著者:Robert Miller
出版社: Robert Miller
発売日: 2015年05月08日
“This is the remarkable story of my father, Herbert Henry Miller, who was drafted into the army in August 1942.” So begins this book about an ordinary man thrust into extraordinary circumstances dur……続きを見る
著者:Karen Houppert
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
As taps echoes across the cookie-cutter housing areas of upstate New York’s Fort Drum, the wives turn on the evening news, both hoping for and dreading word of their husbands overseas. It’s a ritual……続きを見る
PZL P.11 was a basic type of fighter for Polish aviation equipment during the German invasion in September 1939. The aircraft was designed in 1931 by Eng. Zygmunt Pulawski. The publication includes ……続きを見る
Linked footnotes
CONTENTS (abridged list)
PART I.
Combat of Weissenburg (4th August)
Battle of Wörth (6th August)
Battle of Spicheren (6th August)
Right-wheel of the German Army
Battle of Colombey-N……続きを見る
The soldiers of the SAS are among the most ruthless and efficient in the world. Their daring and determination have made Britain's top-secret military unit one of the most feared and respected speci……続きを見る
著者:Nicola Henry
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2012年07月26日
Wartime rape has been virulent in wars of sovereignty, territory, conquest, religion, ideology and liberation, yet attention to this crime has been sporadic throughout history. Rape remains ‘unspeak……続きを見る
著者:Xiaobing Li
出版社: The University Press of Kentucky
発売日: 2007年06月01日
Since the establishment of the Red Army in 1927, China's military has responded to profound changes in Chinese society, particularly its domestic politics, shifting economy, and evolving threat perc……続きを見る
著者:Julius Caesar
出版社: Penguin Books Ltd
発売日: 2004年02月05日
A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with incomparable immediacy and power. The Civil War is a tense and gripping depiction of his ……続きを見る
著者:Paul Cartledge
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA
発売日: 2013年04月20日
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, inc……続きを見る
著者:JH Thompson
出版社: Penguin Random House South Africa
発売日: 2012年03月12日
In die 1970’s, 1980’s en vroeë 1990’s is honderde duisende jong mans vir militêre diensplig opgeroep. Die meeste het streng fisiese opleiding ondergaan en baie het aan die oorlog in noord-Namibië en……続きを見る
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The Call to Arms is the first of six books in the series Upper Canada Preserved - War of 1812. Each book in this battlefield-based chronicle combines the best of modern historical……続きを見る
For thousands of years pirates, privateers, and seafaring raiders have terrorized the ocean voyager and coastal inhabitant, plundering ship and shore with impunity. From the victim's point of view, ……続きを見る
They were Hitler's elite troops: the Waffen-SS.
Often tasked with the most dangerous missions, these men performed their duties with a zeal and dedication the world had not seen before...
But they w……続きを見る
著者:Jeremy Black
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年03月16日
The name Waterloo has become synonymous with final, crushing defeat. Now this legendary battle is re-created in a groundbreaking book by an eminent British military historian making his major Americ……続きを見る
**'Excellent' Financial Times
'Stirring, impressively detailed' Time magazine
The Battle for the Falklands is a thoughtful and informed analysis of an astonishing chapter in modern British history f……続きを見る
“Destroy the Enemy in Hand-to-Hand Combat” was the official Red Army close combat manual during the Second World War.
It was published in 1941, shortly after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. T……続きを見る
著者:G. R. Gleig
出版社: VolumesOfValue
発売日: 2013年09月12日
CHAPTER I. Cessation of Hostilities - Expected Embarkation for America - Encampment near Passages - March towards Bordeaux-Anglet ...
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著者:Edward Platt
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2012年09月13日
A journey through one of the world's most divided cities – Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank of Palestine, exploring the influence of the history, religion and myth on the country's tumultuo……続きを見る
Great battles mark history's turning points, occurring as they do where cultures and ideologies clash.
While some battles have been won by the superior force, others have been won by a sheer dogged ……続きを見る
著者:Alexander Hold
出版社: Helion and Company
発売日: 2010年07月19日
This is a translation of the 1867 work by Alexander Hold, Geschichte der Feldzugs in Italien 1866, which describes in detail the campaign of the previous year, fought between the armed forces of the……続きを見る
General Francisco Franco, also called the Caudillo, was the dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. His life has been examined in many previous biographies. However, most of these have ……続きを見る
著者:David Scott
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2013年04月11日
For viewers of BBC One’s ‘Britain and the Sea’, ‘Leviathan’ is a must-read; overturning long-held beliefs about our ancestry and weaving together the disparate strands that made the fabric of the Em……続きを見る
Jason's Helmet is the true story of a world war two helmet's journey home from the Normandy battlefield.
The third armor division, known as the Spearhead, was fighting in the Argentan-Felaise gap (F……続きを見る
The Battle of Arnhem remains a much-studied and discussed battle, with an uninterrupted flow of books being published about it. Helion are bringing back into print a fascinating eyewitness account t……続きを見る
“A monumental new volume. . . . Revelatory, even revolutionary. . . . Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable.” ー Boston Globe
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Boo……続きを見る
著者:Philip Keith
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年10月29日
Philip Keith's Fire Base Illingworth is an epic, never-before-told true story of a North Vietnamese Army attack and how the men of this nearly overrun Fire Base survived.
In the early morning hours ……続きを見る
Translated from German, In a Raging Inferno is the first English-language book ever to recount the story of the Hitler Youth and its combat role at the end of World War II. During the desperate fina……続きを見る
To America, he was a hero.
To his troops, he was a soldier.
Now hear his story.
Each new era in American history has given rise to a military leader who defines the nation’s proudest traditionsーof ……続きを見る
著者:Don Farr
出版社: Helion and Company
発売日: 2008年12月23日
It was close to the small southern Belgian town of Mons that the shooting war began or the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914. It was close to the same town that it ended for them over fifte……続きを見る
This edition features
• a linked Table of Contents and linked Footnotes
CONTENTS
I. Starting for the Field
II. Under the Red Cross
III. On the Edge of War
IV. War Correspondents and Despatch-Boats
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