wyszukanych pozycji: 34
Civil War Infantry Tactics: Training, Combat, and Small-Unit Effectiveness
ISBN: 9780807179581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For decades, military historians have argued that the introduction of the rifle musket-with a range five times longer than that of the smoothbore musket-made the shoulder-to-shoulder formations of linear tactics obsolete. Author Earl J. Hess challenges this deeply entrenched assumption. He contends that long-range rifle fire did not dominate Civil War battlefields or dramatically alter the course of the conflict because soldiers had neither the training nor the desire to take advantage of the musket rifle's increased range. Drawing on the drill manuals available to officers and a close...
For decades, military historians have argued that the introduction of the rifle musket-with a range five times longer than that of the smoothbore musk...
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153,21 zł |
Singin' in the Rain: The Making of an American Masterpiece
ISBN: 9780700617579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. There is no movie musical more fun than Singin' in the Rain, and few that remain as fresh over the years. . . . It is a transcendent experience, and no one who loves movies can afford to miss it.--Roger Ebert. America's most popular film critic is hardly alone in singing the praises of Singin' in the Rain. This quintessential American film--made in Hollywood's Golden Age, showcasing the genius of Gene Kelly, and featuring what Ebert calls "the most joyous musical sequence ever filmed"--has inspired love and admiration from fellow critics, film scholars, and movie buffs worldwide...
There is no movie musical more fun than Singin' in the Rain, and few that remain as fresh over the years. . . . It is a transcendent experience, and n...
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176,47 zł |
Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy
ISBN: 9781469664064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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142,74 zł |
The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi
ISBN: 9781469621869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to south and 450 miles east to west from the Appalachians to the Mississippi. If the South lost the West, there would be little hope of preserving the Confederacy. Earl J. Hess's comprehensive study of how Federal forces conquered and held the West examines the geographical difficulties of conducting campaigns in a vast land, as well as the toll irregular warfare took on soldiers and civilians alike. Hess balances a thorough knowledge of the battle...
The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to s...
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199,16 zł |
Into the Crater: The Mine Attack at Petersburg
ISBN: 9781570039225 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A comprehensive examination of the iconic Civil War battle, its tragic outcome, and the personalities involved
A comprehensive examination of the iconic Civil War battle, its tragic outcome, and the personalities involved
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211,44 zł |
Liberty, Virtue, and Progress: Northerners and Their War for the Union
ISBN: 9780823217984 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Concentrating on ideology and cultural values, Liberty, Virtue, and Progress explores the motivations that casued Northerners to fight America's Civil War. Arguing for the primary significance of ideals and cultural values in defining a war, the book examines the opinions of both the Northern soldier and civilian about the meaning of the Civil War in terms of defining American nationalism, the character of the American people, and the future of free government. The book addresses the intellectual and social elites of Northern society, but gives a new emphasis to the opinions of the common man...
Concentrating on ideology and cultural values, Liberty, Virtue, and Progress explores the motivations that casued Northerners to fight America's Civil...
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299,11 zł |
The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood's First Effort to Save Atlanta
ISBN: 9781469661490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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204,02 zł |
Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign
ISBN: 9781469629889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. While fighting his way toward Atlanta, William T. Sherman encountered his biggest roadblock at Kennesaw Mountain, where Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee held a heavily fortified position. The opposing armies confronted each other from June 19 to July 3, 1864, and Sherman initially tried to outflank the Confederates. His men endured heavy rains, artillery duels, sniping, and a fierce battle at Kolb's Farm before Sherman decided to directly attack Johnston's position on June 27. Kennesaw Mountain tells the story of an important phase of the Atlanta campaign. Historian Earl J. Hess...
While fighting his way toward Atlanta, William T. Sherman encountered his biggest roadblock at Kennesaw Mountain, where Joseph E. Johnston's Army of T...
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153,21 zł |
Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864
ISBN: 9781469609935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Earl J. Hess provides a narrative history of the use of fortifications--particularly trenches and other semi-permanent earthworks--used by Confederate and Union field armies at all major battle sites in the eastern theater of the Civil War. Hess moves beyond the technical aspects of construction to demonstrate the crucial role these earthworks played in the success or failure of field armies. A comprehensive study which draws on research and fieldwork from 300 battle sites, Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War is an indispensable reference for Civil War buffs and historians.
Earl J. Hess provides a narrative history of the use of fortifications--particularly trenches and other semi-permanent earthworks--used by Confederate...
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204,27 zł |
Pickett's Charge--The Last Attack at Gettysburg
ISBN: 9780807871294 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett's Charge, Earl Hess offers the definitive history of the most famous military action of the Civil War. He transforms exhaustive research into a moving narrative account of the assault from both Union and Confederate perspectives, analyzing its planning, execution, aftermath, and legacy.
Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett's Charge, Earl Hess offers the definitive history of the most famous military action...
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133,55 zł |
Storming Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19-22, 1863
ISBN: 9781469684109 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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113,48 zł |
The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat
ISBN: 9780700614219 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. I saw enough to sicken the heart. . . . The scenes which I witnessed were enough to overthrow all imaginations concerning the glory of war; but, dreadful as they were, I hope and believe that I would be willing to suffer the worst, . . . rather than prove a traitor to the trust which our country reposes in all her sons. --J. Spangler Kieffer, Pennsylvania Militia With its relentless bloodshed, devastating firepower, and large-scale battles often fought on impossible terrain, the Civil War was a terrifying experience for a volunteer army. Yet, as Earl Hess shows, Union soldiers...
I saw enough to sicken the heart. . . . The scenes which I witnessed were enough to overthrow all imaginations concerning the glory of war; but, dr...
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148,10 zł |
Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield
ISBN: 9780807178003 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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255,34 zł |
Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation
ISBN: 9780807167502 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. During the Civil War, neither the Union nor the Confederate army could have operated without effective transportation systems. Moving men, supplies, and equipment required coordination on a massive scale, and Earl J. Hess's Civil War Logistics offers the first comprehensive analysis of this vital process. Utilizing an enormous array of reports, dispatches, and personal accounts by quartermasters involved in transporting war materials, Hess reveals how each conveyance system operated as well as the degree to which both armies accomplished their logistical goals. In a society just... During the Civil War, neither the Union nor the Confederate army could have operated without effective transportation systems. Moving men, supplies... |
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234,65 zł |
In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications & Confederate Defeat
ISBN: 9781469609959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the Trenches at Petersburg, the final volume of Earl J. Hess's trilogy of works on the fortifications of the Civil War, recounts the strategic and tactical operations around Petersburg during the last ten months of the Civil War. Hess covers all aspects of the Petersburg campaign, from important engagements that punctuated the long months of siege to mining and countermining operations, the fashioning of wire entanglements and the laying of torpedo fields to impede attacks, and the construction of underground shelters to protect the men manning the works. In the Trenches at...
In the Trenches at Petersburg, the final volume of Earl J. Hess's trilogy of works on the fortifications of the Civil War, recounts the strateg...
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204,27 zł |
Civil War Torpedoes and the Global Development of Landmine Warfare
ISBN: 9781538174272 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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461,42 zł |
Fighting for Atlanta: Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War
ISBN: 9781469661483 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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183,59 zł |
Lee's Tar Heels: The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade
ISBN: 9781469627229 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade was one of North Carolina's best-known and most successful units during the Civil War. Formed in 1862, the brigade spent nearly a year protecting supply lines before being thrust into its first major combat at Gettysburg. There, James Johnston Pettigrew's men pushed back the Union's famed Iron Brigade in vicious fighting on July 1 and played a key role in Pickett's Charge on July 3, in the process earning a reputation as one of the hardest-fighting units in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Despite suffering heavy losses during the Gettysburg...
The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade was one of North Carolina's best-known and most successful units during the Civil War. Formed in 1862, the briga...
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199,16 zł |
The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi
ISBN: 9780807872314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 742 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to south and 450 miles east to west from the Appalachians to the Mississippi. If the South lost the West, there would be little hope of preserving the Confederacy. Earl J. Hess's comprehensive study of how Federal forces conquered and held the West examines the geographical difficulties of conducting campaigns in a vast land, as well as the toll irregular warfare took on soldiers and civilians alike. Hess balances a thorough knowledge of the battle...
The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to s...
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306,41 zł |
Liberty, Virtue, and Progress: Northerners and Their War for the Union
ISBN: 9780823217991 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Concentrating on ideology and cultural values, Liberty, Virtue, and Progress explores the motivations that casued Northerners to fight America's Civil War. Arguing for the primary significance of ideals and cultural values in defining a war, the book examines the opinions of both the Northern soldier and civilian about the meaning of the Civil War in terms of defining American nationalism, the character of the American people, and the future of free government. The book addresses the intellectual and social elites of Northern society, but gives a new emphasis to the opinions of the common man...
Concentrating on ideology and cultural values, Liberty, Virtue, and Progress explores the motivations that casued Northerners to fight America's Civil...
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159,87 zł |