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Название: Nuremberg's Voice of Doom: The Autobiography of the Chief Interpreter at History's Greatest Trials
Автор: Wolfe Frank
Издательство: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1526737515
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 2,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The memoirs of Wolfe Frank, which lay hidden in an attic for twenty-five years, are a unique and highly moving behind-the-scenes account of what happened at Nuremberg – ‘the greatest trial in history’ – seen through the eyes of a witness to the whole proceedings.

Название: Yorkshire: A Story of Invasion, Uprising and Conflict
Автор: Paul C Levitt
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526752557
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 144
Размер: 1,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

This is a story about Yorkshire and its people, from the earliest period up to recent times. Foremost it is a story about invasion.

Название: A Great Betrayal: The Fall of Singapore Revisited
Автор: Brian Farrell
Издательство: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 278
Размер: 1,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Across 15 chapters, professors of history and military history experts present their analyses and impressions about the Fall of Singapore in 1942, which was even described by Winston Churchill himself as “the greatest disaster in British military history”. Discussed at length is the Malayan Campaign and the “Singapore Strategy”, with problems and events related to the pre-war period as well as the conduct of the campaign itself.

Название: Spitfire Leader: Robert Bungey DFC, Tragic Battle of Britain Hero
Автор: Dennis Newton, Richard Bungey
Издательство: Amberley Publishing
ISBN: 1445684357
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 320
Размер: 2,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Robert Wilton Bungey was unquestionably an RAF hero. From the very beginning of the Second World War he was patrolling Germany’s border with the AASF. In the retreat from France he survived frantic day and night bombing missions flying obsolete, outclassed Fairey Battles against overwhelming odds.

Название: The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril
Автор: Eugene Jarecki
Издательство: Free Press
ISBN: 1416544569
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 324
Размер: 2,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the sobering aftermath of America's invasion of Iraq, Eugene Jarecki, the creator of the award-winning documentary Why We Fight, launches a penetrating and revelatory inquiry into how forces within the American political, economic, and military systems have come to undermine the carefully crafted structure of our republic — upsetting its balance of powers, vastly strengthening the hand of the president in taking the nation to war, and imperiling the workings of American democracy.

Название: For King and Another Country: Indian Soldiers on the Western Front, 1914-18
Автор: Shrabani Basu
Издательство: Bloomsbury India
ISBN: 9384052914
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 442
Размер: 4,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Over a million Indian soldiers fought in the First World War, the largest force from the colonies and dominions. Their contribution, however, has been largely forgotten. Many soldiers were illiterate and traveled from remote villages in India to fight in the muddy trenches in France and Flanders. Many went on to win the highest bravery awards.

Название: MiG Master: The Story of the F-8 Crusader
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB, PDF (Conv)
Страниц: 348
Размер: 11 Mb
Язык: English

MiG Master: The Story of the F-8 Crusader

Название: The Final Few: The Last Surviving Pilots of the Battle of Britain Tell Their Stories
Автор: Dilip Sarkar
Издательство: Amberley Publishing
ISBN: 1445642360
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 3,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

During the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone, defying the Luftwaffe’s aerial assault – the prelude to a proposed seaborne invasion. Fighter Command faced this challenge against overwhelming odds with immeasurable courage and tenacity, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, immortalising these young Spitfire and Hurricane pilots as ‘The Few’. Some 2,927 aircrew comprised the ‘Few’, 544 of whom made the ultimate sacrifice that fateful summer, now known as the Battle of Britain.

Название: Hellcat: The F6F in World War II
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 2000
Формат: EPUB, PDF (Conv)
Страниц: 280
Размер: 17 Mb
Язык: English

Hellcat: The F6F in World War II

Название: Hunter-Killer: U.S. Escort Carriers in the Battle of the Atlantic
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 2004
Формат: EPUB, PDF (Conv)
Страниц: 336
Размер: 11 Mb
Язык: English

Hunter-Killer: U.S. Escort Carriers in the Battle of the Atlantic