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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 | : John Mueller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781934849170 |
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.
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 | : David Stahel |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2019-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374714258 |
A gripping and authoritative revisionist account of the German Winter Campaign of 1941–1942 Germany’s winter campaign of 1941–1942 is commonly seen as its first defeat. In Retreat from Moscow, a bold, gripping account of one of the seminal moments of World War II, David Stahel argues that instead it was its first strategic success in the East. The Soviet counteroffensive was in fact a Pyrrhic victory. Despite being pushed back from Moscow, the Wehrmacht lost far fewer men, frustrated its enemy’s strategy, and emerged in the spring unbroken and poised to recapture the initiative. Hitler’s strategic plan called for holding important Russian industrial cities, and the German army succeeded. The Soviets as of January 1942 aimed for nothing less than the destruction of Army Group Center, yet not a single German unit was ever destroyed. Lacking the professionalism, training, and experience of the Wehrmacht, the Red Army’s offensive attempting to break German lines in countless head-on assaults led to far more tactical defeats than victories. Using accounts from journals, memoirs, and wartime correspondence, Stahel takes us directly into the Wolf’s Lair to reveal a German command at war with itself as generals on the ground fought to maintain order and save their troops in the face of Hitler’s capricious, increasingly irrational directives. Excerpts from soldiers’ diaries and letters home paint a rich portrait of life and death on the front, where the men of the Ostheer battled frostbite nearly as deadly as Soviet artillery. With this latest installment of his pathbreaking series on the Eastern Front, David Stahel completes a military history of the highest order.
Author | : J.B. Kelly |
Publisher | : World Encounter Institute/New English Review Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2013-06 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780988477834 |
During the latter half of the twentieth century, the late J.B. Kelly was the foremost authority on the Persian Gulf. He wrote the standard work on the subject, Britain and the Persian Gulf, 1795-1880 (Clarendon Press, Oxford). Now, for the first time, his articles, essays (one previously unpublished) and book reviews for the period 1956-1970 have been collected in this volume, Fighting the Retreat, for the convenience of all readers who are interested in the history of Arabia and the Gulf, and the antecedents of today's troubles in that strategically critical part of the world. The topics cover: the history of Britain's position in the Gulf, the Buraimi Oasis Dispute, the Persian claim to Bahrain, the frontiers of Eastern Arabia, Sultanate and Imamate in Oman, the Red Sea and Palestine, the Kurds of Iraq, Kuwait, Aden, Egypt and Arabia, Arab Nationalism, the USA and the Arab World, Saudi Arabia, T.E. Lawrence, the Yemen, Islam and the European Empires, and Britain and Russia in Persia. There is an introduction and a postscript about the author, as well as an index and endorsements from other noted writers on the subject.