Название: Isle of Man Steam Packet in the Second World War
Автор: Matthew Richardson
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1399051598
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 200
Размер: 8,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

A compelling account of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company’s heroic service during World War II. Names like Ben-My-Chree, Tynwald and Lady of Mann are synonymous with the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, the world’s oldest shipping line that is still in existence. In its long history, there can have been no greater test of the company’s ships or its men than the Second World War.

Название: The Death of Guy Gibson: Who, or What, Killed the Dambuster VC
Автор: M. S. Morgan
Издательство: Air World
ISBN: 1036119378
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 256
Размер: 17,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

On the night of 19/20 September 1944, a force of 227 Avro Lancasters and ten de Havilland Mosquitoes was dispatched to attack the German towns of Mönchengladbach and Rheydt. The Master Bomber for the raid was none other than Wing Commander Guy Penrose Gibson VC, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar. Along with his navigator, Squadron Leader James Warwick DFC, Gibson was flying Mosquito KB627 of 627 Squadron from RAF Coningsby, where he was serving as the Base Operations Officer.

Название: Spying for Hitler: Nazis Who Infiltrated America
Автор: Norman Ridley
Издательство: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1036112195
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 256
Размер: 6,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

When Hitler was striving for recognition and relevance in the political turmoil of the early Weimar years in Germany he gave little thought to the world on the other side of the Atlantic other than to nurture a constant nagging resentment over President Wilson’s role in the post-war evisceration of Germany at Versailles in 1919. It was the United States, however, that had bankrolled the German economy to substantially boost industrial production and employment in the 1920s and the evidence of American wealth and economic power was hard to ignore.

Название: Lancaster: Reaping the Whirlwind
Автор: Martin W Bowman
Издательство: The History Press
ISBN: 0752464671
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 240
Размер: 27,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Detailing the Lancaster’s history from 1942–45, this study brings everything together to tell a concise history of the world’s most famous aircraft of all time and undoubtedly the finest bomber of the Second World War. A superlative and unique colour section of over fifty contemporary photographs of the Lancaster is featured, while the text is complemented by over 150 rare and seldom seen black and white images.

Название: A Face Like a Chicken's Backside: An Unconventional Soldier in South East Asia, 1948–71
Автор: J. P. Cross
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 0750964375
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 232
Размер: 13,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

In almost forty years in Asia without a home posting, British officer John Cross spent ten of them ‘under the jungle canopy’. He amassed a wealth of experience fighting against Communist Revolutionary Warfare, and training others to do so. As a result he was called upon to work in many formidable situations, and twice found himself on an army short-list of one for difficult tasks.

Название: The Price of Victory: Memoir of the Commander of the 1st Polish Armoured Division
Автор: Stanislaw Maczek
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1036124231
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 248
Размер: 22,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

General Stanisław Maczek's memoir chronicles the bravery, sacrifice, and disillusionment of Polish soldiers in WWII. General Stanisław Maczek’s stirring memoir captures the élan, the sacrifice and the disappointed hopes of the Polish soldiers who fought alongside the Allies during the Second World War. As Commander of the 10th Motorised Cavalry Brigade in the September 1939 campaign, his men played a crucial role in resisting the German advance before crossing into Hungary with orders to rebuild the Polish Army on French soil.

Название: Back into Focus: The Real Story of Robert Capa's D-Day
Автор: Charles R. Herrick
Издательство: Casemate
ISBN: 1636244734
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 384
Размер: 12,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

This new account carefully details the events surrounding Robert Capa's D-Day adventures, using official SHAEF files and a variety of accounts of witnesses. Although Capa's Falling Soldier image from the Spanish Civil War has been definitively proven to be a staged propaganda fake, no one has applied a similarly critical eye to his later work. This book is the first effort to establish the facts behind the fables surrounding his D-Day adventures and the images he produced during that period.

Название: The United States Marine Corps: A Chronology, 1775 to the Present
Автор: John C. Fredriksen
Издательство: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 159884542X
Год: 2011
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 361
Размер: 5,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The United States Marine Corps: A Chronology, 1775 to the Present touches upon all aspects of the Continental and U.S. Marine Corps since their inception. All major battles in all major wars are covered, along with innumerable smaller clashes and deployments abroad. The evolution of amphibious doctrine, so essential to Marine Corps activity in the 20th and 21st centuries, is likewise covered in detail, along with the rise of Marine Corps aviation.

Название: SAS Operation Pistol: Raindrops in Alsace
Автор: Graham Alcock
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 139903801X
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 224
Размер: 20,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

A memoir recounting SQMS Jack Alcock's daring SAS mission into German-occupied Alsace Lorraine under extreme conditions. Operation Pistol was a British operation performed by 2 SAS during World War 2 launching 51 SAS soldiers into the German territory of Alsace Lorraine 80 miles ahead of the American forces, running alongside Operation Loyton.

Название: Commando: A History of the Elite British Military Force and Its Operations in World War Two
Автор: Peter Young
Издательство: Sapere Books
Год: 2024
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 104
Размер: 16,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

An eye-opening introduction to one of the most audacious special operations forces of World War Two, written by a man who led them into battle. An ideal book for people who enjoyed SAS: Rogue Heroes and Band of Brothers. the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of France and evacuation from Dunkirk, Winston Churchill told his military chiefs of staff that “Enterprises must be prepared, with specially trained troops of the hunter class, who can develop a reign of terror down on these coasts, first of all on the ‘butcher-and-bolt’ policy.