Автор: Martin Pegg
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год издания: 1977
isbn: 0894020137, 0894020145
Количество страниц: 50
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Influenced by the trench warfare of the First World War, German military planners of the 1930s drew up a new concept designed to bring rapid mobility to the battlefield. This lightning war, or Blitzkrieg, called for particularly close co-operation between air and armoured forces with aircraft primarily employed in the close support role, disrupting the enemy's back area - especially communications - and paving the way for deep armoured penetrations by denying him the ability to organise resistance or counter-attack. Should the occasion arise the air force could also support the step-by-step advance of the army by attacking targets directly in the line of advance.
Автор: Peter Connolly
Издательство: Oxford Publishing Press
Год издания: 2003
isbn: 0199104247
Количество страниц: 34
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Tiberius Claudius Maximus served under the emperor Trajan in the great wars in Central Europe and the Middle East. He was decorated three times for bravery and became famous for hunting down Rome's great enemy, Decebalus. This volume and its prequel The Legionary trace Maximus's career from the day he entered the Seventh Legion on the Danube frontier to the day he retired as a cavalry officer in Mesopotamia some 30 years later. Connolly calls on a vast array of archaeological material to provide a unique portrait of the life of an ordinary man who lived during an extraordinary period in Western history.
Автор: Jon Lake
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год издания: 1998
isbn: 1855327236
Количество страниц: 92
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Built in large numbers in the years leading up to World War II (1939-1945), Bristol's Blenheim saw use as both a fighter and bomber thanks to its high speed in relation to the biplane types it was then replacing. Aside from its work as the staple medium RAF bomber from 1939 through to 1942, Belnheims also served as pioneer radar-equipped nightfighters in 1940/41 and long-range patrol aircraft with Coastal Command. Obsolete in Europe by the end of 1940, the Belnheim continued to serve as a frontline bomber in North Africa, the Mediterranean and the Far East well into 1943.
Автор: Philipp Elliot-Wright
Издательство: Combined Books
Год издания: 2000
isbn: 1903040027
Количество страниц: 140
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This series was created by Military Illustrated magazine, the leading monthly military history publication in the English language. It has built an unrivaled reputation for authoritative articles, primary research, rare photographs, and specially commissioned artwork. Here is the story of one of the most effective soldiers of the past -- the Rifleman. The invention of the rifle gave a new twist to warfare. Hunters became soldiers who fought in green and hid behind cover, as did some of the earliest Riflemen in the forests of North America. Men such as these, in both Europe and America, revolutionized the art of war. Using black-and-white and color illustrations, including a spectacular recreation of the Battle of Waterloo, this book explains how the Rifleman was trained to act independently and rely on his own skills, thus becoming the forefather of today's combat soldier.
Автор: Karsten Linne
Издательство: Christoph Links Verlag
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 3861535009, 9783861535003
Количество страниц: 216
Язык: другой
Формат: PDF (scan)
1918 endete de facto die deutsche Kolonialgeschichte, nicht aber der deutsche Traum von Kolonien. So etablierte sich in der Weimarer Republik und – noch weitaus stärker – im »Dritten Reich« eine einflussreiche kolonialrevisionistische Bewegung. Die Wiedergewinnung der ehemaligen deutschen Kolonien, die mit neu zu erwerbenden Gebieten zu einem mittelafrikanischen Kolonialreich ergänzt werden sollten, wurde nicht nur propagiert. Spätestens ab 1936 / 37 gab es geheime Planungen, die für alle relevanten Bereiche detaillierte Vorschläge zur Ausgestaltung der Kolonialpolitik unterbreiteten. Nach dem militärischen Sieg über Frankreich wurden diese Planungen intensiviert und zu einem integralen Bestandteil des deutschen Strebens nach der Weltherrschaft.
Автор: Erich Groner
Издательство: J. F. Lehmanns Verlag
Год издания: 1954
Количество страниц: 86
Язык: другой
Формат: PDF (scan)
In ,,Weyers Taschenbuch der Kriegsflotten 1922" erschien einst jene Zusammenstellung uber die erste K.M., zu der dieser Nachweis eine Parallele darstellen soil. Damals standen, vier Jahre nach dem ersten Weltkrieg, die deutschen Archive in der Heimat der geschichtlichen Nachforschung voll zur Verfugung, und trotzdem lieben sowohl die erste Auflage 1922 als auch die nachlolgenden drei bis 1933 noch manche Lucke offen, und zahlreiche Angaben mussten allmahlich berichtigt werden...
Автор: William C. Meadows
Издательство: University of Texas Press
Год издания: 2002
isbn: 0292752636, 0292752741
Количество страниц: 321
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Among the allied troops that came ashore in Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were thirteen Comanches in the 4th Infantry Division, 4th Signal Company. Under German fire they laid communications lines and began sending messages in a form never before heard in Europe—coded Comanche. For the rest of World War II, the Comanche Code Talkers played a vital role in transmitting orders and messages in a code that was never broken by the Germans. This book tells the full story of the Comanche Code Talkers for the first time. Drawing on interviews with all surviving members of the unit, their original training officer, and fellow soldiers, as well as military records and news accounts, William C. Meadows follows the group from their recruitment and training to their active duty in World War II and on through their postwar lives up to the present. He also provides the first comparison of Native American code talking programs, comparing the Comanche Code Talkers with their better-known Navajo counterparts in the Pacific and with other Native Americans who used their languages, coded or not, for secret communication. Meadows sets this history in a larger discussion of the development of Native American code talking in World Wars I and II, identifying two distinct forms of Native American code talking, examining the attitudes of the American military toward Native American code talkers, and assessing the complex cultural factors that led Comanche and other Native Americans to serve their country in this way.
Автор: Frantisek Koran, Jan Mostek
Издательство: Wings & Wheels Publications
Год издания: 1997
Количество страниц: 76
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
More than 300 detailed color and b&w photos of GMC WWII deuce-and-a-half CCKW trucks with cargo and contact maint workshop bodies. Photos show incredible detail of these museum trucks: body, cab exterior and interior (metal & canvas), instruments, floor, engine, winch, headlamps, workshop interior, chassis, suspension, brakes, wheels, and even a 1-ton cargo trailer. A fantastic reference.
Автор: Neil M. Heyman
Издательство: Greenwood
Год издания: 2002
isbn: 0313315000
Количество страниц: 306
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
What was life really like for the ordinary soldier, sailor, airman, and civilian during World War I? Was it different for the British, French, and Americans than it was for the Germans? This work brings to life the military and civilian experiences of ordinary people on both sides of the war. Rich with information not available elsewhere, this engagingly written narrative focuses on the real details of living in wartime: how men were recruited and trained, the equipment they used, what they ate, trench warfare as a way of life, and the phenomenon of combat. The life of seamen and the novel experience of the first airmen provide contrast to the life of the soldier in the trenches. Also described are the medical system for treating casualties, the life of a prisoner of war, and the experience of military nurses and the first women in uniform. This book also details how life on the home front changed in myriad ways, including the education of schoolchildren, the fevered prosperity of a wartime economy, and the change in women's traditional roles from homemaker to essential laborer.
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