Название: The Eastern Front 1914-18: Suicide of the Empires
Автор: Alan Clark
Издательство: Windrush Press
ISBN: 1900624230
Год: 1999
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 111
Размер: 51,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

On the outbreak of war in 1914, the armies of the western front soon became bogged down in the mud at Flanders. But on the wide plains and forests of Eastern Europe the three great Empires - Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary - grappled in a series of battles involving millions of men and hundreds of miles of front. Shortly after the outbreak of war the Russian "steamroller" had lurched into Prussia only to be hurled back amind the marshes of Tannenberg. For the next three years the fighting swung indeterminately back and forth. This work describes the campaigns which provoked the downfall of three great empires and left the world changed forever.

Название: Clash of Empires in South China: The Allied Nations' Proxy War with Japan, 1935-1941
Автор: Franco David Macri
Издательство: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700621083
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 512
Размер: 1,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Japan's invasion of China in 1937 saw most major campaigns north of the Yangtze River, where Chinese industry was concentrated. The southern theater proved a more difficult challenge for Japan because of its enormous size, diverse terrain, and poor infrastructure, but Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek made a formidable stand that produced a veritable quagmire for a superior opponent-a stalemate much desired by the Allied nations.