Название: Automatic Arms: Their History, Development and Use
Автор: Melvin M. Johnson, Charles T. Haven
Издательство: Skyhorse Publishing
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 394
Размер: 71,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The evolution of automatic weapons is one of the most significant developments in weapons history. While this development has been filled with disagreements, controversy, and stray hurdles, out of all of this tumult, shouting, and shooting has come the progress in firearms from the days when it was necessary to build a fire under a gun to make it go off to the “you press the button and they do the work” automatic firearms of the present day.

Название: The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945
Автор: Nicholas Stargardt
Издательство: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465018998
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 760
Размер: 11,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

As early as 1941, Allied victory in World War II seemed all but assured. How and why, then, did the Germans prolong the barbaric conflict for three and a half more years?
In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range of primary source materials—personal diaries, court records, and military correspondence—to answer this question.