The Improbable Victory: The Campaigns, Battles and Soldiers of the American Revolution, 1775-83 (McNab Chris)(Pevná vazba)

The Improbable Victory: The Campaigns, Battles and Soldiers of the American Revolution, 1775-83 (McNab Chris)(Pevná vazba)

The American Revolution reshaped the political map of the world, and led to the birth of the United States of America. Yet these outcomes could have scarcely been predicted when the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord. American rebel forces were at first largely a poorly trained,

The Battle of Britain Pocket Manual 1940 (McNab Chris)(Pevná vazba)

Pocket manual detailing the training and operations of the British pilots, ground crew and anti-aircraft gunners.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone. For three long months, brave young RAF pilots took off every day, ready to defend British skies against large-scale Luftwaffe raids. 'The Few'

The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848 (Israel Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

The Great Bear at War: The Russian and Soviet Army, 1917-Present (McNab Chris)(Pevná vazba)

The complete and illustrated history of Russia's armed forces from the Russian Revolution until the present day, covering both their involvement in pivotal historical events and in current controversial conflicts. From the chaos of the civil war to the political maneuvering of the Cold War,

The U.S. Army Infantryman Vietnam Pocket Manual (McNab Chris)(Pevná vazba)

Between 1964 and 1975, 2.6 million American personnel served within the borders of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, of whom an estimated 1-1.6 million actually fought in combat. At the tip of the spear was the infantry, the 'grunts' who entered an extraordinary tropical combat zone completely

The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848 (Israel Jonathan)(Paperback)

A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Us Super Carrier: All Makes and Models * Insights Into the Design, Departments, Flight Operations and Daily Life of the Us Navy's Greate (McNab Chris)(Pevná vazba)

The US Navy's fleet of aircraft carriers are at the heart of global American military force. With nuclear-powered oceanic range, complements of nearly 5,000 crew, and typically carrying more than 70 combat aircraft, US carriers can remain on station for months, delivering aerial combat strikes on

To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe (Lockwood Matthew)(Pevná vazba)

The first exploration of the profound and often catastrophic impact the American Revolution had on the rest of the world While the American Revolution led to domestic peace and liberty, it ultimately had a catastrophic global impact--it strengthened the British Empire and led to widespread

Supercar Revolution: The Fastest Cars of All Time (Lamm John)(Pevná vazba)

Supercar Revolution charts the evolution of the battle for performance and supremacy among the world's leading marques, including Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Porsche, Aston Martin, and Ford GT. If you want to get to know the ins and outs of the high-budget, near space-age vehicles we call

Cheyenne Summer: The Battle of Beecher Island: A History (Mort Terry)(Pevná vazba)

Evoking the spirit--and danger--of the early American West, this is the story of the Battle of Beecher Island, pitting an outnumbered United States Army patrol against six hundred Native warriors, where heroism on both sides of the conflict captures the vital themes at play on the American

The Paratrooper Training Pocket Manual 1939-45 (McNab Chris)(Pevná vazba)

Airborne assault was one of the great innovations of the 1930s and 1940s, adding a new 'vertical' dimension to infantry warfare. By the onset of World War II in 1939, Germany, Italy and Russia were already advanced in their development of paratrooper units. Germany in particular demonstrated the

British Battle Tanks: American-Made World War II Tanks (Fletcher David)(Pevná vazba)

The idea of British soldiers using American tanks was not viewed with a great deal of enthusiasm by the British Army. They perceived American tanks as being crudely made, mechanically unsophisticated and impossible to fight in. However, once British crews got used to them and learned to cope with

All Secure: A Special Operations Soldier's Fight to Survive on the Battlefield and the Homefront (Satterly Tom)(Pevná vazba)

One of the most highly regarded special operations soldiers in American military history shares his war stories and personal battle with PTSD.As a senior non-commissioned officer of the most elite and secretive special operations unit in the U.S. military, Command Sergeant Major Tom Satterly fought

Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History (Perrottet Tony)(Pevná vazba)

The surprising story of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the scrappy band of rebel men and women who followed them. Most people are familiar with the basics of the Cuban Revolution of 1956-1959: it was led by two of the twentieth century's most charismatic figures, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara; it

The Verdun Regiment: Into the Furnace: The 151st Infantry Regiment in the Battle of Verdun 1916 (Bracken Johnathan)(Pevná vazba)

Graphic, first-hand French soldiers' accounts of the experience of battle at Verdun. The book follows a single French infantry regiment through the course of the battle

Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution: Studies of the Russian Institute, Columbia University (Koenker Diane P.)(Pevná vazba)

Whereas most Soviet and American scholars of the Russian Revolution have emphasized the great leaders and the great events of 1917, Diane Koenker reverses this trend in a study of the Russian working class. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand

American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship (Nackenoff Carl)(Pevná vazba)

American by Birth explores the history and legacy of Wong Kim Ark and the 1898 Supreme Court case that bears his name, which established the automatic citizenship of individuals born within the geographic boundaries of the United States. In the late nineteenth century, much like the present, the

The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe (Harding Stephen)(Paperback)

The incredible story of the unlikeliest battle of World War II, when a small group of American soldiers joined forces with German soldiers to fight off fanatical SS troopsMay, 1945. Hitler is dead, the Third Reich is little more than smoking rubble, and no GI wants to be the last man killed in

Stripped and Script - Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution (Tillman Kacy Dowd)(Pevná vazba)

Female loyalists occupied a nearly impossible position during the American Revolution. Unlike their male counterparts, loyalist women were effectively silenced--unable to officially align themselves with either side or avoid being persecuted for their family ties. In this book, Kacy Dowd Tillman

Genomic Politics: How the Revolution in Genomic Science Is Shaping American Society (Hochschild Jennifer)(Pevná vazba)

A groundbreaking analysis of how the genomic revolution is transforming American society and creating new social divisions-some along racial lines-that promise to fundamentally shape American politics for years to come. The emergence of genomic science in the last quarter century has

The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution (Rowland Katherine)(Pevná vazba)

42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams - Douglas Adams

'Douglas's slanted way of looking at reality makes the fuzzy sharp and the improbable probable. In a cock-eyed universe the level gaze is not much use' STEPHEN FRY'Douglas was something that we don't have a word for yet - a futurologist or an explainer' NEIL GAIMAN'In lieu of a conventional

Luftwaffe Aces in the Battle of Britain (Goss Chris)(Pevná vazba)

The term 'fighter ace' grew in prominence with the introduction and development of aerial combat in the First World War. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an 'ace' has varied but is usually considered to be five or more.For the Luftwaffe, a number of its

Ranger: A Soldier's Life (Puckett Ralph)(Pevná vazba)

On November 25, 1950, during one of the toughest battles of the Korean War, the US Eighth Army Ranger Company seized and held the strategically important Hill 205 overlooking the Chongchon River. Separated by more than a mile from the nearest friendly unit, fifty-one soldiers fought several hundred