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Название: 100 Greatest Battles
Автор: Angus Konstam
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2023
Страниц: 340
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 109.9 MB

A highly illustrated introduction to some of the greatest battles in world history, from the iconic encounters of the Ancient World such as Thermopylae and Cannae, through to the major clashes of the 20th century epitomized by Stalingrad and Khe Sanh. This concise study by renowned military historian Angus Konstam examines one hundred of the most famous battles from world history. It includes great naval engagements such as Salamis, Trafalgar, Jutland and Midway; pivotal land battles that decided the fate of nations, such as Hastings, Yorktown, Gettysburg and the Somme; and the impact of the new dimension of aerial warfare in the 20th century at Pearl Harbor, in the Battle of Britain and in the skies over Hiroshima. This book deals with the battles which changed history. As a historian, I recognize that fallibility in any history book is almost impossible to avoid. I hope that these instances are minimal, but, where they do arise, these are entirely of my own doing. That said, I hope you enjoy this 2,000-year journey through human conflict, and if this book helps cast even a little light on this great arc of history, then it has served its purpose.

Название: The Allied Assault on Hitler's Channel Island Fortress: The Planned Operation to Eject the Germans in 1943
Автор: John Grehan
Издательство: Frontline Books/Pen and Sword
Год: 2023
Страниц: 272
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 30.6 MB

Incredible as it may seem today, detailed plans were drawn up to recapture the Channel Islands, the most heavily fortified of all the German-occupied territories, regardless of the potentially ‘severe’ loss of life and the widespread destruction to the property of the British citizens. Under the codenames Constellation, Condor, Concertina, and Coverlet, the islands of Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney were to be attacked in 1943. The operation against Alderney would be preceded by a bombardment by between 500 and 600 medium/light bombers and an astonishing forty to fifty squadrons of fighters. The official papers which have now become available state that: ‘The islands cannot be taken without causing some civilian casualties. In the case of Alderney, it is thought that the air bombardment will have to be on such a scale that all personnel on the island will have to become casualties.’ A similar number of aircraft would attack Guernsey while, for the assault upon Jersey, thirty-one squadrons of heavy bombers and strike aircraft would bombard the island’s east and west coasts. This would be followed, on D-Day, by parachute and infantry landings and then a commando assault in the south-west.

Название: Soviet Air Power of the Cold War
Автор: Michael Green
Издательство: Pen and Sword Military
Год: 2023
Страниц: 241
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 79.4 MB

At the peak of the Cold War in the 1950s the Soviet Union possessed some 12,000 aircraft, making it the largest air force of all the protagonists. By the 1990s this had declined to around 8,000, the reduction largely reflecting the increase in aircraft capability. As well as fighters and bombers, the Soviet inventory included trainers, transports, seaplanes, electronic warfare and ground attack aircraft, as well as an impressive helicopter fleet, notably the Mi-24 ‘Hind’ gunship and the massive Homer transport. The Tu-4 ‘Bull’ was the first Russian nuclear-capable bomber, a copy of the US B-29, which was followed by their range of jet bombers, the Il-28 ‘Beagle’, Tu-16 ‘Badger’ and M-4 ‘Bison’. The prop driven Tu-20 ‘Bear’ and its successors including the Tu-22 ‘Backfire’ and finally the Tu-160 ‘Backfire’, were all formidable.

Название: Rise of the Mavericks: The U.S. Air Force Security Service and the Cold War, 1948–1979
Автор: Philip C. Shackelford
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Серия: Transforming War
Год: 2023
Страниц: 264
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 11.3 MB

Rise of the Mavericks traces the beginnings and subsequent development of the U.S. Air Force Security Service. Established in 1948 as part of the emerging U.S. national security apparatus, this communications intelligence organization was meant to place the fledgling U.S. Air Force on a competitive footing with its Army and Navy counterparts. As World War II ended and the Cold War began, Air Force leaders understood that an effective cryptologic capability would be crucial for maintaining and enhancing the Air Force as a strategic and decisive component of America‘s national defense. Successfully deploying air-atomic strategy in the event of a future war would require reliable information on the capabilities, intentions—and potential targets—of an opposing force, in particular the Soviet Union. Communications intelligence would be a critical source of this information, and Air Force leaders were adamant that their service not remain dependent on other service structures for this capability. The Air Force Security Service rose to the occasion, quickly establishing itself as one of the preeminent communications intelligence agencies in the United States.

Название: Batoh 1652 – Wiedeń 1683. Od kompromitacji do wiktorii
Автор: Marek Groszkowski
Издательство: PROMOHISTORIA
Год: 2014
Формат: pdf/epub/mobi
Страниц: 117
Размер: 13.9 Мб
Язык: польский


Układy polityczne wokół Rzeczypospolitej zmieniały się jak w kalejdoskopie. W maju 1652 r. na uroczysku Batoh Tatarzy wespół z Kozakami zmasakrowali wojska koronne. Rzeź jeńców była do tego stopnia przerażająca, że dziś niekiedy nazywa się ją niekiedy „sarmackim Katyniem”. Ale już niebawem z niedawnymi katami Polacy musieli się porozumieć, bo na horyzoncie byli kolejni wrogowie – Turcja i Państwo Moskiewskie.

Название: Mauser Military Rifles of the World
Автор: Robert W. D. Ball
Издательство: Krause Publications
Год: 1996
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 280
Размер: 382,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The definitive book on the subject, Mauser Military Rifles of the World, 5th Edition, is the masterwork of Robert Ball, the world's foremost authority on Mauser rifles. No other work on Mausers contains more details and models of this ubiquitous rifle--from the early black powder models to the Mauser 98 and beyond. Ball's years of research and expertise culminate in this definitive, full-color reference.

Название: The Control Agenda: A History of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Автор: Matthew J. Ambrose
Издательство: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501713744
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 282
Размер: 3,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Control Agenda is a sweeping account of the history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), their rise in the Nixon and Ford administrations, their downfall under President Carter, and their powerful legacies in the Reagan years and beyond.

Название: British Soldiers of the Korean War: In Their Own Words
Автор: Stephen F Kelly
Издательство: The History Press
ISBN: 0752487272
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 256
Размер: 5,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

More than 30,000 British troops fought in Korea between 1950 and 1953 and more than 3,000 died, with over 1,000 being captured and held in atrocious conditions by the Chinese or Koreans. At least half of those captured died in prison camps. More than 70 per cent of those who fought were 18/19 year olds doing national service.

Название: Вооруженные силы и военная промышленность Южно-Африканской республики
Автор: Шубин Г.В., Майданов И.И., Либенберг Я.
Год издания: 2010
Издательство: Москва: Издатель И. Б. Белый
ISBN: 978-5-904935-05-4
Страниц: 516 с. с илл.
Формат: PDF
Размер: 11,3 Мб (+3%)

В настоящем исследовании анализируются наиболее важные проблемы становления и развития южноафриканского военно-промышленного комплекса, сухопутных войск, ВМС и ВВС ЮАР и использования вооружённых сил ЮАР в миротворческих операциях ООН в ряде стран Африки, а также делается экс курс в военную историю страны конца XIX столетия.Издание содержит сведения по всем видам вооружений и боевой техники, когда-либо производимых и используемых в Южной Африке. Данная работа написана на основе большого количества отечественных и за рубежных исследований, военно-научных статей в советских, российских и зарубежных пе-риодических изданиях, официальных документов правительства, материалов сети Интернет, а также в ежедневных печатных и электронных изданиях Южно-Африканской Республики. В книге даны несколько прогнозов возможного развития армии страны.

Название: Военная стратегия
Автор: Соколовский В.Д. (ред.)
Издательство: М.: Воениздат
Год: 1963 - 2-е изд., испр. и доп.
Cтраниц: 504
Формат: pdf
Размер: 31 мб
Язык: русский

В известной книге, переведенной на несколько иностранных языков, рассказывается об общих принципах военной стратегии, военных стратегиях капиталистических государств, истории советской военной стратегии и ее состоянии в начале 1960-х гг. Авторы не сочли возможным согласиться с предложением некоторых рецензентов об исключении из содержания военной стратегии исследования вопросов руководства подготовкой страны к войне.