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Название: We Also Served: The Forgotten Women of the First World War
Автор: Vivien Newman
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783462256
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 9,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

We Also Served is a social history of women’s involvement in the First World War. Dr Vivien Newman disturbs myths and preconceptions surrounding women's war work and seeks to inform contemporary readers of countless acts of derring-do, determination, and quiet heroism by British women, that went on behind the scenes from 1914-1918.

Название: Harrier Boys Volume One: Cold War through the Falklands, 1969-1990
Автор: Bob Marston
Издательство: Grub Street Publishing
ISBN: 1909808296
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 192
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 5,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

In Harrier Boys, Volume One: Cold War Through the Falklands, 1969-1990, Bob Marston, who flew Harriers for many years, draws together accounts from others who worked with this unique jet through its history.

Название: Breaking the Panzers: The Bloody Battle for Rauray Normandy, 1 July 1944
Автор: Kevin Baverstock
Издательство: Sutton Publishing Limited
ISBN: 0750928956
Год: 2002
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 220
Размер: 67,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

This work describes the vital defensive fighting on 1 July 1944 at Rauray in Normandy. Although the 1st Tyneside Scottish battalion gained a battle honour for their victory against the might of two of Germany's elite SS Panzer Divisions, the engagement and its significance for the Normandy campaign as a whole have been largely forgotten.

Название: The Vandals
Автор: Andrew Merrills, Richard Miles
Издательство: Wiley
ISBN: 1405160683
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 368
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 34,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Vandals is the first book available in the English Language dedicated to exploring the sudden rise and dramatic fall of this complex North African Kingdom.

Название: Campaigns of the Norman Conquest (Guide to...)
Автор: Matthew Bennett
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1579583768
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 98
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 13,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book provides a full introduction to the Norman Conquest, an event which resulted in dramatic changes to the nation's aristocracy, church and administration. It brought a new language and cultural influences and revolutionised military architecture with the introduction of the castle.

Название: The Napoleonic Wars, Volume 4: The Fall of the French Empire 1813–1815 (Guide to...)
Автор: Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1841764310
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 119
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 4,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

This volume covers Napoleon's gradual fall from power, beginning in the spring of 1813, when France prepared to face the vengeance of Russia and Prussia. quickly raising new armies composed of inexperienced conscripts and invalided veterans, and with a critical shortage of cavalry, Napoleon resolved to preserve his empire in Germany, where he initially managed to achieve some hard-fought victories.

Название: The Napoleonic Wars, Volume 3: The Peninsular War 1807–1814 (Guide to...)
Автор: Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1841763705
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 121
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 3,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Napoleon's occupation of the Iberian peninsula embroiled him in a protracted and costly war against British, Spanish and Portuguese forces ultimately led by one of history's greatest commanders — the Duke of Wellington.

Название: The Napoleonic Wars, Volume 2: The Empires Fight Back 1808–1812 (Guide to...)
Автор: Todd Fisher
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1579583660
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 96
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 3,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 1808 Napoleon dominated Europe, but the peace was not to survive for long. Todd Fisher continues his detailed account of the Napoleonic Wars with Austria's attack against Napoleon in 1809. Despite being defeated at Aspern-Essling, Napoleon rallied his forces and emerged triumphant at Wagram. With glorious victory behind him Napoleon now turned his attention to Russia and invaded in 1812.

Название: The Napoleonic Wars, Volume 1: The Rise of the Emperor 1805–1807 (Guide to...)
Автор: Todd Fisher
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1841762059
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 96
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 3,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

While Napoleon prepared his army, on the coast of France, for an invasion of England that would never come, Russia and Austria prepared to move against his rear. Napoleon turned on the allies and crushed them in one of history's greatest campaigns. The following year, he met the legendary army of Frederick the Great and annihilated it completely.