Название: Letters from the Spanish Civil War: A U.S. Volunteer Writes Home
Автор: Peter N. Carroll, Fraser Ottanelli
Издательство: The Kent State University Press
ISBN: 1606351745
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 216
Размер: 1,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

A candid description of warfare at one of the first battlefields of World War II. Letters from the Spanish Civil War provides a unique perspective into the motivations that led a young man from the American heartland to defy U.S. neutrality and travel to Spain to fight in defense of democracy against Nazi- and Fascist-backed aggression. Born in a small town in rural Ohio, Carl Geiser came from a deeply religious German-speaking family that had recently emigrated from Switzerland.

Название: Women in the Second World War
Автор: Collette Drifte
Издательство: Remember When
ISBN: 1844680967
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 14,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Women in the Second World War explores the experiences of women who served in the armed forces, or complimentary services. Using interviews, anecdotes, memoirs and/or accounts from the women (or, where appropriate, their children), the book tells the women’s personal accounts of what their lives were like and what particular experiences they had while serving.

Название: The Dying Days of the Third Reich: German Accounts from World War II
Автор: Christian Huber
Издательство: The History Press
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 176
Размер: 2,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

It has taken seventy years for the accounts of ordinary German soldiers during the Second World War to be made widely available to an English-speaking audience. This is hardly surprising given that interest in these important documents has only recently surfaced in Germany, where a long process of coming to terms with the past, or Vergangenheitsbewältigung, has taken place.

Название: Churchill's American Arsenal: The Partnership Behind the Innovations That Won World War Two
Автор: Larrie D. Ferreiro
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 432
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 14.4 MB

Churchill's American Arsenal reveals how the technology, know-how, and production power behind the victorious Allied partnership during World War II extended beyond the battlefront and onto the home-front. Many weapons and inventions were credited with winning World War II, most famously in the assertion that the atomic bomb "ended the war, but radar won the war." What is less well known is that both airborne radar and the atomic bomb were invented in British laboratories, but built by Americans. The same holds true for many other American weapons credited with the Allied victory: the P-51 Mustang fighter, the Liberty ship, the proximity fuze, the Sherman tank, and even penicillin all began with British scientists and planners, but were designed and mass-produced by American engineers and factory workers. Churchill's American Arsenal chronicles this vital but often fraught relationship between British inventiveness and American technical might.

Название: Administering Colonialism and War: The Political Life of Sir Andrew Clow of the Indian Civil Service
Автор: Colin R. Alexander
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199493731
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 308
Размер: 1,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Colonialism is a dehumanizing experience for all those at the mercy of its power structures. The officers of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) were no exception. This book focuses on the role of ICS in World War II and engages in a wider debate about colonialism's impact on its administrators and
subjects.

Название: Soldiers of Revolution: The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune
Автор: Mark Lause
Издательство: Verso
ISBN: 1788730542
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 288
Размер: 2,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 introduced new military technologies, transformed the organization of armies, and upset the continental balance of power, promulgating new regimented ideas of nationhood and conflict resolution more widely. However, the mass armies that became a new standard required mass mobilization and the arming of working people, who exercised a new power through both a German social democracy and popular insurgent French movements.

Название: Книга будущего командира
Автор: Кацаф А.М.
Издательство: СПб.: Балтийская книжная компания
Год: 2007
Cтраниц: 110, цвет.ил.
Формат: pdf
Размер: 11 мб
Язык: русский

Эта книга будет интересна не только будущему командиру – она увлечет любого, кто интересуется историей, военным искусством, военной техникой. Сражения древности и бои наших дней, греческие воины и современные солдаты, Александр Македонский и маршал Жуков – ты сможешь не только прочесть о них, ты увидишь их на цветных иллюстрациях.

Название: The Defence And Fall Of Singapore
Автор: Brian P. Farrell
Издательство: Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd.
ISBN: 0752423118
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 447
Размер: 6,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Shortly after midnight on 8 December 1941, two divisions of crack troops of the Imperial Japanese Army began a seaborne invasion of southern Thailand and northern Malaya. Their assault developed into a full-blown advance towards Singapore, the main defensive position of the British Empire in the Far East.

Название: Nazism (Oxford Readers)
Автор: Neil Gregor
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192892819
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 480
Размер: 130,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

This unique collection brings together extracts from the most innovative and stimulating studies of Nazism, including many forgotten or ignored older works. Nazism looks afresh at the structure, style of rule, and consequences of National Socialism and explores how successive generations of commentators and historians have sought to explain and understand the origins, nature, impact, and legacy of this regime of unprecedented destructiveness.

Название: Greek Naval Strategy and Policy 1910-1919
Автор: Zisis Fotakis
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 041535014X
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 244
Размер: 1,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

A sharp analysis of Greek naval history in the 1910s, a time when the importance of its geographic position and its navy increased greatly. It explains the causes of these developments and their consequences for Greek national aims, the Mediterranean naval situation and the Balkan balance of power. Within this context, it also examines the competition between Britain, France, and Germany for Greek naval procurements and influence, Greek-Turkish naval tensions and the responses of the great powers.