Название: Pirates and Privateers: Swashbuckling Stories From the East Coast
Автор: Joyce Glasner
Издательство: Amazing Stories
ISBN: 1552779637
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 144
Размер: 3,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Murder, mutiny, and mayhem were the order of the day in the seas off the East Coast during the golden age of sailing. Pillagers and opportunists plied the seas in search of riches in the holds of American ships. And they invariably found what they were looking for...

Название: Hastings to Culloden: Battles of Britain
Автор: Peter Young, John Adair
Издательство: Sapere Books
ISBN: 1800550553
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 358
Размер: 3,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

A classic, in-depth study of over twenty of the most important battles to have taken place on British soil. Perfect for fans of Richard Overy, Edward Shepherd Creasy and John Keegan. Throughout its long history, Britain has been subjected to foreign invasion, bloody rebellions and tumultuous civil wars leading to thousands of deaths across its length and breadth.

Название: Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing
Автор: Alex J. Kay
Издательство: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300234058
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 400
Размер: 13,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The first comparative, comprehensive history of Nazi mass killing – showing how genocidal policies were crucial to the regime’s strategy to win the war. Nazi Germany killed approximately 13 million civilians and other non-combatants in deliberate policies of mass murder, mostly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust, the core of the Nazis’ pan-European racial purification programme.

Название: World War II in 50 Events: From the Very Beginning to the Fall of the Axis Powers
Автор: James Weber
Издательство: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 86
Размер: 1,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book is perfect for history lovers. Author James Weber did the research and compiled this huge list of events and battles that changed the course of history forever.

Название: Norman Expansion
Автор: Keith J. Stringer, Andrew Jotischky
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 0367601419
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 276
Размер: 3,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the eleventh and twelfth centuries the Normans had a formative influence on the development of states and societies in the British Isles, southern Italy and the Levant. Their achievements still resonate powerfully today, and represent a vital field of historical study.

Название: Special Forces Commander: The Life and Wars of Peter Wand-Tetley OBE MC Commando, SAS, SOE and Paratrooper
Автор: Michael Scott
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 240
Размер: 8,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Special Forces Commander is the remarkable story of Peter Wand-Tetley's wartime service in the Army Commandos, the Long Range Desert Group, SAS, SOE and Parachute Regiment.Having initially joined the Wiltshire Regiment, Wand-Tetley immediately volunteered for special service. As a result he was catapulted into a maelstrom of operational service that saw him, first, in action on Commando raids along the North African coastline, and then in fierce fighting on Crete following the German airborne invasion.

Название: Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg
Автор: Edward G. Longacre
Издательство: Potomac Books
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 352
Размер: 10,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Gen. David McMurtrie Gregg (1833–1917) was one of the ablest and most successful commanders of cavalry in any Civil War army. Pennsylvania-born, West Point–educated, and deeply experienced in cavalry operations prior to the conflict, his career personified that of the typical cavalry officer in the mid-nineteenth-century American army.

Название: Scipio Africanus: Rome’s greatest general
Автор: Richard A. Gabriel
Издательство: Potomac Books
Год: 2008
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 326
Размер: 83,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

The world often misunderstands its greatest men while neglecting others entirely. Scipio Africanus, surely the greatest general that Rome produced, suffered both these fates. Today scholars celebrate the importance of Hannibal, even though Scipio defeated the legendary general in the Second Punic War and was the central military figure of his time. In this scholarly and heretofore unmatched military biography of the distinguished Roman soldier, Richard A. Gabriel establishes Scipio’s rightful place in military history as the greater of the two generals.

Название: Лягушки королевы. Что делала МИ-6 у крейсера «Орджоникидзе»
Автор: Геннадий Соколов
Язык: русский
Издательство: Родина
Год: 2022
Страниц: 350
Формат: pdf
Размер: 16,7 Мб

Апрель 56-го. Первый после смерти Сталина визит кремлевского руководства на Запад, в Англию. В компании Никиты Хрущева и Николая Булганина – отец советской атомной бомбы академик Игорь Курчатов и создатель стратегической авиации страны Андрей Туполев. КГБ получает агентурную информацию о готовящейся секретной операции британской разведки МИ-6 в ходе визита. В ней задействованы британские «люди-лягушки» – боевые пловцы. Спецслужбы подняты по тревоге. Шеф Лубянки генерал Иван Серов отправляется в Англию. Что готовит всем им апрель 56-го?

Название: A State of Secrecy: Stasi Informers and the Culture of Surveillance
Автор: Alison Lewis
Издательство: Potomac Books
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 342
Размер: 10,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying heavily on human modes of data collection in the form of informants. To date little is known about the complicated and conflicted lives of informers, who often lived in a perpetual state of secrecy.