements throughout the ancient and modern worlds.

Название: D-Day Journal: The Untold Story of a U.S. Ranger on Omaha Beach
Автор: John V. O. Kennard
Издательство: Koehler Books
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 130
Размер: 14,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

On the morning of June 6, 1944, twenty-two-year-old Lieutenant Frank L. Kennard led a Ranger cannon platoon onto Omaha Beach, losing his equipment and half his men. He and his seven remaining men went on to overcome enormous odds to achieve their objective at Pointe du Hoc. Less than one month later, Kennard became the battalion adjutant and served in that role through every battle until the end of the war.

Автор: Roger Ford
Название: Germany's Secret Weapons in World War II
Издательство: MBI Publishing
Язык: Английский
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Размер: 6,0 МБ
Кол-во страниц: 144

During the course of a long, hard-fought war, scientists and engineers of the Third Reich mounted a campaign aimed at nothing less than changing the nature of warfare itself. This is a catalog of their campaign, looking in depth and in detail at its successes and its failures.