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Author | : Walter Reid |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2024-01-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1805260502 |
Winston Churchill was closely connected with India from 1896, when he landed in Bombay with his regiment, until 1947, when independence was finally achieved. No other British statesman had such a long association with the sub-continent--or interfered in its politics so consistently and harmfully. Churchill strove to sabotage any moves towards independence, crippling the Government of India Act over five years of dogged opposition to its passage in the 1930s. As Prime Minister during the Second World War, Churchill frustrated the freedom struggle from behind the scenes, delaying independence by a decade. To this day he is 'the' imperialist villain for Indians, held personally responsible for the Bengal Famine. This book reveals Churchill at his worst: cruel, obstructive and selfish. The same man was outstandingly liberal at the Colonial Office, risking his career with his generosity to the Boers and the Irish, and later speeding up independence in the Middle East. Why was he so strangely hostile towards India?
Author | : Roger Ingpen |
Publisher | : Prabhat Prakashan |
Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
By the middle of the third week of the war, the British Expeditionary Force—three army corps and a cavalry division—had been mobilised and sent across the Channel to France. Sir John French’s force was the largest army that England had ever sent into the field at the outset of a campaign. Its mobilisation, concentration, and transport across the narrow seas had been carried out with silent efficiency. England waited confidently and patiently for the tidings of its entry into the battle line.' -an excerpt The present book serves as an essential document to study the Britain-France scene in the history of World War I.
Author | : Roger Ingpen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Charleroi, Retraite 1914 |
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Author | : David Nicolle |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fornovo, Battle of, 1495 |
ISBN | : 9780275988500 |
Charles VIII led Europe's most potent army to victory against one Italian province after another. The Italian states rallied though, and at Fornovo they fought the French juggernaught to a standstill. Here began the bloody Italian Wars.
Author | : Tom D. DeLay |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781595230348 |
A candid memoir by the former majority leader of the House of Representatives describes pivotal elements from his career, from his conversion to Christianity and contributions to the 1994 takeover to his relationships with such figures as George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Newt Gingrich.
Author | : Roger Ingpen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Charleroi, Retraite 1914 |
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Author | : John Mueller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781934849170 |
Author | : Julian Thompson |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611453143 |
Describes the events surrounding the Battle of Dunkirk and the rescue of British troops from the beaches of Dunkirk during World War II.
Author | : Robert M. Citino |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2016-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0700623434 |
Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century industrialized warfare. In his new study, prizewinning author Robert Citino chronicles this weakening Wehrmacht, now fighting desperately on the defensive but still remarkably dangerous and lethal. Drawing on his impeccable command of German-language sources, Citino offers fresh, vivid, and detailed treatments of key campaigns during this fateful year: the Allied landings in North Africa, General von Manstein's great counterstroke in front of Kharkov, the German attack at Kasserine Pass, the titanic engagement of tanks and men at Kursk, the Soviet counteroffensives at Orel and Belgorod, and the Allied landings in Sicily and Italy. Through these events, he reveals how a military establishment historically configured for violent aggression reacted when the tables were turned; how German commanders viewed their newest enemy, the U.S. Army, after brutal fighting against the British and Soviets; and why, despite their superiority in materiel and manpower, the Allies were unable to turn 1943 into a much more decisive year. Applying the keen operational analysis for which he is so highly regarded, Citino contends that virtually every flawed German decision-to defend Tunis, to attack at Kursk and then call off the offensive, to abandon Sicily, to defend Italy high up the boot and then down much closer to the toe-had strong supporters among the army's officer corps. He looks at all of these engagements from the perspective of each combatant nation and also establishes beyond a shadow of a doubt the synergistic interplay between the fronts. Ultimately, Citino produces a grim portrait of the German officer corps, dispelling the longstanding tendency to blame every bad decision on Hitler. Filled with telling vignettes and sharp portraits and copiously documented, The Wehrmacht Retreats is a dramatic and fast-paced narrative that will engage military historians and general readers alike.
Author | : Kent Masterson Brown, Esq. |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 553 |
Release | : 2011-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807869422 |
In a groundbreaking, comprehensive history of the Army of Northern Virginia's retreat from Gettysburg in July 1863, Kent Masterson Brown draws on previously untapped sources to chronicle the massive effort of General Robert E. Lee and his command as they sought to move people, equipment, and scavenged supplies through hostile territory and plan the army's next moves. Brown reveals that even though the battle of Gettysburg was a defeat for the Army of Northern Virginia, Lee's successful retreat maintained the balance of power in the eastern theater and left his army with enough forage, stores, and fresh meat to ensure its continued existence as an effective force.