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Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East
Av David Stahel
Häftad, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
426 kr
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Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operation was planned as a Blitzkrieg to win Germany its Lebensraum in the east, and the summer of 1941 is …
The Colonial Way of War
Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German and Dutch Empires, c.1890-1914
Av Tom Menger
Inbunden, 2025
1526 kr
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The violence of colonial wars between 1890 and 1914 is often thought to have been uniquely shaped by the nature of each of the European empires. This book argues instead that these wars' extreme violence was part of a shared 'Colonial Way of War'. Through detailed study of British, German and Dutch …
Enduring the Great War
Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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This book is an innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War. Unlike existing literature, which emphasises the strength of societies or military institutions, this study argues that at the heart of armies' robustness lay natural human …
Anatomy of a Campaign
The British Fiasco in Norway, 1940
Av John Kiszely
Häftad, 2019
637 kr
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The British campaign in Norway in 1940 was an ignominious and abject failure. It is perhaps best known as the fiasco which directly led to the fall of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his replacement by Winston Churchill. But what were the reasons for failure? Why did the decision makers, …
Violence and Occupation
The Red Army in the Balkans and Central Europe, 1944-1945
Inbunden, 2026
485 kr
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This groundbreaking history traces the Red Army's advances across central Europe and the Balkans in 1944-1945. It focuses on the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts that occupied Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Austria. Utilizing material from archives across Russia, Ukraine, and Serbia, …
Violence in Defeat
The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945
Häftad, 2024
401 kr
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In the final year of the Second World War, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country. Bastiaan Willems offers the first study into the impact and behaviour of the Wehrmacht on its own territory, focusing on the German units fighting in …
Violence in Defeat
The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945
Inbunden, 2021
653 kr
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In the final year of the Second World War, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country. Bastiaan Willems offers the first study into the impact and behaviour of the Wehrmacht on its own territory, focusing on the German units fighting in …
Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East
Av David Stahel
Inbunden, 2009
2214 kr
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Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operation was planned as a Blitzkrieg to win Germany its Lebensraum in the east, and the summer of 1941 is …
German Strategy and the Path to Verdun
Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916
Häftad, 2007
737 kr
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Almost 90 years since its conclusion, the battle of Verdun is still little understood. German Strategy and the Path to Verdun is a detailed examination of this seminal battle based on research conducted in archives long thought lost. Material returned to Germany from the former Soviet Union has …
Victory through Coalition
Britain and France during the First World War
Häftad, 2009
737 kr
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Germany's invasion of France in August 1914 represented a threat to the great power status of both Britain and France. The countries had no history of co-operation, yet the entente they had created in 1904 proceeded by trial and error, via recriminations, to win a war of unprecedented scale and …
Arms, Economics and British Strategy
From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs
Av G. C. Peden
Häftad, 2009
820 kr
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This book integrates strategy, technology and economics and presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain's decline as a great power. G. C. Peden explores how from the Edwardian era to the 1960s warfare was transformed by a series of innovations, including …
Thailand's Secret War
OSS, SOE and the Free Thai Underground during World War II
Häftad, 2010
803 kr
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This book is an absorbing account of secret operations and political intrigue in wartime Thailand. During World War II Free Thai organisations co-operated with Allied intelligence agencies in an effort to rescue their nation from the consequences of its 1941 alliance with Japan. They largely …
Douglas Haig and the First World War
Av J. P. Harris
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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From December 1915 until the armistice of November 1918, Sir Douglas Haig was commander-in-chief of the largest army his country had ever put into the field. He has been portrayed as both an incompetent 'butcher and bungler' and a clear-sighted, imperturbable 'architect of victory'. However, in …
The Ottoman Road to War in 1914
The Ottoman Empire and the First World War
Häftad, 2010
376 kr
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Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war's devastations had become clear? Were its leaders 'simple-minded,' 'below-average' individuals, as the doyen of Turkish diplomatic history has argued? Or, as others have claimed, did the Ottomans enter …
The German Army and the Defence of the Reich
Military Doctrine and the Conduct of the Defensive Battle 1918-1939
Inbunden, 2010
1677 kr
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Historical research on the German army of the interwar period has concentrated on the development of the so-called 'Blitzkrieg'. However, Matthias Strohn shows that for most of the time the German army, restricted by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, was too weak to launch an offensive war or …
Combat and Morale in the North African Campaign
The Eighth Army and the Path to El Alamein
Inbunden, 2011
1598 kr
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Military professionals and theorists have long understood the relevance of morale in war. Montgomery, the victor at El Alamein, said, following the battle, that 'the more fighting I see, the more I am convinced that the big thing in war is morale'. Jonathan Fennell, in examining the North African …
Foch in Command
The Forging of a First World War General
Inbunden, 2011
1693 kr
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Ferdinand Foch ended the First World War as Marshal of France and supreme commander of the Allied armies on the Western Front. Foch in Command is a pioneering study of his contribution to the Allied victory. Elizabeth Greenhalgh uses contemporary notebooks, letters and documents from previously …
Rommel's Desert War
Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941-1943
Inbunden, 2009
871 kr
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At the height of his power in January 1941 Hitler made the fateful decision to send troops to North Africa to save the beleaguered Italian army from defeat. Martin Kitchen's masterful history of the Axis campaign provides a fundamental reassessment of the key battles of 1941-3, Rommel's …
The Making of the Modern Admiralty
British Naval Policy-Making, 1805-1927
Inbunden, 2011
1928 kr
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This is an important new history of decision-making and policy-making in the British Admiralty from Trafalgar to the aftermath of Jutland. C. I. Hamilton explores the role of technological change, the global balance of power and, in particular, of finance and the First World War in shaping …
The Foundations of British Maritime Ascendancy
Resources, Logistics and the State, 1755-1815
Inbunden, 2010
1115 kr
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British power and global expansion between 1755 and 1815 have mainly been attributed to the fiscal-military state and the achievements of the Royal navy at sea. Roger Morriss here sheds new light on the broader range of developments in the infrastructure of the state needed to extend British power …
Thailand's Secret War
OSS, SOE and the Free Thai Underground during World War II
Inbunden, 2005
2084 kr
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This book is an absorbing account of secret operations and political intrigue in wartime Thailand. During World War II Free Thai organisations co-operated with Allied intelligence agencies in an effort to rescue their nation from the consequences of its 1941 alliance with Japan. They largely …
German Strategy and the Path to Verdun
Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916
Inbunden, 2005
1693 kr
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Almost 90 years since its conclusion, the battle of Verdun is still little understood. German Strategy and the Path to Verdun is a detailed examination of this seminal battle based on research conducted in archives long thought lost. Material returned to Germany from the former Soviet Union has …
Victory through Coalition
Britain and France during the First World War
Inbunden, 2005
1641 kr
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Germany's invasion of France in August 1914 represented a threat to the great power status of both Britain and France. The countries had no history of co-operation, yet the entente they had created in 1904 proceeded by trial and error, via recriminations, to win a war of unprecedented scale and …
Mussolini and his Generals
The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922-1940
Av John Gooch
Inbunden, 2007
1049 kr
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This is the first authoritative study of the Italian armed forces and the relationship between the military and foreign policies of Fascist Italy from Mussolini's rise to power in 1922 to the catastrophic defeat of 1940. Using extensive new research, John Gooch explores the nature and development …
Arms, Economics and British Strategy
From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs
Av G. C. Peden
Inbunden, 2007
1928 kr
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This book integrates strategy, technology and economics and presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain's decline as a great power. G. C. Peden explores how from the Edwardian era to the 1960s warfare was transformed by a series of innovations, including …
The Fall of Napoleon: Volume 1, The Allied Invasion of France, 1813-1814
Inbunden, 2007
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
854 kr
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This book tells the story of the invasion of France at the twilight of Napoleon's empire. With more than a million men under arms throughout central Europe, Coalition forces poured over the Rhine River to invade France between late November 1813 and early January 1814. Three principal army groups …
The Ottoman Road to War in 1914
The Ottoman Empire and the First World War
Inbunden, 2008
1641 kr
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Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war's devastations had become clear? Were its leaders 'simple-minded,' 'below-average' individuals, as the doyen of Turkish diplomatic history has argued? Or, as others have claimed, did the Ottomans enter …
Enduring the Great War
Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918
Inbunden, 2008
1641 kr
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This book is an innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War. Unlike existing literature, which emphasises the strength of societies or military institutions, this study argues that at the heart of armies' robustness lay natural human …
The Resurrection and Collapse of Empire in Habsburg Serbia, 1914-1918: Volume 1
Inbunden, 2009
1641 kr
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This book examines the Habsburg Army's occupation of Serbia from 1914 through 1918. This occupation ran along a distinctly European-centered trajectory radically different from other great power colonial projects or occupations during the 20th century. Unlike these projects and occupations, the …
Douglas Haig and the First World War
Av J. P. Harris
Inbunden, 2008
1828 kr
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From December 1915 until the armistice of November 1918, Sir Douglas Haig was commander-in-chief of the largest army his country had ever put into the field. He has been portrayed as both an incompetent 'butcher and bungler' and a clear-sighted, imperturbable 'architect of victory'. However, in …
