European history

Published to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day'[The] stories are every bit as dramatic as those from the front lines and Barrett and Calvi have done an incredible job.

Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice.

In the volume the former Dean of the American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Paris Samuel N.

Joan of Arc is Mark Twain's novel and was published as a complete work under his name in 1896.

This study attempts to show the misapplication of tactical airpower by the Luftwaffe in support of German ground forces during the Battle of Kursk in July 1943.

In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place.

Although the U.

The Divine Covenants is a careful expository study of the covenants in Scripture: Everlasting, Adamic, Noahic, Abrahamic, Siniatic, Davidic, and Messianic (the New Covenant).

The Nazis kept extensive files on practically everybody in the Third Reich.

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos"e;A bikers war-compellingly recounted"e;The highly dangerous task of the aide-de-camp was often to carry urgent despatches with essential calls to action across the field of battle.

[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles of the Indian Mutiny]By 1857, the British power in India had been largely undisputed for almost fifty years, however, the armies of the East India Company were largely recruited from the native people of India.

This contains the Scottish Psalter and Scripture Paraphrases, the primary hymnal of the Church of Scotland up through the 19th century.

"e;The padre of the 86th Brigade, 29th Division, gives an account of his experiences at Gallipoli where he landed on 25th April 1915 to his evacuation on medical grounds on 12th August.

In October 1944, US forces executed amphibious landings on the Japanese-occupied island of Leyte in the central Philippines.

More than any other battle of the First World War, the battle of the Somme remains as the abiding memory of the appalling conditions, suffering and death of British manhood in the public consciousness.

The Alhambra : a series of tales and sketches of the Moors and Spaniards was published in May 1832, Consisting of a series of essays and short fiction pieces, it was referred to as his "Spanish Sketch Book.

Illustrated with a number of photographs from the French Front Lines in and around Verdun.

Baron Baden-Powell is nowadays remembered best for his work as the founder of the Scouting Movement which has gone on to become a world-wide success; however his initial reputation rested on his military career centred on the Boer War.

Sir John Slessor was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished wartime commanders and incisive military thinkers, and William Pyke's comprehensive new biography reveals how he earned this remarkable reputation.

Plutarch''s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch''s Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings.

"e;It is now seven weeks since the dispatches from Paris reported that Stuart Walcott was attacked by three German airplanes and brought down behind the German lines, after he himself had brought down a German plane in his first combat on December 12, 1917, and that it was feared he had been killed; but even now, after the lapse of nearly two months, it is not definitely known whether his fall proved fatal, or whether the earnest hope of his friends that he is still alive may be realized.

Written by Lenin's wife and life companion, Nadezhda K.

Includes 20 illustrationsOn December 7, 1941, the Japanese empire attacked the U.

'Enchanting, often moving and sometimes hilarious' Daily MailFull of wit, hilarity, acute observation and a deeply held sense of duty, the Queen Mother's letters give readers a vivid insight into the person behind the public face.

Every evening since 1928, the Last Post is sounded in the town of Ypres in West Flanders, and the local fire brigade turn toward the Menin Gate as the local traffic stops.

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Information Operations has become a controversial subject in the US Army.

Eighth Air Force (8AF) conducted the US's first thousand-bomber raids against Germany in February 1944-recorded in history as Big Week.

AT the outbreak of the European war, during the season of summer travel in 1914, many Harvard men were in Europe.

The USAAF responded to the requirement to keep China engaged against Japan by conducting two distinct air supply operations, a tactical air supply mission to Burma and a strategic air supply effort over the Himalayas to China.

A Short but very valuable memoir from a future General of the American Army who faced his first baptism of first in the trenches of the First World War.

The renowned military correspondent of the Times Cyril Falls awarded this memoir two of his coveted stars (of three stars possible) and described it as follows:"e;** - Paul Lintier, a young field artilleryman doing his service when war broke out, kept a journal until the 22nd September when he was wounded, which is among the finest documents of its kind ever published.

During his exile in Madagascar, Boer soldier Deneys Reitz wrote about his experience of the Second Boer War (1899-1902).

"e;THE letters on life and thought at the Front contained in this volume were all written in tents and billets within range, or sound, of the guns.

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosOriginally published under the pseudonym "e;Platoon Commander"e; these excellent memoirs were written by the noted novelist Arthur F.

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles.

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy is an 1860 work on the Italian Renaissance by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt.

This thesis analyzes the political role of the German General Staff as well as civil military relations in Germany from the late 19th century until 1933.