28 000 британских солдат отправились воевать за реликтовый обломок Империи в забытом Богом уголке мира в 15 000 км от дома. Иные погибли,...
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From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences.
World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an...
The Falklands War was one of the strangest in British history – 28,000 men sent to fight for a tiny relic of empire 8,000 miles from home. At the time, many Britons saw it as a tragic absurdity, but the British victory confirmed the quality of...
«Вьетнам» — очередной фундаментальный труд Хейстингса, автора бестселлеров «Первая мировая война» и «Вторая мировая война», поистине...
В книге рассказывается о самой крупной десантной операции второй мировой войны — высадке англо-американских войск летом 1944 г. в...
Bomber Command’s air offensive against the cities of Nazi Germany was one of the most epic campaigns of World War II. More than 56,000 British and Commonwealth aircrew and 600,000 Germans died in the course of the RAF’s attempt to win the war by...
On June 6, 1944, American and British troops staged the greatest amphibious landing in history to begin Operation Overlord, the battle to liberate Europe from the scourge of the Third Reich. With gut-wrenching realism and immediacy, Hastings reveals...