Battle Bridges
Author | : John B. Wong |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2006-05-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781412220828 |
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Author | : John B. Wong |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2006-05-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781412220828 |
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Author | : R. S Zaharna |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2010-02-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230277926 |
This book tackles the pressing need to expand the vision of strategic US public diplomacy. It explores the interplay of power politics, culture, identity, and communication and explains how the underlying communication and political dynamics have redefined what 'strategic communication' means in today's international arena.
Author | : Daniel Rosen |
Publisher | : Benchmark Education Company |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Readers |
ISBN | : 1616721731 |
Author | : Alexander McKee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Donald Featherstone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2002-02-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780756753528 |
Battles for bridges have punctuated the course of warfare. Rivers pose serious problems for mil. commanders as barriers to their advancing armies. They provide inval. defensive positions for those in retreat. From more than 2,000 years of mil. history, 100 battles have been selected. They range in size from small-scale actions to massive, army-scale operations. The most famous bridge battle was that at Arnhem, immortalized in book and film as A Bridge Too Far. The Civil War provides many examples of such battles, e.g. First Bull Run. You will be able to see both sides of the story and compare battles fought in similar circumstances, but with diff. weapons, across the centuries. Ill.
Author | : Antony Beevor |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2018-05-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0141941294 |
The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad 'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War . . . his fans will love it' - Robert Fox, Evening Standard 'The eye for telling detail which we have come to expect from Antony Beevor. . . this time, though, he turns his brilliance as a military historian to a subject not just of defeat, but dunderhead stupidity' Daily Mail On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders carrying the British 1st Airborne and the American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions. He gazed up in envy at this massive demonstration of paratroop power. Operation Market Garden, the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine and beyond, was a bold concept: the Americans thought it unusually bold for Field Marshal Montgomery. But could it ever have worked? The cost of failure was horrendous, above all for the Dutch, who risked everything to help. German reprisals were pitiless and cruel, and lasted until the end of the war. The British fascination with heroic failure has clouded the story of Arnhem in myths. Antony Beevor, using often overlooked sources from Dutch, British, American, Polish and German archives, has reconstructed the terrible reality of the fighting, which General Student himself called 'The Last German Victory'. Yet this book, written in Beevor's inimitable and gripping narrative style, is about much more than a single, dramatic battle. It looks into the very heart of war. 'In Beevor's hands, Arnhem becomes a study of national character' - Ben Macintyre, The Times 'Superb book, tirelessly researched and beautifully written' - Saul David, Daily Telegraph 'Complete mastery of both the story and the sources' - Keith Lowe, Literary Review 'Another masterwork from the most feted military historian of our time' - Jay Elwes, Prospect Magazine 'The analysis he has produced of the disaster is forensic' - Giles Milton, Sunday Times 'He is a master of his craft . . . we have here a definitive account' - Piers Paul Read, The Tablet
Author | : Donald Featherstone |
Publisher | : Arms & Armour Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781854094490 |
Bridges have been the sites of some of history's most thrilling and pivotal moments. After gaining perspective on the tactical significance of bridges and rivers, you will be transported to dozens of locales to learn -- often from first-hand accounts -- about battles from the ancient and medieval periods, Europe of the 17-18th centuries, the Napoleonic Wars, the American War for Independence, War of 1812, and Civil War, plus the Crimean and Franco-Prussian wars and other conflicts of the mid-19th century, the British colonial wars, World War I, and World War II.
Author | : A. J. Crozier |
Publisher | : Benchmark Education Company |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Technology |
ISBN | : 1450928617 |
"What made the Civil War the first modern war? Read about how the technology of the time affected how the war was fought"--Page 4 of cover.
Author | : Daniel Rosen |
Publisher | : Benchmark Education Company |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Readers (Elementary) |
ISBN | : 1450928609 |
Readers learn about the Battle of Antietam, a major turning point of the Civil War.
Author | : Joseph Collins |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2016-09-20 |
Genre | : Frederick (Md.) |
ISBN | : 9781537798530 |
The lightly studied heroic fighting that transpired at the iconic Jug Bridge was ancillary to the main and brutal fighting that took place that hot and sunny summer afternoon on July 9, 1864, at farms and bridges situated at Monocacy Junction; however, it still played a vital role in the overall defensive strategy of union General Lew Wallace.