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Author : Moshe Safer
Publisher : C I S Communications
ISBN 13 : 9781560620792
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Pressburg Under Siege written by Moshe Safer and published by C I S Communications. This book was released on 1991-08-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Stoye
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857905104
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book The Siege of Vienna written by John Stoye and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Siege of Vienna in 1683 was one of the turning points in European history. It was the last serious threat to Western Christendom and so great was its impact that countries normally jealous and hostile sank their differences to throw back the armies of Islam and their savage Tartar allies. The consequences of defeat were momentous: the Ottomans lost half their European territories and began the long decline which led to the final collapse of the Empire, and the Hapsburgs turned their attention from France and the Rhine frontier to the rich pickings of the Balkans. The hot September day that witnesses the last great trial of strength between Cross and Crescent opened an epoch in European history that lasted until the cataclysm of the First World War in 1914.
Author : John H. Gill
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1783033541
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs Volume III written by John H. Gill and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A very impressive piece of work, and it is unlikely to be surpassed for many years . . . A very valuable guide to Napoleon’s last great victory” (HistoryOfWar.org). With this third volume, John Gill brings to a close his magisterial study of the war between Napoleonic France and Habsburg Austria. The account begins with both armies recuperating on the banks of the Danube. As they rest, important action was taking place elsewhere: Eugene won a crucial victory over Johann on the anniversary of Marengo, Prince Poniatowski’s Poles outflanked another Austrian archduke along the Vistula, and Marmont drove an Austrian force out of Dalmatia to join Napoleon at Vienna. These campaigns set the stage for the titanic Battle of Wagram. Second only in scale to the slaughter at Leipzig in 1813, Wagram saw more than 320,000 men and 900 guns locked in two days of fury that ended with an Austrian retreat. The defeat, however, was not complete: Napoleon had to force another engagement before Charles would accept a ceasefire. The battle of Znaim, its true importance often not acknowledged, brought an extended armistice that ended with a peace treaty signed in Vienna. Gill uses an impressive array of sources in an engaging narrative covering both the politics of emperors and the privations and hardship common soldiers suffered in battle. Enriched with unique illustrations, forty maps, and extraordinary order-of-battle detail, this work concludes an unrivalled English-language study of Napoleon’s last victory. “Sheds new light on well-known stages in the battle . . . he has covered more than just an epochal battle in a magnificent book that will satisfy the most avid enthusiasts of Napoleonic era military history.” —Foundation Napoleon
Author : Alex Dowdall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137585323
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Civilians Under Siege from Sarajevo to Troy written by Alex Dowdall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume analyses siege warfare as a discrete type of military engagement, in the face of which civilians are particularly vulnerable. Siege warfare is a form of combat that has usually had devastating effects on civilian populations. From the near-contemporary Siege of Sarajevo to the real and mythical sieges of the ancient Mediterranean, this has been a recurring type of military engagement which, through bombardment, starvation, disease and massacre, places non-combatants at the heart of battle. To date, however, there has been little recognition of the effects of siege warfare on civilians. This edited volume addresses this gap. Using a distinctive regressive method, it begins with the present and works backwards, avoiding teleological interpretations that suggest the targeting of civilians in war is a modern phenomenon. Its contributors interrogate civilians’ roles during sieges, both as victims and active participants; the laws and customs of siege warfare; its place in historical memory, and the ways civilian survivors have dealt with trauma. Its scope and content ensure that the collection is essential reading for all those interested in the place of civilians in war. Chapter 2 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com
Author : Illés Kaczér
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Siege written by Illés Kaczér and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Pike
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399012681
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Gustavus v Wallenstein written by John Pike and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the epic conflict and contrasting leadership styles of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and Albrecht von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland, two titanic figures in the Thirty Years War whose strategic brilliance and dramatic deaths shaped the course of modern warfare, analyzed in vivid detail by the author. The conflict, personal rivalry and contrast in personality, generalship and command, between the two iconic commanders in the Thirty Years War, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden for the Protestant powers, and Albrecht von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland. More than just commanders at the tactical level they were statesmen, military organizers and strategists on a continental scale. Both commanders represented the 17th-century ‘military revolution in action’. The writing is vivid, graphic and detailed, without overloading, and readers can feel ‘involved’ in the action, from strategic planning to battlefield tactics, and even the melee. Both generals are titanic figures come, and their respective deaths - Gustavus heroically in battle and Wallenstein, murdered with the Emperor’s compliance – were dramatic highpoints in the long war. This is no hagiography, and the author analyses the contrasting reputations of two of the greatest military figures in modern history and analyses mistakes as well their triumphs. Both commanders’ understanding of the role of the modern state and finance as vital factors in the military revolution and modern warfare. A major contrast was Gustavus’s constant search for the tactical and strategic initiative compared to Wallenstein’s caution and patience and development of counter-punch defensive tactics. Exceptional for the period, a young warrior like an ‘Alexander’, Gustavus excelled in inspired battlefield leadership even at huge risk. Despite his death at Lutzen in 1632, he and his steadfast chancellor Oxenstierna, had decisively defeated the Emperor’s attempt to subjugate the Empire and introduce the Catholic counter-reformation. Gustavus contributed hugely to the ending of Habsburg supremacy while advancing new concepts in modern war. His death ushered in his acolytes including generals Baner, Saxe-Weimar and Torstensson. Gustavus or Wallenstein, the greater of the two? The reader must judge but Napoleon included Gustavus in his list of ten greats with Julius Caesar, Hannibal Barca, and Alexander the Great.
Author : Isaac Landman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia ... written by Isaac Landman and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Joseph
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398116947
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Burgenland written by David Joseph and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling multi-generational examination exploring Jewishness in Europe, the Holocaust and the dark spectres of anti-Semitism and populism.
Author : Joseph Davis
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1909821284
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller written by Joseph Davis and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a major rabbinic figure, author of the famed Tosafot yom tov, whose life spanned several countries and an important transitional period in the history of European Jewry—a time of social and economic development, intellectual ferment, wars and pogroms. Davis narrates Heller's life in its individuality and detail, places him in the context of his time, and shows his vision of Judaism, of the world around him, and of the events he lived through.
Author : Enrico Acerbi
Publisher : Soldiershop Publishing
ISBN 13 : 8893279819
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Austrian army 1805-1809 - Vol. 1 The infantry written by Enrico Acerbi and published by Soldiershop Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even when a History writer would have wanted to celebrate, maybe the greatest European power (on land), namely the Austrian Empire, he certainly would not had chosen the terrible year 1809. What for the military apparatus in Vienna could have been a beginning of a Great Military Reform, the triumph of the Generalissimus Archduke Charles, became one of the worst nightmares of Habsburg history. In short, after a series of unfortunate events and bad military conduct, Austria disappeared from the European scene, losing further important territories but, above all, losing its mighty armies. The author chooses to tell about that period, evaluating the military organization, starting from the recruitment, up to the details of the various units, because that army, was the largest army fielded by Austria before the Great War: man told about 600,000 men, including the Levies of regional volunteers, called Landwehr (in the territories of the Austrian Crown) and Insurrection (in the territories of the Crown of St. Stephen).... ...At the end, Austria entered into war with the most powerful military force of the whole Napoleonic Period (in numbers of fighters), an effort which hardly seemed possible and which surprised the world. Unfortunately its three armies (and the Landwehr) did not surprised Bonaparte, who kicked.
Author : Todd Fisher
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579583576
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (835 download)
Download or read book The Napoleonic Wars written by Todd Fisher and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the space of two years, Napoleon Bonaparte transformed the face of warfare, crushing every major continental state that stood against him. The Empires of Russia, Austria, Prussia and Britain were not weak, so how were Napoleon's methods and his army so formidable? This revealing and engaging book explores the rise of Napoleon the Emperor, focusing particularly on the lives of both soldiers and civilians affected by the prolonged warfare in Europe. The impact of the conflict on aspects of life and culture within Napoleon's Empire is exposed in fascinating detail in this unique approach to the history of the Napoleonic Wars.
Author : Todd Fisher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147280967X
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book The Napoleonic Wars (1) written by Todd Fisher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Napoleon prepared his army, on the coast of France, for an invasion of England that would never come, Russia and Austria prepared to move against his rear. Napoleon turned on the allies and crushed them in one of history's greatest campaigns. The following year, he met the legendary army of Frederick the Great and annihilated it completely. The year after it was Russia's turn again, and though the northern winter was the major foe, it could not save the Tsar. The world, and warfare, would never be the same again. The Empires of Russia, Austria, Prussia and Britain were not weak. How had Napoleon done this? Why were his methods, and his army, different?
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1056 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Modern History written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Modern History written by Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adolphus William Ward, Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Stanley Leathes
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Modern History written by Adolphus William Ward, Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Stanley Leathes and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1934 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henriette Peters
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780852442685
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Mary Ward written by Henriette Peters and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Georg B. Michels
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 022800697X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Habsburg Empire under Siege written by Georg B. Michels and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the seventeenth century Hungary's diverse population of peasants, townsmen, soldiers, and county nobles rose up against the violent imposition of the Counter-Reformation, the Habsburg military occupation, and exhorbitant war taxes. In The Habsburg Empire under Siege Georg Michels explores the little-known grassroots revolts that threatened the Habsburgs' hold over the Hungarian borderlands. Based on extensive research in Hungarian, Austrian, and Dutch archives, this revisionist study shifts attention away from high politics, diplomacy, and military confrontation to the popular revolts that took place during the two decades before the 1683 siege of Vienna. Michels reveals a complex environment in which Calvinist Hungarians, Lutheran Slovaks, Lutheran Germans, and Orthodox Ukrainians worked to defend their religion against brutal Habsburg Counter-Reformation campaigns. Challenging preconceived notions of European, Middle Eastern, and East European history, this book tells a dramatic story of Reformation and Counter-Reformation violence, covering proxy wars, guerrilla warfare, refugee flight, migration from Hungary into Ottoman territory, and largely unknown Christian-Muslim encounters. Offering a trans-imperial perspective that reassesses the complex relationship between Hungarians, Habsburgs, and Ottomans, The Habsburg Empire under Siege portrays the resistance of ordinary men and women and their hopes for liberation from Habsburg oppression, reclaiming their place in history.
