Includes The Americans in the First World War Illustration Pack - 57 photos/illustrations and 10 maps "e;THE narrative of adventure, travel, combat, and escape, which composes this volume, is the straight-forward work of a straight-thinking young American.
Having had a long and distinguished military career, in 1914 General Erich von Falkenhayn assumed the post as chief of the German General Staff in the middle of the First World War.
The amazing story of a French American teacher who left his life at Stanford college to volunteer for the French Army, in the elite chasseurs-a-pied, during the First World War.
As the German army moved swiftly into its start positions at the beginning of the First World War, efficiently and seamlessly forming up for the hammer blow that was to fall on France it must have been with some pride that General Ludendorff would look upon the first grand strategical plan that he had a hand in.
"e;Racy two-volume military memoirs of the brilliant mind that conceived the operational plan for Tannenberg, Germany's triumph on the eastern front in 1914.
El país de origen esboza la imagen de dos mundos: el pasdo representado por la sociedad colonial en las Indias holandesas y el presente de una Europa que se encuentra inmersa en una profunda crisis.
GENERALMAJOR VIKTOR SCHEMFIL Der Verfasser, als Regimentsadjutant der Tiroler Kaiserjäger selbst am südlichen Kriegsschauplatz, schildert die Grenzschutzvorbereitungen, die Angriffs- und Verteidigungspläne und die Kampfhandlungen im Drei-Zinnen- und Kreuzberggebiet bis zum Abzug der italienischen Truppen im Herbst 1917.
"e;Racy two-volume military memoirs of the brilliant mind that conceived the operational plan for Tannenberg, Germany's triumph on the eastern front in 1914.
Includes 57 photos/illustrations and 10 maps"e;When the war-storm suddenly loomed over Europe at the end of July, 1914, I was quietly studying architecture in.
An American with the British forces in France during the First World War recounts his experiences and how his exploits won him the Distinguished Conduct Medal.
The sight of the kilted Highland regiment has always struck such fear into their Germans opponents of both World Wars; known to their Teutonic foes as the "e;Ladies from Hell"e; for their attire and fighting prowess.
After Donald Hankey returned home from a posting with the Royal Garrison Artillery in Mauritius, following a serious bout of illness, it seemed as though he was destined for a career in the Church.
[Illustrated with 17 additional photos of the author and the machines he flew and fought against]As a young Billy Bishop looking up into the sky above his Canadian trench in July 1915, a passing Royal Flying Corps aircraft was returning home from patrol.
"Strafsoldaten sind zum Sterben da", das ahnt auch Helmut Kalmeder, der wegen seiner Begeisterung für kommunistische Ideen bereits seit vier Jahren im KZ in Dachau ist.
Die Kompanie Müller ist nur noch ein auf dreiundzwanzig Mann zusammengeschmolzener Soldatenhaufen, der auf verlorenem Posten versucht, gegen das unbarmherzige Schicksal anzugehen.
Als im Januar 1945 die deutschen Truppen im Raum Warschau dem Druck der Roten Armee nicht mehr standhalten können und zurückweichen, verlieren die beiden Obergefreiten Röttger und Sailer den Anschluss an ihre Einheit.
Reunimos en un único pack dos grandes libros de reporterismo de guerra: "En las trincheras", con las mejores crónicas de la Primera Guerra Mundial del magistral Agustí Calvet, más conocido por su seudónimo de Gaziel, y "La revancha del reportero", el primer libro del actual corresponsal de guerra de La Vanguardia, Plàcid Garcia-Planas, que ha recorrido todo el Oriente Próximo viajando en varias ocasiones al infierno de Afganistán.
Voyager, découvrir le monde, les hommes, tel est le destin du docteur Briand qui dans le cadre de la colonisation soigne les militaires, les civils, les populations africaine et asiatique, rencontre des personnages importants.
