Автор: Kenneth Macksey
Название: The Searchers: Radio Intercept in Two World Wars
Издательство: Cassell
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 288
Язык: English
Размер: 151 MB

With the renewed interest in wartime intelligence, a timely history of radio intercepting answers the question of how enemy messages are detected in the first place. The focus is on the early war-shortening Y and Radio Intercept Services, and their brilliantly clever inventors and technologists who proved to be unsung heroes with headphones clamped to their ears.

Автор: Anton Gill
Название: An Honourable Defeat: A History of German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-1945
Издательство: Henry Holt and Company
Год: 1994
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 342
Язык: English
Размер: 42 MB

Despite the threat of summary trial and execution, a tiny minority of Germans opposed National Socialism by distributing dissident literature, meeting secretly to discuss politics and sheltering Communist Jews and other political outlaws. Gill documents such acts of courage along with the organized German resistance to Hitler, which, as he shows, had networks in the army, the church, the Abwehr (military intelligence and counterespionage agency), the Foreign Office and the conservative opposition. He profiles many unsung resisters along with such better-known heroes as outspoken Evangelical pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, hanged in a concentration camp; Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, shot for his key role in the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler; and Hans and Sophie Scholl, the brother and sister who led the White Rose student anti-Nazi group, both beheaded in 1943. British historian Gill's illuminating study cogently argues that Hitler was not an irresistible force and that he succeeded only because he was allowed to.

Автор: Peter Hoffmann
Название: The History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945
Издательство: The MIT Press
Год: 1977
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 876
Язык: English
Размер: 76 MB

With this monumental work, Peter Hoffmann may fairly claim that the theme of the German opposition to Hitler is finally exhausted. Every idea has been worked out, every scrap of ore mined … It is a work of which an historian in any field might justly be proud, and which deserves the greatest praise for the way in which meticulous study of the available documentary sources has been combined with the gathering of statements from contemporaries and surviving participants in the events to form a well-ordered, highly readable and at times gripping narrative … It will be the essential, and surely final, handbook for every student of the subject." Times Literary Supplement. "In a study which so fully merits the accolade 'exhaustive,' Hoffmann has done full justice to the subject … He excels in developing plausible and usually convincing explanations on how things came to turn out the way they did. There is much new light on many basic problems which have bedeviled students of the period … By his connected story of developments from 1938 to the dramatic denouement in 1944, tracing each rise and fall of the curve, Hoffmann succeeds as no other before him in bringing matters into proper focus." Harold C. Deutsch, Journal of Modern History. "This admirable book goes right to the heart of the conspiracy to kill Hitler that misfired on July 20, 1944, to the last fascinating detail … A powerful study of lasting interest, as well as a piece of first-rate scholarly detection.

Автор: Bevin Alexander
Название: How Hitler Could Have Won World War II
Издательство: Three Rivers Press
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 372
Язык: English
Размер: 57 MB

How Hitler Could Have Won World War II untangles some of the war's most confounding strategic questions, such as:
Why didn't the Nazis concentrate their enormous military power on the only three beaches upon which the Allies could launch their attack into Europe?
Why did the terrifying German panzers, on the brink of driving the British army into the sea in May 1940, halt their advance and allow the British to regroup and evacuate at Dunkirk?
With the chance to cut off the Soviet lifeline of oil, and therefore any hope of Allied victory from the east, why did Hitler insist on dividing and weakening his army, which ultimately led to the horrible battle of Stalingrad?

Автор: Peter Young
Название: Commando (The Pan/Ballantine Illustrated History of World War II. Weapons Book)
Издательство: Pan/Ballantine
Год: 1974
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 164
Язык: English
Размер: 54 MB

Commando (The Pan/Ballantine Illustrated History of World War II. Weapons Book).

Название: История Войска Донского. Картины былого Тихого Дона
Автор: Краснов П.Н.
Издательство: Вече
Год: 2011
Страниц: 462
Язык: русский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 13.2 Мб

Генерал Петр Николаевич Краснов вошел в историю России прежде всего как доблестный воин, один из лидеров Белого движения, а также как военный историк и писатель. Литературное творчество П.Н. Краснова многообразно. Его перу принадлежат прекрасные путевые дневники, яркие исторические работы, любопытные мемуарные очерки, глубокий труд по военной психологии, исторические романы и исследования.

Название: Tiger: Die Geschichte Einer Legendaren Waffe 1942-1945
Издательство: Flechsig
Год: 2006
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 417
Размер: 91 Mb
Язык: German

Tiger: Die Geschichte Einer Legendaren Waffe 1942-1945

Название: Panzer IV: The Panzerkampfwagen IV Medium Tank 1939-1945 (Squadron Signal 6081)
Издательство: quadron/Signal Publications
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 66
Размер: 25 Mb
Язык: English

Panzer IV: The Panzerkampfwagen IV Medium Tank 1939-1945

Автор: Michael Barthorp
Название: War on the Nile: Britain, Egypt and the Sudan 1882-1898
Издательство: Blandford Press
Год: 1986
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 194
Язык: English
Размер: 167 MB

This book looks at British involvement in England and how that involvement helped to shape Egypt in the 20th Century. Barthorp briefly touches on Napoleon's brief conquest of Egypt, followed by British and Ottoman forces. It was the construction of the Suez Canal and the strategic implications it had for the British Empire which led to more aggressive involvement in Egyptian affairs, ultimately leading to Dual Control of Egypt by France and England following the insolvency of the Egyptian government. Active British campaigns in Egypt and the Sudan became just one more chapter in the history of British colonialism.

Автор: Eric Grove
Название: Big Fleet Actions: Tsushima, Jutland, Philippine Sea
Издательство: Brockhampton Press
Год: 1998
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 194
Язык: English
Размер: 52 MB

By assessing three of the largest and most decisive major fleet actions - Tsushima, Jutland and the Philippine Sea - this text shows how this form of naval battle has evolved through eras which have brought new weaponry and firepower, enhanced communication and aerial support.