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Название: The Vietnamese Gulag
Автор: Doan Van Toai, David Chanoff
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0671603507
Год: 1986
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 351
Размер: 10,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The author recounts his arrest and two-year imprisonment without trial by the Vietnamese government and explains how he survived.

Название: Destroyer Actions: September 1939 - June 1940
Автор: Harry Plevy
Издательство: The History Press
ISBN: 1862274835
Год издания: 2008
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 304
Формат: PDF
Размер: 71,5 MB

This book focuses on the human side of destroyer actions in the first eight months of the War, using eyewitness accounts, many previously unpublished, of those who participated or played a part in the actions. It thus has Polish, French, and Norwegian as well as British and German, naval and civilian input, much of it researched from primary sources.

Название: Aeroplanes in Colour
Автор: Philip John, Richard Moyes
Издательство: Ian Allan
ISBN: 0711007098
Год издания: 1976
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 72
Формат: PDF
Размер: 53,8 MB

This book presents a collection of colour pictures representing over 60 years of development of the flying machine.

Название: Бронетанковая техника Германии 1939-1945
Автор: М. Барятинский
Издательство: Молодая гвардия
Год: 1996
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 35
Размер: 49,1 Мб
Язык: русский

Книга содержит информацию о серийных танках и самоходно-артиллерийских установках, состоявших на вооружении вермахта и войск СС

Название: Маршрутами бессмертия
Серия: Вне серии
Автор: Коваль Д.
Издательство: Картя Молдовеняскэ
Год выпуска: 1987
Страниц: 222
Формат: pdf/djvu
Размер: 12 Мб
Язык: Русский
Сканирование/обработка: AbsurdMan/kamenkapenza

Настоящий сборник включает публицистические очерки, герои их — участник Октябрьского штурма Зимнего дворца молдаванин Сергей Новак, ветеран КПСС Кулриян Михеев, побывавший в 1919 году на приеме у В. И. Ленина, бывший Председатель Президиума Верховного Совета Молдавии Иван Кодица, бойцы интернациональных бригад в Испании Николай Олару и Семен Чебан, отважные разведчицы Тамара Райлян и Евгения Константинова.

Название: Наблюдение в боевой обстановке
Автор: Архипов С. Н., Пожиленков И.
Издательство: Л.: Военмориздат
Год: 1941
Формат:PDF
Страниц:10
Размер:10.4MB
Язык: русский

Брошюра, объясняющая важность наблюдения в условиях военного времении и его практическую организацию.

Название: Napoleon's Wars: An International History, 1803-1815
Автор: Charles J. Esdaile
Издательство: Penguin Books
Год: 2007
Формат: PDF, epub, mobi, djvu
Страниц: 649
Размер: 15,47 Мб
Язык: английский

A glorious — and conclusive — chronicle of the wars waged by one of the most polarizing figures in military history. Acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic as a new standard on the subject, this sweeping, boldly written history of the Napoleonic era reveals its central protagonist as a man driven by an insatiable desire for fame, and determined "to push matters to extremes.

Название: Israel's Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire
Автор(ы): Marcus Raphael D.
Издательство: Georgetown University Press
Год: 2018
Страниц: 342
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 2,00 MB


The ongoing conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is now in its fourth decade and shows no signs of ending. Raphael D. Marcus examines this conflict since the formation of Hezbollah during Israel's occupation of Lebanon in the early 1980s. He critically evaluates events including Israel's long counterguerrilla campaign throughout the 1990s, the Israeli withdrawal in 2000, the 2006 summer war, and concludes with an assessment of current tensions on the border between Israel and Lebanon related to the Syrian civil war. Israel's Long War with Hezbollah is both the first complete military history of this decades-long conflict and an analysis of military innovation and adaptation. The book is based on unique fieldwork in Israel and Lebanon, extensive research into Hebrew and Arabic primary sources, and dozens of interviews Marcus conducted with Israeli defense officials, high-ranking military officers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), United Nations personnel, a Hezbollah official, and Western diplomats. As an expert on organizational learning, Marcus analyzes ongoing processes of strategic and operational innovation and adaptation by both the IDF and Hezbollah throughout the long guerrilla conflict. His conclusions illuminate the dynamics of the ongoing conflict and illustrate the complexity of military adaptation under fire. With Hezbollah playing an ongoing role in the civil war in Syria and the simmering hostilities on the Israel-Lebanon border, students, scholars, diplomats, and military practitioners with an interest in Middle Eastern security issues, Israeli military history, and military innovation and adaptation can ill afford to neglect this book.

Название: Truth to Power: A History of the U.S. National Intelligence Council
Автор(ы): Hutchings Robert, Treverton Gregory F.
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2019
Страниц: 257
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 10,24 MB


Truth to Power, the first-ever history of the U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC), is told through the reflections of its eight Chairs in the period from the end of the Cold War until 2017. Co-editors Robert Hutchings and Gregory Treverton add a substantial introduction placing the NIC in its historical context going all the way back to the Board of National Estimates in the 1940s, as well as a concluding chapter that highlights key themes and judgments. This historic mission of this remarkable but little-known organization, now forty years old, is strategic intelligence assessment in service of senior American foreign policymakers. Its signature inside products, National Intelligence Estimates, are now accompanied by the NIC's every-four-years Global Trends. Unclassified, Global Trends has become a noted NIC brand, its release awaited by officials, academics and private sector managers around the world. Truth to Power tracks the NIC's role in providing strategic analysis on every major foreign policy issue confronting the United States during this consequential period. Chapters provide insider insights on the Balkan wars of the 1990s, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, the nuclear weapons programs in Iran and North Korea, upheaval in the Middle East including the rise and fall of the Islamic State, the rise of China, and the Russia's turn toward aggression under Vladimir Putin. The book also assesses the NIC's newly expanded role in direct support to meetings of the National Security Council as well as its longstanding role in producing longer-range strategic intelligence.

Название: No Moon as Witness: Missions of the SOE and OSS in World War II
Автор(ы): Stejskal James
Издательство: Casemate
Год: 2021
Страниц: 208
Язык: English
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 2,92 MB


Complete with rare photographs, diagrams and glossary, follow author James Stejskal as he covers the establishment of these agencies and their intense training regimens leading into World War II. Winston Churchill famously instructed the head of the Special Operations Executive to “Set Europe ablaze!” Agents of both the British Special Operations Executive and the American Office of Strategic Services underwent rigorous training before making their way, undetected, into Occupied Europe. Working alone or in small cells, often cooperating with local resistance groups, agents undertook missions behind enemy lines involving sabotage, subversion, organizing resistance groups and intelligence-gathering. The SOE’s notable successes included the destruction of a power station in France, the assassination of Himmler’s deputy Reinhard Heyrich, and ending the Nazi atomic bomb program by destroying the heavy water plant at Vemork, Norway. OSS operatives established anti-Nazi resistance groups across Europe, and managed to smuggle operatives into Nazi Germany, including running one of the war's most important spies, German diplomat Fritz Kolbe. All of their missions were incredibly dangerous and many agents were captured, tortured, and ultimately killed – the life expectancy of an SOE wireless operator in occupied France was just six weeks. In No Moon as Witness, historian James Stejskal examines why these agencies were established, the training regimen and ingenious tools developed to enable agents to undertake their missions, their operational successes, and their legacy.