Military Profiles – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Military Profiles. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
13 produkter
Tirpitz
Architect of the German High Seas Fleet
Inbunden, 2008
265 kr
Kommande
Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930), who joined the Prussian Navy in 1865 as a midshipman, was chiefly responsible for rapidly developing and enlarging the German Navy, especially the High Seas Fleet, from 1897 until the years immediately prior to the First World War. Epkenhans uses newly discovered …
Petain
Verdun to Vichy
Inbunden, 2008
261 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Few figures in modern French history have aroused more controversy than Marshal Philippe Pétain, who rose from obscurity to great fame in the First World War only to fall into infamy during the dark days of Nazi occupation in World War II. Pétain's brilliant theories of firepower and flexible …
Villa
Soldier of the Mexican Revolution
Häftad, 2005
203 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Starting with twenty-eight followers, Francisco Pancho Villa rose out of banditry to become a dynamic strategist who mastered the tactical use of a diverse array of weapons, including modern railroads and cavalry, to contest control of Mexico. In his early days as a brigand, the peasantry idolized …
Doolittle
Aerospace Visionary
Häftad, 2005
168 kr
Lägg i varukorg
On April 18, 1942, Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle led a flight of sixteen B-25 bombers off the flight deck of the USS Hornet on one of the most daring raids in U.S. military history, a low-level strike on Tokyo and other Japanese cities. For this heroic act, he received the Medal of Honor. But, as Dik …
Foch
Supreme Allied Commander in the Great War
Häftad, 2003
188 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Ferdinand Foch is the prototype of the twentieth-century general. Better than any other general of the First World War, Foch came to understand how technology and modern alliance systems had changed the nature of warfare. He is most famous for his role as Allied commander in chief in 1918. In this …
Alexander
Invincible King of Macedonia
Häftad, 2004
173 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.E.), who reigned as king of Macedonia for only thirteen years, set a flame of conquest that introduced the dynamism of Hellenism to the Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and South Asian worlds. Re-creating their ossified cultures, he established a standard of …
Rickover
Father of the Nuclear Navy
Av Thomas B. Allen, Norman Polmar
Häftad, 2007
188 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Hyman G. Rickover was not long removed from his Jewish roots in Poland when he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922. After a respectable career spent mostly in unglamorous submarine and engineering billets, he took command of the U.S. Navy's nuclear propulsion program and revived his …
Genghis Khan
History's Greatest Empire Builder
Häftad, 2008
218 kr
Lägg i varukorg
It was through bitter experience growing up on the harsh and unforgiving steppes of Mongolia that Genghis Khan learned to trust few people and to be vigilant of the personalities and events around him. As a result of an early life filled with hardship, betrayals, and constant struggle, Genghis Khan …
Meade
Victor of Gettysburg
Häftad, 2004
173 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Most students of the American Civil War know the name George Gordon Meade, but few can tell you about the man. With this addition to Potomac's Military Profiles series, historian Richard Sauers examines the life of one of the Union Army's most notable generals. Rising from the Union officer corps …
Petain
Verdun to Vichy
Häftad, 2008
173 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Few figures in modern French history have aroused more controversy than Marshal Philippe Pétain, who rose from obscurity to great fame in the First World War only to fall into infamy during the dark days of Nazi occupation in World War II. Pétain's brilliant theories of firepower and flexible …
Guderian
Panzer Pioneer or Myth Maker?
Häftad, 2006
203 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Biographers and historians have lionized Heinz Guderian as the legendary father of the German armored force and brilliant practitioner of blitzkrieg maneuver warfare. As Russell A. Hart argues, Guderian created this legend with his own highly influential yet self-serving and distorted memoir, which …
Greene
Revolutionary General
Inbunden, 2006
261 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Born into a Quaker family, Nathanael Greene had nothing in his background that pointed to a military career. His total military training before mid-1775, when he abandoned pacifism, consisted of serving as a private in the Rhode Island militia for a few hours each week. Yet, no doubt because of his …
Gordon
Victorian Hero
Häftad, 2008
173 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Charles George Gordon was the preeminent military hero of the late-Victorian British Empire. A lifetime officer in the Royal Engineers, he served in several theaters of war and imperial contest, most notably China and the Sudan. His last assignment took him back to the dusty Sudanese capital, …
