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  • The Battle of Borodino

    Napoleon Against Kutuzov

    Serier serie Campaign Chronicles
    On 7 September 1812 at Borodino, 75 miles west of Moscow, the armies of the Russian and French empires clashed in one of the climactic battles of the Napoleonic Wars. This horrific - and controversial - contest has fascinated historians ever since. The survival of the Russian army after Borodino was a key factor in Napoleon's eventual defeat and the utter destruction of the French army of 1812. In ... Læs mere

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  • The Battle of the Berezina

    Napoleon's Great Escape

    Serier serie Campaign Chronicles
    The full story of Napoleon's legendary escape from Russia under seemingly impossible odds is recounted in this thrillingly vivid military history.In the winter of 1812, Napoleon's army retreated from Moscow under appalling conditions, hunted by three separate Russian armies. By late November, Napoleon had reached the banks of the River Berezina—the last natural obstacle between his army and the ... Læs mere

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  • Frederick the Great

    A Military History

    A biography of the Prussian king and military legend from " America's leading historian" (Jeremy Black, author of Imperial Legacies).Famed for his military successes and domestic reforms, Frederick the Great was a remarkable leader whose campaigns were a watershed in the history of Europe, securing Prussia's place as a continental power and inaugurating a new pattern of total war that was to ... Læs mere

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  • Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs

    af John H. Gill ...
    Serier Bog 1 - 1809: Thunder on the Danube
    This history of the 1809 Franco-Austrian War presents an in-depth chronicle Napoleon's last great victory.On April 10th, 1809, while Napoleon was occupied in Western Europe with the Peninsular War, the Austrian Empire launched a surprise attack that sparked the War of the Fifth Coalition. Though France would ultimately win the conflict, it would be Napoleon's last victorious war. Even then, the ... Læs mere

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  • Austerlitz

    Napoleon and The Eagles of Europe

    af Ian Castle ...
    In this authoritative and beautifully illustrated new account of Napoleon's greatest victory and the campaign that preceded it, Ian Castle sheds new light on the actions of the commanders and questions the assumptions—and explores the myths—that have shaped our understanding of the event ever since. His account follows every twist and turn of a war that was fought out across central Europe two ... Læs mere

    14,99 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • At War With The Wind:

    The Epic Struggle With Japan's World War II Suicide Bombers

    af David Sears ...
    Drawing from hundreds of interviews with WWII veterans who survived Japan’s terrifying kamikaze strikes, acclaimed author and former U.S. Navy Officer David Sears vividly portrays what it was like to experience this tactic, capturing the real-life dramas behind America’s first confrontation with the psychology and devastating impact of suicide warfare.In the last days of World War II, a new and ... Læs mere

    115,24 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Mapping the Great Game

    Explorers, Spies and Maps in 19th-Century Asia

    af Riaz Dean ...
    The work of explorers, surveyors and spies in the race to conquer Southern Asia is vividly recounted in this history of British imperial cartography.In the 19th century, the British and Russian empires were engaged in bitter rivalry for the acquisition of Southern Asian. Although India was the ultimate prize, most of the intrigue and action took place along its northern frontier in Afghanistan, ... Læs mere

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  • Dwelling Place

    A Plantation Epic

    Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "[A] beautifully conceived and penetrating book . . . one of the finest studies of American slavery ever written."— The New RepublicPublished some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers's Children of Pride: The True Story of Georgia and the Civil War won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on America's slaveholding South. That ... Læs mere

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  • Exodus from the Alamo

    The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth

    The award-winning historian provides a provocative new analysis of the Battle of the Alamo—including new information on the fate of Davy Crockett.Contrary to legend, we now know that the defenders of the Alamo during the Texan Revolution died in a merciless predawn attack by Mexican soldiers. With extensive research into recently discovered Mexican accounts, as well as forensic evidence, ... Læs mere

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  • Midlothian Mayhem

    Murder, Miners and the Military in Old Midlothian

    Murders, riots, strikes and runaway horses. Midlothian in the 18th and 19th centuries was an interesting place to live.This book introduces the reader to the hard lives of the colliers, the birth of the rural police force and the impact the army had on life in the county south of Scotland's capital city. Highwaymen and grave robbers, footpads and murderers, illicit distillers and murderous ... Læs mere

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  • Take These Men

    Tank Warfare with the Desert Rats

    af Cyril Joly ...
    A 1955 military memoir offering a first-hand account of life in the British 7th Armoured Division during World War II.Few accounts of the tank battles in the Western Desert during the Second World War have provided so vivid an evocation as Cyril Joly's classic account Take These Men. In such inhospitable conditions, this was armoured warfare of a particularly difficult and dangerous kind.From 1940 ... Læs mere

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  • Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943

    af Peter Harmsen ...
    Serier Bog 2 - War in the Far East
    The author of Storm Clouds Over the Pacific, 1931–1941 chronicles Japan's dramatic reversal of fortune as Allied forces gained advantage during WWII.In early 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating Allied forces throughout the Pacific. In a matter of months, Japan had conquered an area larger than Hitler's empire at its apex. Hawaiians and Australians ... Læs mere

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