Название: Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
Автор: Douglas R Egerton
Издательство: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465096646
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 442
Размер: 11,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists began to call for the creation of black regiments. At first, the South and most of the North responded with outrage; southerners promised to execute any black soldiers captured in battle, while many northerners claimed that blacks lacked the necessary courage.

Название: Ases de los Reactores Alemanes de la II Guerra Mundial (Aviones en Combate: Ases y Leyendas №31)
Автор: Juan Maria Martinez
Издательство: Ediciones del Prado
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 66
Размер: 32,5 МБ
Язык: Испанский

Los últimos esfuerzos desesperados del Tercer Reich para barrer de los cielos de Alemania las masivas formaciones de bombarderos aliados se centraron en la nueva gama de “armas prodigiosas’,’ los aviones a reacción, que fueron entregados a la Jagdwaffe desde mediados de 1944. Mucho antes de que los aliados tuviesen siquiera en fase experimental nada parecido, aviones como el Me 262, He 162, Me 163 y el Ar 234 podían llevar a cabo sus salidas de combate con relativa impunidad.

Название: The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
Автор: Richard Rubin
Издательство: Mariner Books
ISBN: 0547554435
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 528
Размер: 15,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 2003, 85 years after the armistice, it took Richard Rubin months to find just one living American veteran of World War I. But then, he found another. And another. Eventually he managed to find dozens, aged 101 to 113, and interview them. All are gone now.

Название: The Soviet Air Force Since 1918
Автор: Alexander Boyd
Издательство: Stein and Day Publishers
Год: 1977
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 308
Размер: 32,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

While the Soviet Russian naval buildup made Western headlines, the expansion of their air power went largely unnoticed. By 1977, that air force commanded a larger share of the Soviet Russian defense budget than the navy.

Название: World War II (American Heritage Library)
Автор: C. L. Sulzberger
Издательство: American Heritage Press
Год: 1970
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 408
Размер: 41,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

From Hitler's rise to power to the Japanese surrender on the deck of the Missouri in 1945, World War II is brought into sharp focus in this dramatic book. Over a third of World War II consists of eyewitness accounts, as Sulzberger emphasizes the people involved in this historic event--the leaders, the victims, and the fighters.

Название: The United States Marine Corps in World War II
Автор: S. E. Smith
Издательство: Ace Books
Год: 1965
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 406
Размер: 46,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Here is a magnificent mosaic of the Marine Corps in World War II, a rich panoply of history and drama skillfully interwoven with heroic individual exploits. In war and peace, since the first landing operation in the Bahamas in 1776 when the Corps was less than six months old, marines have always been called upon to land on foreign shores to insure the nation's security or to protect the lives of its citizens.

Название: Spy Sub: A Top Secret Mission to the Bottom of the Pacific
Автор: Roger C. Dunham
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год: 1996
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 260
Размер: 35,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

A true story about an operation involved the desperate search for a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine that exploded and disappeared in the depths of the Pacific in 1968.

Название: Scream of Eagles: The Creation of Top Gun and the U.S. Air Victory in Vietnam
Автор: Robert K. Wilcox
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Год: 1990
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 336
Размер: 30,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The first true-life account of the creation of the Top Gun school during the Vietnam War era. Wilcox's gripping narrative describes how a handful of Navy fighter pilots established a special school called Top Gun at the Miramar Air Station in California in 1968 and virtually revolutionized air combat training.

Название: Red-tail Angels: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
Автор: Pat Mckissack
Издательство: Walker Publishing Company, Inc.
Год: 1995
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 152
Размер: 22,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Established in 1941, the pilot-training program at Tuskegee, Ala., had been designed as an "experiment," without full military support to ensure its success and with many officers predicting utter failure. Despite segregated facilities at the base, hostile reactions from the locals and other demoralizing conditions, the aviators trained at Tuskegee went on to fly hundreds of missions over North Africa and Europe.

Название: Hitler Youth (World at War)
Автор: R. Conrad Stein
Издательство: Childrens Press
Год: 1985
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 56
Размер: 18,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Describes the origin and growth of the Nazi youth organization known as Hitler Jugend, its rigorous testing and training of German boys and girls, and its use in World War II.