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 Desert Storm: The War in the Persian Gulf 
 Author: Otto Friedrich Desert Storm: The War in the Persian Gulf Time Warner Publishing Inc. 1991 Format: PDF Pages: 244 Language: English Size: 47 MB Tells the story of the war in the Persian Gulf from Saddam Hussein's first strike into Kuwait to the collapse and flight of his defeated army. The book is based on files from more than a dozen "Time" correspondents who covered the war, both in the Persian Gulf and allied capitals. "Time's" diplomatic correspondent, Christopher Ogden, provides a narrative on how President Bush reached his decision to go to war. Accounts of the air war and the land invasion are by former world editor, John Elson and Nation senior writer, Ed Magnuson.
German Infantry Weapons of World War II
 Author: A. J. Barker German Infantry Weapons of World War II Arco Publishing Company, Inc. 1969 Format: PDF Pages: 86 Language: English Size: 52.7 MB This profusely illustrated book,describes all the different kinds of weapons carried by the German infantryman in the many theatres of war, from Russia to North Africa.
The Story of Submarines
 Author: George Weller The Story of Submarines Random House 1962 Format: PDF Pages: 224 Language: English Size: 19.4 MB It is the final year of World War II. Somewhere in the Pacific a United States submarine is prowling the sea, seeking an enemy to sink. The officer of the deck and a quartermaster stand on her bridge, binoculars at their eyes. Above them on the platform on either side of the periscope shears, two more sailors scan the horizon. Behind them the radar antenna turns round and round, sweeping the horizon with its electronic eye.
Panzer III at War 1939-1945 (Images of War)
 Author: Paul Thomas Panzer III at War 1939-1945 (Images of War) Pen and Sword Military 2013 Format: EPUB Pages: 160 Size: 7 Mb With comprehensive captions and text, this superb book is the latest in the bestselling Images of War Series and the second installment of the Author's pictorial history of the German Panzers in the Second World War. The Panzer III saw almost continuous action from the annexation of Czechoslakia, the invasion of Poland and then France and the Low countries, in North Africa, Italy, the Eastern Front and, finally, the retreat back into Germany.
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
 Author: Victor Davis Hanson A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War Random Youse 2006 ISBN: 0812969707 Format: EPUB Size: 3,4 МБ Language: English Pages: 416 One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date, A War Like No Other. Over the course of a generation, the Hellenic city-states of Athens and Sparta fought a bloody conflict that resulted in the collapse of Athens and the end of its golden age. Thucydides wrote the standard history of the Peloponnesian War, which has given readers throughout the ages a vivid and authoritative narrative. But Hanson offers readers something new: a complete chronological account that reflects the political background of the time, the strategic thinking of the combatants, the misery of battle in multifaceted theaters, and important insight into how these events echo in the present.
Princes at War: The Bitter Battle Inside Britain's Royal Family in the Darkest Days of WWII
 Princes at War: The Bitter Battle Inside Britain's Royal Family in the Darkest Days of WWII PublicAffairs Author: Deborah Cadbury 2015 Pages: 389 Format: pdf Language: English ISBN: 978-1610394031 Size: 8 mb In 1936, the British monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era - the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. The fate of the country rested in the hands of George V’s sorely unequipped sons...
Hitler's Panzers East - World War II Reinterpreted
 Author: R. H. S. Stolfi Hitler's Panzers East - World War II Reinterpreted University of Oklahoma Press 1992 Format: PDF Pages: 296 Language: English Size: 43.4 MB How close did Germany come to winning World War II? Did Hitler throw away victory in Europe after his troops had crushed the Soviet field armies defending Moscow by August 1941? R. H. S. Stolfi offers a dramatic new picture of Hitler's conduct in World War II and a fundamental reinterpretation of the course of the war. Adolf Hitler generally is thought to have been driven by a blitzkrieg mentality in the years 1939 to 1941. In fact, Stolfi argues, he had no such outlook on the war. From the day Britain and France declared war, Hitler reacted with a profoundly conservative cast of mind and pursued a circumscribed strategy, pushing out siege lines set around Germany by the Allies. Interpreting Hitler as a siege Fuhrer explains his apparent aberrations in connection with Dunkirk, his fixation on the seizure of Leningrad, and his fateful decision in the summer of 1941 to deflect Army Group Center into the Ukraine when both Moscow and victory in World War II were within its reach. Unaware of Hitler's siege orientation, the German Army planned blitz campaigns. Through daring operational concepts and bold tactics, the army won victories over several Allied powers in World War II, and these led to the great campaign against the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941.
The Origins of the National Security Agency 1940-1952
 The Origins of the National Security Agency 1940-1952 Center for Cryptologic History, U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) Author: Thomas L. Burns 1990 Pages: 155 Format: pdf Language: English Size: 9 mb DOCID: 3109065 This is a copy of "Origins of the National Security Agency 1940-52," a history written by Thomas L. Burns of the Center for Cryptologic History at the National Security Agency. It was declassified on September 8, 2004, and released on the website memoryhole.org (no longer online)
World War II The Pacific
 Author: Sean Sheehan World War II The Pacific (Atlas of Conflicts) Britannica 2004 ISBN: 0836856708 Format: EPUB Size: 8,5 МБ Language: English Pages: 64 This series sets out to explain why the major wars of the 20th century started, to describe what happened, and to analyse how the results changed our world. Ages 10+ years.
PzKpfw VI Tiger I and Tiger II
 Author: Peter Chamberlain, Chris Ellis PzKpfw VI Tiger I and Tiger II (King Tiger) (AFV Weapons Profile 48) Profile Publications Ltd 1972 Format: PDF Size: 16,3 МБ Language: English Pages: 24
Amphibious Operations
 Author: Arch Whitehouse Amphibious Operations Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1963 Format: PDF Pages: 392 Language: English Size: 41.7 MB Every major offensive launched by the U.S. during WW II was initiated by an amphibious assault, which fact has led many to believe that amphibious warfare is relatively new development, when in reality it is as old as recorded history. Arch Whitehouse, whose 16 previous books cover practically every aspect of modern warfare, does not begin quite that far back in his story here; he is content to start out with ulius Caesar's invasion of Britain. The remaining chapters deal with sea-to-land assaults at Louisburg and Quebec, during the American Revolution, at Gallipoli and eebrugge in WW I, every major beachhead in all theatres of WW II (four chapters), the Inchon landing during the Korean Police Action, and present-day American amphibious equipment and forces, as seen first-hand by the author in a full-scale exercise that was staged off the island of Vieques in the Caribbean recently.
Barbarossa: The Air Battle July-December 1941
 Author: Christer Bergstrom Barbarossa: The Air Battle July-December 1941 Midland Publishing ISBN: 1857802705 2007 Format: Djvu Size: 5,0 МБ Language: English Pages: 144 This book, written by a recognised authority on the air war over the Eastern Front, provides an informed, detailed and balanced account of the massive aerial campaign fought in the skies over the Soviet Union following the launch of Operation Barbarossa. Unlike most recent histories, this account features newly discovered information from both Russian and German sources and significantly expands the author's earlier study of this campaign. There is also much unique eye-witness material, and the text will be accompanied by a large number of rare and previously unpublished photographs, biographical studies of major players in the conflict, data tables, technical assessments and appendices.
Blitzkrieg
 Author: Abraham Rothberg Blitzkrieg (Eyewitness History of World War II) Bantam Books 1966 Format: PDF Pages: 228 Language: English Size: 19 MB This book traces the origins of the War starting with the Armistice at Compiegne in 1919. It covers the rise of totalitarianism in Europe, the first terrible months of the blitzkrieg, the imperialistic aggression of Japan in the Far East, the period of Allied appeasement, the evacuation of Dunkirk and the fall of France. This volume concludes where it starts, in the railroad car at Compiegne with Hitler accepting the French surrender.
The End The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945
 Author: Ian Kershaw The End The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945 Penguin Books ISBN: 1594203148 2011 Format: EPUB Size: 5,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 592 From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II. Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital question of how and why it was able to hold out as long as it did. The Third Reich did not surrender until Germany had been left in ruins and almost completely occupied. Even in the near-apocalyptic final months, when the war was plainly lost, the Nazis refused to sue for peace. Historically, this is extremely rare. Drawing on original testimony from ordinary Germans and arch-Nazis alike, award-winning historian Ian Kershaw explores this fascinating question in a gripping and focused narrative that begins with the failed bomb plot in July 1944 and ends with the German capitulation in May 1945. Hitler, desperate to avoid a repeat of the "disgraceful" German surrender in 1918, was of course critical to the Third Reich's fanatical determination, but his power was sustained only because those below him were unable, or unwilling, to challenge it. Even as the military situation grew increasingly hopeless, Wehrmacht generals fought on, their orders largely obeyed, and the regime continued its ruthless persecution of Jews, prisoners, and foreign workers. Beneath the hail of allied bombing, German society maintained some semblance of normalcy in the very last months of the war. The Berlin Philharmonic even performed on April 12, 1945, less than three weeks before Hitler's suicide.
Blimps & U-Boats: U.S. Navy Airships in the Battle of the Atlantic
 Author: J. Gordon Vaeth Blimps & U-Boats: U.S. Navy Airships in the Battle of the Atlantic Naval Institute Press 1992 ISBN: 1557508763 Format: PDF Size: 44,5 МБ Language: English Pages: 224 Of all the books written about the participation of U.S. Navy blimps in protecting our convoys and other individual ships during WW-II, this is the most entertaining and authentic book out there... Gordon Vaeth should know, he was there and did it all. Never was a ship lost to a German submarine that was escorted by a U.S. Navy blimp. They were always there and the German subs were truely scared of them. Yes, we did cause the sinking of several subs, regardless of what others say.
The Bombers and the Bombed. Allied Air War Over Europe, 1940-1945
 Author: Richard Overy The Bombers and the Bombed. Allied Air War Over Europe, 1940-1945 VIKING 2013 Format:epub Size: 17.3Mb Language:English Between 1939 and 1945 hundreds of European cities and hundreds more small townships and villages were subjected to aerial bombing. During the course of the conflict a staggering estimate of around 600,000 European civilians were killed by bomb attack and well over a million more were seriously injured.
The Tuskegee Airmen: Black Heroes of World War II
 Author: Jacqueline Harris The Tuskegee Airmen: Black Heroes of World War II Dillon Press 1996 Format: PDF Pages: 152 Language: English Size: 16.3 MB The Tuskegee Airmen tells the dramatic story of the pioneering African American aviators who battled prejudice at home to become fighter pilots during World War II. Focusing on the struggles and eventual glories of the 99th Fighter Squadron, the first African Americans to win their wings in what was then the Army Air Corps, it details their training near the famed Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, as well as their combat experiences in the North African and European theaters of war.
Desert War: The New Conflict Between the U.S. and Iraq
 Author: John T. Campbell Desert War: The New Conflict Between the U.S. and Iraq New American Library 2003 Format: PDF Pages: 124 Language: English Size: 11.2 MB Illustrated and detailed, this guide looks at war between the U.S. and Iraq from every angle—and examines the conflict that has loomed for years: the sanctions, the propaganda, the attacks in the no-fly zone, the weapons inspections, and the factors that have led us to where we are today.
Modelling the Early Panzerkampfwagen IV (Osprey Modelling №26)
 Author: Tom Cockle Modelling the Early Panzerkampfwagen IV Osprey Publishing Osprey Modelling №26 2005 Format: EPUB Pages: 80 Size: 15 Mb Language: English The Panzerkampfwagen IV has often been referred to as the 'workhorse' of the German Army in World War II. This important weapon went through several upgrades and improvements and was the only German tank to have been produced continuously throughout the entire war. This book specifically deals with the short-barrelled Panzer IV, built until February 1942, which saw service from the invasion of Poland, through the fall of Western Europe and the campaigns of North Africa to the steppes of the Soviet Union. This book takes on a series of increasingly complex construction projects covering all the major Panzer IV types, including the rare multi-turreted Neubau-Panzerkampfwagen IV.
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