Tag: Fortress

Free Download Erik Odegard, "The Company Fortress: Military Engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795 "
English | ISBN: 9087283466 | 2020 | 308 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
The remains of Dutch East India Company forts are scattered throughout littoral Asia and Africa. But how important were the specific characteristics of European bastion-trace fortifications to Early Modern European expansion? The Company Fortress takes on this question by studying the system of fortifications built and maintained by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in present-day India and Sri Lanka. It uncovers the stories of the forts and their designers, arguing that many of these engineers were in fact amateurs and their creations contained serious flaws. Subsequent engineers were hampered by their disagreement over fortification design: there proved not to be a single ‘European school’ of fortification design. The study questions the importance of fortification design for European expansion, shows the relationship between siege and naval warfare, and highlights changing perceptions by the VOC of the capabilities of new polities in India in the late eighteenth century.

Free Download Andrew Chatterton, "Fortress Britain 1940: Britain’s Unsung and Secret Defences on Land, Sea and in the Air"
English | ISBN: 1636243452 | 2024 | 304 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
"Through meticulous research in archives and crumbling ventilation shafts, Chatterton paints a picture of Britain in the Second World War that turns our popular narrative on its head. This is important, shocking, and impressive." ― Dan Snow MBE, historian, broadcaster and television presenter

Free Download Jay A. Stout, "Fortress Ploesti: The Campaign to Destroy Hitler’s Oil"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 1932033181, 1935149393 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 3.6 mb
Unlike previous books on Ploesti, Jay Stout goes well beyond the famous big and bloody raid of August 1943 and depicts the entire 1944 strategic campaign of twenty-plus missions that all but knocked Ploesti out of the war and denied the German war machine the fuel and lubricants it so desperately needed.

Free Download Crusader Castle: The Desert Fortress of Kerak by Michael S Fulton
English | March 19, 2024 | ISBN: 1399091263 | 272 pages | MOBI | 30 Mb
This is the ultimate history and guide to Kerak, one of the greatest crusader castles, tracing the architectural history of the castle over the course of 800 years.

Free Download Nathaniel Deutsch, "A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg"
English | ISBN: 0300231091 | 2021 | 408 pages | AZW3 | 11 MB
The epic story of Satmar Hasidic Williamsburg, from the decline of New York to the gentrification of Brooklyn

Free Download Danielle Trussoni, "The Fortress: A Love Story"
English | 2017 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0062459015 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Falling Through the Earth and Angelology returns with this much-anticipated memoir of love and transformation in France. The Fortress is Peter Mayle meets Eat, Pray, Love, a gorgeously written account of one woman’s journey to the other side of the romantic fairytale.

Free Download Danielle Trussoni, "The Fortress: A Love Story"
English | 2017 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0062459015 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Falling Through the Earth and Angelology returns with this much-anticipated memoir of love and transformation in France. The Fortress is Peter Mayle meets Eat, Pray, Love, a gorgeously written account of one woman’s journey to the other side of the romantic fairytale.

Free Download C. J. Cherryh, "Fortress of Ice"
English | 2006 | pages: 416 | ISBN: 0380979047, 0380820250 | PDF | 1,7 mb
Sixteen years have passed since the dramatic events of Fortress of Dragons, and Cefwyn, king at last, must rebuild his devastated kingdom. The embattled ruler is aided by his powerful friend Tristen Sihhe and two surprising allies in a struggle he must win: his two young sons. Elfwyn Aswydd, the bastard son of Cefwyn and the sorceress Tarien Aswydd, has spent years unaware of his parentage, yet now it is his time to emerge and claim the gifted birthright he’s been denied for so long.

Free Download Karl-Heinz Schmeelke – Fortress Europe: The Atlantic Wall Guns
Schiffer Publishing | 1993 | ISBN: 0887405258 | English | 342 pages | PDF | 76.65 MB
This book covers the wide variety of large caliber artillery used by the German Wehrmacht along northern France during World War II. Also explained and diagramed are the massive emplacements, as well as ammunition and fire-control devices.

Free Download Nick Hewitt – Firing on Fortress Europe: HMS Belfast at D-Day
Imperial War Museums | 2015 | ISBN: 1904897576 | English | 180 pages | PDF | 114.91 MB
As D-Day unfolded on June 6, 1944, one of the ships supporting the invasion was the HMS Belfast, a Royal Navy light cruiser. Now a popular floating museum on the Thames, the Belfast played an important part not just in the events of that day, but in the longer Battle for Normandy. This book uses firsthand accounts from the rich collections of the Imperial War Museums to tell the story of the planning of and build-up to D-Day, the action and danger of that day, and the ship’s subsequent history. Packed with testimony from oral histories, diaries, memoirs, and letters, as well as more than two hundred color photographs, it brings the heroism of D-Day vigorously to life.