epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Michael Burleigh [Burleigh, Michael]

Efforts to blind the generals with science generally worked, but the more perceptive saw through this smokescreen. The war operations planner, General Walter Warlimont identified several fundamental flaws: A man ...

epub |eng | 2021-05-25 | Author:Daniel P. Bolger [Bolger, Daniel P.]

* * * — “The operation was a bluff,” Rose explained afterward, “because on occasions the enemy had enough strength to overrun the division.” In that decisive first week in ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2021-04-16 | Author:Dr Tom Lewis OAM

The preliminary to the foot battle An arrow engagement was the initial norm. It might be wondered why this was so, for if the armour held off the danger of ...

epub |eng | 2020-05-17 | Author:Hampshire, Edward; Tooby, Adam; & Adam Tooby

Length/beam/draft (m) 81.4/10.0/7.6 Displacement (tonnes) surfaced/underwater 2,300/3,100 Maximum depth (m) 400 Maximum speed (knots) surface/underwater 14/38.5 Endurance (days) 30 Complement 32 Armament 6 533mm torpedo tubes, 20 torpedoes Sonar Okean ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-13 | Author:Gordon Williamson

Feuerwehren Although this branch should really be considered an auxiliary force, it is dealt with here for the sake of simplicity. As already noted, the Feuerwehr consisted of those part-time ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-02 | Author:Nik Cornish

One of the older conscripts, the so-called borodachi (bearded ones), called up during 1915. The mobilisation orders of that year caused widespread unrest as they deprived families of their breadwinners. ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2020-07-21 | Author:Joseph M. Siracusa [Siracusa, Joseph M.]

Evolution of nuclear deterrence Not until the second decade of the nuclear age was the danger of nuclear weaponry and the perception of this danger sufficient to give rise to ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2020-08-30 | Author:John B. Carpenter [Carpenter, John B.]

And in the name of the guns were reflected as a designation, which according to English tradition was appropriated to artillery guns by the weight of their shells - 6 ...