Название: The Milne Papers: Volume III: The Royal Navy and the American Civil War, 1862–1864
Автор: John Beeler (Editor)
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2023
Страниц: 621
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 19.4 MB

This collection covers the period February 1862-March 1864, which constituted the final two years and one month that Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne commanded the Royal Navy’s North America and West India Station. Its chief focus is upon Anglo-American relations in the midst of the American Civil War. Whilst the most high-profile cause of tension between the two countries — the　Trent　Affair — had been resolved in Britain’s favour by January 1862, numerous sources of discord remained. Most turned on American efforts to blockade the so-called Confederacy, efforts that often ran afoul of international law, not to mention British　amour-propre. As commander of British naval forces in the theatre, Milne’s decisions and actions could and did have a major impact on the state of affairs between his government and that of the US.

Название: Nazi Spies and Collaborators in Britain, 1939–1945
Автор: Neil R. Storey
Издательство: Pen and Sword Military
Год: 2023
Страниц: 272
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 18.7 MB

The true extent of Nazi secret agent activity in Britain during the Second World War has received little attention. In large part this is due to the highly classified nature of the subject. This fascinating book uses recently released documents to explore how German agents penetrated our borders and explains methods of agent recruitment. Some spies were arrested and handed over the MI5 for interrogation. Several were turned and became ‘double-cross’ agents, while others were tried and executed or incarcerated in Camp 020 and other facilities. There were also those who came and left undetected and were only revealed after Nazi records were seized.

Название: Operation C3: Hitler's Plan to Invade Malta 1942
Автор: John D. Burtt
Издательство: Pen and Sword Military
Год: 2023
Страниц: 224
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.2 MB

When writing his memoirs after World War II, German Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring stated, “Italy’s missing her chance to occupy the island[of Malta] at the start of hostilities will go down in history as a fundamental blunder.” It’s easy to see why this tiny 95 square mile island held such a prominent place in the war’s Mediterranean Theater. Located almost halfway between the British bases of Gibraltar and Alexandria, Egypt, and just 60 miles south of Sicily, her airfields and naval base stood directly in the path of Italy’s (and her German partner’s) line of communication from Europe to North Africa. Operation C3 is a detailed study of the Axis 1942 plan to invade and take the island of Malta. The book examines the future combatants up to the Axis capture of Tobruk, in June 1942. The book then provides a realistic assessment of what would have had to happen if the Axis had decided to launch the invasion.

Название: Стальная гвардия
Автор: П. А. Ротмистров
Издательство: Вече
Год: 2015
Страниц: 396 с ил.
Формат: pdf/djvu
Размер: 43 мб
Язык: русский

В годы Великой Отечественной войны Павел Алексеевич Ротмистров проявил себя как талантливейший командир танковых соединений. За годы войны он прошел путь от полковника до маршала бронетанковых войск. В воспоминаниях он рассказывает о боевом пути своих частей: 8-й танковой бригады и 5-й гвардейской танковой армии, много внимания уделяет ключевым операциям войны — Сталинградской битве, Курской дуге, Корсунь-Шевченковской операции.

Название: Churchill's Spy Files: MI5's Top-Secret Wartime Reports
Автор: Nigel West
Издательство: The History Press
ISBN: 0750985496
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 464
Размер: 4,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

World War II saw the role of espionage, secret agents, and spy services increase exponentially as the world was thrown into a conflict quite unlike any that had gone before it. At this time, no one in government was really aware of what MI5 and its brethren did.

Название: Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze
Автор: Mordecai G. Sheftall
Издательство: Dutton Caliber
Год: May 2023
Страниц: 682
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub (true), mobi
Размер: 10.2 MB

A revelatory and groundbreaking account of Imperial Japan’s kamikaze—the suicide pilots of World War II—as told through the eyes of the survivors. In the final year of World War II, a horrific new weapon was unleashed in the Pacific: the kamikaze. Idealistic, young Japanese men had been taught that there was no greater glory than to sacrifice one’s life to defend the homeland. Now, with the war all but lost, thousands of these determined warriors were hastily trained in the basics of piloting an airplane, then sent out in waves to crash into enemy warships, suicide attacks that killed altogether some seven thousand American sailors. But what of those men who took the sacred oath to die in battle and lived? In the wake of 9/11, ethnographer M.G. Sheftall was given unprecedented access to the cloistered community of Japan’s last remaining kamikaze survivors. As an American fluent in Japanese, Sheftall was the only westerner to ever sit face-to-face with these men and hear their stories. The result is a fascinating journey into the lives, indoctrination, and mindsets of the kamikaze, through the eyes of participants who are now lost to time.

Название: Танки и люди: «битвы в пути» главного инженера Демьяновича
Автор: Демьянович В.А.
Издательство: Весь Мир
Год: 2019
Cтраниц: 165 с. : ил.
Формат: pdf (ocr)
Размер: 23 мб
Язык: русский

Книга содержит воспоминания Анатолия Николаевича Демьяновича – участника Сталинградской битвы и одного из организаторов производства лучшего танка Второй мировой войны – Т-34. Как главный инженер Сталинградского тракторного, Уралмаша, Омского, Свердловского заводов, он внес огромный вклад в Победу. В военные годы и последовавшие десятилетия он занимал должности главного инженера крупнейших машиностроительных заводов СССР.

Название: Fighting Techniques of the Elite Forces: How to Train and Fight Like the Special Operations Forces of the World
Автор: Leroy Thompson
Издательство: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1510754482
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 216
Размер: 38,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Learn the trade secrets of special operatives.It is easy to visualize special operations troops as men in camouflage with painted faces, lurking in the shadows of modern warfare. But the truth is far more complex—and enthralling. A wide array of skills, both physical and cerebral, combines to make up the modern elite soldier.

Название: Гитлер и стратегия блицкрига: Третий рейх в войне на два фронта. 1937-1943
Автор: Хиггинс Т.
Издательство: Центрполиграф
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Размер: 18 мб
Язык: русский

Подробно рассматривая план по стремительному захвату СССР и его крушение, Т.Хиггинс, известный американский историк, рассматривает ряд причин его провала. Основываясь на подлинных документах, дневниках, письмах и мемуарах военных деятелей - Гальдера, Еременко, Хойзингера и других участников событий, Хиггинс делает вывод о том, что Гитлер и Сталин, являясь несомненными лидерами внутри своих стран, во внешней политике допускали большие просчеты.

Название: Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded
Автор: David Stahel
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009282816
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 335
Размер: 4,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Germany's success in the Second World War was built upon its tank forces; however, many of its leading generals, with the notable exception of Heinz Guderian, are largely unknown. This biographical study of four German panzer army commanders serving on the Eastern Front is based upon their unpublished wartime letters to their wives.