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Download or read book Battleground Europe written by Nigel Cave and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 1990-03-29 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the most important sites, primarily of the two world wars, covering both their history and descriptions of how they are today. For the interested traveller, the author groups key sites together, listing places offering accommodation, food, and detailing places of local interest.
Book Synopsis Bolt Action: Battleground Europe by : Warlord Games
Download or read book Bolt Action: Battleground Europe written by Warlord Games and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take the fight to the enemy with this new theatre book for Bolt Action. From the D-Day landings to the final battle for Berlin, this volume gives players everything they need to focus their gaming on these final campaigns in the European Theatre of Operations. Scenarios and special rules offer something for all Bolt Action players, regardless of the armies they collect.
Book Synopsis Bolt Action: Battleground Europe by : Warlord Games
Download or read book Bolt Action: Battleground Europe written by Warlord Games and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take the fight to the enemy with this new theatre book for Bolt Action. From the D-Day landings to the final battle for Berlin, this volume gives players everything they need to focus their gaming on these final campaigns in the ETO. Scenarios and special rules offer something for all Bolt Action players, regardless of the armies they collect.
Book Synopsis Al Qaeda in Europe by : Lorenzo Vidino
Download or read book Al Qaeda in Europe written by Lorenzo Vidino and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an expert at The Investigative Project, a counterterrorism institute and America's largest private data-gathering center on militant Islamic activities, this text fills a critical gap in the understanding of the new threats posed by Islamist terrorism.
Book Synopsis Utah Beach - St. Mere Eglise by : Carl Shilleto
Download or read book Utah Beach - St. Mere Eglise written by Carl Shilleto and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2001 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fortunes of war and clear-headed decisions by commanders on the scene combined to make Utah Beach the most successful and least costly of the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944. Strong ocean currents and the confusion of battle placed the landing force a mile south of its target, but further away from German artillery and in a sector that was less heavily defended because the land inland was flooded. The first craft ashore happened to contain Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. who immediately brought order to what might have been a chaotic situation. The U.S. 8th Infantry Regiment quickly began to move inland for a crucial linkup with the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, all of whose landing zones were behind Utah Beach. The personalities, units and individual actions of this dramatic D-Day landing are all covered in the usual Battlegroud Europe fashion, with numerous illustrations, maps and a guide to the area as it is today.
Download or read book Battleground Europe written by Nigel Cave and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1990-03-29 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the most important sites, primarily of the two world wars, covering both their history and descriptions of how they are today. For the interested traveller, the author groups key sites together, listing places offering accommodation, food, and detailing places of local interest.
Download or read book The Island written by Tim Saunders and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2008-03-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having fought their way up fifty miles of Hell's Highway and through Nijmegen, XXX Corps was just ten miles from Arnhem and the 1st British Airborne Division. Here it found itself on an island of flat land between the Waal at Nijmegen and the Rhine at Arnhem. The situation was increasingly bad with the remainder of II SS Panzer Corps in the area and German counter attacks on Hell's Highway preventing the Allies applying their material superiority. The Guards Armoured and then 43rd Wessex Infantry Division took turns to lead before reaching the Rhine opposite the paratroopers in the Oosterbeek Perimeter. Attempts to cross the Rhine by the Polish Paras and the Dorset Regiment had little success, but meanwhile, the guns of XXX Corps ensured the survival of the Perimeter. After some desperate fighting on the island, 43rd Wessex Division evacuated just two thousand members of the elite Airborne Division who had landed eight days earlier.
Download or read book Mons 1914 written by Jack Horsfall and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War opened with a major reversal for the BEF followed by a daring and epic withdrawal. This book describes these dramatic events.
Book Synopsis The Hindenburg Line by : Peter Oldham
Download or read book The Hindenburg Line written by Peter Oldham and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1997-01-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hindenburg Line, or Siegfriedstellung, achieved almost mythical status in the minds of the British public: the strongest defence system the world had then seen, scientifically designed by fortification experts with only one aim, to keep at bay the British Army. So pleased and delighted were the British that church bells were rung when the Line was pierced at Cambrai in November 1917. The new wonder-weapon, the Tank, had shown itself to be capable of great deeds and British Generals were seen to be capable of showing the Germans what Tommy could do when properly organised. The initial elation was followed by disappointment as the Germans fought back and the Hindenburg defences were retaken when the Germans used "defence-in-depth" and "elastic-defence", both new concepts to the British who were to learn from their mistakes. The British were to witness triumph and joy again, when, towards the end of the Great War, the Hindenburg Line was to be broken by men from the Midlands.This book examines the reasons for the German's decision to fall back to a strong defence line while their Navy starved Britain into submission, and the "burnt earth" policy of devastation in the area evacuated. The design and layout of the Hindenburg Line, and the Battles for its possession in 1917 and 1918, are given: with numerous maps covering different sectors and the struggles for each village and farm, together with the part played by many British Regiments. The maps contain information on how to find all remaining vestiges of both German and British defences in the region, most of which are rarely visited and many of which have not been seen by British eyes for many years.No book since the Great War has examined this area in such detail, nor has any single account contained so much for the battlefield visitor to see. The sites of individual acts of bravery, including the winning of many Victoria Crosses are featured, and existing locations of battle lines, headquarters, artillery observation and machine gun posts are also included, together with an absorbing narrative which also guides the armchair reader.
Download or read book Epehy written by K. W. Mitchinson and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The village of Epehy gave its name to one of the most important battles of 1918.Evacuated by the Germans during their retreat to the Hindenburg Line, the ruins were occupied by British Forces until the German offensive. They were recaptured in some of the bloodiest engagements of September 1918.
Download or read book D-Day Documents written by Paul Winter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in partnership with the National Archives, D-Day Documents is a commemorative collection of previously unpublished documents marking the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings. This unprecedented book contains not only 21st Army Group intelligence reports on 'Omaha' Beach, RAF Photographic Reconnaissance prints and the ship's log of HMS Warspite but various other important official documents covering different aspects of Operations Neptune and Overlord. Crucially, this single volume brings together for the first time the war diary entries of all Anglo-Canadian 'spear-head' units and regiments who landed in France on 6 June 1944. A unique publication, which celebrates one of the most momentous days in modern military history, D-Day Documents will fascinate anyone with an interest in the Second World War, as well as offering an invaluable primary source for military historians.
Download or read book Arnhem written by Frank Steer and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This guide focuses on the fighting at the bridge in Arnhem itself and the approaches to it ... [It] is designed to offer, as necessary background information, an overview of why the battle took place and an outline of the main events. That done, it then sets out to guide the visitor on a tour of the particular action at the Arnhem Bridge and the battles in Arnhem covering some of the key sights and occurrences"--Preface.
Book Synopsis In the Footsteps of the Red Baron by : Mike O'Connor
Download or read book In the Footsteps of the Red Baron written by Mike O'Connor and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2005-02-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manfred von Richthofen became a fighter pilot on the Western Front in August 1916. By January 1917, Richthofen had shot down fifteen aircraft had been appointed commander of his own unit. He painted the fuselage of his Albatros D-III a bright red and was nicknamed the Red Baron. In June 1917, Richthofen was appointed commander of the German Flying Circus. Made up of Germany's top fighter pilots, this new unit was highly mobile and could be quickly sent to any part of the Western Front where it was most needed. Richthofen and his pilots achieved immediate success during the air war over Ypres during August and September. Manfred von Richthofen was killed on 21st April 1918. Richthofen had destroyed 80 allied aircraft, the highest score of any fighter pilot during the First World War. This book is divided into three sectors of the WWI front line in which von Richthofen operated. Each area is conveniently reached within hours. Airfield sites, memorials and the graves of Manfred's famous victims are described and directions for the battlefield walker are included with information on related museums and historic sites with special association with this most famous of fighter pilots.
Book Synopsis God's Marshall Plan by : James D. Strasburg
Download or read book God's Marshall Plan written by James D. Strasburg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God's Marshall Plan tells the story of the American Protestants who sought to transform Germany into a new Christian and democratic nation in the heart of twentieth-century Europe. James D. Strasburg follows the American pastors, revivalists, diplomats, and spies who crossed the Atlantic in an era of world war, responded to the rise of totalitarian dictators, and began to identify Europe as a continent in need of saving. He examines their far-reaching campaigns to make Germany into the European cornerstone of a new American-led global spiritual order. God's Marshall Plan illuminates the dramatic ramifications of these efforts by showing how the mission to remake Germany in America's image actually remade American Protestantism itself. American Protestants realized they had come to dramatically different conclusions about how to rebuild the West out of the ruins of war. European Protestants, meanwhile, began to sharply protest America's spiritual advance. Forsaking their wartime nationalism, a growing number of ecumenical Protestants championed a new ethic of global fellowship, reconciliation, and justice. However, a fresh wave of evangelical Protestants emerged and ensured that the religious struggle would continue into the Cold War. Strasburg argues that the spiritual struggle for Europe ultimately forged two competing visions of global engagement Christian nationalism and Christian globalism that transformed the United States, diplomacy, and politics in the Cold War and beyond.
Download or read book Wilfred Owen written by Helen McPhail and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1998-08-12 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to the battlefields that inspired the young and sensitive poet, whose poems are probably the twentieth century's best-known literary expressions of experience of war. Detailed maps, military diaries, photographs and modern roads guide the visitor through the battlefields. Owen's letters are used extensively, together with his poetry, linking specific places events, vividly describing the suffering of the trench.
Book Synopsis The German Army on the Western Front 1915 by : Jack Sheldon
Download or read book The German Army on the Western Front 1915 written by Jack Sheldon and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Sheldon examines the German mindset at the close of 1914 when it became apparent that a quick victory was no longer a possibility. Both sides were temporarily exhausted in static positions from the Channel to the Swiss Border. In a reversal of roles, the French launched major offensives in Champagne and Artois, while the British Army, adapting to the demands of large scale continental warfare, went on the offensive in support at Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge and Loos.Such was the Allied pressure that the only German offensive in 1915 was at Ypres in April using gas on a large scale for the first time.1915 was a transitional year on the Western Front with lessons being learned the hard way by both sides prior to the massive attritional battles of 1916 and 1917.Using his skill at archival research, Sheldon describes how the 1915 experience shaped the German approach to the cataclysmic battles that lay ahead, leading to the ultimate, previously unthinkable defeat of the Kaisers Germany.
Book Synopsis The Battle of Neuve Chapelle by : Geoffrey Bridger
Download or read book The Battle of Neuve Chapelle written by Geoffrey Bridger and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neuve Chapelle a lost battlefield is now opened up for the explorer to learn more about the actions that took place there. In Early 1915, the British decided to take the offensive for the first time in the war against German positions in Northern France. The initial objective was a bulge, about one mile across, in their lines at Neuve. Events which took place here early in 1915 are described in detail and show why this almost forgotten battle set the course of the war.
