Название: Шведская война 1808-1809 г.г. В 2 томах
Автор: А.М. Алексеев
Издательство: С.-Петербург. Типография "Бережливость"
Год: 1906,1907
Формат: PDF
Качество: Отсканированные страницы
Страниц: 372+357
Размер: 16.5 MB
Язык: Русский (дореформенный)

Составлена военно-историческим отделом Шведского Генерального штаба.
Перевод группы офицеров Финлянского воен. округа под общей редакцией Ген. Штаба Полковника А.М. Алексеева.
Появление настоящего перевода обязано прежде всего тому побудительному толчку, который был дан заслуженным профессором Николаевской академии Генерального штаба, Генерал-Майором А.З. Мышлаевским, оказавшим свое содействие и в выходе его в свет, а затем посильному сотрудничеству, которое было так дружно оказано для нашей военной литературы группою офицеров Генерального штаба и строевых Финляндского военного округа, бескорыстно уделивших свой досуг на переводе труда Шведского Генерального Штаба "Шведская война 1808-1809 г.г."

Название: Air Force Blue: The RAF in World War Two - Spearhead of Victory
Автор(ы): Patrick Bishop
Издательство: William Collins
Год: 2017
ISBN: 0007433131
Страниц: 432
Язык: English
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 18 MB

In 2018 the RAF is one hundred years old. In his new book, destined to be a classic, Patrick Bishop examines the high point of its existence - the Second World War, when the Air Force saved the nation from defeat then led the advance to victory. Air warfare was a terrible novelty of the modern age, requiring a new military outlook. From the beginning, the RAF's identity set it apart from the traditional services. It was innovative, flexible and comparatively meritocratic, advancing the quasi-revolutionary idea that competence was more important than background. The Air Force went into the war with inadequate machines, training and tactics, and the early phase was littered with setbacks and debacles. Then, in the summer of 1940, in full view of the population, Fighter Command won one of the decisive battles of the struggle. Thereafter the RAF was gilded with an aura of success that never tarnished, going on to make a vital contribution to Allied victory in all theatres. Drawing from diaries, letters, memoirs, and interviews, Air Force Blue captures the nature of combat in the skies over the corrugated wastes of the Atlantic, the sands of the Western Desert and the jungles of Burma. It also brings to life the intensely lived dramas, romances, friendships and fun that were as important a part of the experience as the fighting. Air Force Blue portrays the spirit of the RAF - its heart and soul - during its finest hours. It is essential reading for the millions in Britain and the Commonwealth whose loved ones served, and for anyone who wants to understand the Second World War.

Название: Hitler’s Praetorians: The History of the Waffen-SS 1925-1945
Автор(ы): Tim Ripley
Издательство: Spellmount
Год: 2004
Страниц: 352
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 194 MB

The Schutzstaffel-SS-(Protection Squad) were the black uniformed elite corps of the Nazi Party. Founded by Adolf Hitler in April 1925 as a small personal bodyguard, the SS grew with the success of the Nazi movement and, gathering immense police and military powers, became virtually a state within a state. The Waffen-SS (Armed-SS) branch was made up of three subgroups: the Leibstandarte, Hitler's personal bodyguard; the Totenkopfverbande (Death's Head Battalions), which administered the concentration camps; and the Verfugungstruppen (Disposition Troops), which swelled to 39 divisions in World War II and which, serving as elite combat troops alongside the regular army, gained a reputation for both professionalism and brutality. Hitler's Praetorians is the complete history of the Third Reich's fighting elite from its humble beginnings to the end in Berlin in May 1945.Hitler's Praetorians begins with a detailed examination of Waffen-SS ideology, selection and training. Their chief "virtue" was their absolute obedience and loyalty to the Fuhrer. On the battlefield the Waffen SS had few peers, especially its elite panzer divisions. Hitler's Praetorians analyzes the many battles and campaigns of the Waffen-SS divisions, such as at Kharkov and Kursk in 1943, and on the Western Front in Normandy in 1944.

Название: A Vertical Empire: History of the British Rocketry Programme
Автор(ы): C. N. Hill
Издательство: Imperial College Press, 2nd Edition
Год: 2012
ISBN: 1848167954
Страниц: 388
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 22 MB

A Vertical Empire provides a description of the British rocketry and space programme from the 1950s to 1970s, detailing the Medium Range Ballistic Missile Blue Streak and its conversion to a satellite launcher as part of the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO). This extensively revised second edition includes material only made available in the past ten years and the text is supplemented by numerous photographs, sketches and statistics. The all-British satellite Black Arrow is described, as well as the research rocket Black Knight, the Blue Steel missile and the rocket powered interceptor aircraft.

Название: The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917–21
Автор(ы): Prit Buttar
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2017
ISBN: 1472819853
Страниц: 480
Язык: English
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 20 MB

At the beginning of 1917, the three empires fighting on the Eastern Front were reaching their breaking points, but none was closer than Russia. After the February Revolution, Russia's ability to wage war faltered and her last desperate gamble, the Kerensky Offensive, saw the final collapse of her army. This helped trigger the Bolshevik Revolution and a crippling peace, but the Central Powers had no opportunity to exploit their gains and, a year later, both the German and Austro-Hungarian empires surrendered and disintegrated.

Название: Cassell's history of the Russo-Japanese war. Vol. 2
Издательство: Cassel and Company, Limited
Год: 1905
Страниц: 584
Формат: pdf
Размер: 29,94 MB
Язык: английский

Cassell & Co британское книжное издательство, основанное в 1848 году Джоном Касселлом (1817-1865), ставшее в 1890-х годах международной издательской группой.
Cassell's history of the Russo-Japanese war - богато иллюстрированное издание о русско-японской войне.
Вторая часть рассказывает об осаде и сдаче Порт-Артура, битве под Ляояном и др.

Название: Cassell's history of the Russo-Japanese war. Vol. 1
Издательство: Cassel and Company, Limited
Год: 1905
Страниц: 320
Формат: pdf
Размер: 21,84 MB
Язык: английский

Cassell & Co британское книжное издательство, основанное в 1848 году Джоном Касселлом (1817-1865), ставшее в 1890-х годах международной издательской группой.
Cassell's history of the Russo-Japanese war - богато иллюстрированное издание о русско-японской войне.
Первая часть рассказывает о причинах войны, расстановке сил перед началом войны, начале осады Порт-Артура и др.

Название: Uniforms of the Royal Artillery 1716-1966
Издательство: Hugh Evelyn Limited
Год: 1966
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 71
Размер: 61 Mb
Язык: English

Uniforms of the Royal Artillery 1716-1966

Название: The Uniform of the London Scottish 1859-1969
Издательство: The London Scottish Regiment Orgilby Trust
Год: 1960
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 58
Размер: 28 Mb
Язык: English

The Uniform of the London Scottish 1859-1969

Название: The Tanks of World War I: The History and Legacy of Tank Warfare during the Great War
Автор: Charles River Editors
Издательство: Amazon Digital Services LLC
ASIN: B075QN8S9Q
Год: 2017
Страниц: 73
Язык: английский
Формат: epub, pdf
Размер: 11.00 MB

World War I, also known in its time as the “Great War” or the “War to End all Wars”, was an unprecedented holocaust in terms of its sheer scale. Fought by men who hailed from all corners of the globe, it saw millions of soldiers do battle in brutal assaults of attrition which dragged on for months with little to no respite. Tens of millions of artillery shells and untold hundreds of millions of rifle and machine gun bullets were fired in a conflict that demonstrated man’s capacity to kill each other on a heretofore unprecedented scale, and as always, such a war brought about technological innovation at a rate that made the boom of the Industrial Revolution seem stagnant. One of the most important breakthroughs in military technology associated with World War I, and certainly the one that continues to capture the public imagination, was the introduction of a war machine that came to dominate the face of land battles throughout most of the 20th century: the tank. As a concept, it was not revolutionary; in fact, it harkened back to classical antiquity and to the Middle Ages, such as the covered battering rams and testudos which had made frequent appearances on ancient battlefields.