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Author | : Richard Brooks |
Publisher | : Osprey Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-04-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781846033858 |
Osprey's Campaign title for the battle of Solferino (1859), which was the decisive action of the Franco-Austrian War. Fought near Lake Garda in northern Italy, it was the largest European battle since Leipzig in 1813 with over a quarter of a million combatants. In the presence of three crowned heads of state - Napoleon III of France, Emperor Franz-Joseph of Austria and Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont-Sardinia (later the King of all Italy) - the armies clashed in a bitterly fought contest that would leave more than 40,000 dead and give the battle a reputation for savagery that would inspire not only the formation of the Red Cross, but also the first Geneva Convention. As a crucial climax to the Second Italian War of Independence, this title covers the build-up to the battle, including actions at Montebello, Palestro and Magenta that led to the decisive moment of the campaign. Full-color battlescene artwork and detailed maps illustrate this comprehensive account of the commanders, armies, plans and aftermath of one of the bloodiest battles of the period.
Author | : Henri Dunant |
Publisher | : Ravenio Books |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2013-12-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Henri Dunant (1828 – 1910) was a Swiss businessman who happened to witness the horrors of the 1859 Battle of Solferino between France, Sardinia, and Austria. Three years later he published Un Souvenir de Solferino at his own expense and presented it to leading figures in Europe. The next year, due to his efforts, the Red Cross was founded.
Author | : Henry Dunant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Red Cross and Red Crescent |
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Author | : Harold Carmichael Wylly |
Publisher | : London : S. Sonnenschein ; New York : Macmillan Company |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Italy |
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Som nr. 4 fra 1907 i serien "Special Campaign Series" her den engelske officer H.C. Wylly om Magenta/Solferino-felttoget i Norditalien under Fransk-østrigske-sardinske krig 1859 som led i krigene for Italiens samling. Værket er med appendix af slagordener for de sardinske, franske og østrigske hære ved begge ovennævnte slag.
Author | : Hugo Slim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-05-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781911723301 |
War is at a tipping point: we're passing from the age of industrial warfare to a new era of computerised warfare, and a renewed risk of great-power conflict. Humanitarian response is also evolving fast--'big aid' demands more and more money, while aid workers try to digitalise, preparing to meet ever-broader needs in the long, big wars and climate crisis of the future. This book draws on the founding moment of the modern Red Cross movement--the 1859 Battle of Solferino, a moment of great change in the nature of conflict--to track the big shifts already underway, and still to come, in the wars and war aid of our century. Hugo Slim first surveys the current landscape: the tech, politics, law and strategy of warfare, and the long-term transformations ahead as conflict goes digital. He then explains how civilians both suffer and survive in today's wars, and how their world is changing. Finally, he critiques today's humanitarian system, citing the challenges of the 2020s. Inspired by Henri Dunant's seminal humanitarian text, 'Solferino 21' alerts policymakers to the coming shakeup of the military and aid professions, illuminating key priorities for the new century. Humanitarians, he warns, must adapt or fail.
Author | : Frederick C. Schneid |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2014-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472810376 |
The culmination of decades of nationalist aspiration and cynical Realpolitik, the Second War of Italian Unification saw Italy transformed from a patchwork of minor states dominated by the Habsburg Austrians into a unified kingdom under the Piedmontese House of Savoy. Unlike many existing accounts, which approach the events of 1859–61 from a predominantly French perspective, this study draws upon a huge breadth of sources to examine the conflict as a critical event in Italian history. A concise explanation of the origins of the war is followed by a wide-ranging survey of the forces deployed and the nature and course of the fighting – on land and at sea – and the consequences for those involved are investigated. This is a groundbreaking study of a conflict that was of critical significance not only for Italian history but also for the development of 19th-century warfare.
Author | : Joseph Roth |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2002-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590208447 |
The author’s masterpiece, an epic saga of a family and an empire in decline, is “full of psychological penetration and tragic force” (The New Yorker). The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth’s classic novel of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, follows three generations of the privileged von Trotta family as Europe advances inexorably toward World War I. With a breadth and richness that draws comparison to Tolstoy, it encompasses the entire social fabric of Austro-Hungarian society. Shot through with dark humor and tragic irony, The Radetzky March is an unparalleled portrait of a civilization in decline, and as such a universal story for our times. “A masterpiece . . . The totality of Joseph Roth’s work is no less than a tragédie humaine achieved in the techniques of modern fiction. No other contemporary writer, not excepting Thomas Mann, has come close to achieving the wholeness . . . that Lukács cites as our impossible aim.” —Nadine Gordimer
Author | : Caroline Moorehead |
Publisher | : Carroll & Graf Pub |
Total Pages | : 780 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780786706099 |
Chronicles the history of the Red Cross, from its nineteenth-century humanitarian origins to the complex moral dilemmas it has faced in the twentieth-century
Author | : Pierre Boissier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : War |
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Author | : Gabriele Esposito |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2017-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472819519 |
In the 1840s, post-Napoleonic Italy was 'a geographical expression' – not a country, but a patchwork of states, divided between the Austrian-occupied north, and a Spanish-descended Bourbon monarchy, who ruled the south from Naples. Two decades later, it was a nation united under a single king and government, thanks largely to the efforts of the Kings of Sardinia and Piedmont, and the revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. This book, the first of a two-part series on the armies that fought in the Italian Wars of Unification, examines the Piedmontese and Neapolitan armies that fought in the north and south of the peninsula. Illustrated with prints, early photos and detailed commissioned artwork, this book explores the history, organization, and appearance of the armies that fought to unite the Italian peninsula under one flag.