Название: The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler
Автор: Deborah Cadbury
Издательство: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1541751191
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 454
Размер: 26,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 1933, the same year Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger saved her small, progressive school from Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler’s hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils, so she hatched a courageous and daring plan: to smuggle her school to the safety of England.

Название: Defying Vichy: Blood, Fear and French Resistance
Автор: Robert Pike
Издательство: The History Press
ISBN: 0750985526
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 320
Размер: 18,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

July 1940 saw the collaborationist Vichy regime replace the French Republic after the country suffered heavily at the hands of the German onslaught during World War II. A small number of people sought to make a stand in whatever way they could, despite fear and mortal danger.

Название: Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan's Self-Defense Force during the Cold War
Автор: Aaron Skabelund
Издательство: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501764373
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 348
Размер: 13,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

In Inglorious, Illegal Bastards, Aaron Herald Skabelund examines how the Self-Defense Force (SDF)—the post–World War II Japanese military—and specifically the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF), struggled for legitimacy in a society at best indifferent to them and often hostile to their very existence.

Название: The Victoria Crosses of the Crimean War: The Men Behind the Medals
Автор: James W Bancroft
Издательство: Frontline Books
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 248
Размер: 5,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Crimean War saw the introduction of the Victoria Cross, which was awarded to 111 men. Whilst the history of the Crimean War has been related many times, never before have the stories of those individuals who were awarded the VC been told.

Название: Target Rommel: The Allied Attempts to Assassinate Hitler's General
Автор: Stephen Wynn
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399007122
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 128
Размер: 4,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

From a German perspective, the highly decorated and well respected General Erwin Rommel was one of their biggest and brightest assets: a military strategist who thought ‘outside of the box’, a tactic which more than once either brought him an unexpected victory, or saved him from almost certain defeat. His reputation had been gained early in the Second World War, whilst commander of the 7th Panzer Division during the invasion of France, and as the commander of German forces during the North African campaign between 1941 and 1943.

Название: Night of the Intruders: The Slaughter of Homeward Bound USAAF Mission 311
Автор: Ian McLachlan
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848842945
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 240
Размер: 24,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

This WWII history recounts the harrowing Allied bombing mission that led to heavy losses for American pilots as German fighters followed them home. On April 22nd, 1944, Allied forces launched an audacious assault on Germany's largest railway marshalling yards, located in the city of Hamm.

Название: Flashpoints: Air Warfare in the Cold War (Osprey General Aviation)
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF (Conv)
Страниц: 368
Размер: 169 Mb
Язык: English

Flashpoints: Air Warfare in the Cold War

Название: Dodge WC54 Ambulance: An Iconic World War II Vehicle (Casemate Illustrated Special)
Издательство: Casemate Publishers
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF (Conv)
Страниц: 160
Размер: 214 Mb
Язык: English

U.S. Aircraft Carriers 1939-1945 (Casemate Illustrated Special)

Название: Signalpistolen der Welt Band 2: Europaische Staaten von A bis L
Издательство: Buchverlag Delphine Kern
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 514
Размер: 406 Mb
Язык: German

Signalpistolen der Welt Band 2: Europaische Staaten von A bis L

Название: Dunkirk and the Aftermath (Images of War)
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2021
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 178
Размер: 48 Mb
Язык: English

Dunkirk and the Aftermath (Images of War)