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Название: Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
Автор: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Издательство: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226619516
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB, PDF
Страниц: 246
Размер: 2,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

“We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our death, every sound of the clock shortening our lives.” So wrote Irokawa Daikichi, one of the many kamikaze pilots, or tokkotai, who faced almost certain death in the futile military operations conducted by Japan at the end of World War II.

Название: Czerwony najazd. Prawda o tym, jak Rosjanie wbili nam nóż w plecy we wrześniu 1939 roku
Автор: Dariusz Kaliński
Издательство: Znak Horyzont
Год: 2019
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 303
Размер: 12.6 Мб
Язык: польский

Horror zbrodni, ludobójstwo na polskim narodzie i komunistyczne zdziczenie
Twierdzili, że to nie inwazja, tylko wyzwolenie od polskich kułaków i imperialistów.
„Państwo polskie i jego rząd faktycznie przestały istnieć” – ogłosił komisarz Wiaczesław Mołotow. Tuż przed tym, jak czerwone dywizje wbiły nóż w plecy Rzeczpospolitej.
O napaści z 17 września 1939 roku przez całe dekady trzeba było milczeć. O tym, że Sowieci uznali polskie ziemie za „zachodnią Ukrainę” i „zachodnią Białoruś” mówiono co najwyżej półgębkiem. A prawdziwa skala represji, zsyłek i mordów nawet dzisiaj budzi zażarte dyskusje.

Название: The Hundred Years War: 1337–1453 (Essential Histories)
Автор: Anne Curry
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2023
Страниц: 145
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 37.3 MB

An illustrated overview of the Hundred Years War, the longest-running and the most significant conflict in western Europe in the later Middle Ages. There can be no doubt that military conflict between France and England dominated European history in the 14th and 15th centuries. The Hundred Years War is of considerable interest both because of its duration and the number of theatres in which it was fought. Drawing on the latest research for this new edition, Hundred Years War expert Professor Anne Curry examines how the war can reveal much about the changing nature of warfare: the rise of infantry and the demise of the knight; the impact of increased use of gunpowder and the effect of the war on generations of people.

Название: Tanks in Operation Bagration 1944: The demolition of Army Group Center (New Vanguard, 318)
Автор: Steven J. Zaloga
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2023
Страниц: 49
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.8 MB

A new study of tank warfare used in the Soviet offensive of Operation Bagration , which destroyed Army Group Center. Operation Bagration , the 1944 summer campaign on the Russian Front, has been called “Hitler's Greatest Defeat.” The operation involved substantial tank and armored vehicles on both sides but the German forces were severely hampered by the transfer of dozens of Panzer divisions to France to repel an expected Allied invasion. Forced to make hard decisions, German tank forces in the central Belarus sector were weak compared to the heavy concentration of Panzers in northern Ukraine. The Red Army exploited this vulnerability, crushing Army Group Center, and pushing beyond the Soviet frontier into Poland and East Prussia. With this crucial victory secured, the Red Army conducted successive offensives beyond the Carpathian Mountains, arriving at the Vistula river in Poland, and forcing Romania to switch sides.

Название: Osprey Combat 73 - Byzantine Cavalryman vs Vandal Warrior: North Africa AD 533–36
Автор: Murray Dahm
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1472853709
Год: 2023
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 81
Размер: 26,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Fully illustrated, this enthralling study explores how the Vandals in North Africa attempted to defend their kingdom against the resurgent Byzantine Empire during 533–36. In AD 533, the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I launched the first of his campaigns to reconquer the Western Roman Empire. This effort began in North Africa (modern Algeria and Tunisia), targeting the Vandal kingdom established there a century earlier, which also included Sardinia, Corsica and the Balearic Islands.

Название: Osprey Campaign 389 - The Hydaspes 326 BC: The Limit of Alexander the Great’s Conquests
Автор: Nic Fields
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1472853903
Год: 2023
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 97
Размер: 29,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The first dedicated examination of Alexander the Great's final battle and acknowledged tactical masterpiece.
In the years that followed Alexander the Great's victory at Gaugamela on 1 October 331 BC, his Macedonian and Greek army fought a truly 'Herculean' series of campaigns in what is today Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. But it was in the Indus Valley, on the banks of the Hydaspes River (known today as the Jhelum) in 326 BC that Alexander would fight his last major battle against King Poros.

Название: Osprey Elite 251 - The US Marine Corps 1775–1859: Continental and United States Marines
Автор: Ron Field
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1472851544
Год: 2023
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 65
Размер: 18,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Featuring specially commissioned artwork and archive illustrations, this engrossing study describes the US Marine Corps' early operations and illustrates its evolving uniforms and personal equipment. The US Marine Corps' uniforms, personal equipment, insignia, and weaponry are all described and illustrated in this book, complemented by a succinct history of the Marines' military record from their beginnings to the eve of the American Civil War, by which time the US Marine Corps had established itself as a small but vitally important part of the United States' armed forces.

Название: Godoy''s Army: Spanish Regiments and Uniforms from the Estado Militar Of 1800
Автор: Esdaile C., Perry A.
Издательство: England: Helion & Company
Год: 2017
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 120
Размер: 70 Мб
Язык: English

Based on an extremely rare illustrated version of the Spanish Army’s order of battle as it existed in the year 1800, this work cannot but form a most unusual addition to the collection of anyone interested in military uniforms (or, more specifically, the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era). Almost every regiment of the Spanish Army is represented - including such extraordinary units as the Royal Corps of Cosmographic Engineers - while the beautiful full-page, hand-coloured engravings of the originals have been supplemented by a transcript of the details (in brief, the senior officers and the uniforms) given in the published edition of the army’s order of battle, to which the album reproduced in the pages of this work was intended to complement. Also included is a substantial introduction to the Spanish Army in the period immediately preceding the Peninsular War - written by the leading expert on the subject - that will be of great interest to any student of that conflict; the soldiers seen in the book are, after all, pretty much the same as the soldiers who suddenly found themselves fighting Napoleon in 1808.

Название: Down South: One Tour in Vietnam
Автор: William Hardwick
Издательство: Presidio Press
ISBN: 0891418474
Год: 2004
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 224
Размер: 3,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

There were a lot of ways to get killed in Vietnam. You could get "zapped," "dinged," "burned," "popped," "smoked," or "wasted." Marine 2nd Lt. William H. Hardwick was familiar with all of them because, unlike most USMC artillery officers"who waged their war from bunkers inside protected compounds"Hardwick as a forward observer fought alongside rifle companies and lived like a grunt for most of his thirteen-month tour.

Название: The Peloponnesian War, Stupidity, and Imperialism
Автор: Massimo Pigliucci
Издательство: Massimo Pigliucci
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 59
Размер: 1,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The book you are about to read is concerned with one of the most fascinating episodes in the history of ancient Greece, featuring larger-than-life characters like Socrates, Pericles, Alcibiades, Brasidas, and, of course, Thucydides, who told the story for posterity.