The Japanese knew that they would have to deal with the 35 US B-17 bombers at Clark Field in the Philippines, but fog on Formosa prevented their aircraft from taking off before dawn to attack Clark. General MacArthur had been advised of ...
General Roth's four infantry and three cavalry divisions pushed forward on 3–6 December, forcing Radko-Dmitriev to halt and seek Brusilov's help. Brusilov sent General Orlov's VIII and Tsurikov's XXIV Corps into Roth's right flank, ...
Supported by Kenney's land-based 5th Air Force, US naval aircraft caused such damage that Kurita withdrew to Truk. Further Allied air attacks forced the Japanese to withdraw their air and naval units from Rabaul.
This book, with a foreword by Professor Hew Strachan, covers the fighting on all fronts, from Flanders to Tannenberg and from Italy to Palestine.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
Stalingrad: the Turning Point
In this original and thought-provoking new study Geoffrey Jukes reconstructs Soviet strategy and operations at Stalingrad and Kursk in vivid detail.
"In this precise and cold account of the defense of Moscow, and English historian has combined his own accomplished talents with those of Mashal Zhukov to produce something not to...
This book unravels the complicated and tragic events of the Eastern Front in the First World War.
Outlines events on the Eastern Front of World War II from the 1941 German the invasion of the Soviet Union to Stalin's declaration of war with Japan in 1945
... 1931-45 ( 1 ) 1931-42 of opposing armies 0850459605 CAM 004 TET OFFENSIVE 1968 1855327384 CAM 060 THE EBRO 1938 ... fighter pilots 1855325012 ACE 004 KOREAN WAR ACES AVIATION ELITE ( AEU ) Combat histories of fighter or bomber units ...
After the failure of the German offensives of 1942 and 1943, the Wehrmacht was forced onto the defensive. In this thought-provoking study Geoffrey Jukes reconstructs Soviet strategy and operations at Stalingrad and Kursk in vivid detail.
This book explains the background and outbreak of the war, then follows the course of the fighting at Yalu River, Sha-ho, and finally Mukden, the largest battle anywhere in the world before the First World War.