_______________Powerful A humbling and important first-hand account of a brutal civil war in which as many as 500,000 people have died - GuardianA memoir of resistance and survival unique in the annals of modern war If the shedding of blood ca...Loe edasi...
A rare and forgotten first-hand account of the first day of the Battle of the Somme by a British infantry soldier who went over the top and survived. There are many accounts of the Battle of the Somme by surviving British soldiers. However, the S...Loe edasi...
Hugh Glass was left to die. AttackedWhilst hunting in the fur-rich, Native American-held territory of the Upper Missouri River, Hugh Glass was attacked and mauled by a grizzly bear. Hundreds of miles away from help; his fellow hunters were unable to...Loe edasi...
A cold winter morning in the Ardennes Forest, 1944, and Hitler launches his last and most audacious attack on the unprepared Allies. Standing between the German forces and the desperately regrouping Allies were just eighteen young Americans, hidden i...Loe edasi...
A gripping account of the fighting between cavalry of the Union and Confederate armies at small-unit level. This book presents new insights on the role of cavalry in the age of massed infantry gunfire and is augmented, as usual, with stunning Osprey...Loe edasi...
A gripping account of the fighting between cavalry of the Union and Confederate armies at small-unit level. This book presents new insights on the role of cavalry in the age of massed infantry gunfire and is augmented, as usual, with stunning Osprey...Loe edasi...
On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail...To this day, Tur...Loe edasi...
The bloody campaigns of the American Revolutionary War pitted Britains redcoats against Washingtons Continentals in a host of encounters, from Germantown in 1777 to Cowpens in 1781. The Redcoats were a highly trained organization manned by long-ser...Loe edasi...
The bloody campaigns of the American Revolutionary War pitted Britains redcoats against Washingtons Continentals in a host of encounters, from Germantown in 1777 to Cowpens in 1781. The Redcoats were a highly trained organization manned by long-ser...Loe edasi...
The armour clashes in May 1940 were the biggest the world had yet seen, as the sweeping German advances of that period came to epitomize Blitzkrieg.The Wehrmachts Panzer III was well matched by the French Somua S35 tanks, the two representing very d...Loe edasi...
The armour clashes in May 1940 were the biggest the world had yet seen, as the sweeping German advances of that period came to epitomize Blitzkrieg.The Wehrmachts Panzer III was well matched by the French Somua S35 tanks, the two representing very d...Loe edasi...
Acclaimed author Andrey Kurkov gives powerful insight into life in Kyiv following the 2013 protests and before the 2022 Russian invasion.-16 C, sunlight, silence. I drove the children to school, then went to see the revolution. I walked between the t...Loe edasi...
Warsaw Boy is the remarkable true story of a sixteen-year old boy soldier in war-torn Poland. Poland suffered terribly under the Nazis. By the end of the war six million had been killed: some were innocent civilians - half of them were Jews - but the...Loe edasi...
The allied expeditionary force landed on the beaches of Calamita Bay, on the south-west coast of the Crimean Peninsula, in September 1854. The campaign that followed would create such iconic figures as the nurses Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole...Loe edasi...
In the bleakest years of the Second World War when it appeared that nothing could slow the advance of the German army, Hitler set his sights on the Mediterranean island of Crete, the ideal staging ground for domination of the Middle East. But German...Loe edasi...
Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork, this engaging study casts new light on the background and details of this clash between two turretless tank destroyers as the two sides contested Hungarys vital oil resources in March 1945.As Wor...Loe edasi...
Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork, this engaging study casts new light on the background and details of this clash between two turretless tank destroyers as the two sides contested Hungarys vital oil resources in March 1945.As Wor...Loe edasi...
In the centenary year of the Great War, names such as Ypres, the Marne, the Somme, Passchendaele are heavy with meaning as settings for the near-destruction of a generation of men. It is this aura of tragedy that makes Huntly Gordon s memoir, drawn f...Loe edasi...
Quite simply, this is one of the greatest, most riveting books of war letters I have ever read. Stephen E. Ambrose on War LettersIn 2001 Andrew Carroll authored the US top ten bestseller, War Letters - a unique compilation of extraordinary correspo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2013, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780752494029)
A dramatic and tragic episode in British military history that will soon not be part of living memory. More than 100,000 British troops fought in Korea between 1950 and 1953, of which just over 1,000 died, with a further 1,000 captured and held in...Loe edasi...
