В многотомнике "Командиры полков Красной Армии 1921-1941 гг." представлены биографии советских военачальников, занимавших должности командиров стрелковых, мотострелковых, горнострелковых, кавалерийских, артиллерийских, танковых, ПВО, авиационных и других полков Красной Армии с 1921 по 1941 гг. Биографии составлены на базе личных дел учетно-послужных карт офицерского состава и именных списков воинских частей. Многие данные публикуются впервые. В ...
В многотомник "Начальники штабов армий Красной Армии 1941-1945 гг." вошли биографии всех начальников штабов общевойсковых армий, занимавших эту должность во время Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945. Биографии составлены на базе учетно-послужных карт, личных дел и списков командного состава Красной Армии. Многие биографии публикуются впервые!
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In <I>Hymns for the Fallen,</I> Todd Decker listens closely to forty years of Hollywood combat films produced after Vietnam. Ever a noisy genre, post-Vietnam war films have deployed music and sound to place the audience in the midst of battle and to provoke reflection on the experience of combat. Considering landmark movies—such as <I>Apocalypse Now</I>, <I>Saving Private Ryan</I>, <I>The Thin ...
While many books examine specific wars, few study the history of war worldwide and from an evolutionary perspective. <I>A Global History of War</I> is one of the first works to focus not on the impact of war on civilizations, but rather on how civilizations impact the art and execution of war. World-renowned scholar Gerard Chaliand concentrates on the peoples and cultures who have determined how war is conducted and reveals the lasti ...
The so-called first war of the twenty-first century actually began more than 2,300 years ago when Alexander the Great led his army into what is now a sprawling ruin in northern Afghanistan. Frank L. Holt vividly recounts Alexander's invasion of ancient Bactria, situating in a broader historical perspective America's war in Afghanistan. ...
Drawing on ancient historical writings, the vast array of information gleaned in recent years from the study of Hellenistic coins, and startling archaeological evidence newly unearthed in Afghanistan, Frank L. Holt sets out to rediscover the ancient civilization of Bactria. In a gripping narrative informed by the author’s deep knowledge of his subject, this book covers two centuries of Bactria’s history, from its colonization by remnants of Alex ...
Year of the Locust captures in page-turning detail the end of the Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. In the diaries of Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman (1893–1917), the first ordinary recruit to describe World War I from the Arab side, we follow the misadventures of an Ottoman soldier stationed in Jerusalem. There he occupied himself by dreaming about his future and using family connections to avoid being sent to the Suez. His di ...
Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a.d. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat among history's great losers. By the time he was killed, his empire had been coming unglued for several years: the Goths had overrun the Balkans; Pe ...
