Название: Лица Победы (2020)
Издательство: Музейно-мемориальный комплекс «Победа»
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 275
Качество: хорошее
Размер: 10,5 Mb
Язык: Русский

«Лица Победы» – Первое издание Музейно-мемориального комплекса «Победа» в серии книг «Лица Победы» представляет собой галерею фотопортретов 260 участников боевых действий на Сахалине и Курильских островах в августе 1945 года, большая часть которых публикуется впервые. Главным критерием отбора «героев» для этой серии является их возраст – мы показываем их такими, какими они встретили Победу.

Название: The Battle of Pickett's Mill: Along the Dead Line (Civil War Series)
Автор: Brad Butkovich
Издательство: The History Press
ISBN: 1540208451
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 250
Размер: 4,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

On May 27, 1864, Union forces under the command of William Tecumseh Sherman attacked Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston and his men at Pickett's Mill in Paulding County, Georgia. Following his defeat at New Hope Church, Sherman ordered Major General Oliver Howard to attack Johnston's flank, which Sherman believed to be exposed.

Название: USA: The Ruthless Empire
Автор: Daniele Ganser
Издательство: Skyhorse
ISBN: ‎1510776788
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 464
Размер: 15,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Empires rise and fall; they do not last. In the eyes of many, the US exerts the strongest destabilizing influence on world events, and thus presents the greatest threat to world peace. World power #1 hasn’t acquired this top position by chance. Since 1945, no other nation has bombed as many other countries or toppled as many governments as the US.

Название: History's Assassins: Motives for Murder
Автор: Don Mann, Jeff Emde
Издательство: Skyhorse
ISBN: ‎1510768017
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 350
Размер: 20,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

A fact-based book that highlights political assassins in history. The book includes the stories of the assassins rather than just their famous victims. The book dissects selected political assassinations and and why the assassins acted; detail stheir political goals, addresses why they chose the methods they chose, and describes the ultimate outcome of the assassination.

Название: Pirates and Privateers: Swashbuckling Stories From the East Coast
Автор: Joyce Glasner
Издательство: Amazing Stories
ISBN: 1552779637
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 144
Размер: 3,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Murder, mutiny, and mayhem were the order of the day in the seas off the East Coast during the golden age of sailing. Pillagers and opportunists plied the seas in search of riches in the holds of American ships. And they invariably found what they were looking for...

Название: Hastings to Culloden: Battles of Britain
Автор: Peter Young, John Adair
Издательство: Sapere Books
ISBN: 1800550553
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 358
Размер: 3,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

A classic, in-depth study of over twenty of the most important battles to have taken place on British soil. Perfect for fans of Richard Overy, Edward Shepherd Creasy and John Keegan. Throughout its long history, Britain has been subjected to foreign invasion, bloody rebellions and tumultuous civil wars leading to thousands of deaths across its length and breadth.

Название: Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing
Автор: Alex J. Kay
Издательство: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300234058
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 400
Размер: 13,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The first comparative, comprehensive history of Nazi mass killing – showing how genocidal policies were crucial to the regime’s strategy to win the war. Nazi Germany killed approximately 13 million civilians and other non-combatants in deliberate policies of mass murder, mostly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust, the core of the Nazis’ pan-European racial purification programme.

Название: World War II in 50 Events: From the Very Beginning to the Fall of the Axis Powers
Автор: James Weber
Издательство: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 86
Размер: 1,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book is perfect for history lovers. Author James Weber did the research and compiled this huge list of events and battles that changed the course of history forever.

Название: Norman Expansion
Автор: Keith J. Stringer, Andrew Jotischky
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 0367601419
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 276
Размер: 3,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the eleventh and twelfth centuries the Normans had a formative influence on the development of states and societies in the British Isles, southern Italy and the Levant. Their achievements still resonate powerfully today, and represent a vital field of historical study.

Название: Special Forces Commander: The Life and Wars of Peter Wand-Tetley OBE MC Commando, SAS, SOE and Paratrooper
Автор: Michael Scott
Издательство: Pen and Sword
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 240
Размер: 8,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Special Forces Commander is the remarkable story of Peter Wand-Tetley's wartime service in the Army Commandos, the Long Range Desert Group, SAS, SOE and Parachute Regiment.Having initially joined the Wiltshire Regiment, Wand-Tetley immediately volunteered for special service. As a result he was catapulted into a maelstrom of operational service that saw him, first, in action on Commando raids along the North African coastline, and then in fierce fighting on Crete following the German airborne invasion.