The ability to stop the PDF convoy at the Pecora River bridge was critical for making the jumps into the Tocumen/Torrijos Airport as uneventful as they were. Without the MAC transports, the troops from Forts Lewis, Ord, and Bragg would ...
Another of Jacksons former division commanders. he now commanded the armys new corps. It included Major General R.H. Anderson s division from Longstreets corps, and two divisions built from Hills own large division and now commanded by ...
Warrior's Words: A Quotation Book : from Sesostris III to Schwarzkopf, 1871 BC to AD 1991
Expertly written by leading military historians, this is a compelling and credible look at what might have been.
This was the first defeat of Hitler’s territorial ambitions in Europe and a critical turning point of World War II. But the outcome could have been very different, as Peter Tsouras demonstrates in this fascinating alternate history of ...
But in the East, the Russians were trying to kill you—all the time.The four detailed reports of campaigning in Russia included in this invaluable book (Russian Combat Methods in WWII, Effects of Climate on Combat in European Russia, ...
Without deviating from the genuine possibilities of the situation, he presents a scenario that keeps the reader guessing and changes the course of history. Praise for Disaster at D-Day “A brilliant and interesting book.
This book begins filling the gap....from a wide range of sources, accounts of Smoking Frog, founder of the Mayan Empire, of numerous builders of the rule of the Mexica (known to us as the Aztecs), of Motecuhzoma II Xocoyotl...and of the ...
Here is a sideways look at World War II in the Pacific, which gives an exciting view of how the Japanese could have won.
This book offers one of the first comprehensive academic views on Just Cause, the December 1989 U.S. military intervention in Panama.
The most carefully considered military advice, the most stirring speeches, the most personal letters: this encyclopedic compendium of Civil War quotations covers strategy, army life, victory and defeat, death, grief...
This reference covers nearly 4000 years of military advice from speakers ranging from Sesostris III to Norman Schwarzkopf, and on topics ranging from ability and bureaucracy to weather and youth.
Gengiver udsagn og meningstilkendegivelser om fænomenet "Krig" fra 800 militære førere, soldater og militærvidenskabsfolk gennem 4000 års militærhistorie.
It was in the Third World that the ambitions and fears of the two Cold War superpowers were played out v Korea, Vietnam, Egypt and Syria, Afghanistan. In their bizarre...
Peter Tsouras has cleverly crafted this fine alternate account of the D-Day landings.
... to the Green Fields Beyond'. The latter slogan proved hugely popular with officers and men. The unofficial motto encapsulated the Tank Corps' dogged outlook and reaffirmed its determination to smash through ... to the Green Fields Beyond'