Название: Pearl Harbor's Revenge: How the Devastated U.S. Battleships Returned to War
Автор: Rod Macdonald
Издательство: Frontline Books
Год: 2023
Страниц: 362
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 17.5 MB

Early on Sunday, 7 December 1941, Japanese carrier-borne aircraft launched a surprise attack against the US Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor. It was a date that President Roosevelt declared “will live in infamy”. During the strike, Japanese planes attacked the seven US battleships lined up in Battleship Row – and the flag battleship USS Pennsylvania, in drydock for overhaul. The battleship USS Arizona exploded from a bomb hit at the forward magazine killing 1,177 officers and men. On USS Oklahoma, 429 men were killed – many trapped inside as the great battleship capsized after aerial torpedo strikes. USS West Virginia, meanwhile, was hit by at least seven torpedoes and several bombs, and engulfed in flames; she settled onto the bottom on an even keel. USS California was hit by a pair of torpedoes and a bomb, flooding slowly, she too settled on the bottom. The other four battleships present were more lightly damaged, with the crippled Nevada, the only battleship to get underway during the attack, being successfully beached.

Название: The Battle of Rocroi 1643: Clash of Seventeenth Century Superpowers (Century of the Soldier 1618-1721 №94)
Издательство: Helion & Company
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 179
Размер: 27 Mb
Язык: English

The Battle of Rocroi 1643: Clash of Seventeenth Century Superpowers

Название: The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East
Автор: Michelle Tusan
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 345
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10.1 MB

In The Last Treaty, Michelle Tusan profoundly reshapes the story of how the First World War ended in the Middle East. Tracing Europe's war with the Ottoman Empire through to the signing of Lausanne, which finally ended the war in 1923, she places the decisive Allied victory over Germany in 1918 in sharp relief against the unrelenting war in the East and reassesses the military operations, humanitarian activities and diplomatic dealings that continued after the signing of Versailles in 1919. She shows how, on the Middle Eastern Front, Britain and France directed Allied war strategy against a resurgent Ottoman Empire to sustain an imperial system that favored Europe's dominance within the nascent international system. The protracted nature of the conflict and ongoing humanitarian crisis proved devastating for the civilian populations caught in its wake and increasingly questioned old certainties about a European-led imperial order and humanitarian intervention. Its consequences would transform the postwar world.

Название: The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II
Автор: Charles Glass
Издательство: Penguin Books
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 14 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A groundbreaking history of ordinary soldiers struggling on the front lines, The Deserters offers a completely new perspective on the Second World War. Charles Glass—renowned journalist and author of the critically acclaimed Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation—delves deep into army archives, personal diaries, court-martial records, and self-published memoirs to produce this dramatic and heartbreaking portrait of men overlooked by their commanders and ignored by history. Surveying the 150,000 American and British soldiers known to have deserted in the European Theater, The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II tells the life stories of three soldiers who abandoned their posts in France, Italy, and Africa. Their deeds form the backbone of Glass’s arresting portrait of soldiers pushed to the breaking point, a sweeping reexamination of the conditions for ordinary soldiers.

Название: Hitler's Trojan Horse: The Fall of the Abwehr, 1943–1945
Автор: Nigel West
Издательство: Frontline Books
Год: 2023
Страниц: 400
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 14.3 MB

As the Second World War progressed and defeat for Hitler’s Third Reich in all theatres became ever more certain, the tight Abwehr network, built so effectively by its head, Admiral Canaris, began to unravel. High-level defections to the Allies and bitter disputes with the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) added to a collapse in morale. Most notably was the increasing opposition within the officer ranks of the Army to Hitler fermented by Canaris and his deputy Generalmajor Hans Oster. The final years of the Abwehr were marked by the Abwehr’s efforts to undermine the regime, which came to a bloody conclusion following the Valkyrie assassination attempt of 20 July 1944. This saw the arrest of many Abwehr officials and the execution of Canaris and Oster.

Название: Other Fronts, Other Wars? First World War Studies on the Eve of the Centennial
Автор: Editors: Joachim Bürgschwentner, Matthias Egger, and Gunda Barth-Scalmani
Издательство: Brill
Год: 2014
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 539
Размер: 21.3 Мб
Язык: English

Other Fronts, Other Wars? goes beyond the Western Front geographically and delves behind the trenches focusing on the social and cultural history of the First World War: it covers front experiences in the Ottoman and Russian Armies, captivity in Japan and Turkey, occupation at the Eastern war theatre, medical history (epidemics in Serbia, medical treatment in Germany) and war relief (disabled soldiers in Austria).

Название: Handbuch der Wehrmacht 1939-1945
Издательство: Tosa
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 232
Размер: 176 Mb
Язык: German

Handbuch der Wehrmacht 1939-1945

Название: Hunting the Viet Cong Volume 2: The Fall of Diem and the Collapse of the Strategic Hamlets 1961-1964 (Asia@War Series №41)
Издательство: Helion & Company
Год: 2023
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 98
Размер: 41 Mb
Язык: English

Hunting the Viet Cong Volume 2: The Fall of Diem and the Collapse of the Strategic Hamlets 1961-1964

Название: Маскировка
Автор: Бобров К.В., Иконников И.А. и др.
Издательство: Воениздат
Год: 1940
Cтраниц: 333
Формат: pdf
Размер: 104 мб
Язык: русский

Пособие для военно-инженерных училищ Красной Армии. В основу пособия положен материал, прорабатываемый с курсантами военно-инженерных училищ Красной Армии. В первом разделе пособия даются основы и общие сведения по военной маскировке. Во втором разделе изложены приемы и средства естественной и технической маскировки. В последнем разделе пособия даны приемы маскировки различных войсковых объектов и фортификационных сооружений.

Название: Военная топография
Автор: Псарев А.А., Коваленко А.Н., Куприн А.М., Пирнак Б.И.
Издательство: М.: Воениздат
Год: 1986
Cтраниц: 434
Формат: pdf
Размер: 52 мб
Язык: русский

Настоящий учебник содержит материал общего курса военной топографии. Материал в издании систематизирован по следующим основным разделам: местность и измерения на ней, топографические карты и аэрофотоснимки; ориентирование на местности; использование карт, аэрофотоснимков и схем местности командирами подразделений.