N.-Y.: Osprey Publishing Ltd, 2010. - 64 p. Nicknamed ‘The Desert Fox’ for his cunning command of the Afrika Korps, Erwin Rommel remains one of the most popular and studied of Germany’s World War II commanders. He got his first taste of combat in World War I, where his daring command earned him the Blue Max, Germany’s highest decoration for bravery. He followed this up with...
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company Publishers, 1920. — 366 p. In the following pages the life story is told of a veryremarkable man, of a principal performer in some of the most memorable events in modern history, of the foremost of Russians with the solitary exception of Peter the Great. They present us with the picture of a singular personality, of an ardent patriot, of an...
Casemate, 2015. — 336 p. — ISBN: 1612002978. Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, brilliant soldier, a devoted husband and proud father; intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical, and arrogant. In France in 1940, then for two years in North Africa, then finally back in France once again, at Normandy in 1944, he proved himself a master of...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 568 p. Ferdinand Foch ended the First World War as Marshal of France and supreme commander of the Allied armies on the Western Front. Foch in Command is a pioneering study of his contribution to the Allied victory. Elizabeth Greenhalgh uses contemporary notebooks, letters and documents from previously under-studied archives to...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 568 p. Ferdinand Foch ended the First World War as Marshal of France and supreme commander of the Allied armies on the Western Front. Foch in Command is a pioneering study of his contribution to the Allied victory. Elizabeth Greenhalgh uses contemporary notebooks, letters and documents from previously under-studied archives to...
New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2007. — 433 p. — ISBN10: 0-8160-4732-4; ISBN13: 978-0-8160-4732-1. List of Entries Abbas I Abercromby, Sir Ralph Æthelstan Aetius, Flavius Agricola, Gnaeus Julius Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius Ahenobarbus, Cnaeus Domitius Alaric I Albert, archduke of Austria Alexander, Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George, first earl Alexander of Tunis Alexander the Great...
Editor: Vadim Guzun; prefaţă: Olga Porohivska. — Cluj-Napoca: Argonaut, 2013. — 458 p. — (Biblioteca Institutului de Istorie „George Bariţiu” din Cluj-Napoca XXIV). — ISBN: 978-973-109-378-9. În anul 1920, într-o luptă inegală cu trupele bolşevice, în fruntea Brigăzii a 2-a de Mitraliere a Armatei Naţionale Ucrainene, locotenent-colonelul Hnat Porohivski s-a retras pe malul...
Bloomsbury Press, 2013. — 320 p. Leading military historian Victor Davis Hanson returns to non-fiction in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five Generals who single-handedly saved their nations from defeat in war. War is rarely a predictable enterprise--it is a mess of luck, chance, and incalculable variables. Today's sure winner can...
London: Focal Point, 2002. — 481 p. Of the score or more field marshals created by Hitler three, and one grandadmiral, are still alive. Most of the others were killed in action, committed suicide, or were hanged by Hitler or their captors. To have written a biography of Milch, least famous of the survivors, requires some explanation. When I visited them, most of his...
Szernin, 2006. — 313 S. Bis heute gilt Heinrich Harrer als kaum hinterfragtes Idol einer ganzen Bergsteigergeneration und der internationalen Ökologie- und Esoterikbewegung. Wie kaum ein anderer Österreicher erreichte Heinrich Harrer einen weltweiten Bekanntheitsgrad. Sein 1952 erschienener Beststeller „Sieben Jahre in Tibet“ machte den ehemaligen SS-Oberscharführer zum Helden...
Bakı, "Gənclik", 1991, 208 səh. Yazıçı-jurnalist Şəmistan Nəzirlinin oxuculara təqdim olunan Azərbaycan generalları kitabı uzun illər aparılan axtarışların və gərgin zəhmətin bəhrəsidir. Tarixi sənədlərin şahidliyi ilə yazılan bu əsərdə indiyədək adı heç yerdə çəkilməyən inqilabdan əvvəlki general oğullarımızın əvəzsiz xidmətləri qələmə alınıb. Kitabda ilk dəfə ötən əsrdə...
Bakı, "Hərbi nəşriyyat", 1995, 212 səh. Müdafiə Nazirliyinin Hərbi-Elmi Tədqiqatlar İdarəsinin baş zabiti, yazıçı Şəmistan Nəzirlinin «Cümhuriyyət generallarl» kitabında 1918 — 20-ci illərdə fəaliyyət göstərən Azərbaycan Demokratik hökumətinin sərkərdələri haqqında sənədli hekayələr və oçerklər toplanmışdır. Tarixi faktlar əsasında yazılmış əsərdə həm də XIX əsrin hərb...
Bakı, "Uğur", 2005, 127 səh. Hərbi publisist, yazıçı Şəmistan Nəzirli oxucuların görüşünə yeni bir əsərlə gəlib. İllərlə həyat və fəaliyyətini öyrəndiyi böyük sərkərdə Əliağa Şıxlinski haqqında kitabını oxuculara təqdim edir. Əsərdə generalın həyat yoldaşı ilk azərbaycanlı hərbi şəfqət bacısı Nigar xanım və unudulmuş general Novruzov qardaşları haqqında tədqiqatları da...
New York: Basic Books, 2008. — 274 p. An even less known period of a little-known period of history, the effects of the Chinese Revolution and the Russian Civil War in Mongolia is dealt expertly by Palmer, who tries to understand not only the period of history, but the motivations and character of a frightening man. Combining history with first-hand accounts of the author's...
Naujasis lankas, 2007. — 95 p. — ISBN: 978-9955-03-424-7 Kaip tik artėjant partizanų vado Adolfo Ramanausko-Vanago sušaudymo 50-sioms metinėms, kilo mintis per jo biografiją pažvelgti į tą laikotarpį, kuriame pagrindinis laisvės kovotojų moto buvo: „Atiduok Tėvynei, ką privalai."
Berkley Publishing Group, 2014. — 448 p. General George S. Patton. His tongue was as sharp as the cavalry saber he once wielded, and his fury as explosive as the shells he’d ordered launched from his tank divisions. Despite his profane, posturing manner, and the sheer enthusiasm for conflict that made both his peers and the public uncomfortable, Patton’s very presence commanded...
Roberts Geoffrey (Ed.). — Pen and Sword, 2014. — 794 p. — ISBN10: 1781592918. — ISBN13: 978-1781592915. At Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin and in virtually all the principal battles on the Eastern Front during the Second World War, Georgy Zhukov played a major role. He was Stalin's pre-eminent general throughout the conflict, and in his autobiography he...
Lietuvos Respublikos krašto apsaugos ministerija, 2006. — 277 p. — ISBN: 9986-738-80-6 Leidinyje rašoma apie partizano Antano Kraujelio-Siaubūno (1928-1965) gyvenimą ir veiklą. Be to, knygoje atskleistas gausios Kraujelių šeimos likimas sovietinio genocido ir pasipriešinimo jam sąlygomis, įtraukti partizano artimųjų bei bendraamžių prisiminimai bei pateikta bibliografinė...
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