Название: General George C. Marshall and the Atomic Bomb
Автор: Frank A. Settle Jr.
Издательство: Praeger
ISBN: 1440842841
Год: 2016
Язык: английский
Страниц: 262
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 2.5 MB

This book details the evolution of General George Marshall's relationship with the atomic bomb—including the Manhattan Project and the use of atomic weapons on Japan—as it emerged as the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.

Название: The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration?
Автор: John Marciano
Издательство: Monthly Review Press
ISBN: 158367585X
Год: 2016
Язык: английский
Страниц: 197
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 1.4 MB

On May 25, 2012, President Obama announced that the United States would spend the next thirteen years – through November 11, 2025 – commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War, and the American soldiers, “more than 58,000 patriots,” who died in Vietnam. The fact that at least 2.1 million Vietnamese – soldiers, parents, grandparents, children – also died in that war will be largely unknown and entirely uncommemorated. And U.S. history barely stops to record the millions of Vietnamese who lived on after being displaced, tortured, maimed, raped, or born with birth defects, the result of devastating chemicals wreaked on the land by the U.S. military.

Название: The Eurasian Way of War: Military Practice in Seventh-Century China and Byzantium
Автор: David A. Graff
Издательство: Routledge
Серия: Asian States and Empires
ISBN: 0415460344
Год: 2016
Язык: английский
Страниц: 219
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 13.09 MB

This book is a comparative study of military practice in Sui-Tang China and the Byzantine Empire between approximately 600 and 700 CE. It covers all aspects of the military art from weapons and battlefield tactics to logistics, campaign organization, military institutions, and the grand strategy of empire. Whilst not neglecting the many differences between the Chinese and Byzantines, this book highlights the striking similarities in their organizational structures, tactical deployments and above all their extremely cautious approach to warfare.

Название: War Stories: A GI Reporter in Vietnam 1970-1971
Издательство: McFarland & Company
Год: 2016
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 339
Размер: 109 Mb
Язык: English

War Stories: A GI Reporter in Vietnam 1970-1971

Название: The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II
Автор: Winston Groom
Издательство: National Geographic
ISBN: 1426215495
Год: 2015
Язык: английский
Страниц: 496
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.33 MB

Celebrated historian Winston Groom tells the intertwined and uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall - from the World War I battle that shaped them to their greatest victory: leading the allies to victory in World War II. These three remarkable men-of-arms who rose from the gruesome hell of the First World War to become the finest generals of their generation during World War II redefined America's ideas of military leadership and brought forth a new generation of American soldier. Their efforts revealed to the world the grit and determination that would become synonymous with America in the post-war years.

Название: Italian soldier in North Africa 1941–43
Автор: Piero Crociani, Pier Paolo Battistelli
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия/номер в серии: Warrior/169
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 66
Размер: 4 Mb
Язык: English


Despite the attention paid to the Afrikakorps over the years, it was the numerically far superior forces of the Italian Army that held the line and formed the bulk of the fighting power available to the Axis powers during the War in the Desert from 1941 through to 1943. Their performance has been unfairly criticised over the years - the best units of the Italian Army were equal to those of the British and Germans - but they suffered from a lack of mobility and poor equipment that made it impossible for them to meet mobile British forces on anywhere near equal terms.

Название: Early Aegean Warrior 5000–1450 BC
Автор: Raffaele D’Amato, Andrea Salimbeti
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия/номер в серии: Warrior/167
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 66
Размер: 4 Mb
Язык: English


The mainland and islands of Greece were extensively settled by peoples moving from Asia Minor in c.5000 BC, while a further wave in c.5000 BC introduced bronze-working to the region. It is form this point on that it is possible to discern a distinct Cycladic or Aegean civilisation, developing at roughly the same time as the Egyptian and Persian civilisations. Further to the south, the Minoan civilisation based on Crete held sway, and this power - along with the Helladic Achaeans to the north gradually swamped the Cycladic civilisation in between.

Название: Roman Legionary AD 69–161
Автор: Ross Cowan
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия/номер в серии: Warrior/166
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 66
Размер: 5 Mb
Язык: English


Between AD 69 and 161 the composition of the Roman legions was transformed. Italians were almost entirely replaced by provincial recruits, men for whom Latin was at best a second language, and yet the ‘Roman-ness' of these Germans, Pannonians, Spaniards, Africans and Syrians, fostered in isolated fortresses on the frontiers, was incredibly strong. They were highly competitive, jealous of their honour, and driven by the need to maintain and enhance their reputations for virtus, that is manly courage and excellence.

Название: War Stories of the Tankers: American Armored Combat, 1918 to Today
Издательство: Zenith Press
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 337
Размер: 21 Mb
Язык: English

War Stories of the Tankers: American Armored Combat, 1918 to Today

Название: Four Stars of Valor: The Combat History of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment in World War II
Издательство: Zenith Press
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 496
Размер: 43 Mb
Язык: English

Four Stars of Valor: The Combat History of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment in World War II