Great Battles of the 20th Century
Author | : Barrie Pitt |
Publisher | : Putnam Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Battles |
ISBN | : 9780448144580 |
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Author | : Barrie Pitt |
Publisher | : Putnam Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Battles |
ISBN | : 9780448144580 |
Author | : Jean-Yves Delitte |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2020-10-21 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1682475638 |
In the history of civilizations, sea power has always played a preponderant role. This symbol of a nation's scientific and military genius has very often been the deciding factor during major conflicts, putting the names of several clashes down into legend. With this collection, Jean-Yves Delitte and Giuseppe Baiguera plunge into the heart of three of the twentieth century's greatest naval battles. TSUSHIMA. Newly opened to the world, Japan found itself to be weak and subject to the whims of larger nations. What followed was decades of industrialization and modernization as Japan sought to catch up to advanced nations and control its own destiny. In 1905, when Japan's expansionist policies clashed with the Russian Empire over Korea, Japan was poised to flex its muscle and stun the world using the same naval supremacy that opened its borders half a century earlier. JUTLAND. May 31, 1916: the British Royal Navy and the German Kaiserliche Marine are preparing to confront one another in the North Sea off the Danish coast of Jutland. This will be the final great confrontation of World War I by sea and one of the greatest epic battles in the history of seafaring. Despite heavy losses, which are greater than the Germans', the English reaffirm their naval supremacy over the seas of the world, and Germany, all too conscious of having escaped disaster, will opt to confine the majority of its ships to its ports. MIDWAY. December 7, 1941: the Empire of Japan strikes an early blow against the United States Navy at Pearl Harbor. In just a matter of hours, the era of the battleship would come to an end and the age of the aircraft carrier would begin. In June 1942, the Imperial Japanese Navy and its carrier fleet would try to seize the initiative again by attacking the island of Midway. What unfolds is an epic carrier duel, the likes of which the world has never seen. In the end, Japan would never recover from the losses at Midway, and the United States would carry this momentum until Japan's ultimate defeat.
Author | : Chris Bishop |
Publisher | : Crescent |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780517662212 |
Surveys 100 significant battles of our era, showing how modern technology has drasticly changed the nature of combat, from Tsushima, Japan in 1905 to the Golan Heights and the Falklands
Author | : Charles Winchester |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History, Modern |
ISBN | : 9781435124462 |
Author | : Robert Frederick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 45 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Battles |
ISBN | : 9780755444434 |
Author | : Richard Hough |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2003-05-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1468304534 |
The major naval powers—Britain, America, Russia, and Japan—have all played a part in the theater of war at sea over the last one hundred years. Naval fighting has always been a rapidly developing affair, and in no century have changes been so swift and fundamental. In 1905, when this book begins, the first major engagement between ironclad fleets—the Battle of Tsu-Shima—took place in the Far East and decided the outcome of the Russo-Japanese war in Japan’s favor. What follows are the mighty sea battles of our century, graphically reconstructed for the reader. Victories, defeats, and mutinies at sea, from the battle with the Bismarck to the battles of Midway and Guadalcanal.
Author | : Edward Shepherd Creasy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Battles |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Taylor |
Publisher | : Heinemann Educational Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001-05-21 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : 9781588103765 |
Examines the major battles of World War I and their significance on the outcome of the first large-scale war of the 20th century.
Author | : George Bruce |
Publisher | : Book Sales |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1975-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780600380962 |
Presents accounts of major naval engagements of the past seventy years, from the 1905 Russian Japanese Battle of Tsushima Strait to the 1944 American-Japanese confrontation in Leyte Gulf
Author | : Chris Hedges |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2007-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1416583149 |
Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself. Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies. • What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war? • What does it feel like to get shot? • What do artillery shells do to you? • What is the most painful way to get wounded? • Will I be afraid? • What could happen to me in a nuclear attack? • What does it feel like to kill someone? • Can I withstand torture? • What are the long-term consequences of combat stress? • What will happen to my body after I die? This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity.