Slag & fälttåg

Den största militära invasionen i världshistorien inleddes den 22 juni 1941. 3,3 miljoner tyska soldater överskred gränsen till Sovjetunionen, där de skulle möta fem miljoner man i Röda armén i strid. De tyska anfallskolonnerna rullade österut för...

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»Best History Book of the Year.« The Times »Antony Beevor kan konsten att litterärt gestalta historien. Hans nya bok om ¿slaget i Arnhem är brutalt bra.« Johan Croneman, Dagens Nyheter »Väl värd att rekommendera som motgift mot en alltför ljus och...

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ENTER THE BATTLEFIELDS OF ANCIENT GREECE WITH THE EPIC BESTSELLER FROM MASTER STORYTELLER CONN IGGULDEN 'Pacy and propulsive . . . Crackling with energy, violence and stirring speeches' DAILY MAIL 'Iggulden draws the Greek world con...

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Sommaren 1788 avseglar Gustav III från Stockholm med en mäktig flotta, spänningen är hög mellan konungen och adeln, missnöjet pyr bland officerarna. Rysslands intriger mot den svenska kungen har tilltagit samtidigt som han med franskt stöd byggt u...

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An illustrated account of the major colonial conflict of the 1920s, in which the occupying Spanish and French faced an armed uprising from the Berber tribes of northern Morocco. In June 1921, Abd el Krim, a Berber leader in the Rif highlands of Mo...

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Kampen om Stalingrad blev legendarisk redan under andra världskriget. Här stred de sovjetiska försvararna med ryggen mot floden Volga medan Hitlers 6. armé försökte erövra staden. Striderna utvecklades till bitter kamp om varenda husruin. I februa...

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Christopher R. Browning's shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews-now with a new afterword and additional photographs. Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve P...

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Den 14 oktober 1066 gick hertig Vilhelm av Normandie till angrepp mot kung Harold Godwinssons styrkor på Senlac Hill i sydöstra England. Vilhelm segrade och kröntes till kung på juldagen. Segern innebar att England knöts politiskt och kulturellt t...

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"Det här är en bok som verkligen imponerar oavsett vad man än må tycka om det ofta ruskiga innehållet. Den har tyngd, faktiskt även rent fysiskt genom pärmar och papper av hög kvalitet, men naturligtvis främst genom den vederhäftiga texten, d...

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A myth-shattering study of the first clash between the Zulu kingdom and European interlopers and its dramatic effects on Boer and Zulu alike. By the 1830s, the Zulu kingdom was consolidating its power as the strongest African polity in the south-e...

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A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR What if Chernobyl was just the beginning? The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russias full-...

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The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC This was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands... Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as a twenty-year-old new rec...

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'Four years of war turned Ypres into a ghost town. Not a leaf grew on a tree. Scarcely one stone stood upon another. From the battered ramparts the eye swept clean across a field of rubble to the swamp-lands beyond . . .' The Third Battl...

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A fascinating analysis of the World War II battle between Great Britain and France to ensure French ships were kept out of German hands during World War II. Following France's armistice with the Axis powers, Great Britain realized that if Ger...

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A ground-breaking new study that transforms our understanding of one of the most famous battles of the Second World War, widely mythologized as the largest tank battle in history. Today in Russia there are three official sacred battlefields: Kulik...

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The first dedicated, illustrated study of the events of the Second Punic War in Iberia, which served as a launch pad for the Carthaginian invasion of Rome. Iberia was one of three crucial theatres of the Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome....

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This book is his best yet . . . Dimblebys work is in a different league, told with such skill and judgment' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times A gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed...

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This illustrated study assesses the British Crusader and the Italian M13/40, two medium tanks that played crucial roles in World War IIs Desert War. Making its combat debut in North Africa during December 1940, Italys M13/40 medium tank was armed ...

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The complex and fascinating story of Romanias 'turning of arms' against Nazi Germany, and the battle for Romania - an important but overlooked and misunderstood episode of World War II. The battle for Romania from March to September 1944...

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A fascinating account of the last major Allied operation in the South-West Pacific, and the largest Australian military operation of World War II. A week after Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Japanese troops landed near Brunei on the South-East Asi...

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Based on dramatic first-hand evidence, Deadly Betrayal uncovers why and how a cabal of Pentagon Advisors in the George W. Bush Administration created a fabricated justification to attack Iraq. The book provides a detailed insider account of how a ...

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Nicknamed the Big Red One, 1st Division had fought from North Africa to Sicily, earning a reputation as stalwart warriors on the front lines and rabble-rousers in the rear. Yet on D-Day, these veterans melded with fresh-faced replacements to accom...

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A highly illustrated history of the Wars of the Roses based on the medieval art of Graham Turner. The period of civil strife in the second half of the 15th century now known as the Wars of the Roses was one of the most dramatic and tumultuous in E...

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From the critically acclaimed author of Dnkirchen 1940, this is a groundbreaking history of the epic three-day battle for Hill 107 that changed the course of the war in the Mediterranean. In this remarkable history, we discover each of the individ...

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The first in a series of illustrated books exploring the longest and best-known naval campaign of World War II, focusing on the struggle between Allied naval and air forces and Hitler's U-boats. When fighting broke out in September 1939, neit...

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This monumental history asks the simple question: How did we end up in a war in Vietnam? To answer that question Fredrik Logevall traces the forty-year path that led us from World War I to the first American casualties in 1959. Using fresh archive...

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A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR When everyday life becomes a state of emergency, how can yesterdays words suffice? We were so happy and didnt know it A thirty-three-year-old writer lives in a quiet European suburb with his wife and his dog. His paren...

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The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. A major new history of war by historian Andrew Roberts and General David Petraeus, former commander of the US-led coalition in Iraq and Afghanistan and former director of the C...

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German general Hermann Balck (1897--1982) was considered to be one of World War II's greatest battlefield commanders. His brilliantly fought battles were masterpieces of tactical agility, mobile counterattack, and the technique of Auftragstak...

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What if you could combine the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization? When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq in 2003, he qui...

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