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Название: Breaking the Blockade: The Bahamas during the Civil War
Автор: Charles D. Ross
Издательство: University Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496831357
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 274
Размер: 11,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

On April 16, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued a blockade of the Confederate coastline. The largely agrarian South did not have the industrial base to succeed in a protracted conflict. What it did have—and what England and other foreign countries wanted—was cotton and tobacco. Industrious men soon began to connect the dots between Confederate and British needs. As the blockade grew, the blockade runners became quite ingenious in finding ways around the barriers.

Название: Behind the Rifle: Women Soldiers in Civil War Mississippi
Автор: Shelby Harriel
Издательство: University Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496822013
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 215
Размер: 51,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

During the Civil War, Mississippi's strategic location bordering the Mississippi River and the state's system of railroads drew the attention of opposing forces who clashed in major battles for control over these resources.

Название: U.S. Army Combat Skills Handbook (US Army Survival)
Автор: Department of the Army
Издательство: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1620874776
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 33,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Recognizing that "wars are not won by machines and weapons but by the soldiers who use them," this comprehensive manual not only informs the reader of the timeless skills necessary to survive on the battlefield, but also instructs the soldier onhow to perform and execute these tasks to succeed in combat.

Название: Squadron Signal Armor 17 - M113 in Action
Автор: Stephen Tunbridge
Издательство: Squadron/Signal Publications
ISBN: 0897470508
Год: 1978
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 51
Размер: 67,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Armor Number 17 Action Series. Story of this well-known armoured fighting vehicle. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs, schematic diagrams, and color drawings.

Название: On the Front Lines of the Cold War
Автор: Seymour Topping
Издательство: Louisiana State University Press
Год: 2010
Формат: pdf, djvu
Страниц: 488
Размер: 11,41 Мб
Язык: английский

Topping chronicles his extraordinary experiences covering the East-West struggle in Asia and Eastern Europe from 1946 into the 1980s, taking us beyond conventional historical accounts to provide a fresh, first-hand perspective on American triumphs and defeats during the Cold War era.

Название: Книга о науке военной
Автор: Курганов Н.Г.
Издательство: Типография Сухопутного кадетского корпуса (СПб)
Год: 1777
Формат:PDF
Страниц:408
Размер: 91.27MB
Язык: русский

Книга о наукъ военной, содержащая въ себъ умозръніе и дъяніе о укръпленіи всякихъ полевыхъ и приморскихъ мъстъ; о нападеніи и оборонъ кръпостей и гаваней; съ описаніемъ бывшихъ знатнъйшихъ атакъ; и съ присовокупленіемъ науки о перспективъ и словаря инженернаго.

Название: Secret Agents, Spies & Saboteurs: Secret missions of the Second World War
Автор: Janusz Piekalkiewicz
Издательство: David & Charles
ISBN: 071536684X
Год издания: 1974
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 536 Pages
Формат: PDF
Размер: 237,5 MB

Secret agents, spies & saboteurs: Secret missions of the Second World War

Название: Hitler’s Invasion of East Anglia, 1940: An Historical Cover Up?
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2019
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 330
Размер: 23 Mb
Язык: English

Hitler’s Invasion of East Anglia, 1940: An Historical Cover Up?

Название: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War - Wirral in the Great War
Автор: Stephen McGreal
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1783032936
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 176
Размер: 22,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

On 4 August 1914 Britain declared war on Germany. Originally perceived as a short campaign to curtail Germanic imperialism, it developed into a four-year long war of attrition. The Great War is justifiably associated with the horrors of trench warfare and the death of a generation but history has overlooked the home fronts' colossal contribution to victory.

Название: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War - Liverpool in the Great War
Автор: Stephen McGreal
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473821614
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 176
Размер: 67,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

At the dawn of the twentieth century Liverpool had eight miles of docks thronged with cargo ships loading or discharging cargoes. The city prospered through its maritime trade, and this led to the Cunard Line and other illustrious transatlantic passenger carriers making Liverpool their home port.