10 книг
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Нагие и мертвые. В двух томах Норман Мейлер
ISBN: 5-7141-0180-4, 5-7141-0181-2 Год издания: 1994 Издательство: Вече, Рипол, Джокер Язык: Русский Роман классика американской литературы Н.Мейлера знакомит с малоизвестными страницами военного противоборства США и Японии в годы Второй Мировой войны. Автору удалось создать галерею достоверных и живых портретов военнослужащих американской армии, изобразить их специфический армейский быт, умело передать психологические нюансы.
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Отныне и вовек Джеймс Джонс
Год издания: 1989 Издательство: Правда Язык: Русский В центре широко популярного романа одного из крупнейших американских писателей Джеймса Джонса – трагическая судьба солдата, вступившего в конфликт с бездушной военной машиной США. В романе дана широкая панорама действительности США 40-х годов. Роман глубоко психологичен и пронизан антимилитаристским пафосом.
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Однажды орел... Энтон Майрер
Год издания: 1976 Издательство: Воениздат Язык: Русский События, описываемые в романе, охватывают полувековой период от начала первой мировой войны до агрессии во Вьетнаме. В книге описываются жизнь, быт и нравы американской армии, вскрываются пороки воинского воспитания в вооруженных силах США, противоречия между офицерами и рядовыми солдатами и империалистический характер устремлений американской военщины.
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General Lesley J. McNair: Unsung Architect of the U. S. Army Mark T. Calhoun
ISBN: 978-0-7006-2069-2 Год издания: 2015 Издательство: University Press of Kansas РазвернутьGeorge C. Marshall once called him "the brains of the army." And yet General Lesley J. McNair (1883-1944), a man so instrumental to America's military preparedness and Army modernization, remains little known today, his papers purportedly lost, destroyed by his wife in her grief at his death in Normandy. This book, the product of an abiding interest and painstaking research, restores the general Army Magazine calls one of "Marshall's forgotten men" to his rightful place in American military history. Because McNair contributed so substantially to America's war preparedness, this first complete account of his extensive and varied career also…
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Operational Logistics: The Art and Science of Sustaining Military Operations Moshe Kress
ISBN: 978-3-31-922673-6 Год издания: 2015 Издательство: Springer РазвернутьThis book explores the theoretical foundations and applications of military operational logistics (OpLog). OpLog theory has two facets: qualitative and quantitative.The qualitative facet is imbedded in the theory of operational level of war or operational art. It includes principles, imperatives and tenets, which are stated and analyzed in the first few chapters. The quantitative facet relates to the scientific aspects of OpLog. It is manifested by formal network models representing structural and operational features of an OpLog system. The book examines the two facets and integrates them into a unified presentation. Important OpLog…
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Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan Ronald H. Spector
ISBN: 978-1-4767-2742-4 Год издания: 1985 Издательство: Free Press Развернуть“The best book by far on the Pacific War” (The New York Times Book Review), this classic one-volume history of World War II in the Pacific draws on declassified intelligence files; British, American, and Japanese archival material; and military memoirs to provide a stunning and complete history of the conflict. This “superbly readable, insightful, gripping” (Washington Post Book World) contribution to WWII history combines impeccable research with electrifying detail and offers provocative interpretations of this brutal forty-four-month struggle. Author and historian Ronald H. Spector reassesses US and Japanese strategy and shows that…
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Small Wars Manual U.S. Marine Corps
ISBN: 9781410224828 Год издания: 2005 Издательство: University Press of the Pacific This reprint of the 1940 edition of the Small Wars Manual is an aid to education and training in the historical approach of Marine Corps units conducting operations in low-intensity conflicts. In the 1930s, such conflicts were referred to as "small wars." The Small Wars Manual is one of the best books on military operations in peacekeeping and counterinsurgency operations published before World War II.
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Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla David Kilcullen
ISBN: 978-0199737505 Год издания: 2013 Издательство: Oxford University Press РазвернутьWhen Americans think of modern warfare, what comes to mind is the US army skirmishing with terrorists and insurgents in the mountains of Afghanistan. But the face of global conflict is ever-changing. In Out of the Mountains, David Kilcullen, one of the world's leading experts on current and future conflict, offers a groundbreaking look at what may happen after today's wars end. This is a book about future conflicts and future cities, and about the challenges and opportunities that four powerful megatrends--population, urbanization, coastal settlement, and connectedness--are creating across the planet. And it is about what cities,…
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Weapon of Choice: Small Arms and the Culture of Military Innovation Matthew Ford
ISBN: 978-0190623869 Год издания: 2017 Издательство: Oxford University Press РазвернутьThis book examines Western military technological innovation through the lens of developments in small arms during the twentieth century. These weapons have existed for centuries, appear to have matured only incrementally and might seem unlikely technologies for investigating the trajectory of military-technical change. Their relative simplicity, however, makes it easy to use them to map patterns of innovation within the military-industrial complex. Advanced technologies may have captured the military imagination, offering the possibility of clean and decisive outcomes, but it is the low technologies of the infantryman that can help us…
