Tag: Victories

Free Download Robert Zaretsky, "Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague"
English | ISBN: 022680349X | 2022 | 208 pages | PDF | 1105 KB
A timely and nuanced book that sets the author’s experience as a nursing home volunteer during the pandemic alongside the wisdom of great thinkers who confronted their own plagues.

Free Download Six Victories: North Africa Malta and the Mediterranean Convoy War November 1941 – March 1942 (Audiobook)
English | May 12, 2020 | ASIN: B087D5SPT4 | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 14m | 569 MB
Author: Vincent O’Hara | Narrator: Michael Page
In October 1941, the British Admiralty based a surface strike force in Malta to attack Axis sea lanes between Italy and Africa. Aided by Ultra intelligence, submarines, and bombers based in Malta, this force dominated the Central Mediterranean. From the end of October through the middle of December 1941, less than a third of the supplies shipped from Italian ports arrived in Libya.
Shortages of ammunition and fuel finally compelled the Afrika Korps to retreat 400 miles. Then, in the space of 30 hours, this all changed. First, Italian naval forces broke the blockade by fighting through a major convoy that arrived in time to blunt the British advance; next, the strike force plowed into a minefield laid by Italian cruisers; and finally, in a daring attack, Italian commandos crippled the Mediterranean Fleet’s battleships in port. The swing in fortune was immediate and dramatic.

Free Download Frank de Sisto – Early Panzer Victories (Concord 7064)
Concord Publication | 2010 | ISBN: 9623611455 | English | 74 pages | PDF | 52.57 MB
Many books have been written on German panzers, a topic that is extremely popular. However, there is always room for one more, especially when new photos are unearthed, as is the case with this new volume from Frank De Sisto. This book confines itself to the period from 1939-42. Defined by these early-war years, the coverage thus includes German campaigns waged against Poland (1939), Scandinavia (1940), Western Europe (1940), the Balkans (1941) and Soviet Union (1941). The volume commences with a precis of these aforementioned campaigns, with a particular focus on the role of panzer units. Germany unleashed its new combined-arms blitzkrieg strategy on Europe, dependent on new armoured vehicles. These vehicles are shown in a series of clear black and white photographs, and they include the likes of halftracks (Sd.Kfz.251), armoured cars (Sd.Kfz.221/222, Sd.Kfz.231, Sd.Kfz.232, Sd.Kfz.263), assault guns (StuG.III) and tanks (Pz.Kpfw.I, Pz.Kpfw.II, Pz.Kpfw.35(t) and 38(t), Pz.Kpfw.III, Pz.Kpfw.IV). There are even a few rarities such as the Saurer RK-7 and 15cm s.IG33 infantry gun, as well as a few soft-skin vehicles. The inspirational photographs are accompanied by helpful and highly detailed captions that will add much to the reader’s knowledge of German vehicles of this time. As is usual for this series, there is a series of 16 colour plates in the centre of the book. These are expertly produced by artist Laurent Lecocq. For enthusiasts seeking wider coverage of this early-war period,"Early Panzer Victories" is a handy reference. Well written and well presented, this work offers many new photos for readers to study and examine.

Free Download Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding
by Shelley X. Liu
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0197696708 | 345 Pages | True PDF | 13.7 MB

Free Download Shelley X. Liu, "Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding"
English | ISBN: 0197696708 | 2024 | 344 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Governing After War explores how wartime processes affects post-war state-building efforts when rebels win a civil war and come into power. Post-war governance is a continuation of war-although violence has ceased, the victor must consolidate its control over the state through a process of internal conquest. This means carefully making choices about resource allocation towards development and security. Where does the victor choose to spend, and why? And what are the implications for ultimately consolidating power and preventing conflict recurrence?

Free Download Charles River Editors, Bill Caufield (Narrator), "The Ottoman Empire’s Greatest Victories: The History and Legacy of the Most Important Battles Won by the Ottomans"
English | ISBN: 9798868623868 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~09:39:00 | 288 MB
In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the 4th century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late 5th century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul.
The end of the Byzantine Empire had a profound effect not only on the Middle East but Europe as well. Constantinople had played a crucial part in the Crusades, and the fall of the Byzantines meant that the Ottomans now shared a border with Europe. The Islamic empire was viewed as a threat by the predominantly Christian continent to their west, and it took little time for different European nations to start clashing with the powerful Turks. In fact, the Ottomans would clash with Russians, Austrians, Venetians, Polish, and more before collapsing as a result of World War I, when they were part of the Central powers.

Free Download Small Victories in a Great Big War: The Terrifying and Sometimes Hilarious Adventures of a World War Two Paratrooper (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCG9MD1P | 2023 | 4 hours and 22 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 226 MB
Author: John H. Canfield
Narrator: Eric Smies
An incredible journey of traumatic near-death moments, day to day drudgery, amusing situations, and brushes with greatness in World War II. Life for a World War II paratrooper was grave and perilous; John H. Canfield’s experience was no different. However, this young man found himself in so many crazy-sometimes humorous-situations that he almost forgot about how dangerous it was. Filled with pranksters and superiors full of bravado and an unfortunate brush with racial bigotry with a fellow African American soldier, Canfield shares his many stories from basic training and jump school.