Название: The Battle of Dyrrhachium (48 BC): Caesar, Pompey, and the Early Campaigns of the Third Roman Civil War
Автор: Gareth C Sampson
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 152679358X
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 248
Размер: 3,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 49 BC the Roman Republic collapsed once more into bloody civil war. At the heart of this war lay the two greatest living Roman commanders, and former allies, Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar, each having built their own factions within the Roman oligarchy and refusing to compromise.

Название: Marching to the Drums: Eyewitness accounts of Battle from the Crimea to the Siege of Mafeking
Автор: Ian Kinght
Издательство: Frontline Books
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 288
Размер: 15,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

In this gripping collection of first-hand accounts, Ian Knight presents the adventure of nineteenth-century warfare – from the thrill of the cavalry charges at Balaklava and Omdurman, to the terror of battle against an overwhelming odds such as Rorke’s Drift – in the words of the men actually there.

Название: Famous American Military Leaders of World War II
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Dodd, Mead & Company
Год: 1966
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 144
Размер: 16,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Who are the military leaders who come forward in times of crisis? Probably not one of America's many famous generals or admirals can be typed into an exclusive category. They sprang from all sections of the country and from parentage both great and humble, usually the latter. Their personalities and tastes have been as mixed as those of any group of men selected at random. Many were flamboyant characters, or actually odd, and some were normal to a colorless degree.

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

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