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Free Download Operation Tidal Wave: The Bloodiest Air Battle in the History of War by Vincent dePaul Lupiano
English | December 1, 2020 | ISBN: 1493053728 | 272 pages | PDF | 4.21 Mb
Operation Tidal Wave tells the story of the bloodiest air battle in the history of war. It is about 1700 airmen who set out to bomb the oil refineries surrounding the city of Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943. Success, they thought, would be a force in ending the war. Success instead was extremely limited and 500 airmen were killed, wounded, captured, or interned. Negligible damage resulted at the Ploesti refineries, and a few months later they were operating at one-hundred percent capacity. To show the asperity of the raid, five Congressional Medals of Honor were awarded, two posthumously.

Free Download Jon Cooksey, "3 Para Mount Longdon: the Bloodiest Battle"
English | 2004 | pages: 112 | ISBN: 1844151158 | EPUB | 28,5 mb
June 1982, and in the middle of a South Atlantic winter, the Falklands War is at its height. The Parachute Regiment has already been in action – 2 Para securing a hard fought victory at Darwin-Goose Green at a heavy price in killed and wounded including their CO, Lieutenant Colonel ‘H’ Jones, later awarded a posthumous VC.

Free Download Graham Turner, "Towton 1461: England’s bloodiest battle"
English | 2003 | pages: 97 | ISBN: 1841765139, 0275988597 | PDF | 10,3 mb
On a bitterly cold Palm Sunday, 29 March 1461, the army of King Edward IV met that of his Lancastrian enemies on a snow-covered battlefield south of the village of Towton in Yorkshire. The struggle lasted all day in the longest and bloodiest battle of the Wars of the Roses (1455-1485). With the arrival of Yorkist reinforcements under the Duke of Norfolk, the Lancastrian line eventually broke and their troops fled, many being caught and slaughtered in the death trap known as ‘Bloody Meadow’. Christopher Gravett examines the campaign that marked the resurgence of the Yorkist cause and established Edward IV as king

Free Download The Battle of Sekigahara: The Greatest, Bloodiest, Most Decisive Samurai Battle Ever by Chris Glenn
English | December 3, 2021 | ISBN: 1399014137 | 255 pages | PDF | 13 Mb
Sekigahara was the greatest samurai battle in history. Japan had long been at civil war until brought under the rule of Oda Nobunaga, and then, following his death at the hands of a traitorous general, that of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. It was Hideyoshi who completed the unification of Japan and ushered in a period of peace.

Free Download Albuera 1811: The Bloodiest Battle of the Peninsular War by Guy Dempsey, Donald E. Graves
English | September 22, 2008 | ISBN: 1848324995 | 336 pages | EPUB | 11 Mb
On 16 May 1811, the small town of Albuera was the setting for one of the Peninsular War’s most bloody and desperate battles. A combined Spanish, British and Portuguese force of more than 30,000 men, under the command of Lord Beresford, stubbornly blocked the march of the French field marshal Soult, who was trying to reach the fortress of Badajoz, 12 miles north.