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Engelska, 2014120 kr
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Born amid immense suffering and bloodshed, the Kingdom of Jerusalem remained a battlefield for almost 200 years.The Crusades gave rise to the Military Orders of the Templars and Hospitallers, and were a backdrop to the careers of some of history''s most famous leaders including Richard ''The Lionheart'' and Saladin. On occasion the savagery of the Crusaders left their opponents reeling, creating frictions that survived for more than 700 years.Now in e-guide format, this book describes the events of the Crusades, and how art, architecture and learning all benefited from new knowledge the Crusaders brought back from the East.
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Engelska, 2014148 kr
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While Napoleon prepared his army, on the coast of France, for an invasion of England that would never come, Russia and Austria prepared to move against his rear.Napoleon turned on the allies and crushed them in one of history''s greatest campaigns. The following year, he met the legendary army of Frederick the Great and annihilated it completely. The year after it was Russia''s turn again, and though the northern winter was the major foe, it could not save the Tsar. The world, and warfare, would never be the same again. The Empires of Russia, Austria, Prussia and Britain were not weak.How had Napoleon done this? Why were his methods, and his army, different? This concise introduction explores the rise of the Emperor in an accessible way.
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Engelska, 2014148 kr
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The United States saw long-simmering sectional tensions erupt into fighting at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, in April 1861.This began what would become the most cataclysmic military struggle in the western world between Waterloo and the First World War. This volume focuses on events in the Virginia theater during the conflict''s first two years, highlighting Union and Confederate strengths and weaknesses, leadership and strategy on each side, and the ways in which events on the battlefield influenced politics, diplomacy, and debates about emancipation. Osprey Essential Histories are complete yet concise studies of each major conflict in history.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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Great battles and famous commanders dominated the military history of the Civil War in the Eastern Theater during the period 1863-1865.This book, now in compact e-guide format, includes revealing details of the clash at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the costliest battle ever waged in the Western Hemisphere. Contrary to common belief, it puts forward the theory that it was not a great turning point in the war. Robert K Krick also examines the events that led to Robert E Lee accepting generous terms of surrender from Ulysses S Grant, bringing the war in Virginia to a close.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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In 1808 Napoleon dominated Europe, but the peace was not to survive for long. Todd Fisher continues his detailed account of the Napoleonic Wars with Austria''s attack against Napoleon in 1809.Despite being defeated at Aspern-Essling, Napoleon rallied his forces and emerged triumphant at Wagram. With glorious victory behind him Napoleon now turned his attention to Russia and invaded in 1812. Yet the army was not the Grand Armee of old, and even the capture of Moscow availed him nothing. The foe remained elusive, the decisive battle remained unfought.This book tells the full story of the now legendary retreat from Moscow, as the fighting force that had vanquished Europe perished in the snows of the Russian winter.
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Engelska, 2014148 kr
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The American Civil War''s vast Western Theater witnessed enormously important military campaigning during the period 1861 - 1863.This book, the third in a four-volume series, examines the geographical, logistical and strategic factors that shaped fighting in this theater, as well as assessing officers who played key roles. Now in compact, e-guide format, it covers the story of Ulysses S Grant''s important capture of rebel positions before marching south to win the battle of Shiloh, as well as that of Albert Sidney Johnston, the pride of the Confederacy. Finally, it details the dramatic events of the siege of Vicksburg, the Confederates final fortress.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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Union military forces suffered momentary defeat followed by sustained success in the Western Theater during the second half of the American Civil War.Following the Union''s defeat at Chickamauga, Ulysses S. Grant took command at Chattanooga and orchestrated a striking victory which paved the way for a Union advance against Atlanta, a confederate city second in importance only to Richmond.Now in compact, e-guide format, this book traces the events that surrounded the capture of Atlanta, followed by Sherman''s famous campaign of destruction through the southern interior. This culminated in April 1865 with the surrender of the last major Confederate field army at Durham Station, North Carolina.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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Now in compact, e-guide form, this book unravels the complicated and tragic events of the Eastern Front in the First World War.The author details Russia''s sudden attack on German forces, despite her inadequate resources. A crushing defeat at Tannenberg was followed by Germany inflicting humiliation after humiliation on desperate Russian troops. For a while, those forces led by General Brusilov and facing Austria-Hungary fared better, but in the end this front too collapsed.In this compact volume, Geoffrey Jukes describes how morale plummeted, the army began to disintegrate, and the Tsar was forced to abdicate - paving the way for the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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More than 80 years on, the Great War - and particularly the great battles such as the Somme and Verdun - continues to fascinate us and to cast long shadows over the world in which we live.For Britain, the effort and sacrifice involved in creating and sustaining its first-ever and biggest-ever mass citizen army, and in helping to defeat the main enemy in the decisive theatre of operations, left deep emotional and psychological scars that have influenced much of the nation''s subsequent history and that are still felt today.In this compact volume, reissued in e-guide format, Peter Simkins re-examines the struggle and sheds an interesting new light on the nature, course and effects of the fighting in France and Belgium from 1914 to 1916.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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Napoleon''s occupation of the Iberian peninsula embroiled him in a protracted and costly war against British, Spanish and Portuguese forces ultimately led by one of history''s greatest commanders -- the Duke of Wellington.Yet it also introduced a new dimension to warfare, for Napoleon''s ''Spanish ulcer'' became a bitter seven-year struggle against peoples inflamed by nationalism. Thus, while Wellington achieved successive victories in open battle, a parallel guerrilla war exacted a heavy toll of its own on the invaders.In this concise introduction, Gregory Fremont-Barnes shows that this was no mere sideshow to the other campaigns of the period. The Peninsular War made a significant contribution to Napoleon''s eventual downfall.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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Now in compact e-guide form, a concise primer on the conflicts of the Pacific theatre of the Second World War.The war in the Pacific began with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and ended with the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, which led to the surrender in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945. It was a war of great naval battles, such as those in the Coral Sea, at Midway, and at Leyte and of grim jungle battles, at Guadalcanal, New Guinea and Burma.This book explores the many facets of this complicated conflict, which reshaped the face of Asia and splintered forever European invincibility as a colonial power.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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In the early third century AD the Roman Empire was a force to be reckoned with, controlling vast territories and wielding enormous political power from Scotland to the Sahara.400 years later this mighty Empire was falling apart in the face of successive problems that the rulers failed to deal with. In this challenging volume Michael Whitby tackles the fundamental issues (such as the rise of Christianity) that led to the ''decline and fall'' of the Roman Empire, and offers a startling reassessment of the performance of the late Roman army.
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Engelska, 2014124 kr
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In this, the second volume in the Guide To... series covering the war on the Western Front, Peter Simkins describes the last great battles of attrition at Arras, on the Aisne and at Passchendaele in 1917.Then he moves on to relate the successive offensives launched by Germany in the spring and summer of 1918 in an effort to achieve victory or a favourable peace before American manpower proved decisive.Again, questioning and correcting several myths and long-held assumptions about the nature and conduct of war on the Western Front, the author also looks at the aftermath and legacy of the ''war to end wars''.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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The First World War in the Mediterranean represented more than just a peripheral theatre to the war on the Western Front.Now in compact, e-guide form, this engaging volume includes details of Allied attempts to capture Constantinople; bloody campaigning in Northern Italy; the defence of the Suez Canal and the defeat of the Turkish army in Palestine. The Arab revolt, skirmishes in North Africa and the entrapment of a huge allied garrison in Greece - the ''worlds biggest prison camp'' as the Germans described it - are also covered.The result was the fall of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires and the birth of nations unknown in 1914.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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In 1940, fresh from the success in France, Hitler turned his attention to the East.In this concise e-guide, Geoffrey Jukes explains what led to Hitler''s decision to instigate the invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) and offers a concise account of the campaign that followed. The Germans expected to conquer Russia in only four months, but at Stalingrad and then Kursk the Russians fought back.At a human cost of 27 million Soviet lives Hitler was forced into a humiliating retreat and Russia emerged from the war as a super power ready to take on the capitalist world.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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The age of Alexander and his conquest of the Persian or ''Achaemenid'' Empire, which had existed for over two centuries, represents a watershed in the history of the world. This book offers a fascinating insight into the achievements of one of the greatest generals ever known. Alexander''s conquests are of profound significance. By perfecting the new weapons and tactics developed by his father, Philip II, and combining them with the use of specialist units and advancements in siege warfare, Alexander enabled the Macedonian kingdom to move beyond the restrictions of city-state armies and on to the stage of world conquest.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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Now in compact e-guide form, this volume provides a comprehensive guide to three major theatres of combat; the battles for the Atlantic, the war in the Mediterranean and the contest in the Indian Ocean.The war at sea was a vital contest, which if lost would have irreversibly altered the balance of the military forces on land. The sea lanes were the logistical arteries of British and subsequent Allied armies fighting on the three continents of Africa, Asia and Europe.As the authors outline in this compact, yet concise volume, the Second World War was ultimately won by land forces but it could always have been lost at sea.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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Now in concise e-guide format, this book examines the seminal Northwest Europe campaign of the Second World War.This hard-fought campaign conducted by the Western Allies against the Germans during 1944-45 represented, for the former, the decisive theatre of the entire Second World War. From the desperate and risk-laden D-Day landings on 6 June 1944 to the rapid charge through western and central Germany in the last weeks of the war, American, British, Canadian and French military forces took on and defeated the German military.Russell and Stephen Hart concisely explain the key conflicts, up until the victory that ensured the scourge of Nazism was finally expunged from the face of Europe.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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While many of the participants were the same as the First World War, this conflict was far more than a re-match of 1914-1918.Robin Havers'' concise e-guide shows the Second World War was even more destructive than the first and the added ideological element meant that this war was far crueller. This book details the first four years of the war in Europe. It discusses how and why Hitler''s resurgent Germany plunged into war, and examines the German successes against Poland, France and the Low Countries.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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This book covers the long series of wars between the Classical Greeks and the Persian Empire.This period produced the famous battles of Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis, as well as an ill-fated attempt to overthrow the Persian king in 400 BC, which helped to inspire the conquests of Alexander the Great.Philip de Souza''s principal source is Herodotus, who tells the story of these momentous events, of the lives of great men and women, of the societies and cultures that produced them, and explains how and why they came into conflict. This compact book gives a concise overview on the account by ''the Father of History'', alongside illustrations and maps.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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This fourth volume of the Napoleonic Wars miniseries covers Napoleon''s gradual fall from power, beginning in the spring of 1813, when France prepared to face the vengeance of Russia and Prussia.Quickly raising new armies composed of inexperienced conscripts and invalided veterans, and with a critical shortage of cavalry, Napoleon resolved to preserve his empire in Germany, where he initially managed to achieve some hard-fought victories. When at last Austria threw in her lot with the Allies and the epic Battle of Leipzig followed, Napoleon was forced to retreat across the Rhine, there to resist the onslaught on home soil.As Gregory Fremont-Barnes explains, the pressure against him proved too great, and with Paris lost and his marshals refusing to fight on, no option remained but abdication. Yet his last battle, and one of the most decisive in military history, was still to come: Waterloo.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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Now in a compact, e-guide format, a short history of Julius Caesar''s short but bloody conquest of the Celtic tribes, which led to the establishment of the Roman province of Gaul (modern France).Caesar''s commentaries on his Gallic Wars provide us with the most detailed surviving eye-witness account of a campaign from antiquity. Kate Gilliver makes use of this account and other surviving evidence to consider the importance of the Gallic Wars in the context of the collapse of the Roman Republic and its slide toward civil war.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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This concise e-guide explores the Mediterranean theater of the Second World War as the first truly modern war.It was a highly mobile conflict, in which logistics were a critical and often deciding factor, and from the very beginning a close relationship between the land, sea, and air elements was vital. Victory could not be achieved by either side unless the three services worked in intimate cooperation.In this concise volume, Paul Collier discusses the key conflicts within this theater, up until the Axis forces were decisively defeated at El Alamein in 1942.
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Engelska, 2014148 kr
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This bitter war between Russia and Turkey, aided by Britain and France, was the setting for the stuff of legends.Now in e-guide format, this book details the gallant yet suicidal Charge of the Light Brigade: in the words of Tennyson, ''Into the Valley of Death rode the Six Hundred''. It relates the reports made by the first real war correspondent, William Russell of the London Times - reports which served only to highlight the army''s problems - and memorialises the heroic deeds of Florence Nightingale, who struggled to save young men from the most formidable enemy in the Crimean War: not the Russians, but cholera.
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Engelska, 2014148 kr
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The closest thing to total war before World War One, the Seven Years'' War was fought in North America, Europe, the Caribbean and India with major consequences for all parties involved.Now in e-guide format, this is a thorough review of the grand strategies of the combatants and examine the differing styles of warfare used in the many campaigns. These ranged from the large-scale battles and sieges of the European front to the ambush and skirmish tactics used in the forests of North America. Daniel Marston''s engaging narrative is supported by official war papers, personal diaries and memoirs, and official reports.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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This concise, accessible guide details the events of the period, led by commanders whose names remain a by-word for excellence in leadership to this day: Napoleon and Nelson.Europe''s great powers formed two powerful coalitions against France. Yet force of numbers, superior leadership and the patriotic fervour of France''s citizen-soldiers not only defeated each in turn, but closed the era of small, professional armies fighting for limited political objectives.Gregory Fremont-Barnes demonstrates how, from Italy to Egypt, Napoleon demonstrated his strategic genius and mastery of tactics in battles including Rivoli, the Pyramids and Marengo. Nelson''s spectacular sea victories at the Nile and Copenhagen were foretastes of a century of British naval supremacy.
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Engelska, 2014124 kr
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In this e-guide, Dr Carter Malkasian provides a concise overview of the so-called "Forgotten War" in Korea.From 1950 to 1953, the most powerful countries in the world engaged in a major conventional war in Korea. Yet ironically this conflict has come to be known as the USA''s "Forgotten War." Esteemed historian Dr Carter Malkasian explains how this conflict in a small peninsula in East Asia had a tremendous impact on the entire international system and the balance of power between the two superpowers, America and Russia. In this illustrated history, he examines how the West demonstrated its resolve to thwart Communist aggression and the armed forces of China, the Soviet Union and the United States came into direct combat for the only time during the Cold War.This is a detailed introduction to a significant turning point in the Cold War.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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Now in e-guide format, a full introduction to the Norman Conquest, an event which resulted in dramatic changes to the nation''s aristocracy, church and administration.It brought a new language and cultural influences and revolutionised military architecture with the introduction of the castle. This profound impact was not brought about as the result of a single battle and it took a five-year war for William to establish control over his new kingdom.In this compact, pocket e-guide, the campaigns are studied in detail, with maps showing how William''s energy and strategic intelligence enabled him to defeat his formidable opponents and create a new order.
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Engelska, 2014123 kr
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The Argentine invasion of the Falklands in 1982 sparked national outrage. Britain felt she had to avenge the humiliation and protect her own.This volume explores both the military and political dimensions of this important conflict, including detailed accounts of the air / sea battle, the Battle for San Carlos Water, Goose Green, Mt Harriet, Tumbledown and many others. It explains how success in the Falklands set the stage for the years of Thatcher''s dominance, and restored British prestige.Now in e-guide format, and including first hand accounts from both soldiers and civilians, this is an interesting and thoroughly up to date appraisal.
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Engelska, 2014148 kr
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Reissued in compact e-guide format, a short history of the three Punic Wars that lasted over 100 years.They represented a struggle for supremacy in the Mediterranean between the bludgeoning land power of Rome, bent on imperial conquest, and the great maritime power of Carthage with its colonies and trading posts spread around the Mediterranean.This book reveals how the dramas and tragedies of the Punic Wars exemplify many political and military lessons which are as relevant today as when Hannibal and Scipio Africanus fought to determine the course of history in the Mediterranean.