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The Army of Frederick the Great
It was a famous army, but it is not always understood. It was praised for introducing a revolution in the art of war and notorious for the brutality of its discipline, but how did …
Fight for a Throne
The bid of Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobites for the throne of Britain has never lost its grip on the popular imagination. In July 1745 he and a tiny group of companions …
Fallschirmjager in the Defense of the Oder 1945
In this book we will narrate the participation of the parachute troops in the defensive line of the Oder. We will talk in this text about two paratroop units that, quite possibly …
Charles X's Wars Volume 1
The book describes and analyses the 'Swedish Deluge' (potop szwedski), the devastating 1655-1660 wars fought between Sweden, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, …
Carnation Revolution Volume 1: The Road to the Coup That Changed Portugal, 1974
On 25 April 1974, a movement of young captains brought down, with practically no resistance, the dictatorial regime that had been in power for over 40 years in Portugal. In the …
Lebanese Civil War
Following years of growing tensions, in June 1982 Israel launched an all-out invasion of Lebanon. During the night from 5 to 6 June 1982, four armored divisions of the Israeli …
Children and War
The amount of international research on 'Children and War' carried out by academics, governments and non-governmental organisations has continually increased in recent years. At …
Botha, Smuts and the Great War
The authors conducted painstaking research in South Africa and the United Kingdom to produce this, first-of-a-kind book on the wartime roles played by the South African prime …
The Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Kursk: The Red Army’s Defensive Operations and Counter- Offensive, July-August 1943, offers a peculiarly Soviet view of one of the Second World War’s most critical …
Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941 Volume 4
At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what …
Ethiopian-Eritrean Wars, Volume 1
Ethiopia, a country of ancient origins in eastern Africa, has remained a military powerhouse of that continent until the present day. Currently involved in the war in neighbouring …
El Salvador
A severe social and political crisis in El Salvador during the 1970s resulted in widespread disruption to daily life. In October 1979, a coup d' tat brought a military junta to …