Название: Weapons and Equipments in WWII: Japan
Издательство: Taihai Publishing House
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 496
Размер: 93 Mb
Язык: Chinese

Weapons and Equipments in WWII: Japan

Название: Tigers in Combat 1942-1945 Vol.II
Издательство: China Chang’an Publishing House
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 306
Размер: 66 Mb
Язык: Chinese

Tigers in Combat 1942-1945 Vol.II

Название: Corregidor 1945: Repossessing the Rock (Osprey Campaign 325)
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2023
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 97
Размер: 19 Mb
Язык: English

Corregidor 1945: Repossessing the Rock (Osprey Campaign 325)

Название: 21 Days to Baghdad: General Buford Blount and the 3rd Infantry Division in the Iraq War
Автор: Heather Marie Stur
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1472853636
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 320
Размер: 13,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

An authoritative military history of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division in Operation Iraqi Freedom, describing the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the siege and fall of Baghdad, and the nation-building mission that followed. In 21 Days to Baghdad, historian Dr. Heather Stur describes the commitment of the division to Kuwait, the invasion of Iraq and the three weeks of violent desert conflicts on the way to Baghdad before the siege and battle for the city itself, and the "thunder runs" that saw its fall to U.S. forces.

Название: Intelligence and espionage in the English Republic c.1600-60: Arcana Imperii
Автор: Alan Marshall
Издательство: Manchester University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 277
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 15.0 MB

This ambitious and important book is a richly detailed account of the ideas and activities in the early-modern ‘secret state’ and its agencies, spies, informers and intelligencers, under the English Republic and the Cromwellian protectorate. The book investigates the meanings this early-modern Republican state acquired to express itself, by exploring its espionage actions, the moral conundrums, and the philosophical background of secret government in the era. It considers in detail the culture and language of plots, conspiracies, and intrigues and it also exposes how the intelligence activities of the Three Kingdoms began to be situated within early-modern government from the Civil Wars to the rule of Oliver Cromwell. It introduces the reader to some of the personalities who were caught up in this world of espionage, from intelligencers like Thomas Scot and John Thurloe to the men and women who became its secret agents and spies. The book includes stories of activities not just in England, but also in Ireland and Scotland, and it especially investigates intelligence and espionage during the critical periods of the British Civil Wars and the important developments which took place under the English Republic and Oliver Cromwell in the 1650s. The book will appeal to historians, students, teachers, and readers who are fascinated by the secret affairs of intelligence and espionage.

Название: Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War
Автор: Ian Rutledge
Издательство: Saqi Books
Год: 2023
Страниц: 584
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub (true)
Размер: 18.5 MB

In the mid-eighteenth century, most of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, a vast Islamic power which – although past its zenith – was still regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear. However, by the end of the First World War, this great civilisation had been completely subjugated, its territories occupied by European states. In Sea of Troubles, Ian Rutledge reveals how the Mediterranean – the fault line between Europe and Islam – became the most important centre of European imperialist rivalry. Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Austria-Hungary and Russia all jostled for control of the trade, lands and wealth of this Islamic region. This competition made their conquest a far more difficult and extended task than they encountered elsewhere in the world. As rivalries intensified in the early twentieth century, events would spiral out of control as the continent headed towards war. Sea of Troubles is a sweeping and fascinating account of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, told from all key players’ perspectives. Ian Rutledge masterfully investigates over three centuries of European imperialism in the Islamic Mediterranean, showing that it was the chain reaction of their violence in this region that was the primary cause of the First World War.

Название: Ten Thousand Eyes: The amazing story of the spy network that cracked Hitler’s Atlantic Wall before D-Day
Автор: Richard Collier
Издательство: Canelo History
Год: 2024
Страниц: 359
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.2 MB

'Without the networks of the French Resistance, the invasion would not have been possible' Major General Walter Bedell Smith, Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. Days after France fell in June 1940, Charles de Gaulle appointed Andre Dewavrin to create, from scratch, the Free French Intelligence Service. Recruiting agents among the sailors, farmers, painters, housewives and children of Occupied France, he managed cells of spies across the country, and focused their attention on one goal: preparing for the Allied invasion of France, even at the risk of torture and death. Hitler’s fortifications along the European coastline – known as the Atlantic Wall – were their target. Gun battery locations, troop movements, and more... All this information was funnelled back to the Allies by a network of brave individuals, creating a living map that became essential to the planning of D-Day, and the selection of Normandy as the invasion point.

Название: Assassination of the Butcher of Prague: Reinhard Heydrich Hitler's Protege (A Shot of History)
Автор: David W. Cameron
Издательство: Big Sky Publishing
ISBN: 1922896225
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 292
Размер: 15,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

On 4 June 1942, one of the most powerful figurers of the Nazi Third Riech, Reinhard, Heydrich, the ‘Butcher of Prague’ and architect of the ‘Final solution’, died from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt carried out just days before. His death caused shockwaves in the Nazi State, and resulted in savage reprisals, with Hitler ordering the annihilation of two village populations thought to be involved in assisting the assassins.

Название: The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943
Автор: James Holland
Издательство: Bantam
ISBN: 080216160X
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 480
Размер: 82,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland both narrates and reframes the controversial first months of the Italian Campaign and sets a new standard in the chronicling of war. Following victory in Sicily, while the central command planned the spring 1944 invasion of France, Allied troops crossed into southern Italy in September 1943, expecting to drive Axis forces north and liberate Rome by Christmas. Italy quickly surrendered but German divisions fiercely resisted, and the hoped-for quick victory descended into one of the most challenging and protracted battles of the entire war.

Название: Galicja a wojsko austriackie : 1772-1867
Автор: Baczkowski Michał
Издательство: Historia Iagellonica
Год: 2017
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 180
Размер: 13.2 Мб
Язык: польский

Inaczej kształtowała się rola zaboru austriackiego jako terenu werbunku ochotników do armii cesarskiej. Początkowo (do 1790, a nawet do połowy lat dziewięćdziesiątych XVIII w.) władze wiedeńskie usiłowały wykorzystać położenie Galicji do rekrutacji ochotników zagranicznych z Rzeczpospolitej. Po III rozbiorze działania te straciły rację bytu i okazały się niemożliwe z powodów politycznych (ryzyko konfliktu z Rosją i Prusami). Ostatecznie werbunek ochotników z Galicji został uznany przez władze cywilne i wojskowe przede wszystkim za instrument tworzenia środowiska lojalistów galicyjskich oraz oddziaływania propagandowego, a dopiero na drugim miejscu za metodę wzmocnienia sił zbrojnych. Inicjatywy z l. 1801, 1809, 1813-1814, 1859 i 1866 świadczyły o ciągłości tej idei, pomimo jej niewielkiego w rzeczywistości znaczenia politycznego (...)