Название: Midnight in Tehran: Operation Long Jump, the Nazi Plot to Assassinate Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
Автор: Christopher Sandford
Издательство: McFarland
ISBN: 1476649510
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 300
Размер: 17,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

This is the gripping history of the Nazi-sponsored attempt to infiltrate the 1943 wartime Allied conference in Tehran and assassinate the "Big Three" leaders: Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. It shows how close the plot came to success, and how the removal of any one or more of the Allied chiefs might have significantly altered the future course of the Second World War.

Название: Vanishing Point: The Search for a B-24 Bomber Crew Lost on the World War II Home Front
Автор: Tom Wilber
Издательство: Three Hills
ISBN: 1501769669
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 292
Размер: 8,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

At the height of World War II, a B-24 Liberator bomber vanished with its crew while on a training mission over upstate New York. The final hours and ultimate resting place of pilot Keith Ponder and seven other US aviators aboard the plane remain mysteries to this day.

Название: Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland: A Life in Geopolitics
Автор: Henrik Meinander
Издательство: Hurst
ISBN: 1787389375
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 320
Размер: 26,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Field marshal and statesman Gustaf Mannerheim (1867-1951) was the most acclaimed and the most hated Finn of the twentieth century. After three decades of loyal and distinguished service in the Russian Tsarist army, he returned to his homeland in 1917 to defend its new independence. This iconic figure led the Finnish forces as Commander-in-Chief during both World Wars, then ended his career as President of Finland.

Название: Mystery of Missing Flight F-BELV
Автор: Stephen Wynn
Издательство: Air World
ISBN: 1473845955
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 192
Размер: 10,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

The true story of the aircraft that disappeared between Saigon and Hanoi, one of the enduring mysteries of the Vietnam War. Following the Geneva Accords in 1954, Vietnam found itself separated into North and South, with communist North Vietnam under the control of Ho Chi Minh. At the same time, the International Commission for Supervision and Control (ICSC) was established, whose role it was to oversee the implementation of the Accords.

Название: The Last Raid: The Commandos, Channel Islands and Final Nazi Raid
Автор: Will Fowler
Издательство: The History Press
ISBN: 0750966378
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 224
Размер: 4,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

When Germany occupied the originally ‘demilitarised’ Channel Islands in 1940, Hitler ordered the area to be staunchly fortified with colossal permanent structures like Battery Moltke on Jersey. As it was the only piece of the British Isles in Nazi control, he was determined that the islands should remain German forever.

Название: Little Ship, Big War: The Saga of DE343
Автор: Edward Stafford
Издательство: Jove
ISBN: 0515084182
Год: 1985
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 388
Размер: 65,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Manned almost entirely by reservists, the USS Abercrombie (DE343) and her sister ships did the dirty work of the Pacific War. They escorted convoys, chased submarines, picked up downed pilots, and led the landing craft to the invasion beaches, yet they received little credit and less glory.

Название: Spy Ships: One Hundred Years of Intelligence Collection by Ships and Submarines
Автор: Norman Polmar, Lee J. Mathers
Издательство: Potomac Books
ISBN: 1640124756
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 336
Размер: 8,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Almost from the first days of seafaring, men have used ships for “spying” and intelligence collection. Since early in the twentieth century, with the technological advancements of radio and radar, the U.S. Navy and other government agencies and many other navies have used increasingly specialized ships and submarines to ferret out the secrets of other nations.

Название: All About History: Book of the American Revolution - 5th Edition, 2023
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Future
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 164
Размер: 245,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

All About History: Book of the American Revolution - 5th Edition, 2023

Название: History of War: Operation Barbarossa, First Edition 2023
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Future
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 132
Размер: 165,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

History of War: Operation Barbarossa, First Edition 2023

Название: Катынский синдром в советско-польских и российско-польских отношениях
Автор: Яжборовская И.С. и др.
Издательство: М.: Российская политическая энциклопедия (РОССПЭН)
Год: 2001
Cтраниц: 496
Формат: pdf
Размер: 51 мб
Язык: русский

В книге анализируются исторические реалии, приведшие к катынскому злодеянию, - ликвидация Польского государства и его армии как одно из следствий подписания советско-германских договоров 1939 г. В центре исследования - многотрудная история Катынского дела, борьбы против замалчивания и фальсификации обстоятельств, причин и мотивов преступления, усилий по установлению лживости заключения комиссии Бурденко и всей советской «официальной версии», представленной в Нюрнберге.