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Название: Battle of Britain
Издательство: Alfred Price
Язык: Английский
Год: 1990
Формат: PDF
Размер: 156,4 МБ
Кол-во страниц: 100

Dr Alfred Price, who is a recognised and respected authority on the Battle of Britain, recounts the story of the conflict, both in terms of the strategic and tactical battle between two mighty air forces of the day and the fascinating and often traumatic human element as the civilians of Britain faced the reality of German invasion.

Название: The Fallen Few of the Battle of Britain
Автор: Norman Franks, Nigel McCrery
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473827876
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 256
Размер: 3,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

This emotional yet factual book describes the three and a half months (10 July – 31 October 1940) battle day-by-day and covers the essential details of every one of the 540 young pilots who died in this critical campaign that saved Britain from invasion by the Nazis.

Название: A Chronicle History of Forts and Fortresses
Автор: Martin Brice
Издательство: Barnes & Noble
Год: 2006
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 192
Размер: 238,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

A Chronicle History of Forts and Fortresses charts the entire history of fortification, from the Ancient Babylonian brick structures of 3500 BC to the massive Atlantic Wall erected by the Germans during World War II. Each chapter covers a specific period in history, or a specific culture, and fully documents the best examples of fortification, the defensive innovations of the period, and other key developments, such as the invention of gunpowder and the evolution of cannon warfare.

Название: The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia : Hittite Sovereign Practice, Resistance, and Negotiation
Автор: Claudia Glatz
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108491105
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 388
Размер: 16,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

In this book, Claudia Glatz reconsiders the concept of empire and the processes of imperial making and undoing of the Hittite network in Late Bronze Age Anatolia. Using an array of archaeological, iconographic, and textual sources, she offers a fresh account of one of the earliest, well-attested imperialist polities of the ancient Near East.

Название: Heavenly Warriors: Evolution of Japan's Military, 500-1300
Автор: William Wayne Farris
Издательство: Harvard University Asia Center
ISBN: 0674387031
Год: 1996
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 400
Размер: 73,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

"In a government, military matters are the essential thing," said Japan's "Heavenly Warrior," the Emperor Temmu, in 684. Heavenly Warriors traces in detail the evolutionary development of weaponry, horsemanship, military organization, and tactics from Japan's early conflicts with Korea up to the full-blown system of the samurai. Enhanced by illustrations and maps, and with a new preface by the author, this book will be indispensable for students of military history and Japanese political history.

Название: WWII: A Chronicle of Soldiering
Автор: James Jones
Издательство: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0345254287
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 217
Размер: 6,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 1975, James Jones was chosen to write the text for an oversized coffee table book featuring visual art from World War II. The book was a best seller, praised for both its images and for Jones’s text. In subsequent decades, when it became impossible to reproduce the book with its original artwork, it fell out of print and was forgotten.

Название: Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
Автор: Judith Herrin
Издательство: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1846144663
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 528
Размер: 93,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West. Here, in Ravenna on the coast of Italy, Arian Goths and Catholic Romans competed to produce an unrivaled concentration of buildings and astonishing mosaics.

Название: Encyclopedia of Heart Diseases
Автор: M. Gabriel Khan
Издательство: Academic Press
ISBN: 0124060616
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 680
Размер: 9,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Encyclopedia of Heart Diseases is an accurate and reliable source of in-depth information on the diseases that kill more than 12 million individuals worldwide each year. In fact, cardiovascular diseases are more prevalent than the combined incidence of all forms of cancer, diabetes, asthma and leukemia.

Название: The History of Land Warfare
Автор: Kenneth Macksey
Издательство: Two Continents Publishing Group
Год: 1974
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 264
Размер: 67,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

This books is about the History of Land Warfare. The History of Land Warfare will appeal to both scholars and the general reader. The author follows the fascinating evolution describing the most important events, technical diiscoveries, and battle personalities.

Название: Historical Atlas of Central Europe: Third Revised and Expanded Edition
Автор: Paul Robert Magocsi
Издательство: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487523312
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 299
Размер: 23,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Central Europe remains a region of ongoing change and continuing significance in the contemporary world. This third, fully revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Central Europe takes into consideration recent changes in the region. The 120 full-colour maps, each accompanied by an explanatory text, provide a concise visual survey of political, economic, demographic, cultural, and religious developments from the fall of the Roman Empire in the early fifth century to the present.