Название: The Pirate Encyclopedia: The Pirate's Way
Автор: Arne Zuidhoek
Издательство: Brill
ISBN: 9004428003
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 900
Размер: 340,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Pirate Encyclopedia , as the essential companion for scholars, students, and a general audience intrigued by tales and facts, offers the most complete body of data available on the legitimacy of more than 7.000 adventurers as subjects of investigation.

Название: Правда о СМЕРШе. Военный контрразведчик рассказывает (2021)
Автор: Иванов Л.
Издательство: Яуза
Год: 2021
Формат: fb2, rtf
Страниц: 320
Размер: 27 Мб
Язык: русский

Откровенные воспоминания о боевой работе легендарного Главного управления контрразведки "Смерть шпионам!". Вся правда о борьбе с немецкой агентурой, разведчиками и диверсантами, о "проческах" территории в прифронтовой полосе и "зафронтовой работе" (внедрение в немецкие разведорганы и разведшколы), об охоте за разведгруппами противника и изощренных радиоиграх, силовых задержаниях и перестрелках.

Название: Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy
Автор: Jeremi Suri
Издательство: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1541758544
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 376
Размер: 43,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 1865, the Confederacy was comprehensively defeated, its economy shattered, its leaders in exile or in jail. Yet in the years that followed, Lincoln’s vision of a genuinely united country never took root. Apart from a few brief months, when the presence of the Union army in the South proved liberating for newly freed Black Americans, the military victory was squandered.

Название: The Estrada Plot: How the FBI Captured a Secret Army and Stopped the Invasion of Mexico
Автор: Bill Mills
Издательство: Potomac Books
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 304
Размер: 14,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Bill Mills takes readers inside the forgotten story of General Enrique Estrada and his Southern California army. Secretly gathering recruits from city barrios and Imperial Valley farms, Estrada and his staff of ex-generals not only built an invasion force but stockpiled an arsenal of small arms to supply it.

Название: Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed American History
Автор: Leona Schecter, Jerrold Schecter
Издательство: Potomac Books
Год: 2002
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 352
Размер: 21,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the last decade of the twentieth century, newly opened classified archives revealed a series of “sacred secrets” that survivors of the Cold War had sworn to carry to their graves. These revelations have challenged our understanding of significant historical events.

Название: The Turtle and the Dreamboat: The Cold War Flights That Forever Changed the Course of Global Aviation
Автор: Jim Leeke
Издательство: Potomac Books
ISBN: 1640124136
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF
Страниц: 271
Размер: 6,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The ‘Turtle’ and the ‘Dreamboat’ is the first detailed account of the race for long-distance flight records between the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy less than fourteen months after World War II. The flights were risky and unprecedented. Each service intended to demonstrate its offensive capabilities during the dawning nuclear age, a time when America was realigning its military structure and preparing to create a new armed service—the United States Air Force.

Название: World War II Secret Operations Handbook: How to Sabotage the Nazi War Machine
Автор: Chris Hart, Stephen & Mann
Издательство: Amber Books
ISBN: 1908273143
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 301
Размер: 11,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The World War II Secret Operations Handbook lets you in on the skills and tricks used by the British SOE (Special Operations Executive), the US OSS (Office of Strategic Services), the French Maquis, and other special forces in combat in Europe, Africa and Asia between 1939 and 1945. Learn how to rig up a makeshift radio, how to pass undetected in enemy territory, how to live off the land and make shelter, and how to work as a sniper.

Название: Red Mutiny: Freedom, Revolution, and Revenge on the Battleship Potemkin
Автор: Neal Bascomb
Издательство: 11th Street Productions
ISBN: 1736748602
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 409
Размер: 1,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The true story of the deadliest naval mutiny in history. For readers of Tom Clancy's Hunt for Red October and Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea, Neal Bascomb's gripping adventure at sea is the story of courage, the power of ideas, and the fragile nature of alliance.In 1905, after being served rancid meat, more than seven hundred Russian sailors mutinied against their officers aboard what was then one of the most powerful battleships in the world.

Название: Greatest Battles for Boys: The Vietnam War
Автор: Ryan Rhoderick
Издательство: Ryan Rhoderick
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 170
Размер: 30,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Or maybe he sees history as a boring and unimportant subject rather than the essential topic of information we know it to be as adults? So many books on the history of the greatest battles are littered with dull and uninteresting chapters. It’s a poor choice for boys who prefer adventures and games over textbooks.

Название: Operation Lucy: The Most Secret Spy Ring of the Second World War
Автор: Anthony Read, David Fisher
Издательство: Coward Mc Cann
Год: 1981
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 250
Размер: 24,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The spy-ring, code-name Lucy, functioning from Switzerland during the 1939-45 war, is known to have surpassed all other Intelligence operations of the kind in effectiveness, especially in the influence it had on the course of hostilities. All this is for the first time fully explained and documented in Operation Lucy by Anthony Read and David Fisher. It makes fascinating reading, especially for someone like myself, involved, as I was, in wartime clandestine Intelligence duties and in handling Ultra material.