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.

Название: Holding Out: The German Army and Operational Command in 1917
Автор: Tony Cowan
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Серия: Cambridge Military Histories
Год: 2023
Страниц: 359
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10.2 MB

This is a ground-breaking study of German operational command during a critical phase of the First World War from November 1916 to the eve of the third battle of Ypres. The situation faced by the German army on the Western Front in 1917 was very different from the one anticipated in pre-war doctrine and Holding Out examines how German commanders and staff officers adapted. Tony Cowan analyses key command tasks to get under the skin of the army's command culture, internal politics and battle management systems from co-ordinating the troops, matériel and different levels of command needed to fight a modern battle to continuously learning and applying lessons from the ever-changing Western Front. His detailed analysis of the German defeat of the 1917 Entente spring offensive sheds new light on how the army and Germany were able to hold out so long during the war against increasing odds.

Название: Nazi Millionaires: The Allied Search for Hidden SS Gold
Автор: Kenneth Alford, Theodore P. Savas
Издательство: Casemate
ISBN: 0971170967
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 320
Размер: 3,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

During the final days of World War II, German SS officers crammed trains, cars, and trucks full of gold, currency, and jewels, and headed for the mountains of Austria. Fearful of arrest and determined to keep the stolen loot out of Allied hands, they concealed their treasures and fled. Most of these men were eventually apprehended, but many managed to evade capture.

Название: The Field Marshal's Revenge: The Breakdown of a Special Relationship
Автор: Charles Whiting
Издательство: Endeavour Press
Год: 2004
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 200
Размер: 3,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

This is an incisive exploration of the "special relationship" between Britain and the United States told from the perspective of the volatile, often fraught, alliance during World War Two. The spotlight falls on Monty and Ike, then takes in the ordinary "squaddie" who becomes a pawn in the game, and finally Montgomery's unsuccessful attempt to assert Britain's superiority in the closing months of the war.

Название: The Cannons Roar: Fort Sumter and the Start of the Civil War—An Oral History
Автор: Bruce Chadwick
Издательство: Pegasus Books
ISBN: 1639363394
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 416
Размер: 42,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The first-ever oral history of the attack that started the Civil War that combines illuminating historical narrative with intense first-hand accounts. On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops began firing on Fort Sumter, beginning the bloodiest conflict in American history. Since that time numerous historians have described the attack in many well-regarded books, yet the event still remains overlooked at times in the minds of the public.