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Название: Fall of Eagles: Airmen of World War One
Автор: Alex Revell
Издательство: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1848845278
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 7,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Great War of 1914-1918 saw the rapid development of the airplane as a weapon of war. Initially its role was seen as that of reconnaissance, an extension of the cavalry, but as the war stagnated into static trench warfare, with each side facing each other across No Man’s Land, the use of artillery, both in shelling enemy positions and counter-shelling his artillery, also became of prime importance.

Название: The Khyber Pass: A History of Empire and Invasion
Автор: Paddy Docherty, Leo Docherty
Издательство: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 0571219772
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 288
Размер: 8,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The story of the Khyber Pass, the narrow mountain route which - more than any other single place on earth - has shaped civilisations.
Thirty miles long, and in places no more than sixteen metres wide, the Pass is the only natural cutting through the great mountains of the Hindu Kush - and hence the one feasible route from Central Asia into India.

Название: Armies of Ancient Persia: From the Founding of the Achaemenid State to the Fall of the Sasanid Empire
Автор: Marek Wozniak
Издательство: Winged Hussar Publishing
ISBN: 1945430087
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 350
Размер: 45,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

A military history of ancient Persia from its founding to the the end of the Sasanid Empire translated from Polish
The Armies of Ancient Persia is a translation of Marek Adam Wozniak’s original Polish manuscript detailing the rise and fall of the Persian armies from Cyrus the Great to the fall of the Sasanid Empire.