Название: Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918
Автор: Guy Cuthbertson
Издательство: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300233388
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 304
Размер: 12,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

A vivid, original, and intimate hour-by-hour account of Armistice Day 1918, marking its centenary. November 11, 2018, marks the centenary of the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany ending World War I. While the events of the war and its legacy are much discussed, this is the first book to focus solely on the day itself, examining how the people of Britain, and the wider world, reacted to the news of peace.

Название: The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals
Автор: Laura Mason
Издательство: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300259557
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 302
Размер: 16,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The story of a poor man and radical activist who fought to revive the French Revolution, and whose failure heralded the republic’s defeat.

Название: The Praetorian Guard: The U.S. Role in the New World Order
Автор: John Stockwell
Издательство: South End Press
ISBN: 0896083950
Год: 1999
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 205
Размер: 87,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Ex-CIA agent John Stockwell analyzes the CIA and other institutional forces shaping U.S. domestic and foreign policy.

Название: Smashing Hitler's Guns: The Rangers at Pointe-du-Hoc, D-Day 1944
Автор: Steven J. Zaloga
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1472849833
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 401
Размер: 53,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Written by one of the world's leading experts on D-Day, Smashing Hitler's Guns is a ground-breaking new history of the legendary Rangers' attack on Pointe-du-Hoc. The Ranger attack on the German gun batteries at Pointe-du-Hoc in the early morning hours of D-Day is the stuff of legend.

Название: Shadow Wars: Chasing Conflict in an Era of Peace
Автор: David Axe
Издательство: Potomac Books
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 17,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Warfare’s evolution, especially since 2001, has irrevocably changed the meaning of war. In the twentieth century—humankind’s bloodiest—231 million people died in armed conflicts. Battlefield deaths since then have been steadily declining, despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and by 2012 less than 1 person in a million dies in war every year.

Название: Second to None: Coldstream Guards 1650-2000
Автор: Julian Paget
Издательство: Leo Cooper
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 254
Размер: 19,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Familiar to tourists at Buckingham Palace, the Coldstream Guards are also a fully operational combat unit. The regiment played a key role at Blenheim and Waterloo, fought at Monmouth in the American Revolution, served in both World Wars and is frequently deployed on short notice to the world's trouble spots even today.

Название: Как "шаттл" Москву "бомбил" (2020)
Издательство: «S.V.Chaser»
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 308
Качество: хорошее
Размер: 11,5 Mb
Язык: русский

«Как "шаттл" Москву "бомбил"» - Собирались ли Соединенные Штаты Америки внезапной атакой с космической орбиты в начале 1980-х годов «обезглавить» Советский Союз, уничтожив все его высшее руководство в Москве? Как и почему Америка пошла на создание многоразового космического челнока? Как советские ученые-математики сорвали «коварные планы американского агрессора»? Смог ли Советский Союз ответить достойно на «американский вызов»?

Название: The Last Citadel: Petersburg, June 1864–April 1865
Автор: Noah Andre Trudeau
Издательство: Savas Beatie
ISBN: 161121212X
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 482
Размер: 18,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The revised and updated groundbreaking study of the most extensive military operation of the Civil War—from the author of Bloody Roads South.The Petersburg campaign began on June 9, 1864, and ended on April 3, 1865, when Federal troops at last entered the city.

Название: Military Elites: Special Fighting Units in the Modern World
Автор: Roger A. Beaumont
Издательство: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.
Год: 1974
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 280
Размер: 23,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Merrill's Marauders. Darby's Rangers. The French Foreign Legion. The Green Berets. The Commandos. Names that have come to epitomize daring, determination and expertise. Names that stir us with the promise of martial glory. Precisely as they were meant to do. For it is the opinion of the author that many elite military units were formed to serve psychological rather than tactical needs. This book tells the history of more than eighty such organizations, from the Arab Legion of Glubb Pasha to the heliborne air cavalry of Vietnam.

Название: Masquerade: The Amazing Camouflage Deceptions of World War II
Автор: Seymour Reit
Издательство: Hawthorn Books
Год: 1978
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 296
Размер: 42,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The heroes of World War II: They came from every walk of life, they manifested undreamed of bravery, they left home and country to fight and win on foreign shores.