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The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780332831
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John Strawson, Charles Mey, John Pimlott, and John Laffin. All the major conflicts are covered, from two world wars, through Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, Chechnya, to Iraq and Afghanistan. Among the battles featured are: the Somme, Passchendaele, Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, El Alamein, Monte Cassino, Omaha Beach, Iwa Jima, Dien Bien Phu, Ia Drang, Hamburger Hill, Desert Storm, Kabul, Baghdad, and Basra.

The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles written by Jon E. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mammoth Book of Battles

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780786706891
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Battles written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Running PressBook Pub. This book was released on 1999 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the massacre at Wounded Knee to the high-tech victory of Operation Desert Storm, this book presents forty gripping accounts of the battles that made the modern world. They are rendered in superb detail and analysis by such award-winning historians as John Keegan, Alan Clark, and Paul Kennedy. Here are the great conflicts of the two World Wars, the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, the Falklands, and Israel. The Mammoth Book of Battles brings to life for all military historians the awesome scale and destructive power of modern warfare.

The Mammoth Book of Battles

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756766542
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (665 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Battles written by Jon E. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are more than 40 gripping accounts of battles, described in detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John Strawson, Anthony Farrar-Hockley, John Pimlott, John Frost and John Laffin. Here are the great commanders of the 20th cent., the strategy and tactics, the victories and disasters of two world wars, as well as wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, the Falklands and elsewhere. Here too are many insights into the art and science of generalship and mil. org. as they have evolved to meet the awesome scale and vicious destructive power of modern warfare, across battlefields ranging from Flanders to Kuwait, North Africa to the Russian steppes, and the jungles of Southeast Asia and the Pacific. New edition with 30 specially drawn military maps.

The Mammoth Book of Special Ops

Author : Richard Russell Lawrence
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780336985
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Special Ops written by Richard Russell Lawrence and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the eye of danger with the men who put the 'special' in special forces The once shadowy activities of special forces have grown into an increasingly exposed element of 21st century warfare and anti-terrorist activity. Here, in one giant unputdownable volume, are 30 of the most dangerous special operations of modern times. Drawn from the flashpoints of the world, and above all Iraq and Afghanistan, these first-hand and reported accounts of missions by the SAS, Delta Force, Green Beret, Commandos and other forces will leave you on the edge of your seat. The accounts include: ? Blackhawk Down - the US Delta forces debacle in Mogadishu, Somalia, 1993 ? British Special forces fight Al Qaeda at close quarters in Afghanistan 2003 ? Task Force Raider - US Special forces teams track down Saddam Hussein, 2003 ? The British 'Blackhawk Down' - Paras shoot their way out of trouble in Majar, Iraq 2003 ? The capture of insurgent leader Chemical Evil Fat Mama, Fallujah, November 2003

The Mammoth Book of Battles

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781854873859
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Battles written by Jon E. Lewis and published by McClelland & Stewart Limited. This book was released on 1995 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of gripping accounts of the battles that made the modern world, from Wounded Knee to Desert Storm, described by historians including John Keegan, Paul M. Kennedy and Alan Clark. Here are the great commanders, the strategy and the tactics, the decisive victories and cataclysmic disasters of two world wars, as well as wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, the Falklands and elsewhere. #FDEHere too is the awesome scale and vicious destructuive power of modern warfare across battlefields, ranging from Flanders to Basra, the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East and the fearsome jungles of South East Asia and the Pacific.

The Mammoth Book of Covert Ops

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Running Press
ISBN 13 : 9780762449385
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Covert Ops written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real-life accounts of covert military operations, from raids into Laos to US Navy SEAL operations are under scrutiny in this anthology. Lewis shines a revealing light on the units that conduct clandestine operations and tells of the greatest missions of the last 50 years.

The Mammoth Book of how it Happened Battles

Author : Richard Russell Lawrence
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
ISBN 13 : 9781841194790
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of how it Happened Battles written by Richard Russell Lawrence and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of accounts of famous battles, the whole changing nature of recorded warfare is explored, from Thermopylae, in Ancient Greece, to Operation Desert Storm. Here are the words of those who fought in history's greatest battles - some accounts come from those who were in command, and give an overview of the whole arena of war; others are from the footsoldiers or low-ranking officers, whose concerns are the field of events directly alongside them. To give a firm foundation to these accounts the book includes 50 maps, which show the location of the battlefields and strategic development of the campaigns. The sections are arranged chronologically, and start with the Classical World. It then progresses to the Medieval World, to the time of the Crusades and the Hundred Years War. Horse and Musket covers the period from the English Civil War to the American Civil War, taking in the American War of Independence, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812-15 and the Crimea. The modern era encompasses World War I and II, Vietnam, the Falklands and the Gulf War.

The Mammoth Book of Combat: Reports from the Frontline

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780762448128
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Combat: Reports from the Frontline written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensive collection presents vivid pieces of stunning, first-hand accounts from the front lines of some of the most historically significant battles of all time. A must-read for any military history buff, including Martha Gellhorn on the Battle of the Bulge, Michael Herr at Khe Sanh, John Pilger on the fall of Saigon, and more.

Constant Battles

Author : Steven A. LeBlanc
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312310905
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Constant Battles written by Steven A. LeBlanc and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues that warfare has been a part of human existence throughout history, and considers whether humans are doomed by genetic heritage to fight each other.

How the War Was Won

Author : Phillips Payson O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131623973X
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book How the War Was Won written by Phillips Payson O'Brien and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II is usually seen as a titanic land battle, decided by mass armies, most importantly those on the Eastern Front. Phillips Payson O'Brien shows us the war in a completely different light. In this compelling new history of the Allied path to victory, he argues that in terms of production, technology and economic power, the war was far more a contest of air and sea than of land supremacy. He shows how the Allies developed a predominance of air and sea power which put unbearable pressure on Germany and Japan's entire war-fighting machine from Europe and the Mediterranean to the Pacific. Air and sea power dramatically expanded the area of battle and allowed the Allies to destroy over half of the Axis' equipment before it had even reached the traditional 'battlefield'. Battles such as El Alamein, Stalingrad and Kursk did not win World War II; air and sea power did.

Blitzkrieg in the West

Author : Jean Paul Pallud
Publisher : After the Battle
ISBN 13 : 1399076205
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Blitzkrieg in the West written by Jean Paul Pallud and published by After the Battle. This book was released on 2022-10-07 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Paul Pallud, author of the highly acclaimed The Battle of the Bulge Then and Now, presents — for the first time through comparison ‘then and now’ photographs — a detailed account of the Battle of France: the forty-five traumatic days from May 10 to June 24, 1940 that resulted in one of the most remarkable military victories of modern times. During those six weeks, six nations found themselves at war, fighting across four countries. From the polders of the Netherlands in the north to the mountains of the Alps in the south, and from the Rhine valley to the Atlantic coast, Jean Paul Pallud explores every corner of the battlefield, the camera recording the scenes today where fifty years ago Dutch, Belgian, German, French, British and Italian soldiers were locked in mortal combat. Battles great and small are described and illustrated to color the canvas of both the broad strategy and the individual firefight in Hitler’s victorious campaign of Blitzkrieg in the West.

The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Constable & Robinson Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781841197517
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits written by Mike Ashley and published by Constable & Robinson Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a collection of whodunnits containing stories that reflect the excitement, escapism and eccentricity of the 1920s. This title includes stories ranging from Cornell Woolrich's story of murder at a jazz party set aboard a steamboat on the Mississippi, to Grenville Robbins' impossible homicide committed on the radio.

The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : C & R Crime
ISBN 13 : 1849015392
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures written by Mike Ashley and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle laid down his pen - nearly 200,000 words of superb fiction featuring the Great Detective by masters of historical crime, including Stephen Baxter, H. R. F. Keating, Michael Moorcock and Amy Myers. Almost all the stories here are specially written; the cases presented in the order in which Holmes solved them. The result is a new life of Sherlock Holmes, with a continuous narrative alongside the stories that identifies the 'gaps' in the canon and places the new and hitherto unrecorded cases in sequence. Plus an invaluable complete Holmes chronology.

The Mammoth Book of Merlin

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1849012539
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Merlin written by Mike Ashley and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb collection of stories of magic and adventure from the golden age of Arthurian legend by bestselling writers. Enter into the darker realms of the age of the Knights of the Round Table, when magic held sway and Merlin vied with Arthur's heroic new world. Included are: Jane Yolen on Merlin's youth and coming of age; Marion Zimmer Bradley on Nimuë, Merlin's lover and doom; Charles de Lint on Merlin's influence through the centuries; Darrell Schweitzer on the legends of Merlin's birth; plus stories by Tanith Lee, Peter Tremayne, Phyllis Ann Karr, Jennifer Roberson, and many others. There is also a detailed introduction by Mike Ashley on the mystery and magic of Merlin and his world.

The Allure of Battle

Author : Cathal Nolan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199874654
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Allure of Battle written by Cathal Nolan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt-all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But these legendary battles may or may not have determined the final outcome of the wars in which they were fought. Nor has the "genius" of the so-called Great Captains - from Alexander the Great to Frederick the Great and Napoleon - play a major role. Wars are decided in other ways. Cathal J. Nolan's The Allure of Battle systematically and engrossingly examines the great battles, tracing what he calls "short-war thinking," the hope that victory might be swift and wars brief. As he proves persuasively, however, such has almost never been the case. Even the major engagements have mainly contributed to victory or defeat by accelerating the erosion of the other side's defences. Massive conflicts, the so-called "people's wars," beginning with Napoleon and continuing until 1945, have consisted of and been determined by prolonged stalemate and attrition, industrial wars in which the determining factor has been not military but matériel. Nolan's masterful book places battles squarely and mercilessly within the context of the wider conflict in which they took place. In the process it help corrects a distorted view of battle's role in war, replacing popular images of the "battles of annihilation" with somber appreciation of the commitments and human sacrifices made throughout centuries of war particularly among the Great Powers. Accessible, provocative, exhaustive, and illuminating, The Allure of Battle will spark fresh debate about the history and conduct of warfare.

The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1849012547
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF written by Mike Ashley and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many readers are attracted to science fiction for that singular moment when a story expands your imagination, enabling you to see something in a new light. Not all SF works this way! This volume collects the very best of it that does, with 25 of the finest examples of mind-expanding and awe-inspiring science fiction. The storylines range from a discovery on the Moon that opens up vistas across all time to a moment in which distances across the Earth suddenly increase and people vanish. These are tales to take you from the other side of now to the very end of time - from today's top-name contributors including Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds, Robert Silverberg, Gregory Benford and Robert Reed.