Название: Locomotives: A Complete History of the World's Great Locomotives and Fabulous Train Journeys Автор: Colin Garrett, Max Wade-Matthews Издательство: Hermes House Год: 2006 Формат: PDF Страниц: 516 Размер: 126,0 МБ Язык: Английский Divided into five sections, the book documents developments and innovations in an easy-to-use format that will appeal to every railway enthusiast. The book begins with an introduction to locomotive design up to 1900, including the development of steam power from Britain and the United States to India and Latin America.
Название: The First World War: A Brief History with Documents, 2nd Edition Автор: Susan R. Grayzel Издательство: Bedford/St. Martin's ISBN: 1319169228 Год: 2012 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 208 Размер: 17,7 МБ Язык: Английский A brief but thorough collection, Susan Grayzel's new revision of The First World War document reader allows students to experience this historical turning point through various sources from the period and the scholarship tied to them.
Название: Festival Meals all around the World: Festival Recipes that can Never Go Wrong Автор: Ava Archer Издательство: Ava Archer Год: 2020 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 65 Размер: 16,3 МБ Язык: Английский The festive season is around the corner, and this year, it might be a little different considering the social distancing thing that is trending all over the world. However, it shouldn't stop you from having fun during the festive season with your family.
Название: Law and Crime in the Roman World Автор: Jill Harries Издательство: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521828201 Год: 2007 Формат: PDF Страниц: 160 Размер: 8,3 МБ Язык: Английский What was crime in ancient Rome? Was it defined by law or social attitudes? How did damage to the individual differ from offences against the community as a whole? This 2007 book explores competing legal and extra-legal discourses in a number of areas, including theft, official malpractice, treason, sexual misconduct, crimes of violence, homicide, magic and perceptions of deviance.
Название: Shipcraft 7 - British Battlecruisers of the Second World War Автор: Steve Backer Издательство: Seaforth Publishing ISBN: 1844156982 Год: 2007 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 64 Размер: 42,6 МБ Язык: Английский The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sisterships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profiles and highly-detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit.
Название: World War I Автор: Simon Adams Издательство: DK ISBN: 075663007X Год: 2007 Формат: PDF Страниц: 72 Размер: 23,4 МБ Язык: Английский Many gruesome images of casualties become less sobering when one notices that they're photographs of re-creations from London's Imperial War Museum, stills from fictional movies or posed scenarios for training purposes. Still, Simon Adams's Eyewitness: World War I, part of an extensive Eyewitness series, provides an informative, picture-and-caption history lesson. Countless actual photos of trench life, tanks, rifles, uniforms, airplanes, artificial trees (for artillery observation posts) and other battle equipment and behavior are featured along with the re-creations.
Автор: Bill O'Reilly (Author) Название: The Day the World Went Nuclear: Dropping the Atom Bomb and the End of World War II in the Pacific Издательство: Henry Holt and Co ISBN: 1250120330 Язык: Английский Год: 2017 Формат: PDF (conv) Размер: 15,8 МБ Кол-во страниц: 320 Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe, but in the Pacific, American soldiers face an enemy who will not surrender, despite a massive and mounting death toll. Meanwhile, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists are preparing to test the deadliest weapon known to mankind. Newly inaugurated president Harry Truman faces the most important political decision in history: whether to use that weapon.
Название: The Illustrated World Guide to Submarines Автор: John Parker Издательство: Hermes House Год: 2007 Формат: PDF Страниц: 264 Размер: 341,6 МБ Язык: Английский This fully illustrated book traces the history of underwater travel, from the earliest attempts to travel beneath the waves to the future possibility of unmanned craft permanently roaming the seas.
Название: Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II Автор: Adam Makos, Marcus Brotherton Издательство: Dutton Caliber ISBN: 0425257827 Год: 2014 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 413 Размер: 9,0 МБ Язык: Английский Following fifteen Marines from the Pearl Harbor attack, through battles with the Japanese, to their return home after V-J Day, Adam Makos and Marcus Brotherton have compiled an oral history of the Pacific War in the words of the men who fought on the front lines. With unflinching honesty, these Marines reveal harrowing accounts of combat with an implacable enemy, the friendships and camaraderie they found—and lost—and the aftermath of the war’s impact on their lives.
Название: British Infantry Battalion Commanders in the First World War Автор: Peter E. Hodgkinson Издательство: Routledge ISBN: 1472438256 Год: 2015 Формат: PDF Страниц: 208 Размер: 1,3 МБ Язык: Английский Recent studies of the British Army during the First World War have fundamentally overturned historical understandings of its strategy and tactics, yet the chain of command that linked the upper echelons of GHQ to the soldiers in the trenches remains poorly understood.
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