Название: Rebellion Against Henry III: The Disinherited Montfortians, 1265–1274
Автор: David Pilling
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526763206
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 2,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The 'Montfortian' civil wars in England lasted from 1259-67, though the death of Simon de Montfort and so many of his followers at the battle of Evesham in 1265 ought to have ended the conflict. In the aftermath of the battle, Henry III's decision to disinherit all the surviving Montfortians served to prolong the war for another two years.

Название: Terror From the Sky: The Battle Against the Flying Bombs
Автор: Graham A. Thomas
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2008
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 272
Размер: 58,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the summer of 1944 the Germans launched more than 10,000 flying bombs at Britain, most of them towards London. Thousands of people were killed many more injured. RAF fighter pilots flew round the clock patrols desperately trying to shoot the robot rockets down and stop them from reaching their targets.

Название: Against the Odds: Survival on the Russian Front
Автор: John Stieber
Издательство: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 1523347360
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 295
Размер: 1,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

John Stieber was a twelve-year-old schoolboy in Ireland when he was sent to secondary school in Germany. Caught there by the outbreak of the Second World War, he was unable to return to his parents for seven years.In due course, he was called to serve in an anti-aircraft battery and in the National Labour Service. Just after his eighteenth birthday, he was sent to the Russian Front with the elite Paratrooper and Tank Division, Hermann Göring. He lived through an amazing series of events, escaping death many times and was one of the few survivors of his division when the war ended.

Название: Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942-1945
Автор: Barrett Tillman
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1416584412
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 360
Размер: 120,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Whirlwind is the only book to examine in depth the human drama behind the most important bombing campaign in history. While the air war against Nazi Germany has been covered in-depth by many books, Barrett Tillman, a renowned authority on military aircraft and the air war in the Pacific, is the first to tackle the air war against Japan.

Название: The Virtues of Violence: Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France
Автор: Kevin Duong
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190058412
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 262
Размер: 13,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

If democracy liberates individuals from their inherited bonds, what can reunite them into a sovereign people? In The Virtues of Violence, Kevin Duong argues that one particular answer captivated modern French thinkers: popular violence as social regeneration.