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Название: Great at Heart: Gavin Merrick Long, Australia's official Second World War historian
Автор: Garry Hills
Издательство: NewSouth
ISBN: 1761170201
Год: 2025
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 240
Размер: 10,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

In Great at Heart Gavin Long finally gets the biography he richly deserves. While Charles Bean is the subject of several major biographies, this is the first life story of his acolyte, war correspondent and editor and principal author of the official history of the Second World War, Gavin Long.

Название: The Impossible Survivor: From stockyard to the Great Escape
Автор: Jeff Steel
Издательство: Big Sky Publishing
Год: 2025
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 299
Размер: 3,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

In The Impossible Survivor, Jeff Steel invites readers into the life of Neil Lindsay, a retired RAF Bomber Command veteran, as he confronts the shadows of his past. On a seemingly ordinary day in 1995, Neil and his daughter Margaret visit a memorial honouring the fallen soldiers of the Goulburn Valley.

Название: Operation Compass: Snapshots of War
Автор: Victor Gregg
Издательство: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 1448216796
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 68
Размер: 3,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Operation Compass was the first large Allied military operation of the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) during the Second World War. The Western Desert Force, composed of around 30,000 men from British and other Commonwealth forces, advanced from Mersa Matruh on a five-day raid against the Italian positions of the 10th Army. Operation Compass continued long beyond its original limitations in order to exploit British success.

Название: Project Azorian: The History of the CIA Operation to Recover a Sunken Soviet Submarine
Автор: Charles River Editors
Издательство: Charles River Editors
Год: 2025
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 2025
Размер: 11,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

It takes a special type of person to serve in a nation’s navy, especially on long voyages that separate men and women from their loved ones, and no service is both loved and hated as that aboard submarines, for very few people ever serve on them on a whim. For one thing, the psychological impact of being trapped for long periods underwater in tight, cramped quarters is more than many people can stand.

Название: The Military History Book (DK Big Ideas)
Автор: DK
Издательство: DK
ISBN: 0744048389
Год: 2025
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 336
Размер: 256,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Discover the key themes and big ideas behind the key events in the history of warfare—from the dawn of civilization to the 21st century. Tracing the epic 5,000-year story of warfare from the earliest battles to the War on Terror, The Military History Book explores and explains the causes and consequences of each, offering a new angle on military history.

Название: 'Pug'–Churchill's Chief of Staff: The Life of General Hastings Ismay KG GCB CH DSO PS, 1887–1965
Автор: Andrew Sangster
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 341
Размер: 27,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

General Hasting Ismay, invariably referred to as ‘Pug’, was one of the most intriguing, yet less well known, leading military characters of his era. This overdue biography describes how an officer who fought tribesmen in India and Dervishes in North-East Africa, thereby playing no significant role in The Great War, found himself as Winston Churchill’s Chief of Staff throughout the Second World War.

Название: Der Spanische Erbfolgekrieg: Die Geschichte des Konflikts zwischen den Bourbonen und Habsburgern (German Edition)
Автор: Charles River Editors
Издательство: Charles River Editors
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 121
Размер: 14,8 МБ
Язык: Немецкий

Der Spanische Erbfolgekrieg zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts war der letzte grosse Krieg des legendären Sonnenkonigs Ludwig XIV. und zugleich der beruhmteste aller militärischen Konflikte wahrend seiner Regierungszeit.

Название: Война глазами военнопленных: Красноармейцы в немецком плену в 1941-1945 г.
Автор: Лейбович О.Л. и др.
Издательство: Пермское книжное издательство
Год: 2008 - 2-е изд., с изм. и доп.
Cтраниц: 730
Формат: pdf
Размер: 11 мб
Язык: русский

В книге впервые опубликованы документы из ранее засекреченных проверочно-фильтрационных дел бывших военнопленных - в основном, уроженцев Пермской области или тех, кто был призван в ряды Красной Армии с территории нашего края и в ходе боев был пленен противником. Подвергнутые госпроверке бойцы и командиры РККА должны были дать обстоятельный и правдивый отчет об их пребывании в плену, объяснить, при каких обстоятельствах они попали в руки неприятеля.

Название: They Flew into Oblivion: The Disappearance of Flight 19
Автор: Gian J Quasar
Издательство: Brodwyn, Moor & Doane
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 274
Размер: 14,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 2005 a national spotlight was placed upon a mystery of aviation because of They Flew into Oblivion. Having an early and still-unfinished copy of the manuscript, Larry Landsman, SCI-FI Channel's determined Special Projects Director, pushed for a special documentary to be produced by NBC News Productions and then lobbied Congress through Podesta-Matoon, the nation's third largest and influential lobbyist, for formal recognition of the subject of this book in Congress.

Название: The Bravest Scout at Gallipoli
Автор: Ryan Butta
Издательство: Affirm Press
ISBN: 1922992089
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 280
Размер: 19,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Harry Freame was the first Australian to win the Distinguished Conduct Medal at Gallipoli. Raised as a samurai, he risked his life again and again to scout the beaches and hills of the battlefield, reporting invaluable intelligence back to his officers and relieving stranded soldiers who otherwise would surely have died.