Название: Battles That Changed Warfare, 1457 BC - AD 1991: From Chariot Warfare to Stealth Bombers
Автор: Kelly DeVries
Издательство: Amber Books
Год: 2008
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 232
Размер: 279,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Battles that Changed Warfare features 20 key battles in which new weapons have had a revolutionary impact on the battlefield. Beginning with the battle of Megiddo (1457 BC) where Pharaoh Tuthmosis III's chariots defeated the Canaanites and finishing with the first Gulf War (1991) the most important examples from the history of warfare are featured.

Название: The Perilous Road to Rome and beyond: The Memoirs of a Gordon Highlander
Автор: Edward Grace
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1844155609
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 12,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The author fought with the 6th Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders during the campaigns of 1st Army in Tunisia and in Italy thereafter. As a young platoon commander he and his men were in the thick of the fighting. Wounded during the desperate action at Anzio, he wrote notes of all that had happened in exact detail and the result is a memoir both fresh and authentic.

Название: Don't Hurry Me Down to Hades: The Civil War in the Words of Those Who Lived It
Автор: Susannah Ural
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1472806727
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 288
Размер: 11,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Acclaimed Civil War historian Susannah Ural brings a unique and fresh insight into the war, delving into the historical archives, in particular the untapped resources of the Gilder Lehrmann Institute. Her consummate narrative draws together these different personal recollections to create a textured, detailed portrait of a nation at war with itself.

Название: The illustrated Guide to Supermachines
Автор: Peter Marriott
Издательство: Gallery Books
Год: 1986
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 120
Размер: 148,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Explores the world of machines, discussing in particular those that have broken world records, won design awards, or set new standards of excellence.

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: 1939: Countdown to War
Автор: Richard Overy
Издательство: Penguin
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 178
Размер: 1,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

A brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the outbreak of history's greatest conflagration, 1939 takes readers hour by hour through the nail-biting decisions that determined the fate of millions. Richard Overy, a leading historian of the period, masterfully recreates the jockeying for advantage that set Europe's greatest powers on a collision course.