The Price of Victory: The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War (Kavalerchik Boris)(Pevná vazba)

The Price of Victory: The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War (Kavalerchik Boris)(Pevná vazba)

The Red Army's casualties during the Second World War and the casualties sustained by the German army they fought are a key element in any assessment of the conflict on the Eastern Front. Since the war ended over seventy years ago, the statistics have been a source of bitter controversy, of claim

Myths and Legends of the Eastern Front: Reassessing the Great Patriotic War (Sokolov Boris)(Pevná vazba)

A thought-provoking reassessment of key aspects of the Second World War on the Eastern Front by a leading Russian

Indian Empire At War - From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War (Morton-Jack George)(Pevná vazba)

A brilliantly original history of the First World War, re-tracing the footsteps of the Indian Army's 1.5 million men who in 1914-18 served about the globe from Europe to Africa, Asia and the Indian

Churchill's Thin Grey Line: British Merchant Ships at War 1939-1945 (Edwards Bernard)(Pevná vazba)

The first British casualties of the Second World War were not members of either the Royal Navy, the Army or the Royal Air Force but British merchant seamen on the liner Athenia, torpedoed by U-30 on 3 September 1939. For the duration of the War, Britain's merchant fleet performed a vital role,

Stalin's War on Japan: The Red Army's 'Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation', 1945 (Stephenson Charles)(Pevná vazba)

Did Japan surrender in 1945 because of the death and devastation caused by the atomic bombs dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima and Nagasaki or because of the crushing defeat inflicted on their armies by the Soviet Union in Manchukuo, the puppet state they set up in north-east China? Indeed, the

Grant's Victory: How Ulysses S. Grant Won the Civil War (Brager Bruce L.)(Pevná vazba)

Two of the great themes of the Civil War are how Lincoln found his war-winning general in Ulysses Grant and how Grant finally defeated Lee. Grant's Victory intertwines these two threads in a grand narrative that shows how Grant made the difference in the war. At Eastern theater battlefields from

The Russian Civil War, 1918-1921: An Operational-Strategic Sketch of the Red Army's Combat Operations (Bubnov A. S.)(Pevná vazba)

The Russian Civil War was one of the most fateful of the 20th century's military conflicts, a bloody three-year struggle whose outcome saw the establishment of a totalitarian communist regime within the former Russian Empire. As such, it commands the attention of the military specialist and layman

Faces of Civil War Nurses (Coddington Ronald S.)(Pevná vazba)

During the American Civil War, women on both sides of the conflict, radiating patriotic fervor equal to their male counterparts, contributed to the war effort in countless ways: forming charitable societies, becoming nurses, or even marching off to war as vivandi res, unofficial attach s to the

Russia is Burning - Poems of the Great Patriotic War(Paperback / softback)

Epitaphs of the Great War: The Last 100 Days (Wearne Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

Epitaphs of the Great War: The Last 100 Days is the third instalment in a collection that presents headstone inscriptions from the graves of soldiers killed during World War I. Limited by the Imperial War Graves Commission to sixty-six characters, these inscriptions are masterpieces of compact

Strangling the Axis: The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean During the Second World War (Hammond Richard)(Pevná vazba)

This is a major reassessment of the causes of Allied victory in the Second World War in the Mediterranean region. Drawing on a unique range of multinational source material, Richard Hammond demonstrates how the Allies' ability to gain control of the key routes across the sea and sink large

Hertfordshire Soldiers of the Great War (Hill Dan)(Pevná vazba)

In Hertfordshire Soldiers of The First World War the authors explore a series of individual case studies of Hertfordshire men who served in various theaters during the First World War, all of which had been uncovered as part of the Herts At War community project. This unique collection of largely

Blood's Campaign - There can only be one victor . . . (Donald Angus)(Pevná vazba)

In the theatre of war there can only be one victor . . 1690 On the banks of the River Boyne in Ireland, rival monarchs William of Orange and James Stuart meet in bloody conflict, and Lieutenant Holcroft Blood must face his personal enemies and those of his

The French Army and the First World War (Greenhalgh Elizabeth)(Paperback)

This is a comprehensive new history of the French army's critical contribution to the Great War. Ranging across all fronts, Elizabeth Greenhalgh examines the French army's achievements and failures and sets these in the context of the difficulties of coalition warfare and the relative strengths and

Everything to Nothing: The Poetry of the Great War, Revolution and the Transformation of Europe (Buelens Geert)(Pevná vazba)

The poets' Great War: violence, revolution and modernism The First World War changed the map of Europe forever. Empires collapsed, new countries were born, revolutions shocked and inspired the world. This tumult, sometimes referred to as 'the literary war', saw an extraordinary outpouring of

From the Ashes - Reconstruction of Flanders Fields after the Great War(Pevná vazba)

A historical overview of the revival of a region so heavily scourged by the Great War and new insights a century

Sounds of War: Music in the British Armed Forces During the Great War (Hanna Emma)(Pevná vazba)

Comparatively little is known about the musical cultures of the British armed forces during the Great War. This groundbreaking study is the first to examine music's vital presence in a range of military contexts including military camps, ships, aerodromes and battlefields, canteen huts, hospitals

Belgium in the Great War (Veranneman Jean-Michel)(Pevná vazba)

In August 1914, the German Empire invaded neutral Belgium in order to outflank the defenses of the French army. Unexpectedly, the Belgian army resisted and fought on, holding a small part of unoccupied Belgian territory north of Ypres, alongside the British and French armies, until the Armistice of

The Last Great War of Antiquity (Howard-Johnston James)(Pevná vazba)

The last and longest war of classical antiquity was fought in the early seventh century. It was ideologically charged and fought along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier, drawing in all the available resources and great powers of the steppe world. The conflict raged on an unprecedented

Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World (Grove Jairus Victor)(Pevná vazba)

Jairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war. In Savage Ecology he offers an ecological theory of geopolitics that argues that contemporary global crises are better understood when considered within the larger history of international politics. Infusing international relations

The Great War in the Argonne Forest: French and American Battles, 1914-1918 (Merry Richard)(Pevná vazba)

The annals of the First World War record the Argonne Forest as the epicenter of the famous Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918. The largest American operation launched against the Germans during the conflict. During 1914 and 1915 though, amidst the dense forest, French and Italian soldiers withstood

German Prisoners of the Great War: Life in a Yorkshire Camp (Buckley Anne)(Pevná vazba)

In Munich in 1920, just after the end of the First World War, German officers who had been prisoners of war in England published a book they had written and smuggled back to Germany. Through vivid text and illustrations they describe in detail their experience of life in captivity in a camp at

1910s Scrapbook: the Decade of the Great War(Pevná vazba)

A nostalgic glimpse of a bygone

Traces of the Great War (Kelly Joe)(Pevná vazba)