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Free Download In Koli Jean Bofane, Marjolijn de Jager, "Congo Inc.: Bismarck’s Testament"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0253031907 | EPUB | pages: 214 | 7.4 mb
To the sound of machine gun fire and the smell of burning flesh, award-winning author In Koli Jean Bofane leads readers on a perilous, satirical journey through the civil conflict and political instability that have been the logical outcome of generations of rapacious multinational corporate activity, corrupt governance, widespread civil conflict, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation in Africa. Isookanga, a Congolese Pygmy, grows up in a small village with big dreams of becoming rich. His vision of the world is shaped by his exploits in Raging Trade, an online game where he seizes control of the world’s natural resources by any means possible: high-tech weaponry, slavery, and even genocide. Isookanga leaves his sleepy village to make his fortune in the pulsating capital Kinshasa, where he joins forces with street children, warlords, and a Chinese victim of globalization in this blistering novel about capitalism, colonialism, and the world haunted by the ghosts of Bismarck and Leopold II. Told with just enough levity to make it truly heartbreaking, Congo Inc. is a searing tale about ecological, political, and economic failure.

Free Download Jim Crossley – Bismarck: The Epic Chase
Pen & Sword | 2010 | ISBN: 1848842503 | English | 192 pages | PDF | 58.56 MB
When the German Battleship Bismarck was commissioned in 1940 she was one of the fastest and most powerful ships afloat. To the Royal Navy and the security of Allied shipping in the Atlantic she posed an enormous threat – she must be destroyed. When she broke out into the Atlantic in 1941, some of Britain’s most powerful ships were sent to pursue and sink her.

Free Download Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe by Rachel Chrastil
English | September 5, 2023 | ISBN: 1541604091 | 512 pages | PDF | 46 Mb
A "vivid and informative" (Daily Telegraph) new history of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I

Free Download Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe, UK Edition by Rachel Chrastil
English | September 12th, 2023 | ISBN: 0241419190 | 512 pages | True EPUB | 71.78 MB
Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napoleon III and wrecked all assumptions about Europe’s pecking order. Other countries looked on in helpless amazement. Pushing aside further French resistance, a new German Empire was proclaimed (as a deliberate humiliation) in the Palace of Versailles, leaving the French to face civil war in Paris, reparations and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine.

Free Download Robert J. Winklareth – The Bismarck Chase: New Light on a Famous Engagement
Naval Institute Press | 1999 | ISBN: 1557501831 | English | 196 pages | PDF | 119.02 MB
On 24 May 1941 one of the most famous naval engagements of World War II-the sinking of the battlecruiser HMS Hood by the German battleship Bismarck-took place in the Denmark Strait and people have been arguing about it ever since. In this book a professional defense analyst offers an original and highly credible explanation of the battle based on extensive computer modeling. He argues that instead of pursuing a straight course throughout the battle as previously thought, Bismarck and Prinz Eugen made two major course changes that the commander of the Hood had to respond to. He explains how the gunners aboard the Hood initially mistook the smaller Prinz Eugen for the much-larger Bismarck and fired several salvoes before they realized their error. Photographs of Bismarck taken from Prinz Eugen during the battle are, for the first time, printed in their proper orientation and chronological sequence, correcting earlier misinterpretations of the actions.

Free Download Stefan Draminski – The Battleship Bismarck
Osprey Publishing | 2018 | ISBN: 1472828887 | English | 338 pages | PDF | 130.31 MB
Anatomy of the Ship

Free Download Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWG93PQ1 | 2023 | 17 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 508 MB
Author: Rachel Chrastil
Narrator: Sarah Borges
A new history of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I. Among the conflicts that convulsed Europe during the nineteenth century, none was more startling and consequential than the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. Deliberately engineered by Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the war succeeded in shattering French supremacy, deposing Napoleon III, and uniting a new German Empire. But it also produced brutal military innovations and a precarious new imbalance of power that together set the stage for the devastating world wars of the next century. In Bismarck’s War, historian Rachel Chrastil chronicles events on the battlefield in full, while also showing in intimate detail how the war reshaped and blurred the boundaries between civilian and soldier as the fighting swept across France. The result is the definitive history of a transformative conflict that changed Europe, and the history of warfare, forever.