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The Land and the People (Hardcover): John W. Gordon The Land and the People (Hardcover)
John W. Gordon
R883 Discovery Miles 8 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Other Desert War - British Special Forces in North Africa, 1940-1943 (Hardcover): John W. Gordon The Other Desert War - British Special Forces in North Africa, 1940-1943 (Hardcover)
John W. Gordon
R2,716 Discovery Miles 27 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Gordon's book reveals an impressive mastery of the archival and secondary sources available on the subject. His writing is crisp and interesting, yet sober and scholarly at the same time. The daring and resourceful men of the British desert forces have found a historian whose ability to tell their story matches their ability to create some of the most daring and imaginative operations of World War II. This is an extraordinary book about extraordinary soldiers. "Military Review"

South Carolina and the American Revolution - A Battlefield History (Paperback): John W. Gordon South Carolina and the American Revolution - A Battlefield History (Paperback)
John W. Gordon; Foreword by John Keegan
R556 R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Save R60 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An assessment of critical battles on the southern front that led to American independence An estimated one-third of all combat actions in the American Revolution took place in South Carolina. From the partisan clashes of the backcountry's war for the hearts and minds of settlers to bloody encounters with Native Americans on the frontier, more battles were fought in South Carolina than any other of the original thirteen states. The state also had more than its share of pitched battles between Continental troops and British regulars. In South Carolina and the American Revolution: A Battlefield History, John W. Gordon illustrates how these encounters, fought between 1775 and 1783, were critical to winning the struggle that secured Americas independence from Great Britain. According to Gordon, when the war reached stalemate in other zones and the South became its final theater, South Carolina was the decisive battleground. Recounting the clashes in the state, Gordon identifies three sources of attack: the powerful British fleet and seaborne forces of the British regulars; the Cherokees in the west; and, internally, a loyalist population numerous enough to support British efforts towards reconquest. From the successful defense of Fort Sullivan (the palmetto-log fort at the mouth of Charleston harbor), capture and occupation of Charleston in 1780, to later battles at King's Mountain and Cowpens, this chronicle reveals how troops in South Carolina frustrated a campaign for restoration of royal authority and set British troops on the road to ultimate defeat at Yorktown. Despite their successes in 1780 and 1781, the British found themselves with a difficult military problem--having to wage a conventional war against American regular forces while also mounting a counterinsurgency against the partisan bands of Francis Marion, Andrew Pickens, and Thomas Sumter. In this comprehensive assessment of one southern state's battlegrounds, Gordon examines how military policy in its strategic, operational, and tactical dimensions set the stage for American success in the Revolution.

The Land and the People (Paperback): John W. Gordon The Land and the People (Paperback)
John W. Gordon
R815 Discovery Miles 8 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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