What happened to the Allied armies in Normandy in the months after D-Day? Why, after the initial success of the landings, did their advance stall a few miles inland? How did the Germans, deprived of air support, hold off such massive forces for months? A fresh and incisive examination of this most crucial campaign--with accounts from veterans on both sides--sheds new light on its demands and difficulties, as well as the plans and performance of all the commanders involved.
What happened to the Allied armies in Normandy in the months after D-Day? Why, after the initial success of the landings, did their advance stall a fe...
This text is a survey that re-creates the vigour of the turbulent epoch stretching from 1152 to 1453. The Hundred Years War was the longest war in European history, a war which brought fundamental change in two medieval socities, and ushered in the Renaissance. The story of the conflict, its causes, battles, political struggles and consequences are told with colour and detail. This revised edition brings the scholarship on the conflict up to date and adds a new postscript examining the armies of the era.
This text is a survey that re-creates the vigour of the turbulent epoch stretching from 1152 to 1453. The Hundred Years War was the longest war in Eur...
This text is a survey that re-creates the vigour of the turbulent epoch stretching from 1152 to 1453. The Hundred Years War was the longest war in European history, a war which brought fundamental change in two medieval socities, and ushered in the Renaissance. The story of the conflict, its causes, battles, political struggles and consequences are told with colour and detail. This revised edition brings the scholarship on the conflict up to date and adds a new postscript examining the armies of the era.
This text is a survey that re-creates the vigour of the turbulent epoch stretching from 1152 to 1453. The Hundred Years War was the longest war in Eur...
The defeat of Nazi Germany in the words of those who were there.
New Year's Day 1945 was not a day for rest or rejoicing on the embattled continent of Europe. Hard winter gripped the land, from the Channel coast to the distant Urals. Only the thought of victory warmed the frozen soldiers huddled in tanks and foxholes as the New Year dawned and they faced the prospect of battling onwards toward Berlin. This is the story of the last five months of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich, from New Year's Day to VE Day, May 8, 1945. It is a story told not in the words of historians or scholars,...
The defeat of Nazi Germany in the words of those who were there.
New Year's Day 1945 was not a day for rest or rejoicing on the embattled con...
