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Название: Boer Guerrilla vs British Mounted Soldier: South Africa 1880-1902
Автор: Ian Knight,Johnny Shumate
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey Combat 26
ISBN: 978 1472818294
Год издания: 2017
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 81
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 60,3 MB

Waged across an inhospitable terrain which varied from open African savannah to broken mountain country and arid semi-desert, the Anglo-Boer wars of 1880-81 and 1899-1902 pitted the British Army and its allies against the Boers' commandos.
The nature of warfare across these campaigns was shaped by the realities of the terrain and by Boer fighting techniques. Independent and individualistic, the Boers were not professional soldiers but a civilian militia who were bound by the terms of the ‘Commando system' to come together to protect their community against an outside threat. By contrast the British Army was a full-time professional body with an established military ethos, but its over-dependence on conventional infantry tactics led to a string of Boer victories.

Название: Canadian Corps Soldier vs Royal Bavarian Soldier: Vimy Ridge to Passchendaele 1917
Автор: Stephen Bull, Adam Hook
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey Combat 25
ISBN: 978 1472819765
Год издания: 2017
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 81
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 73 MB

In 1917 the soldiers of the Canadian Corps would prove themselves the equal of any fighting on the Western Front, while on the other side of the wire, the men of the Royal Bavarian Army won a distinguished reputation in combat. Employing the latest weapons and pioneering tactics, these two forces would clash in three notable encounters: the Canadian storming of Vimy Ridge, the back-and-forth engagement at Fresnoy and at the sodden, bloody battle of Passchendaele.
Featuring carefully chosen archive photographs and specially commissioned artwork, this study assesses these three hard-fought battles in 1917 on the Western Front, and offers a new take on the evolving nature of infantry combat in World War I.

Название: From the Imjin to the Hook: A National Service Gunner in the Korean War
Автор(ы): James Jacobs
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2013
Страниц: 224
Язык: English
Формат: azw3, epub
Размер: 5 MB

The British Army’s considerable contribution to The Korean War 1950 – 1953 was largely composed of ‘conscripts’ or national servicemen. Plucked from civilian life on a ‘lottery’ basis and given a short basic training, some like Jim Jacobs volunteered for overseas duty and suddenly found themselves in the thick of a war as intensive and dangerous as anything the Second World War had had to offer. As a member of 170 Independent Mortar Battery RA from March 1951 to June 1952 Jim was in the frontline at the famous Battle of the Imjin River. By great luck, he evaded capture – and death – unlike so many. He returned to the UK only to volunteer again for a second tour with 120 Light Battery from March 1953 to March 1954. During this period, he was in the thick of the action at the Third Battle of the Hook during May 1953. In this gripping memoir, Jim calmly and geographically recounts his experiences and emotions from joining the Army through training, the journeys by troopship and, most importantly, on active service in the atrocious and terrifying war fighting that went on in a very foreign place.

Название: D-Day: The Essential Reference Guide
Автор: Spencer Tucker
Издательство: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 1440849749
Год: 2017
Страниц: 310
Язык: английский
Формат: epub, pdf
Размер: 10.47 MB

This outstanding overview of D-Day makes clear its great importance in military and world history, identifies mistakes committed on both sides, and explains all aspects of the 1944 Allied invasion of France and the Normandy Campaign that followed.
The beach landings at Normandy, France, in June of 1944 were of critical importance in the outcome of World War II, and as a consequence, served to determine the economic and political state of the modern world as we know it. This latest reference book edited by esteemed historian Spencer C. Tucker supplies easy-to-understand overview entries on the Normandy Invasion ("Operation OVERLORD") and the European Theater in World War II as well as entries treating specific topics such as key individuals, technical innovations, weapons systems, command structures, terrain and logistical difficulties, and the role played by weather.

Название: Рекрутская система комплектования русской армии при Петре I
Автор: Тихонов В.А.
Издательство: Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 978-3-8443-2759-5
Год: 2012
Страниц: 272
Язык: русский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10.0 MB

В царствование Петра Великого (самостоятельное правление: 1694 - 1725 гг.) в России были проведены масштабные реформы армии, государства и общества. Важнейшей из этих реформ было введение рекрутской системы комплектования армии, при которой солдат набирали с помощью регулярных принудительных наборов из низших сословий на пожизненную военную службу. Для населения России эти рекрутские наборы с этого времени до 1872 г. стали одной из самых тяжёлых государственных повинностей. При Петре Великом прошло несколько десятков рекрутских наборов. После введения рекрутчины резко увеличилось бегство рекрут. Данное исследование основывается на материалах о русской рекрутчине при Петре, в большом количестве сохранившихся в ведущих исторических архивах России. Книга предназначена для историков и всех, кто интересуется военной историей эпохи Петра Великого.

Название: The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest
Автор(ы): Peter S. Wells
Издательство: W. W. Norton & Company
Год: 2004
ISBN: 0393326438
Страниц: 273
Язык: English
Формат: PDF OCR
Размер: 32 MB

The previously untold story of the watershed battle that changed the course of Western history. In AD 9, a Roman traitor led an army of barbarians who trapped and then slaughtered three entire Roman legions: 20,000 men, half the Roman army in Europe. If not for this battle, the Roman Empire would surely have expanded to the Elbe River, and probably eastward into present-day Russia. But after this defeat, the shocked Romans ended all efforts to expand beyond the Rhine, which became the fixed border between Rome and Germania for the next 400 years, and which remains the cultural border between Latin western Europe and Germanic central and eastern Europe today.

Название: Rome’s Saxon Shore: Coastal Defences of Roman Britain AD 250-500 (Osprey Fortress 56)
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2006
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 66
Размер: 20 Mb

Rome’s Saxon Shore: Coastal Defences of Roman Britain AD 250-500

Название: Cathar Castles: Fortresses of the Albigensian Crusade 1209-1300 (Osprey Fortress 55)
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2006
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 66
Размер: 19 Mb

Cathar Castles: Fortresses of the Albigensian Crusade 1209-1300

Название: Солдат на фронте № 12 Униформа германских танкистов в цветных фотографиях
Автор: составитель Иванов С.В.
Издательство: При участии ООО "АРС"
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 24
Размер: 13,5 Мб
Язык: Русский

Периодическое научно-популярное издание для членов военно-исторических клубов.
Высококачественные фотографии экипировки и оснащения воинов различных эпох, цветные рисунки, описание боевых действий. Все выпуски отпечатаны на импортной мелованной бумаге.

Название: Forts of the American Frontier 1820-1891: The Southern Plains and Southwest (Osprey Fortress 54)
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2007
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 66
Размер: 19 Mb

Forts of the American Frontier 1820-1891: The Southern Plains and Southwest