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  • Salamanca 1812

    Wellington Crushes Marmont

    af Ian Fletcher ...
    Serier Bog 48 - Campaign
    Salamanca was the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War. This detailed, illustrated volume recounts its progression, alongside full-colour maps and illustrations.Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at Garcia Hernandez. There would be two more years of sieges and hard fighting ... Læs mere

    160,35 kr.

  • Vittoria 1813

    Wellington Sweeps the French from Spain

    af Ian Fletcher ...
    Serier Bog 59 - Campaign
    A compact, fully-illustrated guide to a strategic British victory that forced the French troops out of occupied Spain.Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later Wellington's series of brilliant manoeuvres threw the French onto the defensive on all fronts, culminating in the final ... Læs mere

    160,35 kr.

  • Badajoz 1812

    Wellington's bloodiest siege

    af Ian Fletcher ...
    Serier Bog 65 - Campaign
    Badajoz 1812 analyses the storming of Badajoz, which involved Wellington's infantry in some of the most savage hand-to hand fighting of the whole Peninsular War.At appalling cost in a nightmare assault during the night of the 6 April 1812, Wellington's soldiers hacked their way over the bodies of their dead and wounded and through the huge medieval walls of the town. These were held with great ... Læs mere

    160,35 kr.

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  • A Crucible of Fire

    The Battle of Lundy's Lane, July 25, 1814

    Serier Bog 5 - Upper Canada Preserved — War of 1812
    From the Battle of Chippawa to Lundy’s Lane, A Crucible of Fire focuses on the period of the War of 1812 leading up to the siege on Fort Erie in September 1814.Following their invasion at Fort Erie and decisive victory at the Battle of Chippawa, an American army of over 5,000 men seemed poised to sweep across the Niagara frontier to Lake Ontario, link up with the American fleet, and complete the ... Læs mere

    64,06 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Images of WW1

    af Paul Powici ...
    Photographs taken by my grandfather in the Middle East during WW1. Includes scenes of battles as well as of places and people. Places include Palestine and Egypt. ... Læs mere

    12,76 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars

    The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars

    Serier serie Emblems of Antiquity
    The Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE is one of world history's unjustly neglected events. It decisively ended the threat of a Persian conquest of Greece. It involved tens of thousands of combatants, including the largest number of Greeks ever brought together in a common cause. For the Spartans, the driving force behind the Greek victory, the battle was sweet vengeance for their defeat at Thermopylae ... Læs mere

    152,26 kr.

  • Arsenals of Folly

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War.In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, setting the stage for the 1986 Reykjavik summit and the incredible events that followed. In this thrilling, ... Læs mere

    92,36 kr.

  • The English Civil War

    A Historical Companion

    The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political upheavals which spanned the British Isles in the mid-seventeenth century. It was fought on a wide range of religious, political and racial issues, and succeeded in dividing the traditional loyalties of class, friendship and family ties within all four kingdoms. This unprecedented period of disruption resulted in far-reaching ... Læs mere

    124,88 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Scipio Africanus

    Scipio Africanus was one of the greatest generals and statesmen of the Ancient World. When he was 18, he saved his father's life in battle during the Second Punic War and later survived the horrific Roman defeat at Cannae.At the age of 26, he was named Commander-in-Chief of the Roman army in Spain and in 4 years, by daringly storming the city of Cartagena and crushing two Carthaginian armies in ... Læs mere

    68,75 kr.

  • Birmingham Pals

    14th, 15th & 16th (Service) Battalions of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, A History of the Three City Battalions Raised in Birmingham in World War One

    af Terry Carter ...
    In the summer of 1914, our finest young men flocked to the colors in Northern towns and cities to answer Lord Kitcheners Call to Arms in a spontaneous burst of enthusiasm and patriotism. The Call appealed to their sense of adventure and offered an escape from the humdrum life of office, factory and mill.The new recruits volunteered with brothers, cousins, friends and work mates. The newly formed ... Læs mere

    49,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Howard Zinn on War

    af Howard Zinn ...
    Howard Zinn began work on his first book for his friends at Seven Stories Press in 1996, a big volume collecting all his shorter writings organized by subject. The themes he chose reflected his lifelong concerns: war, history, law, class, means and ends, and race. Throughout his life Zinn had returned again and again to these subjects, continually probing and questioning yet rarely reversing his ... Læs mere

    108,24 kr.

  • Hannibal: The Military Biography of Rome's Greatest Enemy

    The Romans' destruction of Carthage after the Third Punic War erased any Carthaginian historical record of Hannibal's life. What we know of him comes exclusively from Roman historians who had every interest in minimizing his success, exaggerating his failures, and disparaging his character. The charges leveled against Hannibal include greed, cruelty and atrocity, sexual indulgence, and even ... Læs mere

    143,92 kr.