5 History / Military English eBooks

Henry M. Malak - Shavelings in Death Camps: A Polish Priest's Memoir of Imprisonment by the Nazis, 1939-1945
British Battle Tanks: The First World War (Osprey General Military)
The Imperial Cult in the Latin West: Studies in the Ruler Cult of the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire, Volume III, Part 2
Secret Soldiers: The Story of World War II's Heroic Army of Deception
Vladimir Brovkin - Russia After Lenin: Politics, Culture and Society, 1921-1929

Henry M. Malak - Shavelings in Death Camps: A Polish Priest's Memoir of Imprisonment by the Nazis, 1939-1945
2012 | ISBN: 0786470577 | English | 418 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
Catholic priests all across Poland were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps at the beginning of World War II. This memoir by Fr. Henryk Maria Malak (1912-1987) is their story and his. Through the author's eyes we witness the German invasion, atrocities against the local population, and the roundup of priests from the region. A series of "transports" takes them to Stutthof and Grenzdorf in Poland, then to Sachsenhausen and Dachau in Germany. Fr. Malak spent more than four years at Dachau, and he describes camp life in detail. (His final chapters are entries from a diary he kept secretly near the end of the war.) Some priests are selected for medical experiments; others are sent on "death transports." Throughout their ordeal they face brutal treatment, hard labor, hunger, disease. Although many perish along the way, all remain steadfast in their faith and in their loyalty to Poland.

British Battle Tanks: The First World War (Osprey General Military)
2016 | ISBN: 1472817559 | English | 238 Pages | PDF | 106 MB

The Imperial Cult in the Latin West: Studies in the Ruler Cult of the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire, Volume III, Part 2
English | ISBN: 9004125396 | 2002 | 344 Pages | PDF | 19 MB
This volume analyzes the priesthood of the provincial cult in every province of the Latin west where evidence has survived in the period from Augustus down to the mid third century.Particular attention is paid to the epigraphic record, notably the Testimony of honorific statues especially at provincial centres, but discussion also focusses on the origin and background of provincial priests, their office and duties, and their careers both before and after holding provincial office.Of special interest are the sixteen tables that list the main facts preserved by the epigraphic record, also a concluding overview that summarizes the principal features of the institution including the office of priestess and the role of administrative officials. Some fifty plates illustrate the text.

Secret Soldiers: The Story of World War II's Heroic Army of Deception
Dutton | 2002 | ISBN: 0525946640 | English | 432 Pages | PDF | 70 MB
They were masters of the craft of illusion and deception, and their greatest disappearing act was to vanish from history. The men of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops were recruited to become phantom warriors in a ghost army to help win the Battle of Europe. A thousand strong, they fought in more campaigns, from D Day to the Rhine River, with more Allied armies, than any other unit in the European Theater of Operations-yet not even their fellow American soldiers were aware of their presence.

Vladimir Brovkin - Russia After Lenin: Politics, Culture and Society, 1921-1929
1998 | ISBN: 0415179920 | English | 71 Pages | PDF | 11 MB
Following the Russian Revolution, the cultural and political landscape of Russia was strewn with contradictions. The dictatorship, censorship and repression of the Communist party existed alongside private enterprise, the black market and open debates on Socialism.In Russian Society and politics 1921-1929 Vladimir Brovkin offers a comprehensive cultural, political, economic and social history of developments in Russia in the 1920's.By examining the contrast between Bolshevik propaganda claims and social reality, the author explains how Communist representations were variously received and resisted by workers, peasants, students, women, teachers and party officials. He presents a picture of cultural diversity and rejection of Communist constraints through many means including unauthorised protest, religion, jazz music and poetry.In Russian Society and Politics 1921-1929 Vladimir Brovkin argues that these trends, if left unchecked, endangered the Communist Party's monopoly on political power. The Stalinist revolution can thus be seen as a pre-emptive strike against this independent and vibrant society as well as a product of Stalin's personality and communist ideology.