A Bloody Victory

Author : William James Philpott
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Victory written by William James Philpott and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 2009 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * A major new work on the notorious First World War battle, the first to argue in significant detail for a complete overhaul of our present view of the Somme

Author : Dan Harvey
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 1785373358
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bloody Victory written by Dan Harvey and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post D-Day, with the Allies on the newly created ‘Second Front’ driving fast eastwards beyond Paris, and the Russians on the ‘Eastern Front’ pressing westwards, the fervour of the fanatical Fascist Nazi Regime remained undiminished. For the Third Reich it was intolerable to believe that they must now concede. Instead of ending the war and suing for peace, the levels of hostility, hatred, and horror heightened, and the brutality, viciousness and terror increased. The resistance to the Allied advances across Europe, first towards, then within, Germany intensified, and every inch of the Fatherland was bitterly contested. With the Allies, in their thousands, were the Irish. A Bloody Victory unearths these people from the corners of Irish history and transports them back to the D-Day beaches and the bridge at Arnhem, to the frozen landscapes at the Battle of the Bulge, the banks of the River Rhine, to the unimaginable horrors of Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald concentration camps, and finally to the ruinous Battle of Berlin. There was no one individual ‘Irish narrative’ in the Second World War, but there was a narrative of Irish Individuals, and in A Bloody Victory, Dan Harvey pays due tribute to their significant contribution.

Author : Alan Furst
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588362809
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood of Victory written by Alan Furst and published by Random House. This book was released on 2002-08-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Furst] glides gracefully into an urbane pre–World War II Europe and describes that milieu with superb precision.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times In the autumn of 1940, Russian émigré journalist I. A. Serebin is recruited in Istanbul by an agent of the British secret services for a clandestine operation to stop German importation of Romanian oil—a last desperate attempt to block Hitler’s conquest of Europe. Serebin’s race against time begins in Bucharest and leads him to Paris, the Black Sea, Beirut, and, finally, Belgrade; his task is to attack the oil barges that fuel German tanks and airplanes. Blood of Victory is a novel with the heart-pounding suspense, extraordinary historical accuracy, and narrative immediacy we have come to expect from Alan Furst. Praise for Blood of Victory “Densely atmospheric and genuinely romantic, the novel is most reminiscent of the Hollywood films of the forties, when moral choices were rendered not in black-and-white but in smoky shades of gray.”—The New Yorker “Furst’s achievement is a moral one, producing a powerful testament to fiction’s ability to re-create the experience of others, and why it is so deeply important to do so.” —Neil Gordon, The New York Times Book Review “Richly atmospheric and satisfying.” —Deirdre Donahue, USA Today

Author : William Philpott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780708867723
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Victory B Special written by William Philpott and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Ayres
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark and Bloody Ground written by Thomas Ayres and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles not only the remarkable military victory at Mansfield but the subsequent engagements that forced Union forces into an ignominious withdrawal.

Author : John E. Ferling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195382927
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Almost a Miracle written by John E. Ferling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the military history of the American Revolution and the grim realities of the eight-year conflict while offering descriptions of the major engagements on land and sea and the decisions that influenced the course of the war.

Author : Associated Press
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1454941170
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victory written by Associated Press and published by Union Square + ORM. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers WWII from initial outbreak to final victory with news stories and photos from the Associated Press archives. Victory commemorates the day Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied forces in Europe: May 8, 1945, VE Day. It covers the war through contemporary Associated Press coverage of key events, plus gripping human-interest accounts. The stories and photographs are presented chronologically so that readers can follow the unfolding conflict as it was experienced by ordinary citizens at the time. From Germany’s invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, to Japan’s ceremonial signing of surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, each event is vividly brought to life through images and text from the original articles; historian Alan Axelrod provides insightful introductory text for each chapter.

Author : Thelma King
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480900435
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bloody Road to Victory written by Thelma King and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloody Road to Victory is a work of historical fiction chronicling the personal and spiritual journey of three soldiers during the Civil War. Although fighting for different causes, two Confederate soldiers and one Union soldier join forces to become a family and fight for unity and victory for the entire nation. Bloody battles of war may destroy a foundation, but they will never destroy our soul, love and beliefs in what we fight for.

Author : Alan Allport
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300170750
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Browned Off and Bloody-minded written by Alan Allport and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan Allport's rich and luminous social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were plucked from their peacetime families and workplaces and sent to fight for King and Country. Allport chronicles the huge diversity of their wartime trajectories, tracing how soldiers responded to and were shaped by their years with the British Army, and how that army, however reluctantly, had to accommodate itself to them. Touching on issues of class, sex, crime, trauma, and national identity, through a colorful multitude of fresh individual perspectives, the book provides an enlightening, deeply moving perspective on how a generation of very modern-minded young men responded to the challenges of a brutal and disorienting conflict.

Author : Cecil B. Currey
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640120823
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victory at Any Cost written by Cecil B. Currey and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people do not understand why America lost the Viet Nam War. Author Cecil B. Currey makes one primary reason clear: North Viet Nam's Senior Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap. Victory at Any Cost tells the full story of the man who fought three of the world's great powers--and beat them all.