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Author | : Dan Snow |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2012-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1448140595 |
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In this riveting book, political journalist Peter Snow and military historian Dan Snow bring to life the most intense and bitterly fought battles of the 20th century - from the apocalyptic terrain of the Western Front to the desert landscape of Iraq. Punctuated by powerful eyewitness testimony, their compelling and often shocking narrative highlights the strategy of military commanders as well as the experience of men on the frontline. 20th Century Battlefields looks back at the most violent century in history and examines the challenges facing armed forces in the future.
Author | : Peter Snow |
Publisher | : BBC Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Battles |
ISBN | : 9780563522959 |
Download The World's Greatest Twentieth Century Battlefields Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Featuring eight momentous battles, Amiens, Stalingrad, Midway, the Korean War, the Yom Kippur War, Vietnam Tet offensive, the Falklands and the First Gulf War, this volume contains a series of gripping narratives that will take you into the heat of battle, when history was poised on a knife edge, and could have gone either way.
Author | : Michael B. Barrett |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2013-10-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253008700 |
Download Prelude to Blitzkrieg Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An authoritative study of World War I’s often-overlooked Romanian front. In contrast to the trench-war deadlock on the Western Front, combat in Romania and Transylvania in 1916 foreshadowed the lightning warfare of World War II. When Romania joined the Allies and invaded Transylvania without warning, the Germans responded by unleashing a campaign of bold, rapid infantry movements, with cavalry providing cover or pursuing the crushed foe. Hitting where least expected and advancing before the Romanians could react―even bombing their capital from a Zeppelin soon after war was declared―the Germans and Austrians poured over the formidable Transylvanian Alps onto the plains of Walachia, rolling up the Romanian army from west to east, and driving the shattered remnants into Russia. Prelude to Blitzkrieg tells the story of this largely ignored campaign to determine why it did not devolve into the mud and misery of trench warfare, so ubiquitous elsewhere. “This work will stand as the definitive study of the Central Powers part of the campaign for some time to come.” —Journal of Military History “Barnett’s book is a valuable addition to the field. He writes well and with authority. He has been able to illuminate a little-known corner of the First World War and provide a state-of-the-art operational history combining detailed narrative with prescient analysis.” —American Historical Review
Author | : John Carman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2020-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198857462 |
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What is -- or makes a place -- a 'historic battlefield'? From one perspective the answer is simple -- it is a place where large numbers of people came together in an organised manner to fight one another at some point in the past. Yet from another perspective it is far more difficult to say. Why any such location is a place of battle rather than any other kind of event, and why it is especially historic, is hard to identify. This book sets out an answer to the question of what a historic battlefield is in the modern imagination, drawing upon examples from prehistory to the 20th century. Treating battles as events in the past and battlefields as places in the present, this book exposes the complexity of the concept of a historic battlefield and how it forms part of a Western understanding of the world. Taking its lead from new developments in battlefield study, especially archaeological approaches, it establishes a means by which these new approaches can contribute to a more radical thinking about war and conflict, especially to Critical Military and Critical Security studies. The book goes beyond the study of battles as separate and unique events to consider what they mean to us and why we need them to have particular characteristics. It will be of interest to archaeologists, historians, and students of modern war in all its forms.
Author | : Graham Greene |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1504053974 |
Download It's a Battlefield Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An “adventurous . . . intelligent . . . ingenious” novel of crime and punishment in pre–World War II London (V. S. Pritchett). During a demonstration in Hyde Park, Communist bus driver Jim Drover acts on instinct to protect his wife by stabbing to death the policeman set to strike her down. Sentenced to hang—whether as a martyr, tool, or murderer—Drover accepts his lot, unaware that the ramifications for the crime, and the battle for his reprieve, are inflaming political unrest in an increasingly divided city. But Drover’s single, impulsive act is also upending the lives of the people he loves and trusts. Caught in a quicksand of desperation, sexual betrayal, and guilt, they will not only play a part in Drover’s fate, but they’ll become agents—both unwitting and calculated—of their own fates as well. Turning the traditional narrative of the police procedural, domestic drama, and political thriller on its head, It’s a Battlefield was described by Graham Greene himself as “a panoramic novel of London,” one without heroes and villains, only “the injustice of man’s justice.”
Author | : Rossiter Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258115319 |
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Campfire & Battlefield, written by Rossiter Johnson, is a richly illustrated narrative history of the war. Originally published in 1894, this handsome reprint includes contributions from the likes of Generals Oliver O. Howard, John B. Gordon and LaSalle Corbell Pickett, Wife of General George Pickett. Encompassing each campaign from the outset of the bloody conflict to the last days of the confederacy, Campfire and Battlefield has over 1000 original wartime photographs of both heroes and battlegrounds. This 552 page history of the Great Civil War is available in two collector's edition. The Standard or Deluxe.
Author | : Lawrence Grinter |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781478361886 |
Download Battlefield of the Future - 21st Century Warfare Issues Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a book about strategy and war fighting. It contains 11 essays which examine topics such as military operations against a well-armed rogue state, the potential of parallel warfare strategy for different kinds of states, the revolutionary potential of information warfare, the lethal possibilities of biological warfare and the elements of an ongoing revolution in military affairs. The purpose of the book is to focus attention on the operational problems, enemy strategies and threat that will confront U.S. national security decision makers in the twenty-first century.
Author | : Barrie Pitt |
Publisher | : Putnam Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Battles |
ISBN | : 9780448144580 |
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Author | : Jeff Shaara |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2006-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0345493842 |
Download Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of the ten Civil War battlefields every American should visit: Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, New Market, Chickamauga, the Wilderness/Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg/Appomattox. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict and provides • engaging narratives of the war’s crucial battles • intriguing historical footnotes about each site • photographs of the locations–then and now • detailed maps of the battle scenes • fascinating sidebars with related points of interest From Antietam to Gettysburg to Vicksburg, and to the many poignant destinations in between, Jeff Shaara’s Civil War Battlefields is the ideal guide for casual tourists and Civil War enthusiasts alike.
Author | : Peter Svenson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2017-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781580801867 |
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With a new Introduction by the Author A finalist for the National Book Award, Battlefield chronicles the author's experiences building a farmhouse on a forty-acre site near Harrisonburg, Virginia, which years before had been the site of the Civil War "Battle of Cross Keys." While reviving his long-neglected farmland, he unearths spent cartridges and artillery shells, and meditates on how best to commemorate the men who fell in battle on his forty acres.