Название: The Fighting Corsairs: The Men of Marine Fighting Squadron 215 in the Pacific during WWII
Автор: Jeff Dacus
Издательство: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 1493055089
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 296
Размер: 4,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

From historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a Marine fighter squadron in the South Pacific during the critical days of 1943 when the tide turned against the Japanese. Based on individual interviews and wartime documents, this is a thrilling narrative of the Marines who lived, and died, during the toughest battles of the entire war. It looks at the war.

Название: Fighting Admirals of the Second World War
Автор: David Wragg
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2009
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 224
Размер: 51,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Control of the sea was a crucial element in the outcome of World War II. The U-boat campaign almost brought Britain to her knees; the Arctic convoys were vital in keeping Russia in the war; Pearl Harbor brought America into the conflict with massive repercussions; the battle of Midway was one of the key turning points in the war. Allied naval supremacy made the D-day landings possible.

Название: Battle for Paris 1815: The Untold Story of the Fighting after Waterloo
Автор: Paul L Dawson
Издательство: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1526749277
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 303
Размер: 15,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

On the morning of 3 July 1815, the French General Remi Joseph Isidore Exelmans, at the head of a brigade of dragoons, fired the last shots in the defense of Paris until the Franco-Prussian War sixty-five years later. Why did he do so? Traditional stories of 1815 end with Waterloo, that fateful day of 18 June, when Napoleon Bonaparte fought and lost his last battle, abdicating his throne on 22 June.

Название: Recon By Fire: Fighting with the 1ST BN 5TH (MECH) Infantry in Vietnam
Автор: Mark Paloolian
Издательство: Hellgate Press
ISBN: 1555719392
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 150
Размер: 6,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Recon By Fire tells the story of a young college student drafted during the critical phase and turmoil of the Vietnam War. In vivid detail and with a sense of humor familiar to so many veterans who served and survived, Mark Paloolian describes his experiences from the rigors of Basic and Advanced Infantry Training to the all important small track, APC exercises at Ft. Knox, KY, that proved so vital to his surviving the chaos of war.