Author: Hanson Weightman BaldwinPublisher: Smithmark Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
An evaluation of eleven crucial campaigns and battles of World War II.
Battles Lost and Won
Author: Hanson Weightman BaldwinPublisher: Smithmark Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
An evaluation of eleven crucial campaigns and battles of World War II.
Battles Lost and Won
Author: Beryl MatthewsPublisher: Allison & Busby
ISBN: 074901878X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
1919, London's East End. Robert Hunter is eagerly awaiting the return of his father from the war. Next door, Ruth Cooper's family are also preparing to welcome her dad, whose ship was lost at Jutland. After five years of separation and anxiety - and, for Bob, the worry of caring for his frail mother - emotions are running high for both young people. But Alf Hunter, who saw action in the trenches, returns a changed man, and when he takes to drink, Bob must put his own happiness on hold to support his family.
Battles lost and won
Author: Hanson W. BaldwinMany Battles Lost - a War Won
Author: George Louis KregosBattles Lost and Won
Author: George E. MerrillThe Allure of Battle
Author: Cathal NolanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199874654
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 729
Book Description
History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt-all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But these legendary battles may or may not have determined the final outcome of the wars in which they were fought. Nor has the "genius" of the so-called Great Captains - from Alexander the Great to Frederick the Great and Napoleon - play a major role. Wars are decided in other ways. Cathal J. Nolan's The Allure of Battle systematically and engrossingly examines the great battles, tracing what he calls "short-war thinking," the hope that victory might be swift and wars brief. As he proves persuasively, however, such has almost never been the case. Even the major engagements have mainly contributed to victory or defeat by accelerating the erosion of the other side's defences. Massive conflicts, the so-called "people's wars," beginning with Napoleon and continuing until 1945, have consisted of and been determined by prolonged stalemate and attrition, industrial wars in which the determining factor has been not military but matériel. Nolan's masterful book places battles squarely and mercilessly within the context of the wider conflict in which they took place. In the process it help corrects a distorted view of battle's role in war, replacing popular images of the "battles of annihilation" with somber appreciation of the commitments and human sacrifices made throughout centuries of war particularly among the Great Powers. Accessible, provocative, exhaustive, and illuminating, The Allure of Battle will spark fresh debate about the history and conduct of warfare.
Battles Lost and Won
Author: John T. HubbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Battles Lost and Won
Author: Battles Lost and Won
Author: George Edmands MerrillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Why We Lost
Author: Daniel P. BolgerPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544370481
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
A high-ranking general's gripping insider account of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how it all went wrong. Over a thirty-five-year career, Daniel Bolger rose through the army infantry to become a three-star general, commanding in both theaters of the U.S. campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. He participated in meetings with top-level military and civilian players, where strategy was made and managed. At the same time, he regularly carried a rifle alongside rank-and-file soldiers in combat actions, unusual for a general. Now, as a witness to all levels of military command, Bolger offers a unique assessment of these wars, from 9/11 to the final withdrawal from the region. Writing with hard-won experience and unflinching honesty, Bolger makes the firm case that in Iraq and in Afghanistan, we lost -- but we didn't have to. Intelligence was garbled. Key decision makers were blinded by spreadsheets or theories. And, at the root of our failure, we never really understood our enemy. Why We Lost is a timely, forceful, and compulsively readable account of these wars from a fresh and authoritative perspective.