Название: The Story of the SS: Hitler's Infamous Legions of Death
Автор: Al Cimino
Издательство: Arcturus Publishing
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 304
Размер: 14,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Schutzstaffel, or SS - the brutal elite of the Nazi Party - was founded by Hitler in 1925 to be his personal bodyguard. From 1929 it was headed by Heinrich Himmler, who built its numbers up from under 300 to well over a million by 1945. The SS became the very backbone of Nazi Germany, taking over almost every function of the state.

Название: Laugh or Cry: The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914–1918
Автор: Peter Hart, Gary Bain
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399068776
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 305
Размер: 9,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Humor helped the British soldier survive the terrible experiences they faced in the trenches of the Western Front during the Great War. Human beings are complicated, and there is no set pattern as to how they react to the outrageous stresses of war. But humor, often dark and representative of the horrors around them could and often did help.

Название: Victoria Crosses on the Western Front – Battles of the Hindenburg Line - Havrincourt and Epehy: September 1918
Автор: Paul Oldfield
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1526788071
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 444
Размер: 42,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army career, research for this book commenced and over the years numerous sources have been consulted.

Название: My Boyhood War: Warsaw 1944
Автор: Bohdan Hryniewicz
Издательство: Spellmount
ISBN: 0750962100
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 1,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

My Boyhood War, Warsaw 1944 is an intensely personal account of Hryniewicz’ life in Poland during the Second World War, centered primarily on the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944. Despite being the longest urban battle between lightly armed irregular forces and the most professional Army of its day - in terms of ferocity, compared by the Germans themselves to the Battle of Stalingrad - the Warsaw Uprising still remains one of the least known chapters of World War II.

Название: The Italian War on the Eastern Front, 1941–1943: Operations, Myths and Memories
Автор: Bastian Matteo Scianna
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 3030265234
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 372
Размер: 16,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Italian Army’s participation in Hitler’s war against the Soviet Union has remained unrecognized and understudied. Bastian Matteo Scianna offers a wide-ranging, in-depth corrective. Mining Italian, German and Russian sources, he examines the history of the Italian campaign in the East between 1941 and 1943, as well as how the campaign was remembered and memorialized in the domestic and international arena during the Cold War.

Название: The Lancaster Bomber Pocket Manual 1941-1945 (Osprey Aviation)
Автор: Martin Robson
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 136
Размер: 55,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Avro Lancaster was the RAF's most famous and successful heavy bomber of the Second World War. Used predominantly at night, 'Lancs' dropped 608,612 tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties in the period 1942-1945. Some of these missions were incredibly daring – notably the 'dambusters' raid of 617 squadron on the Ruhr valley dams in May 1943. The success of such operations was testament both to the rugged, reliable qualities of this amazing aircraft and the bravery and skill of the pilots, navigators, bombardiers, flight engineers and gunners that crewed it.

Название: General John A. Rawlins: No Ordinary Man
Автор: Allen J. Ottens
Издательство: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253057302
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 560
Размер: 21,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

No one succeeds alone, and Ulysses S. Grant was no exception. From the earliest days of the Civil War to the heights of Grant's power in the White House, John A. Rawlins was ever at Grant's side. Yet Rawlins's role in Grant's career is often overlooked, and he barely received mention in Grant's own two-volume Memoirs.

Название: At the Forward Edge of Battle: A History of the Pakistan Armoured Corps 1938-2016 Volume 1 (Asia@War Series №9)
Издательство: Helion & Company
Год: 2019
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 98
Размер: 11 Mb
Язык: English

At the Forward Edge of Battle: A History of the Pakistan Armoured Corps 1938-2016 Volume 1

Название: Gunboat! Small Ships at War
Автор: Bryan Perrett
Издательство: Castle Books
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 248
Размер: 125,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Britain, like other colonial powers, established, controlled and accessed her empire from the seas. It was realised that the preservation of secure trading conditions required armed ships able to operate in shallow coastal and river waters. The gunboat was developed to meet this need: a small, shallow-draft, steam-powered screw or paddle driven vessel, sufficiently fast and manoeuvrable to take the enemy, whether on shore or afloat, by surprise.

Название: The Revolution Is Now Begun: The Radical Committees of Philadelphia, 1765-1776
Автор: Richard Alan Ryerson
Издательство: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081222213X
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 328
Размер: 10,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The success of the American Revolution is less likely to be understood through an examination of its ideological origins than through a close analysis of the political processes by which principles, beliefs, and anxieties were translated into revolutionary action.