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Author : Nicholas Sergeyevitch Timasheff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)
Download or read book The Great Retreat written by Nicholas Sergeyevitch Timasheff and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Britten Austen
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1848327048
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book 1812 written by Paul Britten Austen and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a third of a million men set out on that midsummer day of 1812: none can have imagined the terrors and hardships to come. They would be lured all the way to Moscow without having achieved the decisive battle Napoleon sought; and by the time they reached the city their numbers would already have dwindled by more than a third. One of the greatest disasters in military history was in the making. The fruit of more than twenty years of research, this superbly crafted work skilfully blends the memoirs and diaries of more than a hundred eyewitnesses, all of whom took part in the Grand Armys doomed march to Moscow, to reveal the inside story of this landmark military campaign. The result is a uniquely authentic account in which the reader sees and experiences the campaign through the eyes of participants at each stage of the advance in enthralling day-by-day, sometimes hour-by-hour detail.
Author : Alexander Korolev
Publisher : Uniform Press
ISBN 13 : 9781906509415
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Great Retreat written by Alexander Korolev and published by Uniform Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Retreat: Napoleon's Grande Armee in Russia is a remarkable new record of one of history's most famous military campaigns. In 1812, no fewer than 570,000 troops from 19 countries battled for the soul of Europe of the 450,000 men to cross the River Nieman in June 1812, only about 60,000 returned.
Author : Michael Jones
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848543549
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
Download or read book The Retreat written by Michael Jones and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the moment of crisis in 1941 on the Eastern front, with the forces of Hitler massing on the outskirts of Moscow, the miraculous occurred: Moscow was saved. Yet this turning point was followed by a long retreat, in which Russian forces, inspired by old beliefs in the sacred motherland, pushed back German forces steeled by the vision of the ubermensch, the iron-willed fighter. Many of Russia's 27 million military and civilian deaths occurred in this desperate struggle. In THE RETREAT, Michael Jones, acclaimed author of LENINGRAD, draws upon a mass of new eye-witness testimony from both sides of the conflict to tell, with matchless vividness and comprehensiveness, of the crucial turning point of the Second World War - the moment when the armies of Hitler could go no further - and of the titanic and cruel struggle of two mighty empires.
Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789353047184
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (471 download)
Download or read book THE GREAT RETREAT written by Ruskin Bond and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Britten Austen
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1848326955
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book 1812 written by Paul Britten Austen and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1812: The Great Retreat the third and final volume in Austins magisterial trilogy concludes the story of one of historys most disastrous campaigns. The author's previous books brought the Grand Army to the head-on battle at Malo-Jaroslavetz after withdrawing sixty miles from the burnt down capital, and for the first time in his meteoric career Napoleon had to order a retreat. This volume follows the army's withdrawal through 800 miles of devastated countryside, crossing the horrific relics of the Borodino battlefield, fighting its way through the Russian General Kutusov's successive attempts to cut it off, and winning, against overwhelming odds, the three-day battle of the Berezina crossing. First-hand narratives, many published in English for the first time, describe Marshal Ney's astounding achievement in holding together the rear-guard until he himself, musket in hand, was the last man to re-cross the Niemen into Poland. Using the words of the participants themselves, Paul Britten Austin brings unparalleled authenticity and immediacy to his unique account of the closing stages of Napoleon's dramatic and tragic 1812 campaign.
Author : Bret Stephens
Publisher : Sentinel
ISBN 13 : 1595231218
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book America in Retreat written by Bret Stephens and published by Sentinel. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Americans are weary of acting as the world's policeman, especially in the face of our unending economic troubles at home. President Obama stands for cutting defense budgets, leaving Afghanistan, abandoning Iraq, appeasing Russia, and offering premature declarations of victory over al Qaeda. Meanwhile, some Republicans now also argue for a far smaller and less expensive American footprint abroad. Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens rejects this view. As he sees it, retreating from our global responsibilities will ultimately exact a devastating price to our security and prosperity. In the 1930s, it was the weakness and vacillation of the democracies that led to war and genocide. Today the regimes in Tehran, Damascus, Beijing, and Moscow continue to test America's will. Americans have often been tempted to turn our backs on a world that fails to live up to our idealism and doesn't easily bend. But succumbing to that temptation always leads to tragedy. The mantle of global leadership is a responsibility we must shoulder for the sake of our freedom, our prosperity, and our safety"--
Author : Robert G. Tanner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842028820
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (288 download)
Download or read book Retreat to Victory? written by Robert G. Tanner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Confederate armies attack too often for their own good during the Civil War? Was the relentless, sometimes costly effort to preserve territory a blunder? These questions about Confederate strategy have dogged historians since Appomattox. Many have come to believe that the South might have won the Civil War if it had only avoided head-on battles, conducted an aggressive guerrilla campaign, and manoeuvred across wide swaths of territory. This volume offers a consideration of this widely-held theory.
Author : George Stuart Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Retreat from Mons written by George Stuart Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kent Masterson Brown, Esq.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807869422
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Retreat from Gettysburg written by Kent Masterson Brown, Esq. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a groundbreaking, comprehensive history of the Army of Northern Virginia's retreat from Gettysburg in July 1863, Kent Masterson Brown draws on previously untapped sources to chronicle the massive effort of General Robert E. Lee and his command as they sought to move people, equipment, and scavenged supplies through hostile territory and plan the army's next moves. Brown reveals that even though the battle of Gettysburg was a defeat for the Army of Northern Virginia, Lee's successful retreat maintained the balance of power in the eastern theater and left his army with enough forage, stores, and fresh meat to ensure its continued existence as an effective force.
Author : Harrison Evans Salisbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The Long March written by Harrison Evans Salisbury and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Britten Austin
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1473811392
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book 1812: Napoleon in Moscow written by Paul Britten Austin and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of Napoleon’s disastrous invasion of Russia, in the words of those who experienced it, offers “a brilliant insight into men at war” (David G. Chandler, author of The Campaigns of Napoleon). Hundreds of thousands of men set out on that midsummer day of 1812. None could have imagined the terrors and hardships to come. They’d been lured all the way to Moscow without having achieved the decisive battle Napoleon sought—and by the time they reached the city, their numbers had already dwindled by more than a third. One of the greatest disasters in military history was in the making. The fruit of more than twenty years of research, this superbly crafted work skillfully blends the memoirs and diaries of more than a hundred eyewitnesses, all of whom took part in the Grand Army’s doomed march on Moscow, to reveal the inside story of this landmark military campaign. The result is a uniquely authentic account in which the reader sees and experiences the campaign through the eyes of participants in enthralling day-by-day, sometimes hour-by-hour detail.
Author : Jean-Paul Pallud
Publisher : After the Battle
ISBN 13 : 9781870067577
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Rückmarsch! written by Jean-Paul Pallud and published by After the Battle. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the successful landing by the Allied armies in Normandy in June 1944, Hitler's forces battled for two months to contain the bridgehead. However, when his last-ditch attempt to recover the initiative with Operation Luttich - the counter-attack from Mortain on August 7 - failed, it was an implied admission that his armies in the West had been defeated. From that starting point, Jean Paul Pallud takes up the story, following in the footsteps of the Germans as they retreat across France.
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1845951093
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Riding the Retreat written by Richard Holmes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons in the early months of the First World War is one of the great dramas of European history. Blending his recreation of the military campaign with contemporary testimony and an account of his own ride over the route, Richard Holmes takes the reader on a unique journey - to glimpse the summer the old world ended.
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 : Steven H. Newton
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Retreat from Leningrad, Army Group North, 1944/1945 written by Steven H. Newton and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11) The Tactical Success of Army Group North
Author : John Mueller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934849170
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Retreat from Doomsday written by John Mueller and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
