Forgotten Victory

Author : G. D. Sheffield
Publisher : Headline Review
ISBN 13 : 9780747264606
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Victory written by G. D. Sheffield and published by Headline Review. This book was released on 2002 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War is arguably the most misunderstood event in twentieth-century history. In a radical new interpretation, leading military historian Gary Sheffield argues that while the war was tragic, it was not futile; and, although condemned as 'lions led by donkeys', in reality the British citizen army became the most effective fighting force in the world, which in 1918 won the greatest series of battles in British history. A challenging and controversial book, FORGOTTEN VICTORY is based on twenty years of research and draws on the work of major scholars. Without underestimating the scale of the human tragedy or playing down the disasters, it explodes many myths about the First World War, placing it in its true historical context.

Author : Thomas J. Fleming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Victory written by Thomas J. Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Imperial War Museum
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409034860
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Voices Desert Victory written by Imperial War Museum and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Between Friday and Monday we never slept at all. Everyone’s face was one mass of sand ... The guns were so hot, all the paint had gone’ Bombardier Ray Ellis Had the Allies lost in North Africa, Rommel’s Afrika Korps would have swept through the Middle East, cutting the vital supply line through the Suez Canal to Australia and India, and taking the oilfields of the Persian Gulf. Britain would have been isolated, without oil, and unable to fight. These historic battles of 1940–1943 were fought over vast distances on rugged terrain, with supply lines often stretched to breaking point. It was here that David Stirling formed the SAS to perform audacious sabotage missions, and the Long Range Desert Group collected intelligence from behind enemy lines. This is the story of the Allies’ first victory against Hitler’s army, told in the voices of the men who were there, which proved that the seemingly unstoppable Germans could be beaten.

Author : Probal DasGupta
Publisher : Juggernaut Publication
ISBN 13 : 9789353450939
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watershed 1967 written by Probal DasGupta and published by Juggernaut Publication. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What happened when India and China last went to battle with each other? China won? Wrong, India won. The sole India-China conflict that remains etched in our collective memory is the 1962 war, which India tragically lost. But five years later, in 1967, India and China faced off once again in the heights of Cho La and Nathu La at the Sikkim border. This time, overcoming the odds, India triumphed.The fallout of these forgotten battles was immense. China shied away from actively allying with Pakistan and the US during the 1971 India-Pakistan war. And despite several stand-offs in the half century since then, Beijing has never again launched a military offensive against India. This incredible book tells us why these battles ushered in an era of peace. Full of thrilling international intrigue and nail-biting battle scenes, this book is based on extensive research and interviews with army officers and soldiers who participated in these historic battles. It aims to rectify a blind spot in history and shine the spotlight on a story of incredible bravery that India should be proud of "-- Provided by publisher.

Author : Mark Zuehlke
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN 13 : 9781771621052
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Victory written by Mark Zuehlke and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the winter of 1944-45, the western Allies desperately sought a strategy that would lead to Germany's quick defeat. After much rancorous debate, the Allied high command decided that First Canadian Army would launch the pivotal offensive to win the war--an attack against the Rhineland, an area of Germany on the west bank of the Rhine. Winning this land would give them a launching point for crossing the river and driving into Germany's heartland. This was considered the road to victory. For those who fought, the names of battlegrounds such as Moyland Wood and the Hochwald Gap would forever call up memories of uncommon heroism, endurance and tragic sacrifice. Their story is one largely lost to the common national history of World War II. Forgotten Victory gives this important legacy back to Canadians.

Author : G. D. Sheffield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780747271574
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Victory written by G. D. Sheffield and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Sheffield contends that the popular view that the First World War was, in the words of historian John Keegan, 'tragic and unnecessary', is wrong. It is his strongly argued belief that such a conclusion does not represent the cutting edge of research into the most controversial conflict in British history. Based on twenty years of research, as well as reflecting the interpretations of the revisionist school of historians based around the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the Imperial War Museum and the British Commission for Military History, this book challenges the fundamental assumptions underpinning the 'traditional' belief that the First World War was a wholly futile conflict.

Author : Tom Huntington
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811708136
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Searching for George Gordon Meade written by Tom Huntington and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historian's investigation of the life and times of Gen. George Gordon Meade to discover why the hero of Gettysburg has failed to achieve the status accorded to other generals of the conflict.

Author : Paul Daley
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522855997
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beersheba written by Paul Daley and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Beersheba, a redeeming win for the ANZACs who lost at Gallipoli, has slipped through the cracks of Australia's historical consciousness. Why are Australians so much more content to commemmorate a glorious defeat than we are to celebrate such a resounding, against the odds, victory?

Author : Romain Cansière
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472824962
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blanc Mont Ridge 1918 written by Romain Cansière and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly illustrated account of the battle for Blanc Mont Ridge in 1918, where the US attackers broke the German line and sent them into headlong retreat in one of the major US victories of World War I.

Author : Leonard, Elizabeth
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807835005
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lincoln's Forgotten Ally written by Leonard, Elizabeth and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manuscript is the first biography of Joseph Holt, the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate General during the Civil War. Leonard argues that Holt has been portrayed as more or less a caricature of himself, flatly represented as the brutal prosecutor of Lincoln's assassins and the judge who allowed Mary Surratt to be hanged despite knowing her sentence had been reduced. Leonard contends that the southern view of Holt became the predominant way we see him, in large part because the memory perpetrated by the Lost Cause defined Holt as ruthless toward Southerners and the South. But Leonard argues that there is much more to Holt than what sympathizers with the Lost Cause came to think of him, and she tells his story here, from his early life in Kentucky to his wartime life as a member of Lincoln's administration to his postwar life as the prosecutor of Lincoln's assassins. Perhaps most important, Leonard will look at the erasure of Holt from American memory and investigate how such a significant figure has come to be so widely misunderstood.