Tim Newark Boeken

The true story of Britain and America's secret wartime dealings with the Mafia.

The Worldwide History of Warfare combines historical engravings, diagrams and artwork with an engaging modern text to create a visual study of humankinds extraordinary capacity for ingenuity in inventing new ways to wage war. The history of military hardware is interjected with fascinating diagrams of tactics and famous battles, which alongside an extensive glossary of terms creates a complete grammar for the school of war. Navigational features include tabs with detailed cross-references and timelines of key battles and inventions, which aid the reader in exploring the complex battleground of the history of warfare from ancient times through to the American Civil War.

Camouflage has become a global cult in todays fashion and design world. This book tells its fascinating story an interplay between modern military developments on the one hand, and the worlds of art, design and popular culture on the other. A dazzling revelation of camouflages power in nature, war and design, it will have a broad appeal to anyone interested in design, fashion, history and military history.

Charles 'Lucky' Luciano was a vicious mobster who rose to become the multimillionaire king of the New York underworld. Lucky Luciano: Mafia Murderer and Secret Agent turns accepted Mafia history on its head with an extraordinary story that has never been told before. číst celé

For the first twenty-five years of his criminal career, Charles “Lucky” Luciano was a vicious mobster who rose to become the multimillionaire king of the New York underworld. For the next twenty-five years of his life, Luciano was a legend---but a fake master criminal without real power, his evil reputation manipulated and maintained by the government agents who had put him behind bars.             Drawing on secret government documents from archives in the United States and Europe, this myth-busting biography tells the real story from Luciano’s early days as a top hit man for the Mob to his exploits running sex and narcotics empires. His criminal career abruptly ended with conviction and imprisonment, but his reputation was only enhanced by rumors that he was winning World War II for the Allies in Sicily and the Mediterranean. Now, for the first time, author Tim Newark exposes the truth about what Luciano really did do to help the Allies in the war.             With his expulsion from the United States after the war ended, Luciano returned to Italy. He was reputed to have overseen a massive transatlantic narcotics network and became the arch-villain for international law enforcement agencies. But Newark reveals how Luciano really spent his twilight years.             Lucky The Real and the Fake Gangster turns accepted Mafia history on its head with an extraordinary story that has never been told before.

This atlas shows the decisive battles that changed the tide of war. It reveals how the upper hand was gained through a twist of fate, when US aircraft carriers were at sea on manoeuvres when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1942. With detailed strategic and battle plans it explains how superior forces were overwhelmed by a small well-trained army - the Turkish defence of Gallipoli agains the Allies in 1915. The atlas covers 200 years, from Napoleon's conquest of Europe through the first and second world wars to the Gulf War and the disintegration of Yugoslavia.

Úplný prehľad ozbrojených konfrontácií, ktoré zmenili modernú históriu. 50 bitiek, ktoré ovplyvnili vývoj vojenstva i histórie. V knihe nájdete fascinujúce obrazové dokumenty, informačné mapy bojísk ako aj spomienky účastníkov bojov.

Vztahy a spolupráce mezi spojeneckými (anglo-americkými) vojsky a špičkami zločineckých struktur při osvobozování italské Sicílie v roce 1943 během 2. světové války. Vojenský publicista-historik poměrně věrohodně vyvrací spekulace o významném, ba rozhodujícím podílu sicilské mafie na porážce italských a německých vojsk na ostrově. Určité, vesměs velmi okrajové formy spolupráce rozhodně nerozhodly o úspěchu celé kampaně. Poněkud komplikovanější situace nastává ale v období po osvobození. Spojenecká vojska nesmetla zároveň s protivníkem i mafii, která byla i přes dřívější akce a snahu Mussoliniho a jeho fašistů s ostrovem "pevně spjatá". O své nechtěli přijít tentokrát ani sicilští separatisté...

Von den frühesten Schlachten zum ersten modernen Krieg Die Geschichte der Kriegskunst erzählt von den unermüdlichen Versuchen der Menschheit, ständig effizientere Methoden der Kriegsführung zu Wasser und zu Land zu ersinnen. Um diese Entwicklung erfahrbar zu machen, werden in diesem Buch erläuternde Texte renommierter Militärhistoriker mit über 1000 Illustrationen, Stichen und Diagrammen des 19. Jahrhunderts kombiniert. Es bietet ein umfassendes Bild über die Entwicklung des Kriegswesens seit den frühesten bekannten Schlachten bis zum Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg, der als erster modern geführter Krieg in die Geschichte einging. Der chronologischen Aufbereitung der Taktiken und Technologien, die in unterschiedlichen kulturellen Kontexten entstanden, folgt eine informative Zusammenstellung einzelner Waffentypen und Ausrüstungsgegenstände sowie ein umfangreiches Glossar militärischer Begriffe. Hilfreich sind die farbigen Navigationsleisten mit Querverweisen und eine Zeittafel der entscheidenden Kriege und Erfindungen.