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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
PVP: 15,59 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-393-3
EAN 9781846033933
Germany's Atlantic Wall was the most ambitious military fortification program of World War II. Following its conquest of Western Europe, Germany had to defend some 5,000km of Atlantic coastline from the Spanish border to the Arctic Circle. The United States' entry into the war and the inevitability of an Anglo-American landing in Western Europe resulted ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-363-6
EAN 9781846033636
In May 1967, Egypt expelled the United Nations peacekeeping forces stationed in the Sinai desert and deployed its army along its border with Israel, its moves coordinated with those of Jordan and Syria. By June, Israel realized that the international community would not act, and so it launched a pre-emptive strike against the combined Arab ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-414-5
EAN 9781846034145
A united Europe has been in existence for over 50 years, however before the European Union was formed the continent saw over 2 millennia of constant conflict. The battlefields where these wars were decided dot the landscape of Europe, bearing witness to the sacrifice paid by armies of the past, and acting as reminders to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-441-1
EAN 9781846034411
Hitler's protracted siege of Leningrad resulted in one of the most brutal campaigns on the Eastern Front during World War II. The German Army Group North was able to isolate the city and its garrison for a period of 900 days, during which an estimated 1.5 million Soviets died from combat, disease and starvation. For ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84603-368-1
EAN 9781846033681
Following the execution of King Charles I in January 1649, the English Parliament saw their opportunity to launch an assault on the Royalist enclave in Ireland. Oliver Cromwell was appointed as Deputy of Ireland to lead a campaign to restore direct control and quell the opposition. The first battle in Cromwell's bloody offensive was at ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,49 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-353-7
EAN 9781846033537
In the year 73 BC, Spartacus broke out of a gladiatorial training school and formed an army of runaway slaves and people with little to lose. This army defeated two Roman armies and attacked several cities. Terrified lest the revolt spread, the government in Rome assigned Crassus and Pompey to crush to rebellion. They cornered ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-405-3
EAN 9781846034053
In 32 BC, the Roman Republic descended into civil war between the forces of the Octavian in the west and the famous lovers Cleopatra and Marc Antony in the East. Acting quickly, Octavian managed to trap his foes in the Gulf of Actium. In the ensuing battle, Anthony and Cleopatra manage to escape, but their ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84603-367-4
EAN 9781846033674
Operation Dragoon, the Allied landings in southern France on August 15, 1944, was one of the most controversial operations of 1944, leading to a deep divide between United States and British planners. The US objective was to threaten the rear of the German armies occupying France by a landing on the eastern French coast and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84603-439-8
EAN 9781846034398
The War of 1812 has the strange distinction of being largely forgotten by both of its main participants, and yet its outcome was critically important to the future of North America. In 1814, the Americans launched a last offensive in an attempt to seize Canada. This Niagara campaign saw a number of pitched battles including ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 14,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-273-8
EAN 9781846032738
Few centuries in world history have had such a profound and long-lasting impact as the first hundred years of Islamic history. In this book, David Nicolle examines the extensive Islamic conquests between AD 632 and 750. These years saw the religion and culture of Islam erupt from the Arabian Peninsula and spread across an area ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-355-1
EAN 9781846033551
In 1864 General Ulysses S. Grant decided to strangle the life out of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia by surrounding the city of Petersburg and cutting off General Robert E. Lee's supply lines. The ensuing siege would carry on for nearly ten months, involve 160,000 soldiers, and see a number of pitched battles including ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-385-8
EAN 9781846033858
The battle of Solferino, fought during the Franco-Austrian War of 1859, was the largest European battle since Leipzig in 1813. In the presence of three crowned heads of state Napoleon III of France, Emperor Franz-Joseph of Austria and Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont-Sardinia (later the King of all Italy) the armies clashed together in a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-352-0
EAN 9781846033520
Defeated and occupied in 1939, Poland had suffered under the Nazi heel for nearly five years. Undaunted, however, the Poles formed an underground army, the Armia Krajowa (Home Army), and waited for a moment of German weakness. That moment seemed to have arrived in July 1944 as the Soviet armies began to advance into eastern ...
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The year 1945 saw the execution of three of the Marine Corps' largest and most vicious battles - Peleliu, Okinawa and Iwo Jima - and the Marines' performance in these arenas reflected the massive changes that had taken place in the Corps over the preceeding four years. These battles, the recent re-organisations, new units and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-354-4
EAN 9781846033544
Despite minor setbacks, Christian Europe had enjoyed success on previous Crusader campaigns. Pursuing an ambitious but politically flawed strategy against an Islamic state friendly to their Crusader neighbours, the knights of the Second Crusade suffered a crushing defeat at Damascus in 1148. This battle shook the Crusaders' belief in their military supremacy, and revived the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-350-6
EAN 9781846033506
Pursued by British forces, Washington and his remaining 5,000 men resolved on a risky strike against the British and Hessian positions across the Delaware River. Crossing the river, Washington took the Trenton garrison for the loss of only four men, before outflanking Cornwallis' 8,000-strong force and marching on Princeton. His military reputation established, Washington's victory ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
PVP: 17,99 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-276-9
EAN 9781846032769
On average a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent would be dead within three months of being parachuted into action. Terry Crowdy tells the extraordinary story of these agents, some of whom were women as young as 22, following them through their experiences beginning with their recruitment and their unorthodox training methods, which included hand-to-hand combat ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 48 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-252-3
EAN 9781846032523
In his second volume on the Tudor navy, naval expert Angus Konstam covers the extraordinary transformation of the Tudor fleet during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. This period witnessed the birth of a whole new breed of warships designed to dominate the seas and expand the corners of the empire. Detailing warfare during the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-339-1
EAN 9781846033391
The Arab Revolt of 1916 18 was one of the most dramatic events of World War I. It resulted in the birth of the modern Middle East and also created one of the most enduring myths of the war: the story of Lawrence of Arabia. This book examines the revolt, describing and analyzing the background ...
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