Название: The First Stroke: Lexington, Concord, and the Beginning of the American Revolution
Автор: Thomas Fleming
Издательство: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 141022306X
Год: 2005
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 108
Размер: 1,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

On April 19, 1775, thirty-eight Americans formed two uneven lines on the wet grass of the two-acre common in Lexington, Massachusetts. They were summoned by the rolling beat of sixteen-year-old William Diamond's brightly painted drum. The order to sound the call to arms had been given by Lexington's militia captain, John Parker.

Название: Historyczne Bitwy 100 - Kynoskefalaj 197 p.n.e.
Автор: Krzysztof Keciek
Издательство: Dom Wydawniczy Bellona
Год: 2002
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 295
Размер: 10,1 МБ
Язык: Польский

Серия книг издательского дома Bellona, посвящена военным битвам различных времен и эпох.

Название: The Waffen SS In The West (World War Two from Primary Sources)
Автор: Bob Carruthers
Издательство: Archive Media Publishing Ltd
Год: 2011
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 148
Размер: 10,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

This photgraphic journal was originally published in the spring of 1941. It was edited by and carried a forward by Hauptsturmführer Gunter d'Alquen, commander of the SS Propaganda Kompanie and editor of the official SS paper, Das Schwarze Korps. Many of the pictures taken in this book feature the men of Waffen SS Standarte "Germania".

Название: A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front
Автор: Winston Groom
Издательство: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Год: 2003
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 288
Размер: 7,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

A Storm in Flanders is novelist and prizewinning historian Winston Groom's gripping history of the four-year battle for Ypres in Belgian Flanders, the pivotal engagement of World War I that would forever change the way the world fought - and thought about - war.

Название: The Twilight Of A Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats And European Conflicts, 1560-1800
Автор: Gregory Hanlon
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 1138158275
Год: 2008
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 384
Размер: 10,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Both in providing accessible information and in offering a far more nuanced and unprejudiced view of the military activities of the Italian princes and their nobilities, Hanlons book is invaluable.

Название: Surviving the Death Railway: A POW's Memoir and Letters from Home
Автор: Hilary Custance Green
Издательство: Pen & Sword Military
Год: 2016
Формат: epub
Страниц: 280
Размер: 38,48 Мб
Язык: английский

The ordeals of the POWs put to slave labor by their Japanese masters on the 'Burma Railway' have been well documented yet never cease to shock. It is impossible not to be horrified and moved by their stoic courage in the face of inhuman brutality, appalling hardship and ever-present death...

Название: Famous Faces of the Spanish Civil War
Автор: Steve Hurst
Издательство: Pen and Sword Militar
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 240
Размер: 17,39 Мб
Язык: английский

This book tells the tragic story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of writers, artists and musicians who were deeply involved and close to it. By means of chronological chapters covering the major phases the author describes the roles of figures such as Arthur Koestler, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, George Orwell, Esmond Romilly, Martha Gellhorn (Hemingway’s lover), Salvador Dali, the poet Federico Lorca (who was killed) etc.

Название: Fighting Hitler from Dunkirk to D-Day: The Story of Die Hard Jeff Haward
Автор: Jeff Haward, Neil Barber
Издательство: Pen and Sword Military
Год: 2015
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 179
Размер: 47,40 Мб
Язык: английский

Fighting Hitler from Dunkirk to D-Day is the compelling story of a man belonging to a group of which there are now very few survivors. Jeff Haward MM was a pre-war Territorial Army soldier who enlisted and fought throughout the entirety of the Second World War. He became a “Die Hard,” the historic name given to men of the famous Middlesex Regiment. He joined the 1/7th Battalion, equipped with the British Army’s iconic Vickers medium machine gun...

Название: Mercenaries and their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy
Автор: Michael Edward Mallett
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 263
Размер: 72,42 Мб
Язык: английский

The book concentrates on the fifteenth century, a confused period of turbulence and transition when standing armies were formed in Italy and more modern types of military organization took hold across Europe. But it also looks back to the middle ages and the fourteenth century, and forward to the Italian wars of the sixteenth century when foreign armies disputed the European balance of power on Italian soil.

Название: Русская эмиграция в борьбе с большевизмом
Автор: Волков С.В. - сост..
Издательство: М.: ЗАО Центриолиграф
Год: 2005
Формат:PDF
Страниц:245
Размер: 25.34MB
Язык: русский

Книга в серии "Россия забытая и неизвестная" посвящена организации белой борьбы с коммунистической Россией из-за рубежа.