Facing the second world war, Imlay, Talbot C. (assistant Professor In History, Universite Laval, Quebec)

Автор: Stahel David
Название: The Battle for Moscow
ISBN: 1107457459 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107457454
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This is a major new account of the German drive on Moscow in November 1941, one of the largest and most significant battles of the Second World War. Drawing on unparalleled research, David Stahel explores the disastrous erosion of German strength, which, even before the Soviet winter had spelled disaster.

Автор: Faulkner Marcus, Patalano Alessio
Название: The Sea and the Second World War: Maritime Aspects of a Global Conflict
ISBN: 1949668045 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781949668049
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: The sea shaped the course and conduct of World War II, from the first moments of the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, to the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945.

Автор: Coffman, Tom,
Название: Tadaima! I am home :
ISBN: 0824877276 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824877279
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Unearths the five-generation history of a family that migrated from Hiroshima to Honolulu but never settled. In the telling, the common Japanese greeting ""tadaima!"" takes on a perplexing meaning. What is home? Where most immigrants either establish roots in a new place or return to their place of origin, the Miwa family became transnational.

Автор: Sir Winston S. Churchill
Название: Never Give In!: Winston Churchill`s Speeches
ISBN: 1472520858 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472520852
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: A great statesmen, a masterful historian whose writings won him the Nobel Prize for literature and a war-time leader with few peers, Sir Winston Churchill is remembered perhaps most clearly today for the sheer power of his oratory: the speeches that rallied a nation in its darkest hour and steeled that nation for victory against the might of the Fascist powers. Never Give In! celebrates this oratory by gathering together Churchill's most powerful speeches from throughout his public career. Carefully selected by his grandson, this collection includes all his best known speeches - from his great war-time broadcasts to the "Iron Curtain" speech that heralded the start of the Cold War - and many lesser known but inspirational pieces. In a single volume Never Give In! provides a powerful testimony to one of the great public figures of the 20th century.

Автор: Jankevičiūte Giedre, Zukiene Rasute
Название: The Art of Identity and Memory: Toward a Cultural History of the Two World Wars in Lithuania
ISBN: 1618115073 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781618115072
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: An evocative and wide-ranging set of articles that demonstrates how much the experience of East-Central and Eastern Europe, largely neglected until now, needs to be integrated into evolving scholarship on the era of the world wars. This book reveals the case of Lithuania and its diverse populations in its full significance for a modern European history of the impact of the age of the world wars.

Автор: Canuel Hugues
Название: The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power: France`s Quest for an Independent Naval Policy 1940-1963
ISBN: 1682476162 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682476161
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Explores the renewal of French naval power from the fall of France in 1940 through the first two decades of the Cold War. The author, drawing upon extensive research through French, British, American, and NATO archives maps out for readers the unique path adopted in France to rebuild a blue-water fleet during unprecedented circumstances.

Автор: O`Hara Vincent P.
Название: Struggle for the Middle Sea
ISBN: 1591141966 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781591141969
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The Mediterranean Sea was the most intensely contested body of water in World War II. As the maritime crossroads where Europe, Asia, and Africa meet, more major naval actions were fought in the Mediterranean than in the Atlantic or Pacific. Despite its importance, remarkably little has been written about the subject, and what exists is largely one-sided and outdated. This fresh study of the naval war in the Mediterranean analyses the actions and performances of the five major navies—British, Italian, French, German, and American—during the entire five-year campaign and objectively examines the national imperatives that drove each nation’s maritime strategy.Struggle for the Middle Sea sidesteps the myths that haunt this campaign, such as Great Britain enjoying a moral advantage over Italy, or the French being Germany’s puppet, or the North African campaign significantly contributing to the eventual Allied victory. The book documents how the British Royal Navy, despite brilliant victories, was bled white in a campaign with questionable strategic goals; how Italy followed its own coherent naval strategy, much to the frustration of its German ally; and how the Marine Nationale was the strength of the independent French state and how it fought the Allies—and rejected the Axis—to maintain that independence.Most World War II histories tell the story of the Mediterranean War from a limited national point of view. Other works also end the story in 1943. Struggle for the Middle Sea provides a complete history of the entire campaign from all perspectives and covers Germany’s largely unknown—and remarkably successful—struggle to employ sea power in the Mediterranean after the Italian armistice.The book’s perspective and depth of detail is unmatched by other works, and its fresh viewpoints, supported by extensive research in Italian and French sources, are certain to provoke controversy. Its lessons about coastal warfare, the use of the sea, and the difficulty of sea denial have particular application today.

Автор: Silvestri Lorenzo
Название: Waffen-SS Camouflage Uniforms, Vol. 1: Helmet Covers Smocks
ISBN: 076435065X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780764350658
Издательство: Schiffer
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Описание: This is part one of a comprehensive two-volume reference that shows all the camouflage uniforms of the Waffen-SS. Using predominately modern color photographs, Volume 1 covers SS camouflage helmet covers and smocks. Each example is displayed on a full mannequin with numerous photos showing how the clothing appeared from various angles. In addition, detail images are used to clearly expose key features of the uniforms and equipment. The text explains the important details about the creation, manufacturing, and wear of each item. Period photos establish the wear of each item presented in the book.

Автор: Judge Sean M., A23
Название: The Turn of the Tide in the Pacific War: Strategic Initiative, Intelligence, and Command, 1941-1943
ISBN: 0700625984 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700625987
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Midway through 1942, Japanese and Allied forces found themselves fighting on two fronts—in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. These concurrent campaigns, conducted between July 1942 and February 1943, proved a critical turning point in the war being waged in the Pacific, as the advantage definitively shifted from the Japanese to the Americans. Key to this shift was the Allies seizing of the strategic initiative—a concept that Sean Judge examines in this book, particularly in the context of the Pacific War.The concept of strategic initiative, in this analysis, helps to explain why and how contending powers design campaigns and use military forces to alter the trajectory of war. Judge identifies five factors that come into play in capturing and maintaining the initiative: resources, intelligence, strategic acumen, combat effectiveness, and chance, all of which are affected by political will. His book uses the dual campaigns in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands as a case study in strategic initiative by reconstructing the organizations, decisions, and events that influenced the shift of initiative from one adversary to the other. Perhaps the most critical factor in this case is strategic acumen, without which the other advantages are easily squandered. Specifically, Judge details how General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz, in designing and executing these campaigns, provided the strategic leadership essential to reversing the tide of war—whose outcome, Judge contends, was not as inevitable as conventional wisdom tells us.The strategic initiative, once passed to American and Allied forces in the Pacific, would never be relinquished. In its explanation of how and why this happened, The Turn of the Tide in the Pacific War holds important lessons for students of military history and for future strategic leaders.

Автор: Douglas V. Smith
Название: Carrier Battles: Command Decisions in Harm`s Way
ISBN: 1682475026 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682475027
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: A longtime professor at the Naval War College who once directed strategic and long-range planning for the Navy and Marine Corps in Europe considers the transformation of the US Navy from a defensive-minded coastal defense force into an offensive risk-taking navy in the very early stages of World War II.

Автор: Giangreco D. M.
Название: Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947
ISBN: 1682471659 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682471654
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Two years before the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped bring a quick end to hostilities in the summer of 1945, U.S. planners began work on Operation Downfall, codename for the Allied invasions of Kyushu and Honshu, in the Japanese home islands. While other books have examined Operation Downfall, D. M. Giangreco offers the most complete and exhaustively researched consideration of the plans and their implications. He explores related issues of the first operational use of the atomic bomb and the Soviet Union's entry into the war, including the controversy surrounding estimates of potential U.S. casualties.

Following years of intense research at numerous archives, Giangreco now paints a convincing and horrific picture of the veritable hell that awaited invader and defender. In the process, he demolishes the myths that Japan was trying to surrender during the summer of 1945 and that U.S. officials later wildly exaggerated casualty figures to justify using the atomic bombs to influence the Soviet Union. As Giangreco writes, "Both sides were rushing headlong toward a disastrous confrontation in the Home Islands in which poison gas and atomic weapons were to be employed as MacArthur's intelligence chief, Charles Willoughby, succinctly put it, 'a hard and bitter struggle with no quarter asked or given.'"

Hell to Pay examines the invasion of Japan in light of the large body of Japanese and American operational and tactical planning documents the author unearthed in familiar and obscure archives. It includes postwar interrogations and reports that senior Japanese commanders and their staffs were ordered to produce for General MacArthur's headquarters. This groundbreaking history counters the revisionist interpretations questioning the rationale for the use of the atomic bomb and shows that President Truman's decision was based on real estimates of the enormous human cost of a conventional invasion.

This revised edition of Hell to Pay expands on several areas covered in the previous book and deals with three new topics: U.S.-Soviet cooperation in the war against Imperial Japan; U.S., Soviet, and Japanese plans for the invasion and defense of the northernmost Home Island of Hokkaido; and Operation Blacklist, the three-phase insertion of American occupation forces into Japan. It also contains additional text, relevant archival material, supplemental photos, and new maps, making this the definitive edition of an important historical work.

Автор: Guest, Ivor
Название: Ballet of the second empire
ISBN: 1852731710 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781852731717
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 45980.00 T
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Описание: This is the combined edition of Ivor Guest`s classic two-volume study of the ballet of the Second Empire.