Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Gary Sheffield
yhteensä 31 hakutulosta
100 Years of Conflict
The history of 20th century warfare, from the strategies and tactics of World War I that had changed little since the Napoleonic Wars some one hundred years earlier, to the dawn of …
Kut 1916: The Forgotten British Disaster in Iraq
The siege of Kut is a story of blunders, sacrifice, imprisonment and escape. The allied campaign in Mesopotamia began in 1914 as a relatively simple operation to secure the …
German Army on Vimy Ridge, 1914-1917
The book starts with on the capture of Vimy Ridge and the nearly spur of Notre Dame de Lorette in October 1914. The major battles of spring and autumn 1915 is described as is the …
Douglas Haig
The diaries of the most controversial British general of the twentieth century.There's a commonly held view that Douglas Haig was a bone-headed, callous butcher, who through his …
The Western Front 1914-1916
After the first few months of World War I, the Western Front consisted of a relatively static line of trench systems which stretched from the coast of the North Sea southwards to …
Inside Power
Becoming a Major League ballplayer for Dwight and me, that was the dream.Dwight is Dwight Gooden. Most people know him for winning the Cy Young Award. To me, though, he’s family, …
Darkest Year 1917: The British Army on the Western Front 1917
Nineteen-seventeen was a desperately hard year for the Allies. The forces of France, Russia and Italy were at a low ebb, whilst the Central Powers appeared resurgent. By the middle …
Command and Morale: The British Army on the Western Front 1914-1918
Gary Sheffield is one of the most versatile and stimulating of military historians at work today. For 25 years, in a series of perceptive books and articles, he has examined the …
Infantry Attacks
Legendary German general Erwin Rommel analyzes the tactics that led to his success.Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but …
Wellington: pocket GIANTS
Wellington is a giant because he was one of the greatest military commanders in British history, an important figure in the emergence of Britain as a great imperial power, a man …