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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-8417-6738-3
EAN 9781841767383
Raging for over four years across the tortured landscapes of Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the First World War changed the face of warfare forever. Characterised by slow, costly advances and fierce attrition, the great battles of the Somme, Verdun and Ypres incurred human loss on a scale never previously imagined. This book, with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84176-697-3
EAN 9781841766973
Operation Barbarossa, Germany's surprise assault on the Soviet Union in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than the complete destruction of Communist Russia. This book focuses on Field Marshal von Rundstedt and Army Group South, tasked with the capture of the Ukraine and Crimea. Von Rundstedt's 46 divisions and single Panzer Group faced fierce resistance ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-8417-6515-0
EAN 9781841765150
In 1095 the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I appealed to the Christian states of western Europe for help against the Turks who had swept across the Empire after the disastrous Byzantine defeat at Manzikert in 1071. This book is about the First Crusade that followed, and saw several armies of armed pilgrims' march across Europe to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84176-220-3
EAN 9781841762203
At 1345hrs on 6 October 1973, Israeli spotters in the observation post atop Mount Hermon saw Syrian gunners below them removing the camouflage nets from their guns. Ten minutes later shells began to rain down on Israeli positions all along the Golan Heights The Yom Kippur War had begun. The shock Syrian attack caught the ...
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historical account of the Mongol conquests of 1190-1400, including the rise of Genghis Khan and the unification of the tribes. It examines the strategies, tactics and logistics that enabled the Mongols to fight successfully against enemies as far apart as Prussia and Korea.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-8417-6367-5
EAN 9781841763675
The D-Day landings of 6 June 1944 were the largest amphibious military operation ever mounted. The greatest armada the world had ever seen was assembled to transport the Allied invasion force across the Channel and open the long-awaited second front against Hitler's Third Reich. Of the landings on the five assault beaches, Omaha Beach was ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
PVP: 17,99 €
ISBN 978-1-84176-675-1
EAN 9781841766751
The civil war that raged in Yugoslavia following the German invasion in 1941 was brutal, uncompromising and complex, pitting royalists, fascists communists, ethnic groups, and the Axis powers against one another in a shifting and bloody theatre of war. The Partisan forces under the command of Josip Broz Tito were a constant thorn in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-8417-6561-7
EAN 9781841765617
By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland invaded the Order's territory with a powerful allied army including all ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84176-409-2
EAN 9781841764092
For much of the 16th century the Mediterranean was a battleground between Christians and Muslims. A decisive battle between two large galley fleets was expected to decide the fate of the entire Mediterranean basin. In August 1571, an Ottoman fleet of some 235 galleys encountered the slightly smaller Christian fleet of the Holy League. In ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84176-221-0
EAN 9781841762210
Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War' sowed the seeds of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. At 1400hrs on 6 October 1973 the Egyptian army launched an assault crossing of the Suez Canal. The carefully co-ordinated attack achieved complete tactical surprise. The sand embankments of the Israeli Bar-Lev Line were breached and an Israeli ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84176-513-6
EAN 9781841765136
On a bitterly cold Palm Sunday, 29 March 1461, the army of King Edward IV met that of his Lancastrian enemies on a snow-covered battlefield south of the village of Towton in Yorkshire. The struggle lasted all day in the longest and bloodiest battle of the Wars of the Roses. With the arrival of Yorkist ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-85532-605-7
EAN 9781855326057
What a scene!' wrote Horace Walpole. An army in the night dragging itself up a precipice by stumps of trees to assault a town and attack an enemy strongly entrenched and double in numbers!' In one short sharp exchange of fire Major-General James Wolfe's men tumbled the Marquis de Montcalm's French army into bloody ruin. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84176-510-5
EAN 9781841765105
The death of the last of the Scottish royal house of Canmore in 1290 triggered a succession crisis. Attempts to undermine Scottish independence by King Edward I of England sparked open rebellion culminating in an English defeat at the hands of William Wallace at Stirling Bridge in 1297. Edward gathered an army, marched north and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-8417-6333-0
EAN 9781841763330
Newbury 1643 is one of the decisive campaigns of the English Civil War, marking a turning point in the course of the conflict. This work shows that the battle of Newbury represented the last realistic chance for the king to win a military victory over Parliament. When on 10 August 1643, King Charles summoned the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-8417-6560-0
EAN 9781841765600
The Battle of the Bulge was the largest and most costly battle fought by the US Army in World War II. The Ardennes fighting was Hitler's last gamble on the Western Front, crippling the Wehrmacht for the remainder of the war. In the first of two volumes on the Ardennes campaign Steven Zaloga details the ...
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The Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 was of enormous international as well as national significance. In this volume, Lannon explains how this internal conflict saw the fight between democracy and communism played out on a small scale, only to be fought out again in World War II. We go behind the scenes to find out ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-8417-6512-9
EAN 9781841765129
Equalling Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Okinawa in scale and ferocity, the battle for Peleliu has long been regarded as the Pacific war's 'forgotten battle'. Originally planned to secure General MacArthur's eastern flank during his invasion of the Philippine Islands, the assault became superfluous after a massive carrier-based attack on the Palau Islands some weeks earlier ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84176-269-2
EAN 9781841762692
There can be no doubt that military conflict between France and England dominated European history in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This war is of considerable interest both because of its duration and the number of theatres in which it was fought. In this book, Hundred Years' War expert Dr Anne Curry reveals how the ...
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