Название: OSS Operation Black Mail: One Woman's Covert War Against the Imperial Japanese Army
Автор: Ann Todd
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 280
Размер: 12,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

OSS Operation Black Mail is the story of a remarkable woman who fought World War II on the front lines of psychological warfare. Elizabeth “Betty” P. McIntosh spent eighteen months serving in the Office of Strategic Services in what has been called the “forgotten theater,” China-Burma-India, where she met and worked with characters as varied as Julia Child and Ho Chi Minh.

Название: Dark is the Harbor: Tales of the U. S. Submarine War Against Japan in World War II; The War Patrols of USS Trout (SS 202)
Автор: Jeweldeen Brown Rmcm, Stephen Leal Jackson
Издательство: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 1977273440
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 196
Размер: 15,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

What would motivate men to seek out what may have been the most dangerous branch of the service? By the end of the war over 3,500 submariners, over to 23 percent of the force, never returned from their missions; fifty-two World War II submarines are “still on patrol”. The enlisted men had even fewer benefits from this choice of military service.

Название: US Navy Pacific Fleet 1941: America's mighty last battleship fleet (Fleet, 7)
Автор: Mark Lardas
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1472859502
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 80
Размер: 13,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The first book to examine the battleship-led 1941 Pacific Fleet as it was intended to fight. Packed with illustrations, this study explains how the US Navy saw the approaching war unfolding. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the Pacific Fleet was the most powerful in the US Navy. It was still dominated by battleships, but since the late 1930s had been developing naval aviation and integrating them with its battleship-led doctrine.

Название: D-DAY The Oral History: The Turning Point of WWII By the People Who Were There
Автор: Garrett M. Graff
Издательство: Monoray
ISBN: 1800962185
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 599
Размер: 16,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

On 6th June 1944, the Allied invasion began. For hours, wave after wave of soldiers, sailors, and airmen crossed the channel and stormed the Normandy coast, fighting to gain a foothold in Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe.

Автор: Brian L Davis
Название: Flags Of The Third Reich 2: Waffen SS
Издательство: Osprey Publishing Ltd
Серия: Men-at-Arms 274
Год: 1994
Язык: английский
Страниц: 48
Формат: PDF
Размер: 22.37 Мб


During the Second World War the German propaganda machine attempted to depict Germany first as the representative of the New Order leading Europe against the decadent pluto-democracies and, later, after the attack on the USSR, as rallying the best elements of Europe in the defence of Western civilisation against Bolshevism. An essential part of this propaganda was the raising of non-German volunteer contingents, variously named as 'Legions' and 'Free Corps', serving alongside the German forces primarily on the Eastern Front. These units were from their outset mere token forces, comparatively insignificant in numbers and maintained chiefly for their propaganda value.

Название: Flags of the Third Reich 3: Party & Police Units
Автор: Brian Davis
Издательство: Osprey Publishing Ltd
Год: 1994
Страниц: 50
Формат: pdf
Размер: 24,34 MB
Язык: английский

In his book, Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler claims that he made the decision to use the swastika as the emblem for his fledgling movement. He was responsible for the shape the swastika finally took, and for the choice of colours used, which set the pattern for all subsequent flags. Hitler devoted almost four pages of his book to this matter. He felt that the new flag 'should prove effective as a large poster.'

Название: Wellington’s Peninsular Army
Автор: James Lawford
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия/номер в серии: Men at Arms/35
Год: 1973
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 50
Размер: 39 Mb
Язык: English


At the beginning of the Napoleonic period the British Army's record left something to be desired. During the Peninsular War, however, Wellington led and trained an army that never knew a major defeat on the field. Even Wellington himself described his army as 'able to go anywhere or do anything'. This book examines the formidable British Army which played an integral part in stalling Napoleon's advance, focusing on the staff, infantry, cavalry, artillery and sieges and sappers. Numerous illustrations, including eight colour plates, vividly depict the weaponry and uniforms of Wellington's Peninsular Army.

Название: The Black Brunswickers
Автор: Otto von Pivka
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия/номер в серии: Men at Arms/7
Год: 1973
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 50
Размер: 26 Mb
Язык: English


In 1809 the dispossessed Friedrich Wilhelm of Brunswick, consumed by his desire for revenge against Napoleon, entered into an agreement with the Austrians to raise a new corps of infantry and cavalry. As a physical expression of this vengeance he decided to clothe his new troops all in black and adopted as his badge the skull and crossbones, resulting in his corps' christening as Die Schwarze Schar (the Black Horde). This book details the pivotal role that the Black Brunswickers played in major battles of the Napoleonic Wars, including Quatre Bras and Waterloo, and outlines the organization, uniforms and equipment of these formidable troops.

Название:British Cavalryman 1792–1815
Автор: Philip Haythornthwaite
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия/номер в серии: Warrior/8
Год: 2002
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 66
Размер: 46 Mb
Язык: English
Обработка скана: 2017

In the campaigns of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the deserved reputation of the British infantry has tended to overshadow the contribution of the cavalry, but in fact they did form an integral part of the army, carrying out duties crucial to the success of other arms. British Cavalryman 1792-1815 recounts what these duties were and examines the men who performed them. The different regiments of the cavalry are listed and some of the arm's more exotic or professional corps, such as the King's German Legion, examined.

Название: Flags of the Third Reich (1): Wehrmacht (Osprey Men-at-Arms 270)
Автор: Brian L Davis
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 3rd Impression 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 50
Размер: 11 Mb
Язык: English

The decision to reintroduce unit Colours for the armed forces of the new Wehrmacht involved many problems. No unit flags and standards had been produced since before 1914. Paul Casberg, the well-known master painter and illustrator, was commissioned to design the new Army Colours, a commission which, in his own words, he considered to be 'the most beautiful order I have ever received'. Packed with numerous contemporary photographs, and eight full page colour plates by Malcolm McGregor, Brian L. Davis's text examines the flags of the Wehrmacht, in this first of three volumes concerning flags of the Third Reich.