Название: Marching from Defeat: Surviving the Collapse of the German Army in the Soviet Union, 1944
Автор: Claus Neuber
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 272
Размер: 3,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

A German soldier’s graphic first-hand account of his escape from Soviet captivity during the Red Army’s offensive on the Eastern Front in 1944. In June 1944, in Belarus on the Eastern Front, the Red Army launched Operation Bagration, the massive offensive that crushed Hitler’s Army Group Centre. German soldiers who weren’t encircled and captured had to fight their way back towards their own lines across hundreds of miles of enemy territory.

Название: Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg
Автор: James M. McPherson
Издательство: Crown
ISBN: 0609610236
Год: 2003
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 144
Размер: 7,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

James M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, and arguably the finest Civil War historian in the world, walks us through the site of the bloodiest and perhaps most consequential battle ever fought by Americans: the Battle of Gettysburg. The events that occurred at Gettysburg are etched into our collective memory, as they served to change the course of the Civil War and with it the course of history.

Название: Conspiracy, Calamity and Cover-up: The Truth Behind the Hess Flight to Scotland, May 10th 1941
Автор: Richard Wilbourn, John Harris
Издательство: Unicorn Publishing Group
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 416
Размер: 11,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Hess affair requires an understanding of a variety of disciplines and practices: Wartime aviation, political history and human psychology to name but three. Harris and Wilbourn have over an extended period tried to learn as much as possible about all relevant aspects of what is in concert a complicated subject, one that has not yet been satisfactorily explained even after more than 80 years.

Название: 13 Sharks: The Careers of a Series of Small Royal Navy Ships, from the Glorious Revolution to D-Day
Автор: John D. Grainger
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473877245
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 248
Размер: 3,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

John D Grainger charts the careers of the thirteen vessels that have served the Royal Navy under the name HMS Shark. Despite the ferocious name, they have all been relatively small vessels including one brigantine, five sloops, one Sixth Rate, a gunvessel, four destroyers and a submarine.

Название: Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary: Civil War Memories Series, Illustrated Edition
Автор: Lemuel Abijah Abbott
Издательство: Madison & Adams Press
ISBN: 3734080134
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц:178
Размер: 3,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders, politicians, nurses and civilians amidst the war.

Название: All About History - Anglo-Saxons, 5th Edition 2023
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Future
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 132
Размер: 205,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

When William the Conqueror won on the battlefield in 1066, he didn’t just usurp a country’s throne – he personally oversaw the end of a vibrant and lively era of British history. He stamped out every last trace of it that he could, but no matter how hard he tried, the legacy of the Anglo-Saxons would live on.

Название: The Venlo Sting: MI6's Deadly Fiasco
Автор: Norman Ridley
Издательство: Casemate Publishers
Год: 2022
Страниц: 248
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub, mobi
Размер: 10.2 MB

On 9 November 1939, two unsuspecting British agents of the Special Intelligence Services walked into a trap set by German Spymaster Reinhard Heydrich. Believing that they were meeting a dissident German general for talks about helping German military opposition to bring down Hitler and end the war, they were instead taken captive in the Dutch village of Venlo and whisked away to Germany for interrogation by the Gestapo. The incident was a huge embarrassment for the Dutch government and provided the Germans with significant intelligence about SIS operations throughout Europe. The incident itself was an intelligence catastrophe but it also acts as a prism through which a number of other important narrative strands pass. Fundamental to the subterfuge perpetrated at Venlo were unsubstantiated but insistent rumours of high-ranking German generals plotting to overthrow the Nazi regime from within. After the humiliation suffered when Hitler tore up the Munich Agreement, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was anxious to see just how much truth there was in these stories; keen to rehabilitate his reputation through one last effort to find a peaceful rapprochement with Germany.

Название: The Imperial German Army Between Kaiser and King: Monarchy, Nation-Building, and War, 1866-1918
Автор: Gavin Wiens
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 3031228626
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 463
Размер: 20,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book provides a reappraisal of Germany’s military between the mid-nineteenth century and the end of the First World War. At its core is the following question: how 'German' was the imperial German army? This army, which emerged from the Wars of Unification in 1871, has commonly been seen as the 'school of the nation'. After all – so this argument goes – tens of thousands of young men passed through its ranks each year, with conscripts undergoing an intense program of patriotic education and returning to civilian life as fervent German nationalists and ardent supporters of the German emperor, or Kaiser.

Название: The Devil Boats: A U.S. Navy PT Squadron in Action in World War II
Автор: C.J. Skamarakas
Издательство: Stackpole Books
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 301
Размер: 140,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

PT boats loom large in the popular imagination of World War II. In March 1942, a PT boat evacuated Gen. Douglas MacArthur, his family, and top staff from the Philippines, which inspired the war movie They Were Expendable, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. John F. Kennedy became a war hero while commanding PT-109, which collided with a Japanese destroyer and was sunk in August 1943.

Название: Противотанковая оборона мотострелкового батальона
Автор: Гарбуз Г.И.
Издательство: М.: Воениздат
Год: 1969
Cтраниц: 160
Формат: pdf
Размер: 13 мб
Язык: русский

Читатели познакомятся в этой книге с основами, организацией и ведением борьбы с танками и другими бронированными целями в основных видах боя мотострелкового батальона. Книга иллюстрирована схемами и примерами из опыта Великой Отечественной войны и некоторых тактических учений послевоенных лет. Она рассчитана на офицеров Сухопутных войск, курсантов военных училищ и офицеров запаса.