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.

Название: War at Sea: Essays on Naval Warfare, 1776 – 1945
Автор: Mark Carlson
Издательство: Sunbury Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 496
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 42.9 MB

War at Sea is a collection of 21 essays and articles on naval warfare from the American Revolution to the end of the Second World War. In this book are some of the most famous, and indeed infamous naval battles in history. The author, a contributor to more than two dozen national magazines, has assembled and expanded on some of his favorite articles that cover the age of fighting sail, the emergence of steam power, and the development of steel warships. Here you will find broadsides against wood, rifled guns against iron, the Royal Navy against the German Kriegsmarine, and submarines prowling the Atlantic and Pacific.

Название: This Great Struggle: America's Civil War
Автор: Steven E. Woodworth
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0742551849
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 424
Размер: 8,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Referring to the war that was raging across parts of the American landscape, Abraham Lincoln told Congress in 1862, "We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope on earth." Lincoln recognized what was at stake in the American Civil War: not only freedom for 3.5 million slaves but also survival of self-government in the last place on earth where it could have the opportunity of developing freely.