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  • Balaclava 1854

    The Charge of the Light Brigade

    af John Sweetman ...
    Serier Bog 6 - Campaign
    Balaclava 1854examines in detail the crucial battle of Balaclava during The Crimean War.The port of Balaclava was crucial in maintaining the supply lines for the Allied siege of Sevastapol. The Russian attack in October 1854 therefore posed a major threat to the survival of the Allied cause.This book includes: the attack on the redoubts; the action of 'the thin red line' in which an assortment of ... Læs mere

    137,49 kr.

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  • Fromelles and Pozières

    In the Trenches of Hell

    THE NATIONAL BESTSELLEROn 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in the first major action of the AIF on the Western Front - attacked entrenched German positions at Fromelles in northern France. By the next day, there were over 5500 casualties, including nearly 2000 dead - a bloodbath that the Australian War Memorial describes as 'the worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history.Just days later, ... Læs mere

    158,45 kr.

  • The Great War: 1914-1918

    af Peter Hart ...
    The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world historyIn this magnum opus, critically-acclaimed historian Peter Hart examines the conflict in every arena around the world, in a history that combines cutting edge scholarship with vivid and unfamiliar eyewitness accounts, from kings and generals, and ordinary soldiers. He focuses in particular on explaining how ... Læs mere

    114,11 kr.

  • Give Them a Volley and Charge!

    The Battle of Inkermann 1854

    The day after the Battle of Balaklava, the Russians attempted an armed reconnaissance of the Allied right flank aimed at the exposed Inkermann position, but the remnants of the British 2nd Division bloodily repulsed them.This book describes the Battle of Inkermann - an engagement which lasted for less than twelve hours, but was one of the bloodiest single engagements in Europe between 1815 and ... Læs mere

    87,38 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Waterloo 1815: Battle Story

    Battle Story

    One of the most decisive battles in military history, Waterloo saw the culmination of a generation of war to bring a definitive end to French hegemony and imperial ambitions in Europe. Both sides fought bitterly and Wellington later remarked that 'it was the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life'.In this bloody engagement, more than 20,000 men were lost on the battlefield that day by each ... Læs mere

    87,38 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Mud, Blood and Poppycock

    Britain and the Great War

    The true story of how Britain won the First World War.The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made it up.Indeed, many established 'facts' about 1914-18 turn out to be myths woven in the 1960s by young ... Læs mere

    150,52 kr.

  • 1918

    A Very British Victory

    af Peter Hart ...
    The story of the huge mobile battles of 1918, which finally ended the Great War.1918 was the critical year of battle as the Great War reached its brutal climax. Warfare of an epic scale was fought on the Western Front, where ordinary British soldiers faced the final test of their training, tactics and determination. That they withstood the storm and began an astonishing counterattack, is proof ... Læs mere

    174,30 kr.

  • Elegy

    The First Day on the Somme

    On 1 July 1916, after a five-day bombardment, 11 British and 5 French divisions launched their long-awaited 'Big Push' on German positions on high ground above the Rivers Ancre and Somme on the Western Front. Some ground was gained, but at a terrible cost. In killing-grounds whose names are indelibly imprinted on 20th-century memory, German machine-guns – manned by troops who had sat out the storm ... Læs mere

    51,99 kr.

  • Cambrai 1917

    The Myth Of The First Great Tank Battle

    af Bryn Hammond ...
    The story of the first great tank battle, and the genesis of one of the most formidable weapons of the twentieth century.Cambrai was the last - and most influential - battle fought by the British on the Western Front in 1917. With many of the Allies on the brink of collapse, only Britain was still capable of holding the Germans at bay.Over time, many myths have grown up around what happened at ... Læs mere

    237,71 kr.

  • Manchester Pals

    A History of the Two Manchester Brigades

    Unlike its near neighbour, working-class Salford, Manchester proved able to raise eight Pals battalions. Initially, these battalions were composed of middle-class men who experience before the war years was within the commercial, financial and manufacturing interests which formed the foundations of Edwardian Manchesters life and prosperity. Manchester was undeniably proud of its pals battalions; ... Læs mere

    49,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • French Napoleonic Infantry Tactics 1792–1815

    Serier Bog 159 - Elite
    A critical overview of the French infantry tactics which made them masters of Europe but eventually resulted in their defeat at Waterloo.Bonaparte's Grande Armée, one of the most renowned battle-winning machines in history, evolved from a merging of the professional army of the Ancien Régime and the volunteers and conscripts of the Revolutionary levée en masse – although the contribution of the ... Læs mere

    124,11 kr.

  • Wellington's Dutch Allies 1815

    af Ronald Pawly ...
    Serier Bog 371 - Men-at-Arms
    A concise, illustrated study of the Netherlands troops that fought at Quatre-Bras and Waterloo.The forces commanded by the Duke of Wellington at Quatre-Bras and Waterloo included two infantry divisions and three cavalry brigades of the newly unified ('Dutch-Belgian') army of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, mostly led by veteran officers who had served under Napoleon. The part played by these ... Læs mere

    113,99 kr.