Автор: Richard Bonney
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год издания: 2002
isbn: 1841763780
Количество страниц: 96
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
More than three and a half centuries have passed since the Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War (1618-48); but this most devastating of wars in the early modern period continues to capture the imagination of readers: this book reveals why. It was one of the first wars where contemporaries stressed the importance of atrocities, the horrors of the fighting and also the sufferings of the civilian population. The Thirty Years' War remains a conflict of key importance in the history of the development of warfare and the 'military revolution'.
Издательство: GeraMond Verlag
Количество страниц: 84
Язык: другой
Формат: PDF
Clausewitz ist der Name des Magazins fur Militargeschichte, das zweimonatlich im GeraMond Verlag erscheint. Es besticht durch viele hochinteressante historische Dokumente, Zeitzeugenberichte, Museums- und Ausstellungstipps, Reisefuhrern zu historisch interessanten Orten und vielem mehr. Fur die aufwandig gestaltete und hochwertig illustrierte Zeitschrift schreiben namhafte Historiker unter anderem zu folgenden Themen: Schlachten der Weltgeschichte - Krieg und Diplomatie - Feldherren - Militar und Technik.
Автор: James M. McPherson
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год издания: 2002
isbn: 0195135210
Количество страниц: 220
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed--four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. In Crossroads of Freedom, America's most eminent Civil War historian, James M. McPherson, paints a masterful account of this pivotal battle, the events that led up to it, and its aftermath. As McPherson shows, by September 1862 the survival of the United States was in doubt. The Union had suffered a string of defeats, and Robert E. Lee's army was in Maryland, poised to threaten Washington. The British government was openly talking of recognizing the Confederacy and brokering a peace between North and South. Northern armies and voters were demoralized. And Lincoln had shelved his proposed edict of emancipation months before, waiting for a victory that had not come--that some thought would never come. Both Confederate and Union troops knew the war was at a crossroads, that they were marching toward a decisive battle. It came along the ridges and in the woods and cornfields between Antietam Creek and the Potomac River. Valor, misjudgment, and astonishing coincidence all played a role in the outcome. McPherson vividly describes a day of savage fighting in locales that became forever famous--The Cornfield, the Dunkard Church, the West Woods, and Bloody Lane. Lee's battered army escaped to fight another day, but Antietam was a critical victory for the Union. It restored morale in the North and kept Lincoln's party in control of Congress. It crushed Confederate hopes of British intervention. And it freed Lincoln to deliver the Emancipation Proclamation, which instantly changed the character of the war. McPherson brilliantly weaves these strands of diplomatic, political, and military history into a compact, swift-moving narrative that shows why America's bloodiest day is, indeed, a turning point in our history.
Автор: James Edward Westheider
Издательство: Greenwood
Год издания: 2007
isbn: 0313337551
Количество страниц: 249
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The Vietnam War was different from most previous U.S. wars of the twentieth century. It was an undeclared and limited war. The draft to supply the soldiers and serious problems in the Selective Service system meant that the burden of the war was carried disproportionately by minorities and working class whites, many of whom did not want to serve. While many Americans saw service in Vietnam as their patriotic duty, others opposed the war. This is the story of the men and women who served in that war, whether overseas in active combat or in support roles in Viet Nam and stateside.
Автор: Hanna Diamond
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год издания: 2007
isbn: 0192806181, 9780192806185
Количество страниц: 272
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
As Hitler's victorious armies approached Paris, panic gripped the city and the roads heading south filled with millions of French citizens, fleeing for their lives, with scant supplies and often no destination in mind. All hoped, as famed author Simone de Beauvoir wrote in her diary, "not to be taken like a rat in Occupied Paris." In Fleeing Hitler, historian Hanna Diamond paints a gripping picture of the harrowing escape from Paris, highlighting the hardships people suffered in their desperate flight, and underscoring the impact this exodus had on life under Vichy rule. Using eyewitness accounts, memoirs, and diaries, Diamond shows how this ordeal became for civilians and soldiers alike the defining experience of the war. She tells how, in the Paris region alone, close to four million people left their homes and fled south, swelling the numbers of refugees until is was impossible to direct the flow of humanity. The result was total chaos with an enormous price to pay in terms of human misery and suffering. Many lost their lives as this vast caravan of predominantly women, children, and the elderly faced truly harsh conditions, and even starvation. Then, after the German offer of peace, as the traumatized population returned home, preoccupied by the desire for safety and bewildered by the unexpected turn of events, they put their faith in Marshall Pétain who was able to establish his collaborative Vichy regime largely unopposed, while the Germans consolidated their occupation. The first time this important story has been told in English, Fleeing Hitler captures in moving detail the devastating flight and early days of occupation after the fall of France.
Автор: Джордан Воуз
Издательство: АСТ
Год издания: 2001
isbn: 5-17-007769-6
Количество страниц: 320
Язык: русский
Формат: PDF (scan)
Имена подводных асов фашистской Германии Прина, Шепке и Кречмера широко известны. Но мало кто знает о Вольфганге Люте, хотя только Кречмер и он, двое из подводников, получили высшую награду Рейха — Рыцарский Крест с Дубовыми Листьями, Мечами и Бриллиантами. На счету Люта 47 потопленных судов, его имя занимает второе место в списке подводных асов Германии. Ему единственному из знаменитых немецких подводников посчастливилось уцелеть в долгих походах и дожить до конца войны. Но судьба сыграла с ним злую шутку: Лют погиб от случайной пули часового через неделю после капитуляции Германии. История Вольфганга Люта интересна еще и потому, что открывает перед российским читателем новую страницу Второй мировой войны — действия германских подлодок в Южной Атлантике и Индийском океане.
Автор: Volker Koop
Издательство: Bebra Verlag
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 3898090825, 9783898090827
Количество страниц: 320
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Die sowjetische Besatzungszeit in Deutschland steht für Massenverhaftungen und Deportationen ebenso wie für eine rigorose Reparationspolitik und die Blockade West-Berlins. Die Entnazifizierung blieb mehr noch als in den Westzonen in den Anfängen stecken.Im vierten Band seiner viel beachteten Reihe beleuchtet Volker Koop die Jahre der sowjetischen Herrschaft anhand zahlreicher bisher nicht ausgewerteter Dokumente und zeigt auf, welche verheerenden Folgen die radikale Durchsetzung der kommunistischen Ideologie hatte.
Автор: Daniel Moran
Издательство: Cassell
Год издания: 2001
isbn: 0304352721
Количество страниц: 229
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The impact of World War II opened the door for weak and impoverished nations to develop military means of defeating modern armies. In China, Korea, Vietnam, Palestine, Cuba, Ireland, Africa, and the former Soviet Union, where battles still rage today--indeed, all over the globe--impassioned revolutions, marked by irregular warfare, guerilla insurgency, and terrorism, turned nations upside down in the name of liberation. Vividly illustrated and packed with punch, this dynamic account of endemic violence, epic character, and the astonishing resourcefulness of commanders and combatants probes the nation in arms as a product of the Western legacy and of communism, religion, and tribal or familial loyalties. A chronology and biographies of crucial figures help delineate the lines leading backward to the prewar era.
Автор: Честер Нимиц, Элмер Б. Поттер
Издательство: Русич
Год издания: 1999
isbn: 5-88590-970-9
Количество страниц: 600
Язык: русский
Формат: PDF (scan)
На основе фактических материалов и документов адмирал ВМС США Ч.Нимиц и Э.Поттер рассказывают о наиболее важных морских операциях второй мировой войны в Атлантике, на Средиземном море и на Тихом океане.
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