Название: Bayonets for Hire: Mercenaries at War, 1550-1789
Автор: William Urban
Издательство: Frontline Books
ISBN: 1848328281
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 304
Размер: 6,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

From the Greek professional armies of Alexander, through the Hundred Years War, to today, mercenaries have been ever-present, their role constantly evolving. In this compelling new history William Urban takes up their captivating and turbulent story from 1550 to 1789: from the Wars of Religion to the eve of the French Revolution.

Название: Strange and Obscure Stories of World War II
Автор: Don Aines
Издательство: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1510746854
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 216
Размер: 3,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Here are overlooked or forgotten tales from the world's greatest conflict. These are stories of courage, daring, and stupidity, some of which would challenge the imaginations of Hollywood scriptwriters.

Название: War: How Conflict Shaped Us
Автор: Margaret MacMillan
Издательство: Profile Books
ISBN: 1984856138
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 336
Размер: 27,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The instinct to fight may be innate in human nature, but war—organized violence—comes with organized society. War has shaped humanity's history, its social and political institutions, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, and some of our greatest cultural treasures reflect the glory and the misery of war.

Название: China's Civil War: A Social History, 1945-1949
Автор: Diana Lary
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107054672
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 296
Размер: 16,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

China's Civil War is the first book of its kind to offer a social history in English of the Civil War in 1945-9 that brought the Chinese Communist Party to power. Integrating history and memory, it surveys a period of intense upheaval and chaos to show how the Communist Party and its armies succeeded in overthrowing the Nationalist government to bring political and social revolution to China.