Author: Cornelius Ryan
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: battle, berlin, history, classic, last
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1995-05-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0684803291
ISBN-13: 9780684803296
Author: Hans Halberstadt
Publisher: Zenith Press
Keywords: battle, gear, carries, stuff, rattle, soldier
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-12-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0760326223
ISBN-13: 9780760326220
With close-up photos and hands-on descriptions, Hans Halberstadt details the weapons, gear, and other supplies currently used by the men and women of the U.S. armed forces. Includes a foreword by Eric Graves and an afterword by Stephen Hilliard, both former soldiers who have since put their military experience to use in the gear industry, developing better battle rattle for those with their boots on the ground.
Author: Larry Hama
Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group
Keywords: battle, civil, war, battles, day, antietam, bloodiest, graphic
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: $14.05
ISBN-10: 1404264752
ISBN-13: 9781404264755
By fall 1862 President Abraham Lincoln desperately needed a significant Union victory to show Europe that the issue of slavery was at the heart of the War Between the States. The brutal battle at Antietam Creek gave Lincoln what he needed, and days after its conclusion he issued his Emancipation Proclamation.
Author: C. Vann Woodward
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Keywords: battle, war, largest, naval, world, story, leyte, gulf, incredible
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-11-17
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1602391947
ISBN-13: 9781602391949
Pulitzer-Prize-winner and bestselling author C. Vann Woodward recreates the gripping account of the battle for Leyte Gulf—the greatest naval battle of World War II and the largest engagement ever fought on the high seas. For the Japanese, it represented their supreme effort; they committed to action virtually every operational fighting ship on the lists of the Imperial Navy, including two powerful new battleships of the Yamato class. It also ended in their greatest defeat—and a tremendous victory for the United States Navy. Features a new introduction by Evan Thomas, author of Sea of Thund
Author: John Mitchell Vanderslice
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Keywords: battle, positions, movements, losses, commands, engaged, giving, account, gettysburg, field, memorial, association, history
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 1897-01-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0271034580
ISBN-13: 9780271034584
Author: David Glantz
Publisher: Helion and Company
Keywords: july, battle, first, second, soviet, counteroffensives, august, encirclement, german, smolensk, derailed, september, volume, barbarossa, advance
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2010-06
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1906033722
ISBN-13: 9781906033729
At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center’s Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of Germany’s Third Reich, and most German officers and soldiers believed would be a triumphal march on Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union. Less than three weeks before, on 22 June Hitler had unleashed his Wehrmacht’s [Armed Forces] massive invasion of the Soviet Union code-named Operation Barbarossa, which sought to defeat the Soviet Union’s Red Army, conquer th
Author: Lanning Lt. Col.
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Keywords: battle
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1402202636
ISBN-13: 9781402202636
A single day in the heat of armed conflict can shape the future of the world. Throughout history, individual battles have inspired the birth of nations, the devastation of cultures and the triumph of revolutions. Yet while some battles rise up as the cornerstones of history, others fade in our cultural memory, forgotten as minor skirmishes. Why is this so? What makes a battle "important"? Celebrated veteran and military expert Michael Lee Lanning offers a provocative response with The Battle 100: The Stories Behind History’s Most Influential Battles. Lanning ranks history’s 100 gre
