Автор: Barbara W. Tuchman
Издательство: Bantam Books
Год издания: 1989
isbn: 0553254014
Количество страниц: 575
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, The Guns of August will not be forgotten.
Автор: C. J. C. Molony
Издательство: Stationery Office Books
isbn: 0116300647
Количество страниц: 975
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Part of the majestic British official history of World War II, this volume in the series on the Mediterranean theater takes the story after the end of the North African campaign to the Sicilian and Italian battles up to Monte Cassino and Rome. It includes numerous fine maps, charts, appendices, and black and white photographs. The parts played by naval and air forces are given equal coverage with the land battles.
Автор: Andre Corvisier, A. T. Siddall
Издательство: Indiana University Press
isbn: 0253129850
Количество страниц: 224
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This is a translation of Paris-Sorbonne history professor André Corvisier's Armées et sociétés en Europe de 1497 à 1789. This book demonstrates the close and complex relationship between a society and its army. Just as European society changed greatly between 1494 and 1789, a fundamental change took place in the role of the military. During the ancien regime, the professional use of arms evolved from a private to a public institution and the military became the essential instrument of state power. As Corvisier shows, warfare-long the sole preserve of the nobility-soon transcended the interests of a single class. He concludes that a military mentality was more pervasive in early modern Europe than has been assumed.
Автор: Дэвид Портер
Издательство: Феникс . Серия - Авангард
Год издания: 2012
isbn: 978-5-222-18825-5
Количество страниц: 206
Язык: русский
Формат: PDF (scan)
Из этой книги вы узнаете об особенностях стратегии и тактики ведения морского боя, создании новых технических устройств, важнейших надводных и подводных операциях, успехах и потерях флота Германии. Вы познакомитесь с устройством всех типов кораблей Кригсмарине, особенностями их вооружения, узнаете новые подробности всех крупнейших морских сражений Второй мировой войны. Для удобства факты и цифры представлены в виде таблиц, диаграмм и карт.
Автор: Robert Crisp
Издательство: Bantam Doubleday Dell
Год издания: 1978
isbn: 0553118129
Количество страниц: 233
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
A tank officer's story of the desert war in North Africa, Brazen Chariots is one of the most widely praised war books ever published. Major Robert Crisp recounts Operation Crusader, the great tank battle waged against Rommel's Afrika Korps on the borders of Egypt.
Автор: Jose Antonio
Издательство: Andrea Press
Год издания: 2006
isbn: 8496527875
Количество страниц: 51
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The US Cavalry is a theme that reminds the reader of some of the most heroic actions in the military history of all times and at all the corners of the globe. This body, surrounded by the myths that made the US Cavalry known worldwide has seen how its image was either glorified with great campaigns idealized mainly by Hollywood, which were really nothing of the sort, or depicted too negatively with cruel actions, sometimes over exaggerated by subjective accounts. This book, pertaining the Historical Warriors collection, provides a brief introduction through various chapters, to what was the US Cavalry between 1865 and 1890, handling themes such as the myth and reality of this military body, its composition after the Succession War, the migration of the colonists and the role of the cavalry in the so called 'Indian problem'. From a strictly human viewpoint, the book also reveals the cavalry's social characteristics, in chapters dedicated to soldiers and officers' lifestyle and the cavalry's origins within the state of the American society of the epoch, as well as interesting introduction on discipline and life in the fort and on campaign. As far as the cavalry as a body is concerned, the book takes a look at the formation of the different regiments, combat strategies used during the Indian wars and in the great campaigns, equipment and armor, horses and their care and the different uniforms from the Civil War up to the last modifications, not forgetting to mention civilian clothing. The final chapters detail the main actions and portray the key players in this epic adventure. All the chapters are illustrated with photographs from the epoch, color illustrations, maps and diagrams, providing the reader with greater enjoyment of this essential work for those fascinated by military history.
Автор: Leroy Thompson
Издательство: Greenhill Books
Год издания: 2002
isbn: 1853675067
Количество страниц: 74
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Leroy Thompson documents the various airborne, infantry, recon and amphibious sectors as they have grown in response to conflicts in Vietnam, the Middle East, Latin America, and to the increasing threat of terrorism on the home front. More than 100 rare and unusual photographs cover the uniforms, equipment and insignia of formations such as Ranger battalions; LRRP units; Special Forces Groups (Airborne); USAF combat control teams; pararescuemen and PJs; Navy Seals; Marine Recons and Delta.
Автор: John Langellier
Издательство: Greenhill Books
Год издания: 1999
isbn: 1853673579
Количество страниц: 74
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
A remarkable study of an age that incorporated the spirit of the nineteenth-century with the technology of modern aggression One hundred years ago American colonial ambition found expression in the seizure and occupation of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, and intervention in the Boxer Rebellion in China. These military enterprises cast the American Army in a dramatic new role; the G.I.s had to suddenly adapt from policing the American interior to sustaining an international power in far-flung corners of the world.
Автор: Christopher J. Anderson
Издательство: Greenhill Books
Год издания: 1997
isbn: 1853672904
Количество страниц: 73
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
General George Patton was one of the most successful generals of World War II and arguably one of America's greatest commanders. His army marched further and more quickly than any other Allied army during the 1944-45 campaign in Europe, and its contribution to the Allied victory was enormous. More than 100 photographs in this volume show what uniforms the American G.I.s who served under Patton wore, what weapons they had, and what equipment they carried, from their landing in France to the German surrender.
The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road 1567-1659: The Logistics of Spanish Victory and Defeat in the Low Countries' Wars (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History)
Автор: Geoffrey Parker
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год издания: 1975
isbn: 0521084628, 0521099072
Количество страниц: 309
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
The publication of The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road marked the birth of the "new military history", which emphasized military organization--mobilization, pay, supply, morale and, above all, logistics--rather than military "events" such as sieges and battles.
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