They died in vast numbers, eight million men and women driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the soldiers of the Red Army, an exhausted mass of recruits who confronted Europe’s most lethal fighting...
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This is a remarkable and unique story of Jim Brigginshaw. Having been captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1942, Jim was first sent to work in Burma, to build what has become known as the Death Railway. Unlike many of his...
Военная документалистика и аналитика, Военная история
Vulcan 607: The Epic Story of the Most Remarkable British Air Attack Since WWII
It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943…
April 1982. Argentine forces had invaded the Falkland Islands. Britain needed an answer....
A century has now gone by, yet the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still infamous as arguably the most ill conceived, badly led and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. The brainchild of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the...
Before 1914, trench warfare was a type of fighting unforeseen by the armies of Britain, France and Germany, so none was equipped to fight it. Specialized weapons and equipment were needed for the violent environment of the trenches and these had to...
Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 were murdered before it was abandoned by German soldiers. His sister was sent to the gas chambers, but Rajchman...
Биографии и мемуары, Военная история
Chechnya Diary: A War Correspondent's Story of Surviving the War in Chechnya
Chechnya Diary is a story about “the story” of the war in Chechnya, the “rogue republic” that attempted to secede from the Russian Federation at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Specifically, it is the story of the...
Автор: Lonsdale David J.
Серия: Strategy and history #22
Язык: английский
Год: 2007
Статус: Закончена
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This book offers a strategic analysis of one of the most outstanding military careers in history, identifying the most pertinent strategic lessons from the campaigns of Alexander the Great.
David Lonsdale argues that since the core...
This is the story of one ship, from her birth in a small shipyard near Rochester to her death fifty years later in a breaker's yard at Rotherhithe (1782-1836). The ship was called Bellerophon, after the Greek hero who tamed the winged horse Pegasus,...
This book is dedicated to the naval weapons of WW 2. Read this book and you will form clear apprehension about various types of weapons which are belonged to the different countries - participants of WW 2. The list of countries includes:: Great...