European history

The German General Staff launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941 assuming the eastern campaign would last only three months.

The arrival of the submarine Deutschland in the harbour of New York in July of 1916 produced one of the sensation of the year.

The opening of the First World War pitted the huge continental armies against each other; massed conscription filled their ranks, Britain's soldiers, however, were to a man volunteer, long-service professionals.

This research will explore the relevance of the human being as an element in an information system.

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This monograph examines Claire Lee Chennault as a military theorist and campaign planner.

The Palestine Campaign of the First World War exhibited a fighting style that brought with it various challenges in mission command.

Even during the horrors of the brutalizing industrialised slaughter of the First World War the Gallipoli campaign stands as a benchmark for the awful conditions and savage fighting that occurred.

"e;Major Robertson is doing a great service to his old comrades in publishing this History of the New Zealand Companies of the Camel Corps.

The War in Burma is all too frequently forgotten as a source of relevant military experience.

Collected here in one omnibus edition are all of four of John H.

This book, which was first published in 1960, tells of Brother Solomon Leclercq, Secretary of the Institute during the French Revolution.

The First World War is often represented as a stolid slugging match of opposing trench lines being pounded by massed artillery, however, the German offensives of 1918 broke through the British lines with great and dramatic success.

This monograph examines the practice of operational art from the perspective of the Kursk Campaign of July-Oct.

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.

The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.

A Fantastic Regimental History of an Illustrious regiment, awarded two coveted stars by the renowned military historian and Times War Correspondent Cyril Falls:"e;One could be assured that when Mr Kipling turned his hand to a regimental history the result would be very different to the ordinary.

Numerous portraits, prints and photographs throughout.

Military historical case studies provide insight for military planners.

In September 1915 Kitcherner's men were in action for the first time in the largest offensive of the year.

Just as many football players have failed to become great coaches, so too have many governmental leaders, leaders of industry and military officers failed to succeed when placed at higher levels of responsibility.

The Diary of a Young Girl, also known as The Diary of Anne Frank, is a book of the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

Stanley Arthur Rutledge was a man of many parts: lawyer, beloved son, soldier, man of letters before his life was cut tragically short on the 16th November 1917.

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Lieutenant Devenish celebrated his twenty-first birthday, his last in peace-time, on the 25th of July 1914; he was by this point in his short life a soldier by profession and by choice.

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

This monograph analyzed whether Lieutenant Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck used operational art to defeat British forces in the East African campaign of World War I.

Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny.

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1812 was the year in which the Peninsular War swung in the favor of the combined forces of the British, the Spanish and the Portuguese.

During November and December 1917, Captain Alfred A.

"e;Air Combat over the trenches by those who foughtThe first-hand accounts of the experiences of men in time of war always make fascinating reading.

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.

[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny]The brilliant two-volume account of the Indian Mutiny written by the eminent military historian Colonel George Malleson, richly illustrated with maps, plans and portraits.

"e;With its practical slant and focus on demystifying unfamiliar property documents, this is the perfect introduction to tracing a house history.

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.

[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.

Henry Drummond was a Scottish evangelical lecturer.

It seems strange that any book should be composed in a war-zone as difficult and dangerous as the Somme area in 1917, but that is exactly what Hector Dinning did.

As the Nazi advance across Europe stalled, Adolf Hitler repeatedly told his military advisers and inner circle that Germany possessed Wunderwaffen - miracle weapons - that would turn the tide and bring the Germans ultimate victory.

It goes without saying that the letters here gathered were not written with any idea of being permanently preserved.

Captain Crouch had served in the Territorial Army for some years before the cataclysmic struggle in Europe began in 1914.

Maneuver Warfare Theory achieved major acceptance during the 1980's, emphasizing the conduct of simultaneous offensive operations throughout the depth of the battlefield.