wyszukanych pozycji: 10
James Longstreet: The Man, the Soldier, the Controversy
ISBN: 9780938289968 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Few figures from the American Civil War have generated more controversy than Confederate general James Longstreet. As the senior officer present at Pickett's Charge, he has been blamed by many, particularly in the South, for the decisive Confederate defeat at Gettysburg. Other scholars have cited his exemplary combat record during the Civil War and looked to rivals within the Confederate hierarchy or his post-war support for the Northern-based Republican Party as sources for the criticism leveled at him. Richard L. DiNardo and Albert A. Nofi have assembled some of the top Civil War and...
Few figures from the American Civil War have generated more controversy than Confederate general James Longstreet. As the senior officer present at Pi...
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230,93 zł |
The Waterloo Campaign: June 1815
ISBN: 9780938289982 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Albert Nofi has used his many years of research to produce an account of the battle of Waterloo that has all the grandeur and military detail one could want, but which never loses its interest in individual human experience. Here Napoleon rides forward to take personal command of a small detachment of French Marines to fight his way across the Sambre river on the way to Waterloo. Hanoverian exiles who have been fighting Napoleon for a decade under English command are surrounded and wiped out in a classic "last stand" at the hour of victory.The Waterloo Campaign also covers the death of...
Albert Nofi has used his many years of research to produce an account of the battle of Waterloo that has all the grandeur and military detail one coul...
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139,81 zł |
The Civil War Notebook: A Collection of Little-Known Facts and Other Odds-And-Ends about the Civil War
ISBN: 9780938289234 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An engaging collection of more than 500 startling facts, anecdotes and other small jottings about America's War Between the States. Arranged roughly in chronological order, with chapters for pre-war and post-war and the five war years, these items are not only amusing and entertaining, but give considerable insight into many of the key personalities of the war.
An engaging collection of more than 500 startling facts, anecdotes and other small jottings about America's War Between the States. Arranged roughly i...
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127,66 zł |
A Civil War Treasury: Being a Miscellany of Arms and Artillery, Facts and Figures, Legends and Lore, Muses and Minstrels and Personalities a
ISBN: 9780306806223 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A Civil War Treasury does not pretend to be a sweeping historical account of the conflict. Instead, it presents anecdotes of army life and encampments, explanations of logistics and tactics, descriptions of soldiers and citizens, and deeds of honor and infamy. There are profiles of people, regiments, and ships; songs and poems; and serious treatments of particular aspects of the war such as musketry and infantry. Camp recipes are discussed, women soldiers are profiled, military medicine is assessed, and an invaluable bibliography and resource guide is appended. The object of A Civil...
A Civil War Treasury does not pretend to be a sweeping historical account of the conflict. Instead, it presents anecdotes of army life and enca...
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158,01 zł |
To Train the Fleet for War: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940
ISBN: 9781780393926 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Naval War College Historical Monograph Series, 18. Examines in detail, making extensive use of the Naval War College archives, each of the U.S. Navy's twenty-one "fleet problems" conducted between World Wars I and II, elucidating the patterns that emerged, finding a range of enduring lessons, and suggesting their applicability for future naval warfare.
Naval War College Historical Monograph Series, 18. Examines in detail, making extensive use of the Naval War College archives, each of the U.S. Navy's...
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461,12 zł |
The War Against Hitler: Military Strategy in the West
ISBN: 9780938289494 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Renowned historian and military commentator Albert A. Nofi brings together for the first time in paperback a series of hard-hitting essays on World War II's most pivotal campaigns; clear, concise and packed with information.
Renowned historian and military commentator Albert A. Nofi brings together for the first time in paperback a series of hard-hitting essays on World Wa...
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95,36 zł |
Marine Corps Book of Lists: A Definitive Compendium of Marine Corps Facts, Feats, and Traditions
ISBN: 9780938289890 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The United States Marine Corps is America's best-known military unit, and perhaps the most famous in the world. It is the nation's oldest unit, as far as recognition by Congress goes, and has been almost continually engaged in active operations for all its existence, when other branches of service were on peacetime status.Such a long and varied service, and the type of personnel required for such an elite unit, have produced a trove of lore and legendary unparalleled in the world. Albert A. Nofi, the leading force behind Combined Books' acclaimed Civil War Book of Lists, has taken on...
The United States Marine Corps is America's best-known military unit, and perhaps the most famous in the world. It is the nation's oldest unit, as far...
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109,22 zł |
The Alamo and the Texas War for Independence
ISBN: 9780306810404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In one of very few balanced accounts of Texas's epic struggle for independence from Mexico, Albert Nofi provides a splendid chronicle of the events and personalities of the war. He includes readable and accessible maps of military movements and a strategic and tactical analysis of each battle, addressing the extraordinary number of myths that the Alamo has engendered and exposing the truth about a conflict that has taken on legendary proportions.
In one of very few balanced accounts of Texas's epic struggle for independence from Mexico, Albert Nofi provides a splendid chronicle of the events an...
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127,66 zł |
Gettysburg Campaign June-July 1863
ISBN: 9780938289838 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Long recognized as one of the best introductions to the campaign, Albert A. Nofi's The Gettysburg Campaign does not focus exclusively on the three days of the battle, but shows how events of May and June of 1863 set the stage for the engagement, and traces Lee's retreat from the field and the hesitant Northern pursuit, a fascinating tale in itself.
Long recognized as one of the best introductions to the campaign, Albert A. Nofi's The Gettysburg Campaign does not focus exclusively on the three day...
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109,22 zł |
Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War: Military Information You're Not Supposed to Know
ISBN: 9780312252823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War allows us to see what really happened to American forces in Southeast Asia, separating popular myth from explosive reality in a clear, concise manner. Containing more than two hundred examinations of different aspects of the war, the book questions why the American military ignored the lessons taught by previous encounters with insurgency forces; probes the use of group think and mind control by the North Vietnamese; and explores the role technology played in shaping the way the war was fought. Of course, the book also reveals the "dirty... Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War allows us to see what really happened to American forces in Southeast Asia, separating popular myth ... |
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121,38 zł |