Название: Vought F-8 Crusader
Автор: Peter Mersky
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey Air Combat
ISBN: 0850459052
Год издания: 1989
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 204
Формат: PDF
Размер: 170,4 MB

The F-8 Crusader was many things to many people. To its manufacturer, one of the leading pioneeer aircraft companies, Chance Vought, it was the last – and ultimately successful – chance to regain its once Olympian status as one of the main suppliers of fighter aircraft to the US Navy.

Название: Great Escapes during the World Wars
Автор: Charles River Editors
Издательство: Charles River Editors
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 164
Размер: 17,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

War has always led to prisoners. In ancient times, many were turned into slaves by the victorious armies, while in medieval Europe, they were often returned to their families in return for a ransom, leading to fortune or poverty depending upon which side one was on.

Название: Cryptography and the World Wars: The History of Codemaking and Codebreaking during Both Global Conflicts
Автор: Charles River Editors
Издательство: Charles River Editors
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 111
Размер: 9,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

World War I stood apart in many ways from earlier wars, not least in the way that it reached to nearly every corner of the planet and involved a noticeable segment of humanity's collective resources. Battles erupted not only on land and the sea's surface as they had for centuries, but also in the ocean depths and the windswept heights of the sky.

Название: The Breaking Storm: 10 July 1940 – 12 August 1940 (Battle of Britain)
Автор: Dilip Sarkar
Издательство: Air World
ISBN: 1399056417
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 344
Размер: 8,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

In The Breaking Storm, the first of Dilip Sarkar’s unprecedented seven-volume series exploring the Battle of Britain, the events that led up to the outbreak of war in 1939, and which set the scene for the epic aerial conflict of summer 1940, are fully explored.

Название: Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare
Автор: Joshua Howe, Alexander Lemons
Издательство: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324066334
Год: 2025
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 304
Размер: 5,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

A friendship between an environmental historian and a chronically ill US Marine yields a powerful exploration into the toxic effects of war on the human body. Alexander Lemons is a Marine Corps scout sniper who, after serving multiple tours during the Iraq War, returned home seriously and mysteriously ill. Joshua Howe is an environmental historian who met Lemons as a student in one of his classes.

Название: Silent Depths: A Cold War Submarine Thriller
Автор: Art Venka
Издательство: Art Venka
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 242
Размер: 3,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Dive into the heart-pounding depths of the Cold War with Silent Depths, a gripping tale of espionage, survival, and sacrifice beneath the waves. Combining the intensity of modern submarine fiction with the intrigue of Cold War espionage history, this novel takes you on a harrowing journey through the shadowy world of naval warfare.

Название: American Heroes, UK Edition
Автор: James Patterson
Издательство: Century
ISBN: 1529136652
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 384
Размер: 2,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

From the 1 bestselling authors of Walk in my Combat Boots comes a gripping collection of true stories documenting the heroic efforts of America's veterans. Crafted from original interviews, American Heroes tells the vivid, authentic stories of the veterans who gave themselves - and even their lives - serving in overseas conflict from World War Two to Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Название: Марш! Марш! Люди и лошади в наполеоновских войнах
Автор(ы): Мурат Куриев, Алексей Темников
Издательство: У Никитских ворот
Год: 2024
Страниц: 472
Формат: fb2
Размер: 11 Мб
Язык: русский

Эта книга о людях и лошадях, о людях на лошадях. О кавалерии в «золотое» для нее время, эпоху наполеоновских войн. О людях мы знаем больше, о лошадях значительно меньше, хотя они – полноправные герои событий.

Название: From Arromanches to the Elbe: Marcus Cunliffe and the 144th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps 1944–1945
Автор: Charles More
Издательство: Frontline Books
ISBN: 152671065X
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 256
Размер: 7,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

It was on 14 June 1944, D+8, that the tanks of the 144th Regiment Royal armored Corps began to disembark on Gold Beach during the Normandy landings. Delayed in going ashore, the regiment’s tanks had been sorely missed by the infantry – and consequently the men of the 144th soon found themselves in action. It was the start of a long and bitter campaign that would take them across Northwest Europe into the heart of Germany.

Название: Вторая мировая война. Дискуссии. Основные тенденции. Результаты исследований
Автор: Кульков Е.Н. (научный редактор)
Издательство: Весь мир
Год: 1997
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 702
Размер: 34 mb
Язык: Русский

Более 50 лет минуло после окончания второй мировой войны, однако внимание исследователей не ослабевает к этой крупнейшей катастрофе в истории человечества. Авторы данного сборника видели свою задачу в том, чтобы очертить всю огромную проблематику международного, идейно-политического, социально-экономического, оперативно-стратегического характера, связанную с войной. Читателю предложены интересные результаты исследований и новые подходы, которые во многом заставляют пересмотреть привычные точки зрения.