Название: Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Piracy
Автор: Richard Blakemore
Издательство: Pegasus Books
ISBN: 1639366334
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 336
Размер: 23,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

A masterful narrative history of the dangerous lives of pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, revealing their unique impact on colonialism and empire. The pirates that exist in our imagination are not just any pirates. Violent sea-raiding has occurred in most parts of the world throughout history, but our popular stereotype of pirates has been defined by one historical moment: the period from the 1660s to the 1730s, the so-called "golden age of piracy."

Название: Unconditional Surrender: the Memoir of the Last Days of the Third Reich and the Donitz
Автор: Walter Ludde-Neurath
Издательство: Frontline Books
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 256
Размер: 6,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Donitz administration marks a key period of the Second World War. Throughout, Walter Ludde-Neurath served at the side of Donitz. He brings an insider view of events as the Third Reich collapsed around them, and his memoir conveys the uncertainty of a post-war world."

Название: Himmler's Children: Lebensborn and Racial Politics
Автор: Guus de Vries
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399080555
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 272
Размер: 41,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The harrowing history of Nazi Germany's Lebensborn program. The Nazis’ dream was to populate their future Greater-German Reich exclusively with ‘racial valuable’ people and Himmler became the main executor of this gruesome and unimaginable plan. For this purpose, millions of ‘inferior’ people had to be expelled or killed, while as many men, women and children of Germanic descent as possible had to be brought together in the territory of the Third Reich.

Название: Seven at Santa Cruz: The Life of Fighter Ace Stanley “Swede” Vejtasa
Автор: Ted Edwards
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1682472876
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 304
Размер: 10,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

This riveting biography details how Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa became a World War II naval hero. During the Battle of the Coral Sea, Swede flew an SBD Dauntless dive-bomber and helped sink Shoho, the first aircraft carrier lost by Japan in World War II.

Название: Red Crew: Fighting the War on Drugs with Reagan's Coast Guard
Автор: Jim Howe
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 320
Размер: 1,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Red Crew is a first-hand account of U.S. Coast Guard anti-smuggling operations during the early years of the nation's maritime war on drugs. Jim Howe describes his experience as the executive officer of a specialized drug-hunting crew that sailed in then-state-of-the-art “surface effect ships,” a small flotilla of high-speed vessels pressed into the drug war on short notice.

Название: A Pathfinder in the Peenemunde Raid: 50 Operations over Nazi Occupied Territory
Автор: Arthur Spencer
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399079840
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 224
Размер: 11,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Arthur's gripping memoir chronicles his journey from RAF volunteer to Pathfinder navigator in WWII, recounting harrowing missions and survival across Europe and the Mediterranean theater. Arthur volunteered for aircrew service with RAF in 1940 at the age of 19, as soon as his school examinations were completed. He completed his training in Canada and Florida.

Название: No Forgotten Fronts: From Classrooms to Combat
Автор: Lisa K Shapiro
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 320
Размер: 35,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

At the beginning of World War II, professor Lauren Post, San Diego State College, asked his students entering military service to write to him. Thousands of letters arrived from places like Pearl Harbor, North Africa, and Normandy, beginning with the salutation, “Dear Doc,” and describing vivid accounts of training, combat, and camaraderie. Pilots wrote about seeing planes shot down.

Название: American Sea Power in the Old World: The United States Navy in European and Near Eastern Waters, 1865-1917
Автор: William N Still Jr.
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1591146186
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 304
Размер: 17,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

This classic study examines the deployment of U.S. naval vessels in European and Near Eastern waters from the end of the Civil War until the United States declared war in April 1917. Initially these ships were employed to visit various ports from the Baltic Sea to the eastern Mediterranean and Constantinople (today Istanbul), for the primary purpose of showing the flag. From the 1890s on, most of the need for the presence of the American warships occurred in the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

Название: Fleet Tactics And Naval Operations, Third Edition
Автор: Wayne P Hughes, Robert P. Girrier
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 408
Размер: 7,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

The revised edition of this indispensable work still covers battle tactics at sea from the age of fighting sail to the present, with emphasis on trends constants, and variables. Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations continues to emphasize combat data, including how hitting and damage rates and maneuvering have been conducted to achieve an advantage over the centuries.

Название: It Happened in France: A Renowned Journalist's Account of Life Under the Occupation 1940–1944
Автор: Francois Eliet
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399037927
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 184
Размер: 10,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Ernest Grimaud de Caux chronicles his experiences in occupies France offering unpublished essays on life under German rule and reflections on wartime politics. Ernest Grimaud de Caux was The Times correspondent in Madrid from 1910 to 1939, encompassing the period of Primo de Rivera’s Dictatorship, the fall of the monarchy, and the Civil War. With his deep knowledge of Spain’s history, culture and politics, he was widely respected in his profession and highly valued by The Times.