Military history

The history behind the major battlefields in which New Zealand soldiers fought

Dieses eBook: "Nena Sahib oder Die Empörung in Indien - Die zentrale Figur des indischen Aufstands von 1857" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

The most comprehensive and gripping account of the Afghan war, by a BBC journalist.

';The very grubby coalface of foreign policy I found the entire book most horribly addictive' Independent ';One of the unexpected responses to reading this masterful study is amazement at the efforts the British and French each put into undermining the other' Spectator A fascinating insight into the untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East.

No book on Roman history has attempted to do what Stephen Dando-Collins does in Legions of Rome: to provide a complete history of every Imperial Roman legion and what it achieved as a fighting force.

Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942.

Forgotten Soldiers is an enthralling work of military history that shows how the courage, intelligence or simple good fortune of the individual can exert a decisive influence on the outcome of a battle or campaign.

WINNER OF THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE 2013.

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Edith Cavell was born in 1865, daughter of a Norfolk vicar, and shot in Brussels on 12 October 1915 by the Germans for sheltering British and French soldiers and helping them escape over the Belgian border.

Battle of Britain is a riveting chronicle of the epic struggle between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe.

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012.

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SAS: The Autobiography is the story of the world's most famous special forces regiment by those who truly know it - the troopers and officers themselves.

Over 8 million women stayed at home during the Second World War and their story has never been told.

A remarkable series of over 200 eye-witness accounts taken from diaries, letters, speeches, interviews and memoirs of those who were there: pilots, sailors, generals, infantrymen, war correspondents and leaders.

Robert Harvey brilliantly recreates the story of the greatest conflict that stretches from the first blaze of revolution in Paris in 1789 to final victory on the muddy fields of Waterloo.

THE TRUE STORY OF THE 41,000 BRITISH SOLDIERS WHO WERE LEFT BEHIND AFTER THE EVACUATION OF DUNKIRK, MAY 1940'Meticulously researched, very well written and deeply moving' Andrew Roberts'Few readers will be unmoved by Sean Longden's account' Dominic SandbrookAt 2am on the morning of the 3rd of June 1940, General Harold Alexander searched along the quayside, holding onto his megaphone and called "e;Is anyone there?

In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything.

One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - Daily ExpressIn the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, wartime leader Winston Churchill knew that Britain had to strike back hard.

The impossibly moving story of how Judy, World War Two's only animal POW, brought hope in the midst of hell.

For troops in the desert, Cairo meant fleshpots or brass hats.

The 1936 Berlin Olympics brought together athletes, politicians, socialites, journalists, soldiers and artists from all over the world.

In May and June 1940 almost four million people fled Paris and its suburbs in anticipation of a German invasion.

In June 1944, an elite unit of British paratroopers was sent on a daring and highly risky behind-the-lines mission, which was deemed vital to the success of D-Day.

Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Antony Beevor vividly brings to life the epic struggles that took place in Second World War Crete - reissued with a new introduction.

'Superbly written and gripping' Daily ExpressThe thrilling true account of Hitler's first defeat.

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The Gurkhas have fought on behalf of Britain and India for nearly two hundred years.

In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees.

On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide.

War brings out the very best and worst in people although, frankly, its usually the latter.

The seven-year campaign that saved Europe from Napoleon told by those who were there.

In the summer of 1940 the fate of Europe hung in the balance.

Few people know that Ypres, centre of First World War remembrance, was once home to a thriving British community that played a heroic role in the Second World War.

The arms race, on the run up to the Second World War, followed the faultless logic of paranoia.

The Spitfire and the Lancaster were the two RAF weapons of victory in the Second World War, but the glamour of the fighter has tended to overshadow the performance of the heavy bomber.

At the moment of crisis in 1941 on the Eastern front, with the forces of Hitler massing on the outskirts of Moscow, the miraculous occurred: Moscow was saved.

In February 1943, German forces surrendered to the Red Army at Stalingrad and the tide of war turned.

When the German High Command encircled Leningrad it was a deliberate policy to eradicate the city s civilian population by starving them to death.

'If there were a Nobel Prize in History, Colley would be my nominee' Jill Lepore, New Yorker'One of the most exciting historians of her generation, but also one of the most interesting writers of non-fiction around' - William Dalrymple, Guardian'Colley takes you on intellectual journeys you wouldn't think to take on your own, and when you arrive you wonder that you never did it before' - David Aaronovitch, the Times'A global history of remarkable depth, imagination and insight' Tony Barber, Financial Times Summer BooksStarting not with the United States, but with the Corsican constitution of 1755, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen moves through every continent, disrupting accepted narratives.

Meet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil.

'The scene was tragically macabre: the image of desolation, the flames spared nothing.

'This is the room from which I will direct the war,' Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940.

Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen - a pen that never gave up over almost three decades, reporting, describing, pondering, and disclosing.

The story of the invasion of Moscow, told through its people.

Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect in the twentieth century.

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.

'Next to being a mother, I'd have loved to write books.

Die Schlacht bei El Alamein im Herbst 1942 beendete den Siegesmarsch des "Wüstenfuchses" Erwin Rommel und damit jede Hoffnung der Achsenmächte, in den Besitz des Suezkanals zu gelangen.