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21 produkter
Infantry Attacks
Av Erwin Rommel, Gary Sheffield
Häftad, 2023
187 kr
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Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army in the Second World War. Even when the legend surrounding his invincibility was overturned at El Alamein, the aura surrounding Rommel himself remained …
A Short History of the First World War
Häftad, 2014
124 kr
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The First World War was a watershed in world history. Tragic but far from futile, its origins, events and legacy have roused impassioned debate, creating multiple interpretations and confusion for those encountering the period for the first time.Synthesising the latest scholarship, acclaimed …
Inside Power
E-bok, 2007
110 kr
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Becoming a Major League ballplayer for Dwight and me, that was the dream. Dwight is Dwight Gooden. Most people know him for winning the Cy Young Award. To me, though, he’s family, an uncle, but at four years older, really a brother . I can still remember those games of catch with Dwight in the …
War Studies Reader
From the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day and Beyond
E-bok, 2010
626 kr
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This reader provides authoritative and thought-provoking pieces of War Studies scholarship in an accessible form. Covering a wide spectrum of topics, including strategy (Colin S. Gray), 'Shell-Shock and the Cultural History of the Great War' (Jay Winter) and Coalition Warfare (Holger H. Herwig), …
War Studies Reader
From the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day and Beyond
Häftad, 2010
575 kr
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This is a broad ranging reader in the growing subject of War Studies. It includes respected contributors, with each chapter set out clearly and with contextual background. War Studies is an increasingly popular subject at degree, masters and doctorate level, as well as aspects of it being taught at …
War Studies Reader
From the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day and Beyond
Inbunden, 2010
2343 kr
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This is a broad ranging reader in the growing subject of War Studies. It includes respected contributors, with each chapter set out clearly and with contextual background. War Studies is an increasingly popular subject at degree, masters and doctorate level, as well as aspects of it being taught at …
Global Narratives of the Second World War
Fresh Perspectives on the Experience of Conflict
Av Wendy Ugolini, Gary Sheffield m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
2554 kr
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This volume draws together chapters which represent some of the most up-to-date, cutting-edge research on the Second World War and on war and social change in the twentieth century.It characterises the Second World War as a mobile war of peoples and addresses the intersections between imperialism …
Changing War
The British Army, the Hundred Days Campaign and the Birth of the Royal Air Force, 1918
E-bok, 2013
626 kr
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In 1918, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) played a critical role in defeating the German army and thus winning the First World War. This 'Hundred Days' campaign (August to November 1918) was the greatest series of land victories in British military history. 1918 also saw the creation of the …
Changing War
The British Army, the Hundred Days Campaign and The Birth of the Royal Air Force, 1918
Inbunden, 2013
2051 kr
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In 1918, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) played a critical role in defeating the German army and thus winning the First World War. This 'Hundred Days' campaign (August to November 1918) was the greatest series of land victories in British military history. 1918 also saw the creation of the …
Changing War
The British Army, the Hundred Days Campaign and the Birth of the Royal Air Force, 1918
E-bok, 2013
626 kr
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In 1918, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) played a critical role in defeating the German army and thus winning the First World War. This 'Hundred Days' campaign (August to November 1918) was the greatest series of land victories in British military history. 1918 also saw the creation of the …
Command and Morale
The British Army on the Western Front 1914–1918
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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Gary Sheffield is one of the most versatile and stimulating of military historians at work today, and this selection of his outstanding essays on the First World War is essential reading for anyone who is keen to broaden their understanding of the subject. For three decades, in a series of …
Changing War
The British Army, the Hundred Days Campaign and The Birth of the Royal Air Force, 1918
Häftad, 2015
577 kr
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In 1918, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) played a critical role in defeating the German army and thus winning the First World War. This 'Hundred Days' campaign (August to November 1918) was the greatest series of land victories in British military history. 1918 also saw the creation of the …
Somme
A New History
E-bok, 2015
39 kr
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On 1 July 1916, after a stupendous seven-day artillery preparation, the British Army finally launched its attack on the German line around the River Somme. Over the next four and half months they continued to attack, with little or no gain, and with horrendous losses to both sides. This book, …
Douglas Haig
Diaries and Letters 1914-1918
Av John Bourne, Gary Sheffield m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
44 kr
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There''s a commonly held view that Douglas Haig was a bone-headed, callous butcher, who through his incompetence as commander of the British Army in WWI, killed a generation of young men on the Somme and at Passchendaele. On the other hand, there are those who view Haig as a man who successfully …
Short History of the First World War
E-bok, 2014
106 kr
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The First World War was a watershed in world history. Tragic but far from futile, its origins, events and legacy have roused impassioned debate, creating multiple interpretations and confusion for those encountering the period for the first time. Synthesising the latest scholarship, acclaimed …
Douglas Haig
From the Somme to Victory
E-bok, 2016
281 kr
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‘Well written and persuasive …objective and well-rounded….this scholarly rehabilitation should be the standard biography’, Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday‘A true judgment of him must lie somewhere between hero and zero, and in this detailed biography Gary Sheffield shows himself well qualified to …
In Haig's Shadow
The Letters of Brigadier-General Hugo De Pree and Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
E-bok, 2019
153 kr
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This collection of correspondence and newly discovered family papers is "a good read for anyone interested in WWI, or the British Army" (The NYMAS Review). Hugo De Pree was the nephew of the better-known Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. However, De Pree had a distinguished military career in his own …
Chief
Douglas Haig and the British Army
E-bok, 2011
148 kr
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‘ Well written and persuasive … objective and well-rounded… .this scholarly rehabilitation should be the standard biography’ **** Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday‘ A true judgment of him must lie somewhere between hero and zero, and in this detailed biography Gary Sheffield shows himself well …
Chief
Douglas Haig and the British Army
Häftad, 2012
187 kr
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‘ Well written and persuasive … objective and well-rounded… .this scholarly rehabilitation should be the standard biography’ **** Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday‘ A true judgment of him must lie somewhere between hero and zero, and in this detailed biography Gary Sheffield shows himself well …
Wellington: pocket GIANTS
Häftad, 2017
88 kr
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Wellington is a giant because he was one of the greatest military commanders in British history, an important figure in the emergence of Britain as a great imperial power, a man who dominated British society and politics for 35 years. He was the only one of Napoleon’s contemporaries who can be …
Command and Control on the Western Front
The British Army's Experience 1914-18
Häftad, 2007
174 kr
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A study by historians of the First World War considers various aspects of command at various levels on the Western Front. This book describes, if the British Army really had been led by donkeys, then how was the war won and how did the Army reach such a peak of military excellence in 1918?
