The Republic Besieged

Author : Preston Paul Preston
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474471765
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Republic Besieged written by Preston Paul Preston and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of several articles about the Spanish Civil War by different authors each one dealing with a matter.

Author : J. Bowyer Bell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351314114
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Besieged written by J. Bowyer Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. Bowyer Bell's Beseiged is built on the premise that as long as men have constructed walls, other men have tried to scale them. From ancient Jericho and Joshua's trumpet to London and the onslaught of the Luftwaffe, people have always devised cunning weapons, with all the skills at their command, to breach such barriers and invade the camps and fortified places of their enemies. Beseiged is the story of seven great modern sieges: Madrid in the Spanish Civil War; London, Warsaw, Singapore and Stalingrad in World War II; Berlin during the Post World War II Airlift; and Jerusalem under Arab attack from four sides in 1947. Bell, a veteran historian, describes in detail the actual battles involved, clearly demonstrating the universality of sieges and siegecraft and showing that all these beleaguered places have things in common and obey certain basic laws or principles. Bell points out commonalities showing, for example, though no bullets were fired during the Berlin Airlift, the city itself was as much under siege as was Warsaw, where the Polish Underground fought a fierce but hopeless battle against Hitler's Wehrmacht. By the same token, Bell shows though no German infantry ever came close to London, it was nonetheless besieged by aerial squadrons just as surely as Stalingrad was by both German and Russian ground forces. The histories of these sieges are ones of heroism and cowardice, meticulous planning and incredible blunders, all of which can be studied and used even currently in similar situations in either defending, or piercing the defenses of, a location in times of unrest or war. Beseiged is a must-read for those interested in modern conflict pondering the enigma of human endeavor in wall building and breaking involved in siegecraft. A must-read for everyone from military strategist aficionados and historians to science and technology buffs. If it is to be believed the danger of not knowing history is the possibility of unknowingly repeating it, then Beseiged should appear on all required reading lists.

Author : Qian Zhongshu
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081122354X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fortress Besieged (New Directions Classic) written by Qian Zhongshu and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2004-02-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest Chinese novel of the twentieth century, Fortress Besieged is a classic of world literature, a masterpiece of parodic fiction that plays with Western literary traditions, philosophy, and middle-class Chinese society in the Republican era. Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, our hapless hero Fang Hung-chien (á la Emma Bovary), with no particular goal in life and with a bogus degree from a fake American university in hand, returns home to Shanghai. On the French liner home, he meets two Chinese beauties, Miss Su and Miss Pao. Qian writes, "With Miss Pao it wasn't a matter of heart or soul. She hadn't any change of heart, since she didn't have a heart." In a sort of painful comedy, Fang obtains a teaching post at a newly established university where the effete pseudo-intellectuals he encounters in academia become the butt of Qian's merciless satire. Soon Fang is trapped into a marriage of Nabokovian proportions of distress and absurdity. Recalling Fielding's Tom Jones in its farcical litany of misadventures and Flaubert's "style indirect libre," Fortress Besieged is its own unique feast of delights.

Author : Andrés Barba
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 132858934X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Luminous Republic written by Andrés Barba and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new novel from a Spanish literary star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos.

Author : Paul K. Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195219309
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Besieged written by Paul K. Davis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient times to the present, great sieges have had an enormous impact on the shaping of world history. Now, in this spectacular, fully-illustrated volume, one hundred of the world's most monumental and mind-boggling sieges are laid out in detail. Besieged covers the most important sieges from around the world throughout history--from Joshua's assault on Jericho in the fifteenth century B.C. to the Russian attack on the Chechen capital of Grozny at the end of the twentieth. Each entry provides the name and date of the siege, its exact location in terms of today's world, the number of forces engaged, when known, the names of the commanders on each side, and the overall importance of the siege in its historical context. Thoroughly examining the actions of both the attackers and the defenders, the book explores the motivations of both, and strategically surveys the technical and tactical innovations and conditions both inside besieged positions and in the besiegers' ranks. The entries detail the historical setting, the particular circumstances of the event itself, and the long-term results of the siege. These riveting accounts are enhanced by illustrations, over seventy maps, and references for further reading. A glossary and a comprehensive index complete the book. Global in scope, and with stirring accounts of familiar sieges as well as many lesser known conflicts, Besieged is essential reading for military buffs and everyone interested in how the modern world came to be. Includes the sieges of: * Jericho (1405 B.C.) * Troy (1250 B.C.) * Acre (1189--1191) * Constantinople (1453) * Tenochtitlan (1521 * La Rochelle (1627--1628) * Leningrad (1941--1944) * Malta (1940--1942) * Dien Bien Phu (1954) * Khe Sanh (1968) * Beirut (1982) * Sarajevo (1991--1995)

Author : Henry Du Pré Labouchere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.SP/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris written by Henry Du Pré Labouchere and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382178850
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Henry Labouchere
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris written by Henry Labouchere and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris" by Henry Labouchere. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Paris (France)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris. [By H. Labouchere.] Reprinted from “The Daily News,” with several new letters and preface written by Paris (France) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Blair MICHELL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Siege-Life in Paris. By one of the Besieged. With a map of the environs. Written and published by E. B. Michell. [With map.] written by Edward Blair MICHELL and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: