Название: Normans and Early Plantagenets (An Alternative History of Britain)
Автор: Timothy Venning
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 178346271X
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 240
Размер: 2,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Continuing his exploration of the pathways of British history, Timothy Venning examines the turning points of the period from the death of William I to the reign of Edward III and a little beyond. As always, he discusses the crucial junctions at which History could easily have taken a different turn and analyses the possible and likely results.

Название: First SEALs: The Untold Story of the Forging of America’s Most Elite Unit
Автор: Patrick O'Donnell
Издательство: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306821729
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 320
Размер: 5,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Beginning in the summer of 1942, an extraordinary group of men—among them a dentist, a Hollywood movie star, an archaeologist, California surfers, and even former enemies of the Allies—united to form an exceptional unit that would forge the capabilities of the Navy's Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams. Known as the Maritime Unit, it comprised America's first swimmer-commandos, an elite breed of warrior-spies who were decades ahead of their time when they created the tactics, technology, and philosophy that inspire today's Navy SEALs.

Название: Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Автор: Madeleine Albright
Издательство: Harper
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 480
Размер: 11,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Drawn from her own memory, her parents’ written reflections, and interviews with contemporaries, the former US Secretary of State and New York Times bestselling author Madeleine Albright's tale that is by turns harrowing and inspiring. Before she turned twelve, Madeleine Albright’s life was shaken by some of the most cataclysmic events of the 20th century: the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, the Battle of Britain, the attempted genocide of European Jewry, the allied victory in World War II, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold War.

Название: Working For Victory? Images of Women in the First World War, 1914–18
Автор: Diana Condell, Jean Liddiard
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 1003297284
Год: 1987
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 220
Размер: 223,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Women ‘kept the home fires burning’ while their men went off to war. This is the usual image of the part played by women in the First World War, reinforced through countless posters, government exhortations and even popular songs. It is very far from the truth. As this remarkable book shows, originally published in 1987, the truth was that women showed themselves capable of undertaking many roles hitherto the sole prerogative of men, a position accepted during the emergency of war but quickly ‘righted’ once peace was restored: the women who had helped to win the war were displaced by the returning heroes from the Front.

Название: The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book: Revised and Expanded
Автор: Gord Hill
Издательство: Arsenal Pulp Press
ISBN: 1551528525
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 144
Размер: 53,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

When it was first published in 2010, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book was heralded as a groundbreaking illustrated history of Indigenous activism and resistance in the Americas over the previous 500 years, from contact to present day. Eleven years later, author and artist Gord Hill has revised and expanded the book, which is now available in color for the first time.

Название: Литовские полицейские батальоны: 1941-1945 гг.
Автор: Станкерас П.
Издательство: М.: Вече
Год: 2009
Cтраниц: 304
Формат: djvu
Размер: 11 мб
Язык: русский

Литва как государство не участвовала во Второй мировой войне: ее имя не упоминается ни среди победителей, ни среди побежденных. Но эта самая страшная война XX века опустошила и Литву. Ее жители воевали по обе стороны фронта - в вооруженных силах и Германии и СССР. На территории Литвы погибли тысячи безоружных людей, в боях пали тысячи воинов, воевавших за разные идеалы. Вторую мировую войну для Литвы вполне можно назвать гражданской. Что послужило причиной такого раскола литовского народа?

Название: While God Is Marching on: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers
Автор: Steven E. Woodworth
Издательство: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700612971
Год: 2001
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 406
Размер: 1,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

They read the same Bible and prayed to the same God, but they faced each other in battle with rage in their hearts. The Civil War not only pitted brother against brother but also Christian against Christian, with soldiers from North and South alike devoutly believing that God was on their side.

Название: Cassidy's Run: The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas
Автор: David Wise
Издательство: Random House
ISBN: 0812992636
Год: 2000
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 240
Размер: 1,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Cassidy's Run is the riveting story of one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War—an espionage operation mounted by Washington against the Soviet Union that ran for twenty-three years. At the highest levels of the government, its code name was Operation shocker.

Название: A More Unbending Battle: The Harlem Hellfighter's Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home
Автор: Pete Nelson
Издательство: Civitas Books
ISBN: 0465003176
Год: 2009
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 304
Размер: 1,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

The night broke open in a storm of explosions and fire. The sound of shells whizzing overhead, screeching through the night like wounded pheasants, was terrifying. When the shells exploded prematurely overhead, a rain of shrapnel fell on the men below -- better than when the shells exploded in the trenches.

Название: Каскад и Омега
Автор: Ютов В.
Издательство: М.: X-History
Год: 2003
Cтраниц: 226
Формат: pdf
Размер: 15 мб

Книга В.И. Ютова — сборник воспоминаний, очерков, интервью людей, прошедших горнила "малой" войны в Афганистане в составе разведывательно-диверсионных подразделений "Каскад" и "Омега" — элите отечественного спецназа. Политическая и оперативная обстановка в мире в разные периоды требовала нетрадиционных путей решения сложнейших задач, которые как правило возлагались на подразделения специального назначения.