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AirFan 2000-04 (257) |
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Категория: Военное дело » Военная техника » Самолеты |
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Издательство: Rodger Cabiac
Количество страниц: 39
Язык: другой
Формат: PDF
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Французский журнал об истории авиации |
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The Thirty Years' War 1618-1648 (Essential Histories 29) |
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Категория: Военное дело » История войн |
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Автор: Richard Bonney
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год издания: 2002
isbn: 1841763780
Количество страниц: 96
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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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'. |
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Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War I |
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Категория: Военное дело » Военная техника » Самолеты |
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Автор: C. G. Grey
Издательство: Studio
isbn: 1851703470
Количество страниц: 248
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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Divided into two very large sections; Part A - Aircraft and Part B - Aero Engines (missing in this scan), this is an exhaustive study of the aircraft of all nations involved in the 1914-1918 conflict. Countries are listed almost alphabetically (although Britain is listed after China. The Commonwealth countries of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India and South Africa appear immediately after Britain - and these are followed by a brief entry for Bulgaria followed by Denmark!). Within each country's listing, all aircraft then appear in strict alphabetical order by manufacturer. The work commences, however, with an interesting preface and an equally illuminating introduction entitled `Aircraft in the War' from which we learn of Balloon-Aprons, early seaplanes, HMS' Argos and Furious and much more besides. |
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Clausewitz - Magazin fur Militargeschichte 2014-03/04 |
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Категория: Военное дело » История войн |
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Издательство: GeraMond Verlag
Количество страниц: 84
Язык: другой
Формат: PDF
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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. |
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AirFan 2001-10 (275) |
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Категория: Военное дело » Военная техника » Самолеты |
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Издательство: Rodger Cabiac
Количество страниц: 42
Язык: другой
Формат: PDF
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Французский журнал об истории авиации |
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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam. The Battle that Changed the Course of the Civil War (Pivotal Moments in American History) |
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Категория: Военное дело » История войн |
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Автор: James M. McPherson
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год издания: 2002
isbn: 0195135210
Количество страниц: 220
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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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. |
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The Vietnam War (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series: American Soldiers' Lives) |
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Категория: Военное дело » История войн |
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Автор: James Edward Westheider
Издательство: Greenwood
Год издания: 2007
isbn: 0313337551
Количество страниц: 249
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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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. |
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Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 |
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Категория: Военное дело » История войн |
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Автор: Hanna Diamond
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год издания: 2007
isbn: 0192806181, 9780192806185
Количество страниц: 272
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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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. |
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China Builds the Bomb (Studies in International Security and Arm Control) |
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Категория: Военное дело » Прочее |
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Автор: John Lewis, Litai Xue
Издательство: Stanford University Press
Год издания: 1988
isbn: 0804714525
Количество страниц: 329
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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Based on newly released material ("How much the Chinese elected to publish truly surprised us," the authors remark in the preface), this important work of scholarship reveals how the decision was made in China in 1955 to build an atomic bomb, how the project was organized, its leadership and management methods, how uranium was found, mined and processed, how the bomb itself was designed, built and successfully tested at Lop Nur on October 16, 1964. Though the Soviets played a critical role in the initial stages of the effort, the Chinese accomplished the greater part of the task without foreign assistance. It was a remarkable feat, carried out in a poor nation just recovering from three wars during a time of enormous political turmoil. Lewis is chairman of the International Strategic Institute at Stanford; Xue Litai is a researcher at the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford. |
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Out of Afghanistan: The Inside Story of the Soviet Withdrawal |
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Категория: Военное дело » Прочее |
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Автор: Diego Cordovez, Selig S. Harrison
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год издания: 1995
isbn: 0195062949
Количество страниц: 471
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
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When the Soviet Union pulled its forces out of Afghanistan, the American media had a simple explanation: Soviet troops had been hounded out of the mountains by U.S.-armed guerrillas--the skies cleared of Soviet aircraft by Stinger missiles--until the Kremlin was forced to cry uncle. But Diego Cordovez and Selig S. Harrison shatter this image. Out of Afghanistan shows that the Red Army was securely entrenched when the Soviet Union agreed to withdraw: American weaponry and Afghan bravery raised the costs for Moscow, but it was six years of skillful diplomacy that gave the Russians a way out. Cordovez and Harrison provide the definitive account of the Soviet blunders that led up to the invasion and the bitter struggles over the withdrawal that raged in the Soviet and Afghan Communist parties and the Reagan Administration. The authors are particularly well-suited to their task: Cordovez was the United Nations mediator who negotiated the Soviet pullout, and Harrison is a leading South Asia expert with four decades of experience in covering Afghanistan. Their story of the U.N. negotiations is interwoven with a gripping chronicle of the war years, complete with palace shootouts in Kabul, turf warfare between rival Soviet intelligence agencies, and the CIA role in building up Islamic fundamentalist guerrilla leaders at the expense of Afghan moderates. Cordovez opens up his diaries to take us behind the scenes in his negotiations, and Harrison draws on interviews with Mikhail Gorbachev, former Secretary of State George Shultz, and other key actors. The result is a book full of surprises. For example, the authors demonstrate that the Soviets intervened not out of a desire to drive to the Indian Ocean, but out of a fear of a U.S.-supported Afghan Tito. Rebuffs by hardline "bleeders" in the Reagan Administration undermined efforts by Yuri Andropov to secure a settlement before his death in 1983. Even more startling, Gorbachev resumed the search for a negotiated withdrawal more than a year before the first American-supplied Stinger missiles were deployed in the war. The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan was one of the pivotal events of recent history. Out of Afghanistan destroys many of the myths surrounding the Afghan war and will have a profound impact on the emerging debate over how and why the Cold War ended. |
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