Название: End of Empire: One Hundred Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World Автор: David P. Chandler, Robert Cribb Издательство: NIAS Press Год: 2016 Страниц: 353 Язык: английский Формат: pdf (true) Размер: 18.6 MB European events are dominating global public discussions and reminiscences of World War II though no doubt Hiroshima will be remembered on 6 August as usual. Thereafter, the 70th anniversaries of Indonesian, Vietnamese and Korean independence will get mainly local attention. Aiming to redress this imbalance, "˜End of Empire' focuses on a brief, 100-day period at the end of the war across a broad sweep of eastern Asia "“ a time when the Indonesian and Vietnamese revolutions were born, the fragile wartime truce been Communists and Nationalists in China began to fray, and the first steps were made in Japan towards a new democratic order. Following a chronological order, the volume combines daily events with commentary, photographs, maps and personal accounts. More importantly, it is part of a radical, multi-faceted project to commemorate the period not just in print but also on screen and in "˜real-time broadcasts' published day by day. Here, perhaps, is the form of scholarly publishing and learning of the future but without abandoning traditional standards. The Second World War began in Asia, with the Japanese invasion of China in July 1937; it ended there with Japan’s surrender on 15 August 1945.
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 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: Поход в Европу. Когда Америка была с Россией Автор: Дуайт Эйзенхауэр Издательство: Алгоритм Год: 2021 Формат: pdf, rtf Размер: 10 Мб Качество: Хорошее Язык: Русский Дуайт Эйзенхауэр, президент США с 1953 по 1961 год, в годы Второй мировой войны был Верховным главнокомандующим союзнических армий в Европе. Одновременно он осуществлял координацию совместных боевых действий англо-американских экспедиционных сил и Красной армии, встречался с советскими полководцами, в том числе – с маршалом Жуковым, приезжал в Москву для переговоров со Сталиным. Обо всем этом Эйзенхауэр рассказывает в своей книге, но речь в ней идет не только о военных аспектах – автор подробно анализирует политическую обстановку в мире.
Название: Асы «шнелльботов». Немецкие торпедные катера в бою Автор: Фридрих Кемнаде Издательство: Яуза Год: 2021 Формат: pdf, rtf Размер: 10 Мб Качество: Хорошее Язык: Русский В годы Второй Мировой немецкие торпедные катера (Schnellbooten) нанесли флотам антигитлеровской коалиции серьезный урон, отправив на дно около 60 боевых кораблей и более сотни торговых судов. Отличившись на всех театрах военных действий – и в Ла-Манше, и на Средиземном море, и на Восточном фронте, где «шнелльботы» вступили в бой уже ранним утром 22 июня. Они только за лето 1941 г. потопили и повредили 13 кораблей Балтийского флота.
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: How the RAF and USAAF Beat the Luftwaffe Автор: Ken Delve Издательство: Greenhill Books Год: 2021 Страниц: 256 Язык: английский Формат: pdf, epub Размер: 10.5 MB How did the RAF beat the Luftwaffe during the Second World War? Was it actually the fact that they did not lose which later enabled them to claim victory – a victory that would have been impossible without the participation of the Americans from early 1943? This groundbreaking study looks at the main campaigns in which the RAF – and later the Allies – faced the Luftwaffe. Critically acclaimed writer Ken Delve argues that by the latter part of 1942 the Luftwaffe was no longer a decisive strategic or even tactical weapon. The Luftwaffe was remarkably resilient, but it was on a continual slide to ultimate destruction. Its demise is deconstructed according to defective strategic planning from the inception of the Luftwaffe; its failure to provide decisive results over Britain in 1940 and over the Mediterranean and Desert in 1941–1942; and its failure to defend the Reich and the occupied countries against the RAF and, later, combined Allied bomber offensive.
Название: Warlords: An extraordinary re-creation of World War II through the eyes and minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Автор: Joanna Potts, Simon Berthon Издательство: Lume Books Год: 2020 Страниц: 466 Язык: английский Формат: pdf, epub Размер: 10.1 MB Warlords recreates in forensic and gripping detail the extraordinary mind games between Churchill, Hitler, Stalin and Roosevelt as World War Two unfolded day by day. In a unique combination of innovative style and thorough scholarship, Warlords tells the story of World War II through the lives of the four great war leaders: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt.
Название: A Ceaseless Watch: Australia’s Third-Party Naval Defense 1919–1942 Автор: Angus Britts Издательство: Naval Institute Press Серия: Studies in Naval History and Sea Power Год: 2021 Страниц: 363 Язык: английский Формат: epub Размер: 10.2 MB A Ceaseless Watch: Australia’s Third Party Naval Defense, 1919–1942 illustrates how Australia confronted the need to base its post–World War I defense planning around the security provided by a major naval power: in the first instance, Britain, and later the United States. Spanning the period leading up to Australia’s greatest security crisis—the military threat posed by Japan throughout the majority of 1942—the work takes the reader all the way up to the defeat of the Imperial Japanese Navy by the United States Navy in the Solomon Islands campaign.
Название: Inside the Nazi Ring: A Naval Attache in Sweden, 1940-1945 (Memoirs from World War Two) Автор: H.M. Denham Издательство: Sapere Books Год: 2021 Страниц: 135 Язык: английский Формат: pdf, epub Размер: 10.1 MB On the morning of 9 April 1940, German forces occupied Denmark and invaded Norway, leaving Sweden as the only neutral country in Scandinavia. It was to this country, surrounded by Axis forces, that Captain H. M. Denham was posted as Naval Attaché, arriving after evading capture by the Nazi Wehrmacht in the summer of 1940. Over the course of the next five years Captain Denham used his position to covertly provide valuable intelligence to the British military, such as the Bismarck’s attempt to break into the Atlantic Ocean and raid Allied shipping. Thanks to his information the terrifying battleship was sunk just eight days later.
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