Автор: Fitzpatrick Sheila Название: The Russian Revolution ISBN: 0198806701 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198806707 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2454.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This updated new edition of Sheila Fitzpatrick`s classic short history of the Russian Revolution takes into account the centenary of the Revolution in 2017 and what it means today.
Автор: Babits Lawrence E., Howard Joshua B. Название: Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse ISBN: 0807832669 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807832660 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2897.00 р. 4138.00-30% Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: On March 15, 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the American Revolution at the Guilford Courthouse in piedmont North Carolina. Although victorious, Cornwallis declared the conquest of the Carolinas impossible.
"Written from the unusual perspective of a navigator, this is a compelling account of the air war against Germany." -Publishers Weekly
They began operations out of England in the spring of '43. They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily against strategic targets in Europe in the name of freedom. Their astonishing courage and appalling losses earned them the name that resounds in the annals of aerial warfare and made the "Bloody Hundredth" a legend.
Harry H. Crosby-soon to be portrayed by Anthony Boyle in the miniseries Masters of the Air developed by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg-arrived with the very first crews, and left with the very last. After dealing with his fear and gaining in skill and confidence, he was promoted to Group Navigator, surviving hairbreadth escapes and eluding death while leading thirty-seven missions, some of them involving two thousand aircraft. Now, in a breathtaking and often humorous account, he takes us into the hearts and minds of these intrepid airmen to experience both the triumph and the white-knuckle terror of the war in the skies.
"Affecting . . . A vivid account . . . Uncommonly thoughtful recollections that address the moral ambiguities of a great cause without in any way denigrating the selfless valor or camaraderie that helped ennoble it." -Kirkus Reviews
"Re-creates for us the sense of how it was when European skies were filled with noise and danger, when the fate of millions hung in the balance. An evocative and excellent memoir." -Library Journal
"The acrid stench of fear and cordite, the coal burning stoves, the heroics, the losses . . . This has to be the best memoir I have read, bar none." -George Hicks, director of the Airmen Memorial Museum
Автор: Drabik, Douglas A. Israel, Dr Douglas H. Название: Soviet state security services 1917-46 ISBN: 1472844084 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472844088 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 2226.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: NVI Simplificada, Nuevo Testamento consiste en una traduccion de las Sagradas Escrituras elaborada por un grupo de expertos biblistas que representan a una docena de paises de habla espanola, y que pertenecen a un buen numero de denominaciones cristianas evangelicas. La traduccion se hizo directamente de los textos hebreos, arameos y griegos en sus mejores ediciones disponibles. Se aprovecho, en buena medida, el trabajo de investigacion y exegesis que antes efectuaron los traductores de la New International Version, traduccion de la Biblia al ingles, ampliamente conocida
Автор: Babits Lawrence E., Howard Joshua B. Название: Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse ISBN: 1469609886 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469609881 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3881.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: On March 15, 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the American Revolution at Guilford Courthouse in piedmont North Carolina. In Long, Obstinate, and Bloody, Lawrence E. Babits and Joshua B. Howard piece together what really happened on the wooded plateau in what is today Greensboro, North Carolina.
Описание: Gibbs tells the story of this often-overlooked element of the Army of the Potomac from before the war up through 1864. He rediscovers the complexities of the men who commanded the brigades and divisions of which the Eleventh Reserves was a part. Gibbs provides an unprecedented look inside the struggles of one of the war`s most battle-tested units.
Описание: Strategy and reality collide in Peter Fey’s gripping history of aircraft carrier USS Oriskany’s three deployments to Vietnam with Carrier Air Wing 16 (CVW-16). Its tours coincided with the most dangerous phases of Operation Rolling Thunder, the ill-fated bombing campaign against North Vietnam, and accounted for a quarter of all the naval aircraft lost during Rolling Thunder-the highest loss rate of any carrier air wing during Vietnam. The Johnson administration’s policy of gradually applied force meant that Oriskany arrived on station just as previous restrictions were lifted and bombing raids increased. As a result CVW-16 pilots paid a heavy price as they ventured into areas previously designated off-limits by Washington, DC. Named after one of the bloodiest battles of the Revolutionary War, the Oriskany lived up to its name. After two years of suffering heavy losses, the ship caught fire-a devastating blow given the limited number of carriers deployed. With only three months allotted for repairs, Oriskany deployed a third and final time and ultimately lost more than half of its aircraft and more than a third of its pilots. The valor and battle accomplishments displayed by Oriskany’s aviators are legendary, but the story of their service has been lost in the disastrous fray of the war itself. Fey portrays the Oriskany and its heroes in an indelible memorial to the fallen of CVW-16 in hopes that the lessons learned from such strategic disasters are not forgotten in today’s sphere of war-bent politics.
"For all of us to be free, a few of us must be brave, and that is the history of America." Read how a generation of young Americans saved the world. Because dying for freedom isn't the worst that could happen. Being forgotten is.
VOLUME 4 IN THE BEST SELLING 'The Things Our Fathers Saw' SERIES This book brings you more of the previously untold firsthand accounts of combat and brotherhood, of captivity and redemption, and the aftermath of a war that left no American community unscathed.
(Up the Bloody Boot--The War in Italy)
From the deserts of North Africa to the mountains of Italy, the men and women veterans of the Italian campaign open up about a war that was so brutal, news of it was downplayed at home. By the end of 2018, fewer than 400,000 of our WW II veterans will still be with us, out of the over 16 million who put on a uniform. But why is it that today, nobody seems to know these stories?
Maybe our veterans did not volunteer to tell us; maybe we were too busy with our own lives to ask.As we forge ahead as a nation, we owe it to ourselves to become reacquainted with a generation that is fast leaving us, who asked for nothing but gave everything, to attune ourselves as Americans to a broader appreciation of what we stand for. This book should be a must-read in every high school in America. It is a very poignant look back at our greatest generation; maybe it will inspire the next one. Reviewer, Vol. I
"For all of us to be free, a few of us must be brave, and that is the history of America". Read how a generation of young Americans saved the world. Because dying for freedom isn't the worst that could happen. Being forgotten is.
VOLUME 4 IN THE BEST SELLING 'The Things Our Fathers Saw' SERIES This book brings you more of the previously untold firsthand accounts of combat and brotherhood, of captivity and redemption, and the aftermath of a war that left no American community unscathed.
(Up the Bloody Boot--The War in Italy)
From the deserts of North Africa to the mountains of Italy, the men and women veterans of the Italian campaign open up about a war that was so brutal, news of it was downplayed at home. By the end of 2018, fewer than 400,000 of our WW II veterans will still be with us, out of the over 16 million who put on a uniform. But why is it that today, nobody seems to know these stories?
Maybe our veterans did not volunteer to tell us; maybe we were too busy with our own lives to ask.As we forge ahead as a nation, we owe it to ourselves to become reacquainted with a generation that is fast leaving us, who asked for nothing but gave everything, to attune ourselves as Americans to a broader appreciation of what we stand for. This book should be a must-read in every high school in America. It is a very poignant look back at our greatest generation; maybe it will inspire the next one. Reviewer, Vol. I
Автор: Frykman Niklas Название: The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution ISBN: 0520355474 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520355477 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The global legacy of mutiny and revolution on the high seas. Mutiny tore like wildfire through the wooden warships of the age of revolution. While commoners across Europe laid siege to the nobility and enslaved workers put the torch to plantation islands, out on the oceans, naval seamen by the tens of thousands turned their guns on the quarterdeck and overthrew the absolute rule of captains. By the early 1800s, anywhere between one-third and one-half of all naval seamen serving in the North Atlantic had participated in at least one mutiny, many of them in several, and some even on ships in different navies. In The Bloody Flag, historian Niklas Frykman explores in vivid prose how a decade of violent conflict onboard gave birth to a distinct form of radical politics that brought together the egalitarian culture of North Atlantic maritime communities with the revolutionary era's constitutional republicanism. The attempt to build a radical maritime republic failed, but the red flag that flew from the masts of mutinous ships survived to become the most enduring global symbol of class struggle, economic justice, and republican liberty to this day.
