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Author : Alan Warren
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852855970
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (559 download)
Download or read book Britain's Greatest Defeat written by Alan Warren and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New in paperback, The pre-eminent history of a military disaster. A masterful analysis of events.
Author : Alan Warren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789810566807
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Singapore 1942 written by Alan Warren and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Masanobu Tsuji
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9781885119339
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Japan's Greatest Victory/ Britain's Greatest Defeat written by Masanobu Tsuji and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1997-10-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fall of Singapore was the worst defeat ever suffered by the British Empire; this dramatic account emphasizes the initiative and tactics that enabled 60,000 Japanese to defeat 130,000 British.
Author : Masanobu Tsuji
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Japan's Greatest Victory written by Masanobu Tsuji and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the campaign to capture Singapore in 1942, written by the man who, as Chief of the Operations and Planning Staff, masterminded that incredible Japanese campaign and who himself served with the leading formations.
Author : Masanobu Tsuji
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Japan's Greatest Victory, Britain's Worst Defeat written by Masanobu Tsuji and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om japanernes erobring af Singapore under 2.Verdenskrig, set med japanske øjne. Redigeret af H.V.Howe, som var Military Secretary to the Australian Minister for the Army, 1940-1946. Bogen beskriver den japanske erobring af Singapore i 1942. Forfatteren var oberst og chef for operations- og planlægningsstaben i den japanske 25.ARME, der havde ansvaret for operationerne i Malaya og herunder erobringen af Singapore. Krigshistorien skrives af sejrherrene, siges man, og japanerne var ubetinget sejrherrer i 1942. Der er skrevet meget om Singapore's fald og det engelske nederlag, og den engelske øverstkommanderende A.E.Percival, som blev gjort til syndebuk efter krigen; det interessante ved denne bog er netop historien set med japanske øjne. Bogens forord er skrevet af generalløjtnant H.Gordon Bennett, chef for de australske styrker i Malaya 1941-42. Heller ikke han slap efterfølgende for hård kritik.
Author : Brendan Simms
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140289844
Total Pages : 1140 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Three Victories and a Defeat written by Brendan Simms and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title tells the story of Britain's scramble to world power in the 18th century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it lost almost everything it had gained.
Author : Colin Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141906626
Total Pages : 969 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Singapore Burning written by Colin Smith and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-05-04 with total page 969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Churchill's description of the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942, after Lt-Gen Percival's surrender led to over 100,000 British, Australian and Indian troops falling into the hands of the Japanese, was no wartime exaggeration. The Japanese had promised that there would be no Dunkirk in Singapore, and its fall led to imprisonment, torture and death for thousands of allied men and women. With much new material from British, Australian, Indian and Japanese sources, Colin Smith has woven together the full and terrifying story of the fall of Singapore and its aftermath. Here, alongside cowardice and incompetence, are forgotten acts of enormous heroism; treachery yet heart-rending loyalty; Japanese compassion as well as brutality from the bravest and most capricious enemy the British ever had to face.
Author : George H. Cassar
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612344453
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Kitchener's War: British Strategy from 1914-1916 written by George H. Cassar and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-10-31 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new study of one of Britain's most famous soldiers.
Author : Patrick Arthur Macrory
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kabul Catastrophe written by Patrick Arthur Macrory and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1839 a large British army invaded Afghanistan in order to place upon the throne a ruler deemed more friendly to the British in Delhi than the incumbent Dost Mohammed. Many voices in London warned against the foolhardy enterprise, among them that of the Duke of Wellington, who foresaw shame and disaster. The enterprise started well. The army conquered all before it, including reputedly impregnable fortresses. But only two years after being established in Kabul, attached on all sides by the hostile Afghans, the British retreated in mid-winter, 1842, trying to regain India. Of the 16,000 soldiers and others who left the city, only one person survived the journey as far as Jalalabad. It was one of the worse catastrophes to befall the British Empire.
Author : Adrian Murdoch
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752494554
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Rome's Greatest Defeat written by Adrian Murdoch and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2008-07-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In AD 9 half of Rome's Western army was ambushed in a German forest and annihilated. Three legions, three cavalry units and six auxiliary regiments - some 25,000 men - were wiped out. It dealt a body blow to the empire's imperial pretensions and was Rome's greatest defeat. No other battle stopped the Roman empire dead in its tracks. Although one of the most significant and dramatic battles in European history, this is also one which has been largely overlooked. Drawing on primary sources and a vast wealth of new archaeological evidence, Adrian Murdoch brings to life the battle itself, the historical background and the effects of the Roman defeat as well as exploring the personalities of those who took part.
Author : Martin Hutchinson
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718848217
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Britain's Greatest Prime Minister written by Martin Hutchinson and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's Greatest Prime Minister: Lord Liverpool unpicks two centuries of Whig history to redeem Lord Liverpool (1770-1828) from 'arch-mediocrity' and establish him as the greatest political leader the country has ever seen. In the past, biographers of Lord Liverpool have not sufficiently acknowledged the importance of his foremost skill: economic policy (including fiscal, monetary and banking system questions). Here, Hutchinson's decades of experience in the finance sector provide a more specialised perspective on Liverpool's economic legacy than most historians are able to offer. From his adept handling of unparalleled economic and social difficulties, to his strategic defeat of Napoleon and unprecedented approach to the subsequent peace process, Liverpool is shown to have set Britain's course for prosperity and effective government for the following century. In addition to granting him his rightful place among British Prime Ministers on both domestic and foreign policy grounds, Hutchinson advances how a proper regard for Liverpool's career might have changed the structure and policies of today's government for the better.
Author : Nicholas A. Lambert
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Internationa
ISBN 13 : 0197545203
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster written by Nicholas A. Lambert and published by Oxford Studies in Internationa. This book was released on 2021 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, based on comprehensive archival research in official and private papers, offers a new history of the infamous British disaster at Gallipoli in 1915. Contrary to all previous accounts, it shows that the campaign originated not in the search for an alternative to the Western Front, but in the need to lower the price of bread in Britain.
Author : Peter Thompson
Publisher : Piatkus
ISBN 13 : 0748122338
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Battle For Singapore written by Peter Thompson and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 is a military disaster of enduring fascination. For the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the island, Peter Thompson tells the explosive story of the Malayan campaign, the siege of Singapore, the ignominious surrender to a much smaller Japanese force, and the Japanese occupation through the eyes of those who were there - the soldiers of all nationalities and members of Singapore's beleaguered population. An enthralling and perceptive account, which never loses sight of the human cost of the tragedy - Yorkshire Evening Post. An insightful and dramatic analysis - The Good Book Guide
Author : Jonathan Boff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107024285
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Winning and Losing on the Western Front written by Jonathan Boff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative study revealing how both sides adapted to the changing realities of the final months on the Western Front.
Author : Arthur Mee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Defeat Or Victory? written by Arthur Mee and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Clarke
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529227704
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)
Download or read book The Battle for Britain written by John Clarke and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the social, political and economic turbulence in which the UK is embroiled. Drawing on Cultural Studies, it explores proliferating crises and conflicts, from the multiplying varieties of social dissent through the stagnation of rentier capitalism to the looming climate catastrophe. Examining arguments about Brexit, class and ‘race’, and the changing character of the state, the book is underpinned by a transnational and relational conception of the UK. It traces the entangled dynamics of time and space that have shaped the current conjuncture. Questioning whether increasingly anti-democratic and authoritarian strategies can provide a resolution to these troubles, it explores how the accumulating crises and conflicts have produced a deepening ‘crisis of authority’ that forms the terrain of the Battle for Britain.
Author : David Lee Preston
Publisher : Pivotal Moments in American Hi
ISBN 13 : 0199845328
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Braddock's Defeat written by David Lee Preston and published by Pivotal Moments in American Hi. This book was released on 2015 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 9, 1755, British and colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock suffered a crushing defeat to French and Native American enemy forces in Ohio Country. Known as the Battle of the Monongahela, the loss altered the trajectory of the Seven Years' War in America, escalating the fighting and shifting the balance of power. An unprecedented rout of a modern and powerful British army by a predominantly Indian force, Monongahela shocked the colonial world--and also planted the first seeds of an independent American consciousness. The culmination of a failed attempt to capture Fort Duquesne from the French, Braddock's Defeat was a pivotal moment in American and world history. While the defeat is often blamed on blundering and arrogance on the part of General Braddock--who was wounded in battle and died the next day--David Preston's gripping new work argues that such a claim diminishes the victory that Indian and French forces won by their superior discipline and leadership. In fact, the French Canadian officer Captain Beaujeu had greater tactical skill, reconnaissance, and execution, and his Indian allies were the most effective and disciplined troops on the field. Preston also explores the long shadow cast by Braddock's Defeat over the 18th century and the American Revolution two decades later. The campaign had been an awakening to empire for many British Americans, spawning ideas of American identity and anticipating many of the political and social divisions that would erupt with the outbreak of the Revolution. Braddock's Defeat was the defining generational experience for many British and American officers, including Thomas Gage, Horatio Gates, and perhaps most significantly, George Washington. A rich battle history driven by a gripping narrative and an abundance of new evidence,Braddock's Defeat presents the fullest account yet of this defining moment in early American history.
