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The Lafayette Escadrille was an all-volunteer squadron of Americans who flew for France during World War I. One hundred years later, it is still arguably the best-known fighter squadron ever to take to the skies. In this work the entire history of these gallant volunteers-who named themselves after the Marquis Lafayette, who came to America's ...
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In the first years of the Civil War, Southern arms won spectacular victories on the battlefield; however, cooler heads in the Confederacy recognized the demographic and industrial weight pitted against them, and counted on British intervention to even those scales in order to deny the United States victory. Bluff, Bluster Lies and Spies is a ...
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This book describes two Soviet offensive operations carried out during September and October 1944. The first was the operation for the occupation of Bulgaria - known as the 'Bulgarian operation'; the second was the Belgrade offensive operation, which was carried outimmediately after the Bulgarian operation. Although separate, the two operations were closely linked to each ...
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The Mongols created the greatest landlocked empire known to history. It was an empire created and sustained by means of conquest. Initially an insignificant tribal leader, Genghis Khan gradually increased his power, overcoming one rival after another. After he hadsubjugated all tribes of Inner Asia, he struck southward into China and later attacked distant Khwarizm ...
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- Casemate, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 51,65 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-401-3
EAN 9781612004013
Operation Barbarossa was the largest military campaign in history. Springing from Hitler's fanatical desire to conquer the Soviet territories, defeat Bolshevism and create 'Lebensraum' for the German people, it pitted two diametrically opposed armed forces against one another. The invasion began with 4.5 million troops attacking 2.3 million defenders.On one side was the Wehrmacht, without ...
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In March 1961, Americas most prominent journalist, Edward R. Murrow, ended a quartercentury career with the Columbia Broadcasting System to join the administration of John F. Kennedy as director of the United States Information Agency (USIA). Charged withpromoting a positive image abroad, the agency sponsored overseas research programs, produced documentaries, and operated the Voice of ...
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Before the first shots were fired at Gettysburg - for many, the most significant engagement of the American Civil War - a private battle had been raging for weeks. As the Confederate Army marched into Union territory, the Federal Forces desperately sought to hunt them downbefore they struck at any of the great cities of ...
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When Germany's Sixth Army advanced to Stalingrad in 1942, its long-extended flanks were mainly held by allied armies the Romanians, Hungarians, and Italians. But as history tells us, these flanks quickly caved in before the massive Soviet counter-offensive which commenced that November, dooming the Germans to their first catastrophe of the war. However, the historical ...
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Under Fire, first published in French as Le Feu, was one of the first novels about WWI, appearing in December 1916, before the outcome of the war was clear. Set in early 1916, it follows a squad of French volunteer soldiers through the eyes of an unnamed foot soldier, who participates in and also observes ...
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'The million British dead have left no books behind. What they felt as they died hour by hour in the mud, or were choked horribly with gas, or relinquished their reluctant lives on stretchers, no witness tells. But here is a book that almost tells it...Mr Gristwood has had the relentless simplicity to recall things ...
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Hitler talked about his Fortress Europa but it was a rampart without a roof. Above all the western allied air fleet relentless bombed Nazi-Germany. After the failed battle at Kurks in 1943, the allied landings in Normandy and the collapse of army group Mitte, it was clear thatHitler lost the war on military and production ...
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Race to the Rhine
Liberating France and the Low Countries, 1944-45
- Casemate, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-294-1
EAN 9781612002941
The speed of the German Blitzkrieg in 1940 and the relative ease with which they brushed aside Allied defenses meant four years of occupation. But in June 1944-this time with American forces-the Allies finally returned for a rematch. The destruction of German forces in Normandy's Falaise pocket, on August 14,was as quick as the Blitzkrieg ...
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- Casemate, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 503 páginas
PVP: 75,80 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-277-4
EAN 9781612002774
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- Casemate, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 240 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-231-6
EAN 9781612002316
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