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Author : John Buchan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book The Long Road to Victory written by John Buchan and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Colonel John Buchan
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782892680
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book The Long Road To Victory [Illustrated Edition] written by Colonel John Buchan and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Illustrated with 10 plates of the battles and engagements detailed in the book] Colonel John Buchan, was a man of many talents, a politician of upright morals and forthright character, a novelist of great acclaim and a soldier who served with distinction in the First World War. He collected stories and anecdotes by the dozen, crafting the best and worthiest into this collection which spans the entire conflict. As he himself states in his introduction; “THIS is a book of soldiers’ tales, told, for the most part, by those who took part in the events they record. They are drawn from many branches of service and from many countries; sometimes they are concerned with great and critical operations, but more often they deal with episodes and sideshows in the huge business of war...There has never in the world’s history been such an arena of drama and strange adventure as that long road which the Allies travelled to victory. Libraries will not exhaust its treasures; indeed, it will be years before we, who have ‘been preoccupied with special stages, will be able to grasp the wonders of the whole journey. This budget of wayside tales is only the cutting of a few sheaves at random from an immense harvest.” As the chapter headings confirm the war on the ground and in the air throughout the conflict has been sketched with aplomb, from pilots above the Somme to the deserts of North Africa I. - FIRST YPRES, 1914: THE TURNING OF THE TIDE. II. -”‘TWIXT GUY FAWKES’ AND ST. PATRICK’S.” III. THE “PETROL HUSSARS.” IV. - THE WORST AND THE BEST. V. - THE FIFTEENTH DIVISION AT LOOS. VI. - THE FIGHTING IN THE AIR DURING THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. VII. - THE CALL. THE TALE OF A TANK. VIII. - THE TANKS AT CAMBRAI. IX. - CUT OFF IN A CAVE. - THE TALE OF A FIGHT BEYOND THE JORDAN. X. -THE SOUTH AFRICANS AT MARRIÈRES WOOD. XI. - ZEEBRUGGE-H.M.S. VINDICTIVE. XII. - THE RIVER COLUMN IN NORTH RUSSIA. XIII. - A SNIPER’S DAY. IV. - THE CAT. XIV. - “BUNKING.”.
Author : Jules Lobel
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814751911
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Success Without Victory written by Jules Lobel and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how some legal issues are losing cases - but that's okay because advances are still possible.
Author : John Buchan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331077046
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Long Road to Victory (Classic Reprint) written by John Buchan and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Long Road to Victory This is a book of soldiers' tales, told, for the most part, by those who took part in the events they records. They are drawn from many branches of service and from many countries; sometimes they are concerned with great and critical operations, but more often they deal with episodes and sideshows in the huge business of war. Their romance is the romance of naked truth undecorated by fancy, for the authentic miracles of the last few years have left the professional romancer limping far behind. There has never in the worlds history been such an arena of drama and strange adventure as that long road which the Allies travelled to victory. Libraries will not exhaust its treasures; indeed, it will be years before we, who have been preoccupied with special stages, will be able to grasp the wonders of the whole journey. This budget of wayside tales is only the cutting of a few sheaves at random from an immense harvest. The book is intended especially for those who are only now growing to manhood, and were too young themselves to take part in the campaigns. It would not be a good thing to be always thinking about the war, for the eyes of youth should be turned forward. But it would be a worse thing to forget it, for it is a matter for everlasting remembrance and eternal pride. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : David P. Colley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497626250
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book The Road to Victory written by David P. Colley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “important contribution to WWII history” reveals the trucking convoy, manned by unsung black soldiers, who helped defeat the Nazis (Publishers Weekly). After the D-Day landings in Normandy, Allied forces faced a golden opportunity—and a critical challenge. They had broken across enemy lines, but there was no infrastructure to supply troops as they pushed into Germany. The US Army improvised a perilous solution: a convoy of trucks marked with red balls that would carry desperately needed ammunition, rations, and fuel deep into occupied Europe. The so-called Red Ball Express lasted eighty-one days and, at its height, numbered nearly six thousand trucks. The mission risked attacks by the Luftwaffe and German ground forces, making it one of the GIs’ most daring gambits. Without the soldiers who successfully executed this operation, World War II would have dragged on in Europe at a terrible cost of Allied lives. Yet the service of these brave drivers, most of whom were African American, has been largely overlooked by history. The first book-length study of the subject, The Road to Victory chronicles the exploits of these soldiers in vivid detail. It’s a story of a fight not only against the Nazis, but against an enemy closer to home: racism.
Author : Mark Urban
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9781408703649
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Tank Wars written by Mark Urban and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 2013 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the evacuation of France in 1940 to the final dash to Hamburg in 1945, the 5th Royal Tank Regiment were on the front line throughout the Second World War. Theirs was a war that saw them serve in Africa as part of the Desert Rats, before returning to Europe for the Normandy landings. Wherever they went, the notoriety of the 'Filthy Fifth' grew - they revelled in their reputation for fighting by their own rules. The Tank War explains how Britain, having lost its advantage in tank warfare by 1939, regained ground through shifts in tactics and leadership methods, as well as the daring and bravery of the crews themselves. Overturning the received wisdom of much Second World War history, Mark Urban shows how the tank regiments' advances were the equal of the feats of the German Panzer divisions. Drawing on a wealth of new material, from interviews with surviving soldiers to rarely seen archive material, this is an unflinchingly honest, unsentimental and often brutal account of the 5th RTR's wartime experiences. Capturing the characters in the crews and exploring the strategy behind their success, The Tank War is not just the story of an battle hardened unit, but something more extraordinary: the triumph of ordinary men, against long odds, in the darkest of times.
Author : Philip Gibbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Way to Victory written by Philip Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ben Shephard
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 030759548X
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Long Road Home written by Ben Shephard and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of World War II, long before an Allied victory was assured and before the scope of the atrocities orchestrated by Hitler would come into focus or even assume the name of the Holocaust, Allied forces had begun to prepare for its aftermath. Taking cues from the end of the First World War, planners had begun the futile task of preparing themselves for a civilian health crisis that, due in large part to advances in medical science, would never come. The problem that emerged was not widespread disease among Europe’s population, as anticipated, but massive displacement among those who had been uprooted from home and country during the war. Displaced Persons, as the refugees would come to be known, were not comprised entirely of Jews. Millions of Latvians, Poles, Ukrainians, and Yugoslavs, in addition to several hundred thousand Germans, were situated in a limbo long overlooked by historians. While many were speedily repatriated, millions of refugees refused to return to countries that were forever changed by the war—a crisis that would take years to resolve and would become the defining legacy of World War II. Indeed many of the postwar questions that haunted the Allied planners still confront us today: How can humanitarian aid be made to work? What levels of immigration can our societies absorb? How can an occupying power restore prosperity to a defeated enemy? Including new documentation in the form of journals, oral histories, and essays by actual DPs unearthed during his research for this illuminating and radical reassessment of history, Ben Shephard brings to light the extraordinary stories and myriad versions of the war experienced by the refugees and the new United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration that would undertake the responsibility of binding the wounds of an entire continent. Groundbreaking and remarkably relevant to conflicts that continue to plague peacekeeping efforts, The Long Road Home tells the epic story of how millions redefined the notion of home amid painstaking recovery.
Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 079534466X
Total Pages : 1061 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Winston S. Churchill: Road to Victory, 1941–1945 written by Martin Gilbert and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 1061 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh volume of the acclaimed, official biography: “An engrossing history of Churchill’s crucial role in the grand alliance of World War II” (Los Angeles Times). This seventh volume in the epic, multivolume biography of Winston S. Churchill takes up the story of “Churchill’s War” with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and carries it on to the triumph of V-E Day, May 8, 1945, the end of the war in Europe. Acclaimed historian Martin Gilbert charts Churchill’s course through the storms of Anglo-American and Anglo-Soviet rivalry, and between the conflicting ambitions of other forces embattled against the common enemy: between General de Gaulle, his compatriots in France, and the French Empire; between Tito and other Yugoslav leaders; between the Greek Communists and monarchists; between the Polish government exiled in London and the Soviet-controlled “Lublin” Poles. Amid all these volatile concerns, Churchill had to find the path of prudence, of British national interest, and, above all, of the earliest possible victory over Nazism. In doing so he was guided by the most secret sources of British Intelligence: the daily interception of the messages of the German High Command. These pages reveal, as never before, the links between this secret information and the resulting moves and successes achieved by the Allies. “A milestone, a monument, a magisterial achievement . . . rightly regarded as the most comprehensive life ever written of any age.” —Andrew Roberts, historian and author of The Storm of War “The most scholarly study of Churchill in war and peace ever written.” —Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times
Author : Dale Dye
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849089175
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Road to Victory written by Dale Dye and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No war has tested the resolve of the American people and her fighting men as did the battles in the Pacific. This book is a visual testament to the key battles fought in the Pacific. On December 7, 1941, as the Japanese dived out of the clouds above Pearl Harbor, America's future was fundamentally altered. Ever since the first world conflict, the United States had resisted the temptation to be drawn into wars outside of its borders. But with this one surprise attack America was inevitably thrown into the fray as the Second World War erupted. This history by military specialists, Osprey Publishing, reveals each of the battles America would fight against Imperial Japan from the naval clashes at Midway and Coral Sea to the desperate, bloody fighting on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Each chapter reveals the horrors of battle and the grim determination to wrest victory from certain defeat. Using an astonishing collection of wartime imagery and complete with dozen of full-colour maps, this is an invaluable visual guide to the road to victory.
Download or read book The Long Road to Victory written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : John Buchan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (771 download)
Download or read book The Long Road to Victory. [By Various Authors.] Edited by J. Buchan, Etc written by John Buchan and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Candler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Long Road to Baghdad written by Edmund Candler and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the Mesopotamian campaign which includes an extensive description of the Battle of Dujaila fought on 8 March 1916, between British and Ottoman forces during the First World War.
Author : David Baldacci
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538761556
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Long Road to Mercy written by David Baldacci and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing a remarkable new character from #1 New York Times bestselling writer David Baldacci: Atlee Pine, an FBI agent with special skills assigned to the remote wilds of the southwestern United States who must confront a new threat . . . and an old nightmare. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Catch a tiger by its toe. It's seared into Atlee Pine's memory: the kidnapper's chilling rhyme as he chose between six-year-old Atlee and her twin sister, Mercy. Mercy was taken. Atlee was spared. She never saw Mercy again. Three decades after that terrifying night, Atlee Pine works for the FBI. She's the lone agent assigned to the Shattered Rock, Arizona resident agency, which is responsible for protecting the Grand Canyon. So when one of the Grand Canyon's mules is found stabbed to death at the bottom of the canyon-and its rider missing-Pine is called in to investigate. It soon seems clear the lost tourist had something more clandestine than sightseeing in mind. But just as Pine begins to put together clues pointing to a terrifying plot, she's abruptly called off the case. If she disobeys direct orders by continuing to search for the missing man, it will mean the end of her career. But unless Pine keeps working the case and discovers the truth, it could spell the very end of democracy in America as we know it... "Love it!" --Lisa Gardner"Atlee Pine is unforgettable." --James Patterson "David Baldacci's best yet." --Lisa Scottoline "Heart-poundingly suspenseful." --Scott Turow "A stunning debut." --Douglas Preston "A perfect blend of action, secrets, and conspiracies." --Steve Berry "Baldacci is at the top of his game." --Kathy Reichs
Author : Eric Guest Nellis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551111100
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (111 download)
Download or read book The Long Road to Change written by Eric Guest Nellis and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By extending his analysis to 1820, Nellis challenges both students and scholars to re-examine their assumptions about the American Revolution." - Elizabeth Mancke, University of Akron
Author : Roger Bowen
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503504948
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Long Road to Jerusalem written by Roger Bowen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miriam a survivor of the holocaust escapes to Palestine, where she meets Cobi an officer in the Palmach. In the bitter fighting for Jerusalem, during Israels war of Independence, they fall in love. In the battle for the Bethlehem road, Cobi confronts his childhood friend Yusuf a Palestinian Arab, with unexpected results.
Author : Douglas Porch
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374529765
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (297 download)
Download or read book The Path to Victory written by Douglas Porch and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mediterranean theater in World War II has long been overlooked by historians who believe it was little more than a string of small-scale battles--sideshows that were of minor importance in a war whose outcome was decided in the clashes of mammoth tank armies in northern Europe. But in this ground-breaking new book, one of our finest military historians argues that the Mediterranean was World War II's pivotal theater. Douglas Porch examines the Mediterranean as an integrated arena, one in which events in Syria and Suez influenced the survival of Gibraltar. Without a Mediterranean alternative, the Western Allies would probably have committed to a premature cross-Channel invasion in 1943 that might well have cost them the war. Brilliantly argued, with vivid portraits of Churchill, Montgomery, FDR, Rommel, and Mussolini, this original, accessible, and compelling account of a little-known theater emphasizes the importance of the Mediterranean in the ultimate Allied victory in Europe in World War II.
