Название: English Rebels and Revolutionaries
Автор: Stephen Basdeo
Издательство: Pen and Sword History
Год: 2022
Страниц: 298
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 12.6 MB

Throughout history brave Englishmen and women have never been afraid to rise up against their unjust rulers and demand their rights. Barely a century has gone by without England being witness to a major uprising against the government of the day, often resulting in a fundamental change to the constitution. This book is a collection of biographies, written by experts in their field, of the lives and deeds of famous English freedom fighters, rebels, and democrats who have had a major impact on history. Featured chapters include the history of Wat Tyler's Rebellion, when an army of 50,000 people marched to London in 1381 to demand an end to serfdom and the hated poll tax. Alongside Wat Tyler in this pantheon of English revolutionaries is Jack Cade who in 1450 led an angry mob to London to protest against government corruption. There are three chapters on various aspects of the English Civil War, during which the English executed their king.

Название: Hitler's Spy Against Churchill: The Spy Who Died Out in the Cold
Автор: Jan-Willem van den Braak
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526768773
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 314
Размер: 15,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

From the summer of 1940 until May 1941, nearly twenty German Abwehr agents were dropped by boat or parachute into England during what was known as Operation Lena, all in preparation for Hitler's planned invasion of England.

Название: British Warship Losses in the Modern Era, 1920-1982
Автор: David Hepper
Издательство: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1399097660
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 450
Размер: 42,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

This important new reference work details all those ships and vessels of the Royal Navy, large and small, which were lost by accident or enemy action, during the twentieth century, from the end of the World War, to the last years of the century. In all, the fates of over 2,000 ships and small craft are covered, from aircraft carriers and battleships to motor launches, harbor tenders and tugs. Those vessels hired or purchased for wartime service, such as trawlers, paddle steamers and yachts are also listed.

Название: Fighting with the Long Range Desert Group: Merlyn Craw MM's War 1940–1945
Автор: Brendan O'Carroll
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: ‎1399084275
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF, EPUB
Страниц: 263
Размер: 177,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Formed in 1940 the Long Range Desert Group was the first Allied Special Forces unit established to operate behind German and Italian lines in North Africa. Its officers and men were volunteers recruited from British and Commonwealth units. Merlyn Craw was serving with the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force when he joined the LRDG in 1941. He took part in numerous missions in the desert. The navigational driving and fighting skills of the LRDG were legendary and they were frequently responsible for transporting Stirling’s SAS detachments on raids.

Название: Great Naval Battles of the Pacific War
Автор: John Grehan
Издательство: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1399011685
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 368
Размер: 23,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The key naval battles against Imperial Japan in the Pacific during the Second World War have been described many times by numerous diligent and skillful historians. Such histories are, of course, the products of many years, even decades, of accumulated knowledge, but also of a received consensus of how the war played out to its, seemingly, inevitable conclusion.

Название: The Battles of King Arthur
Автор: Tony Sullivan
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399015303
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 290
Размер: 15,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

The ninth century Historia Brittonum is the first source that mentions Arthur and lists twelve battles, including the famous Badon Hill. Much ink has been spilt debating the identity and location of Arthur. This book will demonstrate that some of the battles can indeed be located with some confidence.

Название: The Roman King Arthur?: Lucius Artorius Castus
Автор: Tony Sullivan
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399084024
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF, EPUB
Страниц: 234
Размер: 38,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The 2004 film, King Arthur, starring Clive Owen and Keira Knightley, introduced the audience to Lucius Artorius Castus as the basis to the much later legend of King Arthur. The book analyses the theories behind the film which link this second to third century Roman officer with the medieval Arthurian legends and a possible historical figure in post-Roman Britain.

Название: The Voyage of the Armada: The Spanish Story
Автор: David Howarth
Издательство: Penguin Books
Год: 1981
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 276
Размер: 32,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

In May of 1588, on the order of Spain's King Philip, 30,000 soldiers and sailors armed with arquebus and musket set out to sea. A larger fleet had never before been assembled. In the Voyage of the Armada, David Howarth brilliantly conveys the drama of the Spanish Armada's progress and brings to life the personalities of the men who influenced its course, from the dogmatic and irrational Philip II to Don Juan Martinez de Recalde to Don Pedro and Don Diego de Valdes, who were cousins but also bitter enemies, to the Spanish soldiers and sailors who unquestioningly ventured into unknown seas to confront their fates.

Название: The British Approach to Counterinsurgency: From Malaya and Northern Ireland to Iraq and Afghanistan
Автор: P. Dixon
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 0230293476
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 457
Размер: 2,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

This timely and critical volume questions the effectiveness of Britain's 'hearts and minds' approach, challenging conventional counterinsurgency thinking by drawing on the expertise of regional and thematic specialists.

Название: Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir
Автор: W.D. Ehrhart
Издательство: McFarland
ISBN: 0870239570
Год: 1983
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 332
Размер: 13,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 1982, John Newman, curator of the Vietnam War Literature Collection at Colorado State University, said of W.D. Ehrhart: "As a poet and editor, Bill Ehrhart is clearly one of the major figures in Vietnam War literature." This autobiographical account of the war, the author's first extended prose work, demonstrates Ehrhart's abilities as a writer of prose as well. Vietnam-Perkasie is grim, comical, disturbing, and accurate.