Название: The Zeppelins of World War I: The History and Legacy of Zeppelin Air Raids during the Great War
Автор: Charles River Editors
Издательство: Charles River Editors
Год: 2021
Страниц: 75
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, mobi, epub
Размер: 10.19 MB

World War I, also known in its time as the Great War or the War to End all Wars, was an unprecedented conflict in terms of its sheer scale. Fought by men who hailed from all corners of the globe, it saw millions of soldiers do battle in brutal assaults of attrition which dragged on for months with little to no respite. Tens of millions of artillery shells and untold hundreds of millions of rifle and machine gun bullets were fired in a conflict that demonstrated man's capacity to kill each other on a heretofore unprecedented scale, and as always, such a war brought about technological innovation at a rate that made the boom of the Industrial Revolution seem stagnant. The Zeppelins, slow and large as they were, proved to be easy targets for fire from the ground, so they were too vulnerable for reconnaissance in the warzone. Instead, they were used for the task of bombing targets. Bombs were dropped on Paris in August 1914, and Zeppelins bombed Belgian forces as the Germans advanced on Liege. The Germans also used them to bomb England's eastern ports and London in an attempt to disrupt military supplies. On the other side, British pilots destroyed a Zeppelin on the ground at Dusseldorf. This was bombing at its most simple; the explosives were kept on hooks on the side of the machines and dropped by a crew member by hand.

Название: Immortal Valor: The Black Medal of Honor Winners Of World War II
Автор: Robert Child
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2022
Страниц: 288
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

The remarkable story of the seven African American soldiers ultimately awarded the World War II Medal of Honor, and the 50-year campaign to deny them their recognition. In 1945, when Congress began reviewing the record of the most conspicuous acts of courage by American soldiers during World War II, they recommended awarding the Medal of Honor to 432 recipients. Despite the fact that more than one million African-Americans served, not a single black soldier received the Medal of Honor. The omission remained on the record for over four decades.

Название: The Gurkha Diaries of Robert Atkins MC: India and Malaya 1944 - 1958
Автор: Robert Atkins
Издательство: Pen and Sword Military
Год: 2021
Страниц: 144
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.0 MB

How fortunate it is that Robert Atkins wrote up his experiences as a young Gurkha officer in India and later Malaya as, seventy years on, they form an important contemporaneous record of two historically significant periods. When India was granted Independence in 1947, irreconcilable religious differences made Partition inevitable. His account of the death, destruction and suffering that he and his soldiers witnessed makes for traumatic yet compelling reading. In the aftermath of Independence the Gurkha Regiments were split between the Indian and British Armies and Robert returned to England and British service. These diaries tell of a young Army officer’s journey of singular travel and excitement. As the Second World War drew to a close, Robert had set out for India, where his father and grandfather had served before him, armed with a commission in the Indian Army. At the modest age of eighteen he was to join the elite 8th Gurkha Rifles. Then, following Partition and the Independence of India in 1947, he transferred to the British Army along with four of the ten Gurkha Regiments of the Indian Army. Three years later, Robert returned to the East and his former soldiers, and for seven years he was to serve with the First Battalion of the 6th Gurkha Rifles in Malaya.

Название: Boy Soldiers of the Great War
Автор: Richard van Emden
Издательство: Pen and Sword Military
Год: 2021
Страниц: 488
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

After the outbreak of the Great War, boys as young as twelve were caught up in a national wave of patriotism and, in huge numbers, volunteered to serve their country. The press, recruiting offices and the Government all contributed to the enlistment of hundreds of thousands of under-age soldiers in both Britain and the Empire. On joining up, these lads falsified their ages, often aided by parents who believed their sons’ obvious youth would make overseas service unlikely. These boys frequently enlisted together, training for a year or more in the same battalions before they were sent abroad. Others joined up but were soon sent to units already fighting overseas and short of men: these lads might undergo as little as eight weeks’ training. Boys served in the bloodiest battles of the war, fighting at Ypres, the Somme and on Gallipoli. Many broke down under the strain and were returned home once parents supplied birth certificates proving their youth. Other lads fought on bravely and were even awarded medals for gallantry: Jack Pouchot won the Distinguished Conduct Medal aged just fifteen. Others became highly efficient officers, such as Acting Captain Philip Lister and Second Lieutenant Reginald Battersby, both of whom were commissioned at fifteen and fought in France.

Название: The Desert Rats: The History and Legacy of the British Army's 7th Armoured Division during World War II
Автор: Charles River Editors
Издательство: Charles River Editors
Год: 2018
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.2 MB

The fighting in North Africa during World War II is commonly overlooked, aside from the famous battle at El Alamein that pitted the British under General Bernard Montgomery against the legendary “Desert Fox,” Erwin Rommel. But while the Second Battle of El Alamein would be the pivotal action in North Africa, the conflict in North Africa began all the way back in the summer of 1940 when Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared Italy’s entrance into the war. From his perspective, the fact that the British and French had their hands full with the Germans created an opportunity for Italy to enlarge its colonial holdings in Africa by seizing portions of the British Empire. However, British troops in the colony of Egypt responded to Italy’s declaration of war by driving through the Egyptian-Ethiopian border and attacking Italian troops stationed in the Italian colony of Ethiopia. By September 13, 1940, Italian commanders in Ethiopia were finally ready to put Mussolini’s plan into action and attack British colonial holdings, but British troops had already attacked a series of Italian frontier posts and had inflicted 3,500 casualties among Italy’s North African troops.

Название: Собрание сочинений (4 книги)
Автор: Петр Семенович Вашурин
Издатель: Самиздат
Год издания: 2021
Жанр: Боевые искусства, Военная история , Военное дело
Формат: RTF, FB2
Размер: 11 mb


Генерал-лейтенант Петр Семенович Вашурин - участник советско-финляндской войны, освобождения Бессарабии, в годы Великой Отечественной прошел по фронтовым дорогам более 17 700 км, участвовал в 45 крупных боях. Начинал войну майором в должности начальника штаба 2-го кавалерийского полка (5-й кавалерийской дивизии 2-го кавалерийского корпуса), а закончил на Эльбе в 1945 году полковником, начальником штаба 1-го гв. кавалерийского корпуса. В том же году ему было присвоено звание генерал-майор. Петр Семенович был награжден двумя орденами Ленина, тремя орденами Красного Знамени, орденом Суворова II степени, орденом Александра Невского, орденами Отечественной войны I и II степени, орденом Красной Звезды.

Название: Фронт в тылу вермахта
Автор: Алексей Никитович Асмолов
Издатель: Издательство политической литературы
Год издания: 2021
Жанр: Военная история
Формат: FB2 RTF
Размер: 10 mb


В этой книге рассказывается о партизанской борьбе советских людей в тылу врага на северо-западе России и юго-западе Украины. Большое место уделено также рассказу о борьбе с фашизмом во время Словацкого национального восстания. Автор воспроизводит малоизвестные страницы минувшей войны, вспоминает о партизанах и подпольщиках, чей массовый героизм и высокое боевое искусство нанесли фашистскому вермахту невосполнимый урон.

Название: World War II: A Global History 6th Edition
Автор: Michael J. Lyons, David J. Ulbrich
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2021
Страниц: 415
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 12.5 MB

Fully revised and restructured, the sixth edition of World War II: A Global History offers students a concise and yet thorough textbook that examines history’s bloodiest conflict. The chapters alternate between chronological chapters on Europe and Asia-Pacific and thematic chapters on innovations, home fronts, brutal regimes, and logistics. This textbook includes the following features

Название: Иллюстрированная история оружия
Автор: Иванов Ю.Г.
Издательство: Русич
Серия: История оружия
Год: 2016
Страниц: 323
Язык: русский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 108.1 MB

Книга популярно рассказывает о современном стрелковом оружии, многочисленных видах артиллерии и бронетехники, господствующей над полем боя авиацией. Нашлось в ней место и для исчезнувших видов оружия - дирижаблей и бронепоездов. Огромное число цветных иллюстраций, выполненных по старинным фотографиям, делают книгу красочной, а чтение - увлекательным как для детей, так и для взрослых.

Название: Defense 101: Understanding the Military of Today and Tomorrow
Автор: Michael E. O'Hanlon
Издательство: Cornell University Press
Год: 2021
Страниц: 263
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

Modern warfare is a remarkably technical and complex ­human endeavor. The organ­izations that carry it out are among the largest institutions on earth. Some of the most sophisticated inventions ever fielded undergird the vehicles, weapons, sensors, communications systems, and other key hardware with which wars are fought. Large fractions of government bud­gets around the world provide the resources to build military institutions in peacetime and to conduct combat operations during times of war. The main focus of this book, the American military, is simply a behemoth. Nearly 3 million ­people work directly for the US Department of Defense (DoD), in uniform or as civilian government employees, across the country and around the world. About 20 million more living Americans have served in uniform in the nation’s armed forces in the past.