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World War 2: The Most Important Events Of World War II World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945, involving over 100 million people from more than 30 countries. The war was fought between two major alliances—the Allies and the Axis Powers—and became the most widespread and deadliest conflict in human history. In a state of total war, nations mobilized all economic, industrial, and scientific resources. Civilians suffered heavily, with atrocities like the Holocaust and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki contributing ...

Striking where the enemy is weakest and melting away into the darkness before he can react. Never confronting a stronger force directly, but using audacity and surprise to confound and demoralize an opponent. Operations driven by good intelligence, area knowledge, mobility, speed, firepower, and detailed planning, and executed by a few specialists with indigenous warriors—this is unconventional warfare.

“Beyond Belief” is a unique compilation of short stories by a team of authors and researchers. Herein you will find some of the most amazing stories ever told, each presented in historically factual manner, without hyperbole or literary license. Even more amazing is that each of these stories is TRUE! “True Stories of Women Heroes That Defy Comprehension” is the eighteenth book in this series. In it are the stories of more than 50 United States women who served in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard with distinction and/or uncommon valor. Save for the Air Force ...

The enduring image of World War I is of men stuck in muddy trenches, and of vast armies deadlocked in a fight neither could win. It was a war of barbed wire, poison gas, and horrific losses as officers led their troops on mass charges across No Man’s Land and into a hail of bullets. While these impressions are all too true, they hide the fact that trench warfare was dynamic and constantly evolving throughout the war as all armies struggled to find a way to break through the opposing lines.

In TANK, best-selling historian and former officer in the Royal Tank Regiment Mark Urban draws on wide-ranging accounts from soldiers, designers, and politicians, from Winston Churchill to Volodymyr Zelensky, to tell the remarkable story of one of the most important developments in military history.

"Battleships. The True History" is dedicated to battleships - the origin of the type, development, design features and service of individual ships and ship classes. This novella contains the text portion of the "Battleships. The True History" so that the text can be used on Kindle devices or as an audiobook. This edition does not contain reference data and tables, drawings and photographs.

Agosto de 1942: o Brasil declara guerra ao Eixo. O estopim: o ataque a vários navios mercantes e de passageiros brasileiros no litoral do Nordeste por uma ofensiva naval nazista, provocando a morte de centenas de inocentes. Por que os nazistas afundaram navios desarmados de um país até então não envolvido na guerra? Qual era o objetivo do governo comandado por Hitler? "Operação Brasil" revela a origem dos eventos que culminaram com esse ataque e levaram nosso país a entrar na Segunda Guerra Mundial.