Название: Osprey Fortress 96 - The Fortress of Rhodes 1309-1522
Автор: Konstantin Nossov
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1846039304
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 65
Размер: 10,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

First besieged in 305 BC, the island of Rhodes became part of the Roman Empire and was later fortified in the Byzantine style. Due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean, Rhodes was also attacked and besieged for over a century by Islamic forces. This title details the development of these fascinating fortifications, as well as the sieges that sought to reduce them.

Название: U.S. Special Forces Handbook
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Skyhorse Publishing
ISBN: 1602391262
Год: 2008
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 13,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Modernizing the outdoor, survival industry with it's innovative products, Pro force equipment is the choice of all levels of outdoorsman.

Название: Das letzte Jahr der Waffen-SS: Mai 1944 - Mai 1945
Автор: Wolfgang Fleischer, Richard Eiermann
Издательство: Doerfler
ISBN: 9783895554384
Год: 1997
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 160
Размер: 142,6 МБ
Язык: Немецкий

Im Fr?hjahr 1944 erreichte die Waffen-SS eine St?rke von 22 Divisionen. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt hatte sie mit ?ber 600000 Mann einen Umfang erreicht, der knapp 10 % der Gesamtst?rke des Heeres entsprach. Sie war an allen Fronten zu einem von Freund und Feind beachteten Faktor avanciert, deren Einsatz an besonderen Brennpunkten des Kampfes erfolgte, oft um kritische Situationen zu meistern und gr??ere R?ckschl?ge zu verhindern.

Название: Understanding UK Military Capability: From Strategy to Decision
Автор: Andrew R. Curtis
Издательство: Bristol University Press
ISBN: 1529229898
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 244
Размер: 15,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Between 2021 and 2031, the UK government is set to spend over £230 billion on its military. Who decides how to use these funds, and how can we be sure that the UK’s armed forces can meet the threats of tomorrow? This book provides the answers to these crucial questions. Concentrating on decisions taken below the political level, it uncovers the factors that underpin the translation of strategic direction into military capability.

Название: Спецоперация. Полтора года спустя
Автор: Сергей Бережной, Геннадий Алёхин
Издательство: Яуза
Год: 2024
Формат: fb2, rtf
Размер: 12 Мб
Качество: Хорошее
Язык: Русский

Известные российские военные журналисты продолжают свой рассказ о ходе Специальной военной операции. Авторы уделяют значительное внимание обстановке на разных участках фронта, рассматривают предпосылки тех или иных событий, методы ведения боевых действий и различные образцы военной техники и оружия.

Название: The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines
Автор: Cate Lineberry
Издательство: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 0316220248
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 336
Размер: 4,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

This mesmerizing account of the courage and bravery of ordinary women and men reveals for the first time an astonishing true story of heroic struggle and endurance.
When twenty-six Army Air Force flight nurses and medics boarded a military transport plane in November 1943 on a mission to evacuate wounded and sick troops, they didn't anticipate a crash landing in Nazi territory.
Emerging from their battered aircraft, the Americans found themselves in Albania, a country rife with chaos and danger.

Название: Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two
Автор: James Holland
Издательство: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 0802128394
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 402
Размер: 8,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces launched their first-ever round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany.

The aim was to smash the main factories and production centres of the Luftwaffe and at the same time draw the German fighter force up into the air and into battle.

Big Week is the knife-edge story of bomber against flak gun and fighter, but also, crucially, fighter against fighter. Following the fortunes of pilots and aircrew from both sides, this is a blistering narrative of one of the most critical periods of the entire war. Big Week was the largest air battle ever witnessed, but it has been largely forgotten – until now.

Название: Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers' War 1914-18
Автор: Peter Barton, Peter Doyle, Johan Vandevvalle
Издательство: Spellmount
ISBN: 186227357X
Год: 2007
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 306
Размер: 105,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Whilst the war raged across Flanders fields, an equally horrifying and sometimes more dangerous battle took place underground. Beneath Flanders Fields tells the story of the tunnellers’ war, which still remains one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of the Great War.
A wealth of personal testimonies reveal the engineering, technology and science behind how this most intense of battles was fought – and won. They speak of how the tunnellers lived a relentless existence in the depths of the battlefield for almost two and a half years, enduring physical and mental stresses that were often more extreme than their infantry counterparts.

Название: Fighting Nazi Occupation: British Resistance 1939 - 1945
Автор: Malcolm Atkin
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473833779
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 20.0 Мб
Язык: Английский

A major reassessment of the plans to organise guerrilla warfare and longer-term resistance in the case of a Nazi invasion of Britain. It tells the story of competition by the Secret Intelligence Service (M16) and War Office to organise irregular warfare in the country and the result is a new vision of the murky and machiavellian world of wartime British intelligence. The study includes new insights into the, much misunderstood, War Office Auxiliary Units and the wider role of the Home Guard in secret warfare. This is also the first substantial publication of one of the Second World War's last, and best-kept, secrets - the existence of an ultra-secret resistance network organised by SIS and continuing in operation for most of the war.

Название: Marching Orders: The Untold Story of World War II
Автор: B. Lee
Издательство: Integrated Media
ISBN: 0517575760
Год: 1995
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 608
Размер: 14,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Already acclaimed as "one of the most important books ever published about World War II,"* this brilliantly written book reveals a host of previously untold stories: how the American breaking of the Japanese diplomatic Purple ciphers led to the defeat of Germany and caused Eisenhower not to capture Berlin, as well as why America and Great Britain agreed to employ nuclear weapons against Japan.
In researching Marching Orders, B. Lee had access to 1.5 million pages of U.S. Army documents – plus 15,000 pages of Japanese decrypts – detailing Germany's most sensitive military secrets. Japanese diplomats and military attaches in Europe sent these reports daily to Tokyo, believing falsely that their ciphers could not be broken. In turn, Tokyo sent its diplomats plans for the military expansion of the Japanese Empire.