Название: Ordeal by Sea: The Tragedy of the USS Indianapolis Автор: Thomas Helm Издательство: Signet Год: 2001 Формат: PDF Страниц: 284 Размер: 32,1 МБ Язык: Английский
The true story of the greatest sea disaster during World War II--the July 30, 1945, attack and sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, which had just delivered the atom bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian is told using harrowing personal accounts from survivors.
Название: Decision at Leyte Автор: Stanley L. Falk Издательство: W. W. Norton & Company Год: 1966 Формат: PDF Страниц: 350 Размер: 55,3 МБ Язык: Английский
The first complete account of the air, sea, and land battles that sealed the fate of the Japanese Empire.
Название: Enter The Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin Автор: Roland W. Haas Издательство: Potomac Books ISBN: 1597971871 Год: 2008 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 288 Размер: 16,9 МБ Язык: Английский
While at Purdue University on an NROTC scholarship in 1971, Roland Haas was recruited to become a CIA deep clandestine operative. He underwent intensive training to prepare for insertion into hostile areas, including High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachuting and weapons instruction.
Название: Mission Accomplished: SOE and Italy 1943-1945 Автор: David Stafford Издательство: Lume Books ISBN: 1847920659 Год: 2011 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 485 Размер: 2,0 МБ Язык: Английский
A complete and authoritative account of Britain's secret war in Italy during World War II—a potent mix of military history and clandestine derring-do behind enemy lines. Based on recently released official files, documents retrieved from other agencies, diaries, memoirs, and personal interviews, this book provides the definitive account of Britain's secret war in Italy—the heroic exploits, the larger than life participants, and the extraordinary, against-the-odds achievements. In May 1945 Italy was liberated from Nazism and Fascism by the British Eighth and American Fifth Armies.
Название: Baltimore in the Civil War: The Pratt Street Riot and a City Occupied Автор: Harry A. Ezratty Издательство: The History Press ISBN: 1540204936 Год: 2010 Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv) Страниц: 130 Размер: 9,5 МБ Язык: Английский
On April 19, 1861, the first blood of the Civil War was spilled in the streets of Baltimore. En route to Camden Station, Union forces were confronted by angry Southern sympathizers, and at Pratt Street the crowd rushed the troops, who responded with lethal volleys.
Название: Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II Автор: Bruce Henderson Издательство: Knopf ISBN: 0525655824 Год: 2022 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 528 Размер: 55,4 МБ Язык: Английский
One of the last, great untold stories of World War II—kept hidden for decades—even after most of the World War II records were declassified in 1972, many of the files remained untouched in various archives—a gripping true tale of courage and adventure from Bruce Henderson, master storyteller, historian, and New York Times best-selling author of Sons and Soldiers—the saga of the Japanese American U.S. Army soldiers who fought in the Pacific theater, in Burma, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, with their families back home in America, under U.S. Executive Order 9066, held behind barbed wire in government internment camps.
Название: Дистанционно-кибернетическое оружие - альтернатива оружию ядерному? Автор: Вокин Г. Г. Издательство: Инфра-Инженерия Год: 2021 Cтраниц: 112 с. : ил., табл., схем. Формат: pdf Размер: 22 мб Язык: русский
Представлены результаты поиска нового класса относительно гуманного оружия, которое может представлять альтернативу ядерному оружию. Дистанционно-кибернетическое оружие основано на использовании новых научных подходов и технологий, при этом в качестве боевых зарядов средств поражения должны применяться незапрещенные неядерные взрывчатые вещества. Оружие обладает высоким научно-технологическим потенциалом и значительной эффективностью в поражении систем вооружений.
Название: Great Sea Battles Автор: Oliver Warner Издательство: Spring Books Год: PDF Формат: 1968 Страниц: 312 Размер: 60,7 МБ Язык: Английский
Four centuries of great courage and magnificent daring, of ships in victory and defeat on the oceans of the world - this is the romantic subject of Great Sea Battles. From slave galleys and sailing ships to iron-clads and aircraft carriers, here is a rich canvas of naval history stamped with the personalities of the great commanders - Drake, Tromp, Howe, Nelson, Graf von Spec, and many others.
Название: Night of the Long Knives: Forty-Eight Hours That Changed The History Of The World Автор: Paul Maracin Издательство: Lyons Press ISBN: 1599210703 Год: 2007 Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv) Страниц: 240 Размер: 17,4 МБ Язык: Английский
Many wonder how Adolf Hitler, a mediocre army corporal and failed landscape painter, could have become the architect of the most calamitous events of the twentieth century. But fewer know that Hitler's fateful transition from ambitious demagogue to Europe's most vicious tyrant occurred on an ordinary Saturday–June 30, 1934–in a little-known event that would come to be called "The Night of the Long Knives." This is the story of the events leading up to that awful event, and its most horrifying repercussions.
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