Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945 (Häftad)
avCarlo D'Este
ISBN: 9780060575748 - UTGIVEN: 200911Warlord is the definitive chronicle of Churchill's crucial role as one of the world's most renowned military leaders, from his early adventures on the North-West Frontier of colonial India and the Boer War through his extraordinary service in both world wars. Using extensive, untapped archival mater[...]
Fatal Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome (Häftad)
avCarlo D'Este
ISBN: 9780060576493 - UTGIVEN: 200811Fatal Decision is a powerful, dramatic, moving, and ultimately definitive narrative of one of the most desperate campaigns of World War II. In the winter of 1943-44, Anzio, a small Mediterranean resort and port some thirty-five miles south of Rome, played a crucial role in the fortunes of World War [...]
Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily, July - August, 1943 (Häftad)
avCarlo D'Este
ISBN: 9780060576509 - UTGIVEN: 200811Bitter Victory illuminates a chapter of World War II that has lacked a balanced, full-scale treatment until now. In recounting the second-largest amphibious operation in military history, Carlo D'Este for the first time reveals the conflicts in planning and the behind-the-scenes quarrels between top[...]
Patton (Häftad)
avCarlo D'Este
ISBN: 9780060927622 - UTGIVEN: 199907Patton: A Genius for War is a full-fledged portrait of an extraordinary American that reveals the complex and contradictory personality that lay behind the swashbuckling and brash facade. According to Publishers Weekly, the result is "a major biography of a major American military figure." "This ma[...]
Decision in Normandy (Storpocket)
avCarlo D'Este
ISBN: 9780141017617 - UTGIVEN: 200404Field Marshal Montgomery's battle plan for Normandy, following the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, resulted in one of the most controversial campaigns of the Second World War. Carlo D'Este's acclaimed book gives the fullest possible account of the conception and execution of Montgomery's plan, with a[...]
