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Название: Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia
Автор: Carolyn Woods Eisenberg
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 654
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub, mobi
Размер: 10.1 MB

This gripping account interweaves Nixon and Kissinger's pursuit of the war in Southeast Asia and their diplomacy with the Soviet Union and China with on-the-ground military events and US domestic reactions to the war conducted in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Fire and Rain is a compelling, meticulous narrative of the way national security decisions formed at the highest levels of government affect the lives of individuals at home and abroad. By drawing these connections, Carolyn Woods Eisenberg brings to life policy decisions about Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, conveying their significance to a new generation of readers.

Название: The Tudors: An Alternative History of Britain
Автор: Timothy Venning
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783462728
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 240
Размер: 2,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Continuing his exploration of the pathways of British history, Timothy Venning examines the turning points of the Tudor period. As always, he discusses the crucial junctions at which history could easily have taken a different turn.

Название: The First and the Last: Germany's Fighter Force in WWII (Fortunes of War)
Автор: Adolf Galland
Издательство: Cerberus Publishing Ltd
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 256
Размер: 1,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

The First and the Last: Germany's Fighter Force in WWII (Fortunes of War)

Название: Тайны синявинских болот и высот. Серия. Книга первая
Автор: Кусаинов М.К.
Издательство: Астана: «Сарыарка»
ISBN: 9965-536-22-6
Качество: Отсканированные страницы, OCR, хорошее
Год: 2004
Формат: PDF/DjVu
Размер: 22,7 Mb
Количество страниц: 328 с., илл.

Серия книг командира поискового отряда “Мемориальная зона” Кусаинова Майдана Комековича посвящена описанию неизвестных, ранее умалчиваемых сражений за Ленинград, которые по потерям личного состава превосходят Смоленское сражение, битву за Москву. Это белые пятна в истории Великой Отечественной войны. К каждому сражению прилагаются списки погибших и похороненных в братских могилах (большинство в списках до сих пор считаются пропавшими без вести).

Название: Afghanistan and the Vietnam Syndrome: Comparing US and Soviet Wars
Автор: Deepak Tripathi
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2023
Страниц: 190
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub, mobi
Размер: 10.2 MB

Great powers have often found that military adventurism to force their will in distant lands comes with the risk of spending excessive military, economic, and moral capital to the extent that war is no longer sustainable. Written by a former BBC Afghanistan correspondent who set up the corporation’s bureau in Kabul in the early 1990s, this book draws both from scholarly knowledge as well as first-hand insights on how the Americans met that fate in Vietnam, and the Soviets and Americans in Afghanistan. America’s 1975 retreat from Vietnam was a consequential event, prompting US commentators to explain it as reluctance to get involved in foreign wars, a mindset described as the Vietnam Syndrome. As Deepak Tripathi points out, the Vietnam experience made the Americans determined to give the Soviets their own Vietnam. The 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and retreat after a decade of occupation, represented the revenge America sought. However, President George W. Bush’s decision to invade Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks was the beginning of a long military venture that ended in retreat in 2021. Addressing an academic as well as a general audience, Tripathi explores parallels between wars in Afghanistan and Vietnam, and shows how the United States and the Soviet Union met the same fate.

Название: Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War
Автор: Diarmaid Ferriter
Издательство: IPS - Profile Books
ISBN: 1788161742
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 336
Размер: 1,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

At the end of the Irish War of Independence, Dublin signed an unsatisfactory treaty with London, that amongst other things, required oaths of allegiance to the British Empire. To many this was a price worth paying, but for others it was impossible. Very quickly, in 1922 the country collapsed into a cruel civil war that split organisations like Sinn Fein and the IRA, local communities, and families.

Название: The Spanish Civil War: Exhuming a Buried Past
Автор: Anindya Raychaudhuri
Издательство: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708325785
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 320
Размер: 10,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

While the intricate relationship between history, memory, and representation is of central concern in contemporary society in general, it is perhaps more alive in Spain than in any other European country. The seventy-fifth anniversary of the Spanish Civil War has reignited interest in this field.

Название: Цена предательства. Сотрудничество с врагом на оккупированных территориях СССР. 1941—1945
Автор: Джеральд Рейтлингер
Издательство: Центрполиграф
Год: 2012
Формат: fb2, rtf
Размер: 11 Мб
Качество: Хорошее
Язык: Русский

Известный британский историк Джеральд Рейтлингер рассматривает политические планы и проблемы гитлеровской военной кампании в России, которая началась практически с заключения пакта о ненападении в 1939 г. и плачевно закончилась в последние месяцы существования Третьего рейха. Ожидания Гитлера легкой войны на Востоке не оправдались. Вторжение германских войск на территорию России было встречено решительным сопротивлением, массовые репрессии породили партизанскую войну, а надежды на успех использования армии под командованием генерала Власова, перешедшего на сторону нацистов, обернулись провалом.

Название: The Scrap Iron Flotilla: Five Valiant Destroyers and the Australian War in the Mediterranean
Автор: Mike Carlton
Издательство: William Heinemann/Penguin Random House Australia
Год: 2022
Страниц: 616
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.2 MB

When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British asked Australia for help. With some misgivings, the Australian government sent five destroyers to beef up the British Royal Navy in the Mediterranean. HMAS Vendetta, Vampire, Voyager, Stuart and Waterhen were old ships, small with worn-out engines. Their crews used to joke they were held together by string and chewing gum; when the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels heard of them, he sneered that they were a load of scrap iron. Yet by the middle of 1940, these destroyers were valiantly escorting troop and supply convoys, successfully hunting for submarines and indefatigably bombarding enemy coasts.

Название: Shadow Enemies Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States
Автор: Alex Abella, Scott Gordon
Издательство: Lyons Press
Год: 2002
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 336
Размер: 36,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Here is the incredible true story of one of Adolf Hitler's most diabolical plans: to wreak havoc and terror in America's cities through the hands of carefully trained German agents whose goal was to sabotage manufacturing plants, cut off New York's water supply, and bomb train stations and Jewish-owned department stores.