Battles / military campaigns Books
Editions Heimdal Operation Dynamo: Dunkirk 1940
Book SynopsisFour years before the Normandy landings, the French coast was the scene of another major episode in the Second World War. This was Operation Dynamo, much less well known than D-Day. And yet you only have to look at the statistics to see how important this part of the story of the Campaign of France was: between 27 May and 4 June, almost 340 000 French and British troops were evacuated from the Dunkirk pocket by a miscellaneous fleet of 850 boats, among which hundreds of fishing vessels, pleasure boats, lifeboats or Merchant Navy vessels. Thanks to the sailors’ courage but also the RAF pilots’ skill, this operation without precedent was a success which enabled the British to continue to fight the Germans, even though they had to leave behind most of their equipment and weapons. Replaced in its context, Operation Dynamo is here narrated in detail with numerous period photos, maps, aircraft profiles and uniform plates. This military operation and human adventure without precedent breathes again, 77 years later thanks to the film director Christopher Nolan, the author of the Batman trilogy and Interstellar which, with Dunkirk, has become an international blockbuster, to which a chapter of this book is devoted
£14.00
Editions Heimdal The Carentan Heroes
Book SynopsisThe liberation of Carentan is not well-known even though it wasn’t just an anecdote in the Battle of Normandy. It was in fact the object of ferocious fighting from 9 to 13 June 1944 with two elite units confronting each other: the American paratroopers from the 101st Airborne and the Fallschirmjäger of the FJR 6. General Maxwell Taylor, commanding the 101st Airborne used the whole of his division with its four airborne regiments but also all the supporting units, its four airborne artillery batteries, its medical units and its logistics to encircle the town and to chase out the German paratroopers under Major Freiherr von der Heydte; they left after fierce fighting during the night of 11-12 June only to return the next day with the 17. SS-Pz-Gren-Div. “Goetz von Berlinchingen”. The German losses as well as those of the Americans were very heavy, as were those of the civilians (the town centre still bears the signs). This book gives a detailed account of the Battle of Carentan. The accounts given by the participants in the battle enable the feats of arms to be recorded; they are always poignant, moving even. Each story is a personal epic in itself. This book modestly gathers together some of these individual adventures, throwing a profoundly human light on the complexity and the violence of the fighting for the liberation of this region in the Cotentin Peninsula. For example, Edward David Shames, one of the last heroes of Carentan still alive. Born 13 June, he thought his last hour had come on… 13 June 1944. For these reasons, Carentan holds a special place in his memories. It was also where he landed at 01h40 on D-Day. Also Don Rich who was wounded in the legs by machine gun fire in G-Company’s charge, during the attack on the town. Let’s mention also the Californian Staff Sergeant Thomas M. Rice (C/501st) who experienced a Dantesque experience in the Barquette Locks sector, his battalion’s objective. An obvious must-have for all Battle of Normandy buffs, or for readers sensitive to the human aspects of the war.
£20.25
Editions Heimdal Bonaparte Et La Campagne D'Egypte: 1798
Book SynopsisIt seemed that 1798 was a year like any other. In appearance only. Indeed, the year seemed to finish off the infernal ten-year period which started in 1789. France had quietened down and consolidated its borders. It was a bigger country which saw out the 18th Century, but a country in which the ashes from the fires lit earlier still glowed red, flaring up with the slightest breath of air… Starting in peace, 1798 ended with the clash of fighting. With this book by Lionel Marquis, a journalist and renowned historian, discover this turning point when the Egyptian Campaign under the young General Bonaparte took up centre stage.
£41.65
Bohlau Verlag Reformation und Bauernkrieg
Book SynopsisDer Bauernkrieg ist untrennbar mit der Reformation verbunden. Der vom Sudwesten des Reiches ausgehende Aufstand breitete sich wie ein Flachenbrand aus und erreichte in Thuringen mit der Schlacht bei Frankenhausen im Mai 1525 seinen Hohepunkt. Die Ursachen der Revolte sind regional und standespezifisch sehr unterschiedlich. Unzweifelhaft ist jedoch, dass die mittels Flugschriften kursierenden Vorstellungen von einer ''besseren Welt'' immer starkeren Anklang in den landlichen und stadtischen Milieus fanden. Vielfaltig waren die offentlich gefuhrten Kontroversen zu Fragen von sozialer Gerechtigkeit, religioser Erneuerung und autonomer Selbstbestimmung. Diese Aspekte werden im vorliegenden Band thematisiert. Zugleich problematisiert er die sozialen, okonomischen und politischen Verhaltnisse im thuringisch-mitteldeutschen Raum zur Zeit des Bauernkrieges.
£999.99
V&R Unipress Internationale Beziehungen. Theorie und
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£54.09
