Название: Walking In the Footsteps of the Fallen: Verdun 1916 (Battleground)
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB, PDF (Conv)
Страниц: 186
Размер: 327 Mb
Язык: English

Walking In the Footsteps of the Fallen: Verdun 1916 (Battleground)

Название: Digging All Night and Fighting All Day: The Civil War Siege of Spanish Fort and the Mobile Campaign, 1865
Издательство: Savas Beatie
Год: 2024
Формат: EPUB, PDF (Conv)
Страниц: 336
Размер: 106 Mb
Язык: English

Digging All Night and Fighting All Day: The Civil War Siege of Spanish Fort and the Mobile Campaign, 1865

Название: Пистолет в скоротечных огневых контактах
Автор: Маслак Ю.Г.
Издательство: Академический Проект
Год: 2020
Cтраниц: 100
Формат: pdf (ocr) / djvu
Размер: 11 мб
Язык: русский

Впервые изданное пособие по изучению стрельбы «флэш». Стрельба «флэш» (иное название — «стрельба по-македонски») — это комплекс действий человека, вооруженного ручным короткоствольным оружием, который можно сформулировать как «наиболее оптимальное поведение во время скоротечных огневых контактов».

Название: Dambusters: A Landmark Oral History
Автор: Max Arthur
Издательство: Virgin Books
ISBN: 0753515730
Год: 2009
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 319
Размер: 5,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

On the night of 16-17 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bombers from 617 Squadron headed for Germany. Their mission, for which they had been trained under a cloak of absolute secrecy, was to destroy the dams of the Ruhr Valley and in doing so cripple the Nazi industrial war effort. It was to become one of the most famous raids of WW2.

Название: The Thresher Disaster: The Most Tragic Dive In Submarine History
Автор: John Bentley
Издательство: Doubleday
ISBN: 0450025891
Год: 1975
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 310
Размер: 5.1 МБ
Язык: Английский

On April 10, 1963, the nuclear-powered killer sub Thresher, on a test dive off the Maine Continental shelf, encountered an as yet unspecified disaster and sank with 12 officers, 96 enlisted men and 21 "observers" aboard. It was the worst submarine loss in history. Even today the Navy keeps under wraps much so-called classified information that might lead to some kind of voracious explanation of the grim mystery.

Название: Napoleon and the Operational Art of War. Essays in Honor of Donald D. Horward
Автор: Editor: Michael V. Leggiere
Издательство: Brill
Год: 2016
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 569
Размер: 13.8 Мб
Язык: английский

In Napoleon and the Operational Art of War, the leading scholars of Napoleonic military history provide the most authoritative analysis of Napoleon’s battlefield success and ultimate failure. Napoleon’s development and mastery of the operational art of warfare is revealed as each chapter analyzes one Napoleonic war or major campaign of a war. To achieve this, the essays conform to the common themes of Napoleon’s planning, his command and control, his execution of plans, and the response of his adversaries. Napoleon's sea power and the British response to the French challenge at sea is also investigated. Overall, this volume reflects the finest scholarship and cutting-edge research to be found in Napoleonic Military History.

Название: Behind Japanese Lines With the OSS in Burma
Автор: Richard Dunlop
Издательство: Skyhorse Publishing
ISBN: 1626365384
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 536
Размер: 5,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

In early 1942, with World War II going badly, President Roosevelt turned to General William “Wild Bill" Donovan, now known historically as the “Father of Central Intelligence," with orders to form a special unit whose primary mission was to prepare for the eventual reopening of the Burma Road linking Burma and China by performing guerilla operations behind the Japanese lines.

Название: The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War
Автор: Andrew Roberts
Издательство: Harpercollins
ISBN: 0141029285
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 768
Размер: 17,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion, and claimed the lives of more than 50 million people. What were the factors that affected the war's outcome? Why did the Axis lose? And could they, with a different strategy, have won? Andrew Roberts's acclaimed new history has been hailed as the finest single-volume account of this epic con?ict.

Название: The Encyclopedia of World Sea Power
Автор: Chris Bishop
Издательство: Temple Press / Aerospace
Год: 1988
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 328
Размер: 127,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

This is one of the most comprehensive and colorful reference books on the world’s navies and their warships.

Название: Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II. Battle book №11 - Leyte Gulf - Armada in the Pacific
Автор: Donald Macintyre
Издательство: Ballantine Books
Год: 1970
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 164
Размер: 14,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Battle for Leyte Gulf - a desperate gamble by Imperial japan when she risked the remains of her Fleet in an all-out effort to retain her conquests and safeguard her supply routes against the mighty American Pacific forces.