Название: Z Special Unit: The Elite Allied World War II Guerrilla Force
Автор: Gavin Mortimer
Издательство: Osprey Publishing Ltd
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 241
Размер: 21,1 Mb
Язык: English

Based on recently released wartime files, interviews with surviving veterans and previously unpublished private papers, this is the incredible story of the origins and operations of a wartime special forces unit that defied the odds.
Z Special Unit, one of the most intrepid but arguably the most unsung of Allied Special Forces of the Second World War waged a guerrilla war against Japan for two years in the south-west Pacific. On some of their 81 operations Z Special Unit slipped into enemy harbors in canoes and silently mined ships before vanishing into the night; on others they parachuted into the dense Borneo jungle to fight with headhunters against the Japanese and on one occasion they landed on an Indonesian island and smuggled out the pro-Allied sultan from under Japanese noses.

Название: Desert War: The New Conflict Between the U.S. and Iraq
Автор: John T. Campbell
Издательство: New American Library
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 124
Размер: 11,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Illustrated and detailed, this guide looks at war between the U.S. and Iraq from every angle—and examines the conflict that has loomed for years: the sanctions, the propaganda, the attacks in the no-fly zone, the weapons inspections, and the factors that have led us to where we are today.

Название: Desert Storm: The War in the Persian Gulf
Автор: Otto Friedrich
Издательство: Time Warner Publishing Inc.
Год: 1991
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 244
Размер: 46,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Tells the story of the war in the Persian Gulf from Saddam Hussein's first strike into Kuwait to the collapse and flight of his defeated army. The book is based on files from more than a dozen "Time" correspondents who covered the war, both in the Persian Gulf and allied capitals. "Time's" diplomatic correspondent, Christopher Ogden, provides a narrative on how President Bush reached his decision to go to war. Accounts of the air war and the land invasion are by former world editor, John Elson and Nation senior writer, Ed Magnuson.

Название: Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country
Автор: Fay A. Yarbrough
Издательство: The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 1469665115
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 282
Размер: 19,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people—the tribe had owned enslaved Blacks since the 1720s. By the eve of the Civil War, 14 percent of the Choctaw Nation consisted of enslaved Blacks.

Название: Disaster on the Spanish Main: The Tragic British-American Expedition to the West Indies during the War of Jenkins' Ear
Автор: Craig S. Chapman
Издательство: Potomac Books
ISBN: 1640124314
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 426
Размер: 10,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Disaster on the Spanish Main unveils and illuminates an overlooked yet remarkable episode of European and American military history and a land-sea venture to seize control of the Spanish West Indies that ended in ghastly failure.

Название: Sir John Tiptoft – 'Butcher of England': Earl of Worcester, Edward IV's enforcer and humanist scholar
Автор: Peter Spring
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783463821
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 384
Размер: 9,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, is arguably the most intriguing, controversial and possibly misunderstood figure of the Wars of the Roses period. Politically adept, he occupied a string of important offices, first under the Lancastrian Henry VI and then the Yorkist Edward IV.

Название: Johnsonville: Union Supply Operations on the Tennessee River and the Battle of Johnsonville, November 4-5, 1864
Автор: Jerry T. Wooten
Издательство: Savas Beatie
ISBN: 1611214777
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 192
Размер: 11,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

“Johnsonville” doesn’t mean much to most students of the Civil War. Yet, its contribution to the Union victory in the Western Theater is difficult to overstate, and its history is complex, fascinating, and heretofore mostly untold. Johnsonville: Union Supply Operations on the Tennessee River and the Battle of Johnsonville, November 4-5, 1864, by Jerry T. Wooten remedies that oversight with the first full-length treatment of this subject.

Название: Your Towns and Cities in World War Two - Northamptonshire at War 1939 - 1945
Автор: Kevin Turton
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473876672
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 136
Размер: 9,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

When the Second World War was declared in September 1939, Northamptonshire was better prepared for the years that followed than it had been twenty-five years earlier. Lessons had been learned from the First World War, and people were far more aware of the impact modern warfare could have on their lives.

Название: Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson
Автор: Timothy B. Smith
Издательство: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700633162
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 526
Размер: 9,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

When General Ulysses S. Grant targeted Forts Henry and Donelson, he penetrated the Confederacy at one of its most vulnerable points, setting in motion events that would elevate his own status, demoralize the Confederate leadership and citizenry, and, significantly, tear the western Confederacy asunder.

Название: Images of War - The BEF in 1917: Arras, Vimy, Messines, Passchendaele and Cambrai
Автор: Bob Carruthers
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473837790
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 135
Размер: 61,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

This new volume in the long-running Images of War series features the actions of the British Army at Passchendaele. The book is comprised of rare photographs illustrating the years of fighting on the northern sector of the Ypres salient, which finally culminated in the capture of the ridge at Passchendaele, accompanied by a powerful text written by Official War Correspondent Philip Gibbs, who was an eyewitness to the events.