European history

For 5 days in May 1980, the world watched as the SAS performed a daring raid on the Iranian Embassy in London.

In the early hours of D-Day, 1944, a group from the US Army 2nd Rangers Battalion were sent on one of the legendary raids of World War II.

From June 1941, the Soviets were forced to undertake large-scale defensive operations in the face of the overwhelming German blitzkrieg assault, operations which ran counter to their preference for highly mobile, offensive warfare.

In 1277 Edward I gathered a huge army and marched into Wales to subdue the rebel Welsh princes.

The castles built by the Crusaders, Hospitallers, Venetians and Genoese in Cyprus, Greece, the Aegean, and on the Black Sea served to defend against a complex array of constantly changing threats.

A fascinating analysis of the most ambitious military fortification program of World War II.

In the last years of his reign Henry VIII needed a radically modern system of defence to protect England and its new Church.

A history of the key fortresses that dominated the landscape of medieval Russia from its legendary foundations in the 9th century to its conquest by the Mongols and the eventual rise to power of the principality of Muscovy.

With the exception of the key royal sites, such as Stirling and Edinburgh, few Scottish castles were located at strategic points, or were intended to house garrisons required to defend or subjugate towns.

During the early 13th century the north of what is now France went to war with the south in a bloody crusade aimed at destroying the heretical sect known as the Cathars.

The first deployment of the V-1 was in June 1944 when, following two years of tests, Hitler gave the order to attack England.

Following the battle of Bussaco on 27 September 1810 Wellington's heavily outnumbered troops began to withdraw towards Lisbon.

A focused look at the first dreadnought classes for the German Imperial Navy and their deployment in World War I, including the great clash of dreadnoughts at the Battle of Jutland.

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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Historisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar Mittelalter, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Zentrum dieser Arbeit steht die Res gestae Saxonicae des Widukind von Corvey.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 1,7, Technische Universität Dresden (Institut für Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Gewalt in der Frühen Neuzeit, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Verbot der Folter ist eines der Menschenrechte, die universell und ausnahmslos gelten.

When the German edition of Steiners masterful analysis of Switzerlands political system was first published in 1970 as Gewaltlose Politik und kulturelle Vielfalt, it was greeted by the American Political Science Review as a laudable departure from conventional comparative series.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Neueste Geschichte, Europäische Einigung, Note: 2,0, Freie Universität Berlin (Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Die Migrationsgeschichte der BRD und DDR, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wer lässt sich bei Udo Jürgens‘ „griechischer Wein“ nicht von der melancholischen Stimmung packen und versinkt beim Anhören des Liedes in Sehnsüchte nach südländischen Urlaubserinnerungen?

The M3 and M5 family of light tanks were the culmination of American tank development of the 1930s.

World War II is often seen as a confrontation of technology tanks and aircraft, artillery and engineering.

Despite all technological advances, final mastery of any battlefield depends upon the tight-knit group of footsoldiers trained to manoeuvre, shoot and dig in.

This second of two selections of Germany's World War II field commanders summarizes the careers, and illustrates the appearance, of 26 men who rose to prominence in the Waffen-SS, Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe.

During the middle decade of the 16th century a new type of sailing vessel emerged, designed to carry the wealth of the Americas to Spain.

This second of two selections of Germany's World War II field commanders summarizes the careers, and illustrates the appearance, of 26 men who rose to prominence in the Waffen-SS, Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe.

During the middle decade of the 16th century a new type of sailing vessel emerged, designed to carry the wealth of the Americas to Spain.

World War II is often seen as a confrontation of technology tanks and aircraft, artillery and engineering.

The M3 and M5 family of light tanks were the culmination of American tank development of the 1930s.

Despite all technological advances, final mastery of any battlefield depends upon the tight-knit group of footsoldiers trained to manoeuvre, shoot and dig in.

This illustrated study explains how Japan's all-conquering air forces spearheaded the invasions of Malaya and the Dutch East Indies and stunned the defending British, Dutch, and American forces.

This illustrated study explains how Japan's all-conquering air forces spearheaded the invasions of Malaya and the Dutch East Indies and stunned the defending British, Dutch, and American forces.

An authoritative history of Nazi Germany's futuristic but never-built jet fighters, packed with rare photos and newly researched artwork.

Explains and illustrates the training and tactics of the Light Infantry and Rifle regiments, famously dramatized in the 'Sharpe' novels and TV films.

An authoritative history of Nazi Germany's futuristic but never-built jet fighters, packed with rare photos and newly researched artwork.

Explains and illustrates the training and tactics of the Light Infantry and Rifle regiments, famously dramatized in the 'Sharpe' novels and TV films.

The battlefield interaction between infantry and tanks was central to combat on most fronts in World War II.

Surely nobody who had suffered the ferocity of the Nazi invasion could consider switching sides and joining the Germans?

In fascinating detail, Dr Stephen Bull describes the slow and painful learning curve of the Allies in the mid-war years, trying to end the Japanese stranglehold on Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

Packed with illustrations, a compact guide to the fortifications on the front lines and how they evolved over the course of the First World War.

This book recounts the organization and deployment of one of the most important fighting armies of World War II.

Surely nobody who had suffered the ferocity of the Nazi invasion could consider switching sides and joining the Germans?

This title, a prequel to Warrior 57 French Napoleonic Infantryman 1803-15, concentrates on the period from the storming of the Bastille in 1789 until Bonaparte's election as Consul for Life in 1802.

The Second World War was Britain's last conflict as a world power.

Revealing what it was like to live and fight in a medium tank, this is an examination of the career of a single tanker from 37th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division.

Named after Klimenti Voroshilov, the People's Commissar for Defence, the KVs proved a nasty surprise for German tank crews during the early days of Operation Barbarossa.

Constant Spanish guerrilla activity so drained the resources and diverted the attention of the French military that Wellington was able to advance against and overcome a numerically superior enemy.

The techniques of European warfare were transformed during the 15th and 16th centuries by the use of gunpowder and by substantial progress in the effectiveness and destructive power of artillery.

The lightning Japanese offensives in East Asia in 1941/42 inflicted a series of costly defeats on the ill-prepared and badly supported British Commonwealth forces in Malaya and Burma.

The 100th title in the Fortress series, this book describes and examines the F hrerhauptquartiere the 14 or so headquarters built for Hitler.

This is the story of the Royal Canadian Air Force's No 126 Wing, part of the 2nd Tactical Air Force.

Following the fall of France and the surrender of Paris on 14 June 1940, the British Government announced that the Channel Islands had no strategic importance and would not be defended.