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Название: Combat Chronicles of the Black Widow (Squadron Signal 6701)
Издательство: Squadron/Signal Publications
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 116
Размер: 230 Mb
Язык: English

Combat Chronicles of the Black Widow

Название: St. John's and the Battle of the Atlantic
Автор: Romkey Bill
Издательство: Flanker Press
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf, epub
Страниц: 260
Размер: 10,48 Мб
Язык: английский

During World War II St. John's, Newfoundland played a critical role in the fight against Nazi Germany. Seamen from all over the world sailed to and from the old seaport, chosen for duty because it was closest to Europe and because its people knew both the peril and glory of the North Atlantic.

Название:The United States Army: A Chronology, 1775 to the Present
Автор: John C. Fredriksen
Издательство: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO
Год: 2010
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 385
Размер: 4 MB
Язык: English

The United States Army: A Chronology, 1775 to the Present captures the full sweep of the U.S. Army's place in our nation's history.

Название: Forgotten Armies: Britain's Asian Empire and the War with Japan
Автор: Christopher Alan Bayly, Tim Harper
Издательство: Penguin Books
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf, epub
Страниц: 684
Размер: 11,05 Мб
Язык: английский

The vast crescent of British-ruled territories from India down to Singapore appeared in the early stages of the Second World War a massive asset in the war with Germany, providing huge quantities of soldiers and raw materials and key part of an impregnable global network denied to the Nazis. Within a few weeks in 1941-2 a Japanese invasion had destroyed all this, almost effortlessly taking the impregnable fortress' of Singapore with its 80,000 strong garrison, and sweeping through South and Southeast Asia to the frontier of India itself.

Название: The March to the Marne: The French Army 1871-1914
Автор: Douglas Porch
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 1981
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 156
Размер: 86,86 Мб
Язык: английский

The relationship between the French army and the regime provides one of the central themes in the history of the Third Republic. From its foundation in 1870, the republic sought to integrate the army of Louis-Napoleon into a left-leaning, democratic political system. This experiment failed, historians have argued, because the social origins, political attitudes and professional values of the officer corps sabotaged cooperation with the republic...

Название: Hitler's Battleships
Автор: Edwyn Gray
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 1999
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 232
Размер: 151,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Written by one of Britain's most popular historians, this absorbing story offers a clear, concise, and entertaining picture of the operational history of German capital ships in World War II.

Название: Fleet: The Flying Years
Автор: Ronald Page, William Cumming
Издательство: Boston Mills Press
Год: 1990
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 160
Размер: 169,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Fleet: The Flying Years

Название: Jets
Автор: Michael Sharpe
Издательство: TaJ Books
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 264
Размер: 297,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The genesis of jet propulsion was the invention of a gun-powdered rocket by the Chinese in the 13th century. The rocket’s design was initially intended to enhance fireworks displays, but gradually progressed to assume a critical and formidable place in Chinese weaponry.

Название: The Kaiser's Battle
Автор: Martin Middlebrook
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 184415498X
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 430
Размер: 7,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

At 9.30am on 21 March 1918, the last great battle of the First World War commenced when three German armies struck a massive blow against the weak divisions of the British Third and Fifth Armies. It was the first day of what the Germans called the Kaiserschlacht (‘the Kaiser’s Battle’), the series of attacks that were intended to break the deadlock on the Western Front, knock the British Army out of the war, and finally bring victory to Germany.

Название: The Home Front Encyclopedia: United States, Britain, and Canada in World Wars I and II
Автор: James Ciment
Издательство: ABC-CLIO
Год: 2007
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 1540
Размер: 19,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Home Front Encyclopedia: United States, Britain, and Canada in World Wars I and II is the first scholarly work devoted exclusively to the utter transformation of American, Canadian, and British societies in those pivotal years.