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Название: Strange But True Stories of World War II
Автор: George Sullivan
Издательство: Walker and Company
Год: 1983
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 136
Размер: 14,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Accounts of eleven bizarre but true incidents during World War II include a secret alliance between the U.S. Navy and the Mafia and Japanese bombing by balloon of our Midwest. Only seven months before their surrender at the end of World War II, the Japanese launched a bombing attack on the United States.
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Название: Sink the Bismarck!
Автор: Forester Cecil Scott
Издательство: Bantam Books
Год: 1963
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 132
Размер: 12,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck tells the story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck into the Atlantic as a major threat to the convoys that sustained Britain in the early days of World War II and the Royal Navy's desperate pursuit and destruction of the Bismarck. A movie based on Forester's book, Sink the Bismarck! was released by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1960, with the book reprinted in paperback under the title Sink the Bismarck! as a promotional tie-in.
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Название: Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story For the First Time
Автор: Francis Gary Powers
Издательство: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Год: 1970
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 408
Размер: 61,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

For the first time since his release from a Russian prison in 1962, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of what actually happened behind the scenes in the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history: the U-2 incident, which wrecked a Summit Conference, gave birth to the credibility gap, and inaugurated a new era in the ancient art of spying.
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Название: From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day: The American Armed Forces in World War II
Автор: D. Clayton James, Anne Sharp Wells
Издательство: Ivan R. Dee, Inc.
Год: 1995
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 248
Размер: 23,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day represents a marked departure from the "big book" tradition in World War II literature. Billed as the first one-volume history of the American war, this 200-page study offers a compact but comprehensive and generally balanced account of America's experience in what the authors term "the worst and most horrible" of human conflicts.
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Название: Raymond Baxter's Farnborough Commentary
Автор: Raymond Baxter
Издательство: Patrick Stephens Ltd
Год: 1980
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 120
Размер: 48,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

This well illustrated book tells about the history of Farnborough Air Shows.
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Название: Odcinek Umocniony "Sarny" (Wielki Leksykon Uzbrojenia: Wrzesien 1939 Tom 122)
Издательство: Edipresse Polska S.A.
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 69
Размер: 30 Mb
Язык: Polish

Odcinek Umocniony "Sarny"
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Название: Dunkirk to D-Day: A Commando's War
Автор: Jeff Steel, Linda Adlam
Издательство: Big Sky Publishing
ISBN: 1922765192
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 443
Размер: 4,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Bill Adlam's hair-raising escape from Dunkirk, his dramatic commando raids and his storming the D-Day beaches reads like fiction. It all happened. Bill escaped the Dunkirk disaster via a bayonet charge into Nazi machine guns. He was presented with the Military Medal 'for gallantry under fire' by King George VI. Bill volunteered for commandos: he thrived on adrenaline.