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Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2001
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
389 kr
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For centuries, the world has witnessed the development and use of increasingly complex and powerful military systems and technologies. In the process, the ""art of war"" has truly become the art of combined arms warfare, in which infantry, artillery, air support, intelligence, and other key …
When Titans Clashed
How the Red Army Stopped Hitler
Av David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House
Häftad, 2015
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
425 kr
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On first publication, this uncommonly concise and readable account of Soviet Russia's clash with Nazi Germany utterly changed our understanding of World War II on Germany's Eastern Front, immediately earning its place among top-shelf histories of the world war. Revised and updated to reflect recent …
Confederacy's Last Hurrah
Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville
Av Wiley Sword
Häftad, 1993
368 kr
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Following the fall of Atlanta, rebel commander John Bell Hood rallied his demoralized troops and marched them off the Tennessee, desperately hoping to draw Sherman after him and forestall the Confederacy's defeat. But Sherman refused to be lured and began his infamous "March to the Sea," while Hood …
Through the Maelstrom
A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front 1942-1945
Häftad, 2015
429 kr
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The monumental battles of World War II's Eastern Front—Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk—are etched into the historical record. But there is another, hidden history of that war that has too often been ignored in official accounts. Boris Gorbachevsky was a junior officer in the 31st Army who first saw …
German Way of War
From the Thirty Years War to the Third Reich
Häftad, 2005
389 kr
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For Frederick the Great, the prescription for warfare was simple: kurz und vives ("short and lively")—wars that relied upon swift, powerful, and decisive military operations. Robert Citino takes us on a dramatic march through Prussian and German military history to show how that primal theme played …
Hitler's Police Battalions
Enforcing Racial War in the East
Häftad, 2005
429 kr
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When the German Wehrmacht swarmed across Eastern Europe, an elite corps followed close at its heels. Along with the SS and Gestapo, the Ordnungspolizei, or Uniformed Police, played a central role in Nazi genocide that until now has been generally neglected by historians of the war. Beginning with …
Blood on the Snow
The Carpathian Winter War of 1915
Häftad, 2010
342 kr
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The Carpathian campaign of 1915, described by some as the ""Stalingrad of the First World War,"" engaged the million-man armies of Austria-Hungary and Russia in fierce winter combat that drove them to the brink of annihilation. Habsburg forces fought to rescue 130,000 Austro-Hungarian soldiers …
Spetsnaz
A History of the Soviet and Russian Special Forces
Av Tor Bukkvoll
Inbunden, 2024
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379 kr
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In January 1951, Lieutenant Evgeniy Borisov was sent to the headquarters of the Soviet 5th Army in Spassk-Dalnii, a small city in the Russian Far East. Borisov was there on a secret mission. Together with his superior, Major Rusinov, his job was to establish the 91st Special Forces Company. The …
Death of the Wehrmacht
The German Campaigns of 1942
Häftad, 2007
313 kr
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For Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates and strategic retreats. In this major reevaluation of that crucial year, Robert Citino shows that …
Wehrmacht Retreats
Fighting a Lost War, 1943
Häftad, 2016
313 kr
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Winner of the Arthur Goodzeit AwardThroughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century industrialized warfare. In his new study, prizewinning …
Inside Hitler's High Command
Häftad, 2000
396 kr
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One of the most persistent myths to come out of World War II is that the Third Reich failed because a militarily incompetent Adolf Hitler and a small circle of ""yes-men"" consistently overrode the professional judgement of the German General Staff. This text seeks to dispel this long-standing …
Red Storm Over the Balkans
The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944
Inbunden, 2006
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706 kr
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Germany's Eastern Front in World War II saw many campaigns and battles that have been ""forgotten"" by a Soviet Union that tried to hide its military failures. The Red Army's invasion of Romania in April and May 1944 was one such campaign, which produced nearly 200,000 casualties and tarnished the …
Damned and the Dead
The Eastern Front Through the Eyes of Soviet and Russian Novelists
Av Frank Ellis
Inbunden, 2011
788 kr
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The confrontation between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army on the Eastern Front of World War II was defined by incalculable suffering, destruction, casualties, and heroism. While many historians have chronicled the epic nature of that arena of war, it has largely been left to Russian novelists to …
Battle of Kursk
Av David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House
Häftad, 1999
396 kr
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Immense in scope, ferocious in nature, and epic in consequence, the Battle of Kursk witnessed (at Prokhorovka) one of the largest tank engagements in world history and led to staggering losses - including nearly 200,000 Soviet and 50,000 German casualties within the first ten days of fighting. …
To the Gates of Stalingrad Volume 1 the Stalingrad Trilogy
Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942
Inbunden, 2009
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
800 kr
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The confrontation between German and Soviet forces at Stalingrad was a titanic clash of armies on an unprecedented scale—a campaign that was both a turning point in World War II and a lasting symbol of that war's power and devastation. Yet despite the attention lavished on this epic battle by …
Shattered Courage
Soldiers Who Refused to Fight in the American Civil War
Av Earl J. Hess
Inbunden, 2026
469 kr
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From renowned Civil War historian Earl J. Hess comes a study of Union and Confederate soldiers as never seen before. Shattered Courage examines the experience of the men who refused to fight on the day of battle.When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of presidential office on March 4, 1865, he urged …
Battle for the Ruhr
The German Army's Final Defeat in the West
Inbunden, 2006
600 kr
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With Allied armies poised on the banks of the Rhine, Nazi Germany tottered on the brink of collapse. The ensuing battles on German soil - especially those in the so-called Ruhr Pocket - were as fierce and hard-fought as any in the European theater. Going well beyond previous accounts, Derek Zumbro …
Corinth 1862
Siege, Battle, Occupation
Häftad, 2016
313 kr
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Winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award and McLemore PrizeIn the spring of 1862, there was no more important place in the western Confederacy-perhaps in all the South-than the tiny town of Corinth, Mississippi.Major General Henry W. Halleck, commander of Union forces in the Western Theater, reported to …
Misfire
British Empire Special Forces and Defeat in Malaya in World War II
Inbunden, 2025
648 kr
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Of all the Allied strategic defensive campaigns in the first half of World War II, the fight to defend Malaya and Singapore provided perhaps the best chance to use special forces to wider effect.In December 1941 the issue in the East during World War II was whether or not the Japanese could drive …
Battle for Leningrad, 1941-1944
Inbunden, 2002
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800 kr
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The German seige and Soviet defense of Leningrad in World War II was an epic struggle in an epic war, a drama of heroism and human misery unmatched in the annals of modern warfare. This work provides a military history of the conflict waged beyond the city's borders. One of the first major Soviet …
Violent Peace
A Global Military History of the Interwar Period
Av Robert M. Citino, Ian Johnson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
648 kr
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A cutting-edge analysis of the interwar period as one fundamentally international in scope and deeply violent in nature.World War I destroyed the world that had come before. It shattered three empires and fueled new nationalisms and ideologies that threatened to destroy those that remained. It left …
America's First Battles
1776-1965
Av Charles E. Heller, William A. Stofft m. fl.
Häftad, 1986
396 kr
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Military Legacy of the Civil War
Av Jay Luvaas
Häftad, 1988
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339 kr
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This pioneering study focuses on the experiences and writings of the surprisingly large number of Prussian, British, and French military observers who witnessed the Civil War firsthand. Luvaas's fascinating account reveals why they came, what they wrote, what their armies learned (or failed to …
First Summit
Roosevelt and Churchill at Placentia Bay, 1941
Häftad, 1991
429 kr
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Four months before Pearl Harbour, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in secret aboard a ship in a secluded Newfoundland harbour. This was the first summit conference of World War II. Although it would soon be overshadowed by the events to come, the 1941 summit at Placentia Bay produced …
No Shining Armour
Marines at War in Vietnam - an Oral History
Häftad, 1992
679 kr
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An account of the Vietnam War, as seen by the American PFCs, sergeants and platoon leaders in the rivers and jungles and trenches. Into their stories, Lehrack has woven a narrative that explains the events they describe and places them into both a historical and a political context. The book tells …
Recruiting for Uncle Sam
Citizenship and Military Manpower Policy
Häftad, 1989
332 kr
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Examining citizenship and military manpower policy in the United States, this book reviews pertinent American history and investigates such issues as voluntarism versus conscription, forces-in-being versus mobilisation, social welfare versus military readiness, and big wars versus small.
Jefferson Davis and His Generals
The Failure of Confederate Command in the West
Häftad, 1990
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443 kr
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Jefferson Davis is a historical figure who provokes strong passions among scholars. Through the years historians have place him at both ends of the spectrum: some have portrayed him as a hero, others have judged him incompetent. In ""Jefferson Davis and his Generals"", Steven Woodworth aims to show …
MacArthur's ""Ultra
Codebreaking and the War Against Japan, 1942-45
Häftad, 1991
429 kr
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It took the US army two full years after the attack on Pearl Harbour to break the radio codes of the Japanese Imperial Army. But by 1944, the US was decoding more than 20,000 messages a month filled with information about enemy movements, strategy, fortifications, troop strengths and supply …
Commanders in Chief
Presidential Leadership in Modern Wars
Häftad, 1993
332 kr
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Since 1798, when Congress authorised John Adams to employ the navy to capture armed French vessels preying on American shipping along the Atlantic coast, US presidents have grappled with the complexities of war. Some have dealt with it skilfully while others have tended towards the inept. Some have …
