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Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Battles & campaigns
The Battle of Hastings is one of the key events in the history of
the British Isles. This book is not merely another attempt to
describe what happened at Hastings - that has already been done
supremely well by many others - but instead to highlight two
issues: how little we actually know for certain about the battle,
and how the popular understanding of 14 October 1066 has been
shaped by the concerns of later periods. It looks not just at
perennial themes such as how did Harold die and why did the English
lose, but also at other crucial issues such as the diplomatic
significance of William of Normandy's claim to the English throne,
the Norman attempt to secure papal support, and the extent to which
the Norman and Anglo-Saxon armies represented diametrically opposed
military systems. This study will be of great interest to all
historians, students and teachers of history and is illustrated
with 10 colour and 10 black & white photographs.
The six-month siege of Khe Sanh in 1968 was the largest, most
intense battle of the Vietnam War. For six thousand trapped U.S.
Marines, it was a nightmare; for President Johnson, an obsession.
For General Westmoreland, it was to be the final vindication of
technological weaponry; for General Giap, architect of the French
defeat at Dien Bien Phu, it was a spectacular ruse masking troops
moving south for the Tet offensive. With a new introduction by Mark
Bowden-best-selling author of Hu? 1968-Robert Pisor's immersive
narrative of the action at Khe Sanh is a timely reminder of the
human cost of war, and a visceral portrait of Vietnam's fiercest
and most epic close-quarters battle. Readers may find the politics
and the tactics of the Vietnam War, as they played out at Khe Sahn
fifty years ago, echoed in our nation's global incursions today.
Robert Pisor sets forth the history, the politics, the strategies,
and, above all, the desperate reality of the battle that became the
turning point of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
The Battle of Peach Tree Creek marked the beginning of the end for
the Confederacy, for it turned the page from the patient defence
displayed by General Joseph E. Johnston to the bold offense called
upon by his replacement, General John Bell Hood. Until this point
in the campaign, the Confederates had fought primarily in the
defensive from behind earthworks, forcing Federal commander William
T. Sherman to either assault fortified lines, or go around them in
flanking moves. At Peach Tree Creek, the roles would be reversed
for the first time, as Southerners charged Yankee lines. The Gate
City, as Atlanta has been called, was in many ways the capstone to
the Confederacy's growing military-industrial complex and was the
transportation hub of the fledgling nation. For the South it had to
be held. For the North it had to be taken. With General Johnston
removed for failing to parry the Yankee thrust into Georgia, the
fate of Atlanta and the Confederacy now rested on the shoulders of
thirty-three-year-old Hood, whose body had been torn by the war.
Peach Tree Creek was the first of three battles in eight days in
which Hood led the Confederate Army to desperate, but unsuccessful,
attempts to repel the Federals encircling Atlanta. This particular
battle started the South on a downward spiral from which she would
never recover. After Peach Tree Creek and its companion battles for
Atlanta, the clear-hearing Southerner could hear the death throes
of the Confederacy. It was the first nail in the coffin of Atlanta
and Dixie.
'Invasion Rabaul' is a gut-wrenching account of courage and
sacrifice, folly and disaster, as seen through the eyes of the
Allied defenders who survived the Japanese assault on Britain
during the opening days of World War II.
In this never-before-seen memoir, Bergen-Belsen survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar shares incredibly powerful words on the final untold portrait of her childhood friend, Anne Frank. The inspiring and heartbreaking true story of two best friends torn apart and reunited against all odds.
When Hannah Pick-Goslar's family fled Nazi Germany for Amsterdam, she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbour; precocious, outspoken and fun-loving Anne Frank. Hannah instantly warmed to happy-go-lucky Anne and for seven blissful years, the inseparable pair navigated school, boys and coming of age in Amsterdam's Rivierenbuurt neighbourhood. But in 1942, life quickly changed for the thirteen-year-old girls.
The Nazi occupation of Amsterdam meant the friends were separated without warning. Hannah called on Anne, but there was no trace of her friend or her precious diary. Hannah was tormented over the fate of Anne, wondering if, by some stroke of fortune she had escaped danger and was alive and well elsewhere. It wasn't until Hannah reached her darkest point, imprisoned with her family in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, that she had an astonishing chance reunion with Anne. Desperate to save her friend who was weak and struggling to survive, Hannah risked everything to toss packages filled with food and clothes over a barbed-wire fence. Hannah only learned of Anne's death after her liberation, when Otto Frank came to visit her in hospital. From that day, Otto became a second father to Hannah, making sure that she was always looked
after.
In this groundbreaking memoir, Hannah Pick-Goslar shares an intimate portrait of Anne Frank, the young Jewish diarist who has captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world.
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Victory
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Jane Lippitt Patterson
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R938
Discovery Miles 9 380
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