Author : Alan Warren
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781852855970
New in paperback, The pre-eminent history of a military disaster. A masterful analysis of events.
Author : Masanobu Tsuji
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781862271296
This translation originally published: 1997.
Author : Brendan Simms
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 16,16 MB
Release : 2008-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0786727225
In the eighteenth century, Britain became a world superpower through a series of sensational military strikes. Traditionally, the Royal Navy has been seen as Britain's key weapon, but in Three Victories and a Defeat Brendan Simms argues that Britain's true strength lay with the German aristocrats who ruled it at the time. The House of Hanover superbly managed a complex series of European alliances that enabled Britain to keep the continental balance of power in check while dramatically expanding her own empire. These alliances sustained the nation through the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, and the Seven Years' War. But in 1776, Britain lost the American continent by alienating her European allies. An extraordinary reinterpretation of British and American history, Three Victories and a Defeat is a masterwork by a rising star of the historical profession.
Author : Alan Warren
Publisher : Bloomsbury Continuum
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :
The surrender of Singapore on February 15, 1942, was the greatest and most humiliating defeat in British history and the high-point of Japanese expansion in Southeast Asia. It graphically exposed the military weakness of the British Empire and its inability to defend its Far Eastern colonies. Based on original records, "Singapore, 1942" shows what went wrong and how an outnumbered and poorly equipped Japanese invasion force swept to victory against a mixed army of British, Australian, and Indian soldiers, changing Britain' s imperial destiny and the course of World War II.
Author : Colin Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 969 pages
File Size : 20,92 MB
Release : 2006-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0141906626
Churchill's description of the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942, after Lt-Gen Percival's surrender led to over 100,000 British, Australian and Indian troops falling into the hands of the Japanese, was no wartime exaggeration. The Japanese had promised that there would be no Dunkirk in Singapore, and its fall led to imprisonment, torture and death for thousands of allied men and women. With much new material from British, Australian, Indian and Japanese sources, Colin Smith has woven together the full and terrifying story of the fall of Singapore and its aftermath. Here, alongside cowardice and incompetence, are forgotten acts of enormous heroism; treachery yet heart-rending loyalty; Japanese compassion as well as brutality from the bravest and most capricious enemy the British ever had to face.
Author : Nicholas A. Lambert
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Internationa
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 0197545203
This book, based on comprehensive archival research in official and private papers, offers a new history of the infamous British disaster at Gallipoli in 1915. Contrary to all previous accounts, it shows that the campaign originated not in the search for an alternative to the Western Front, but in the need to lower the price of bread in Britain.
Author : Jonathan Boff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1107024285
An innovative study revealing how both sides adapted to the changing realities of the final months on the Western Front.
Author : John Clarke
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 2023-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1529227704
This book addresses the social, political and economic turbulence in which the UK is embroiled. Drawing on Cultural Studies, it explores proliferating crises and conflicts, from the multiplying varieties of social dissent through the stagnation of rentier capitalism to the looming climate catastrophe. Examining arguments about Brexit, class and ‘race’, and the changing character of the state, the book is underpinned by a transnational and relational conception of the UK. It traces the entangled dynamics of time and space that have shaped the current conjuncture. Questioning whether increasingly anti-democratic and authoritarian strategies can provide a resolution to these troubles, it explores how the accumulating crises and conflicts have produced a deepening ‘crisis of authority’ that forms the terrain of the Battle for Britain.
Author : Professor Jeremy Black
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1135360790
In 1688, Britain was successfully invaded, its army and navy unable to prevent the overthrow of the government. 1815, Britain was the strongest power in the world with the most succesful navy and the largest empire. Britain had not only played a prominent role in the defeat of Napoleonic France, but had also established itself as a significant power in South Asia and was unsurpassed in her global reach. Her military strength was related to, and based on, one of the best systems of public finance in the world and held a strong trade position. This illustrated text assesses the military aspects of this shift, concentrating on the multi-faceted nature of the British military effort.; Topics covered include: the rise of Britain; an analysis of military infrastructure; warfare in the British Isles; conventional warfare in Europe; trans- oceanic warfare with European powers; the challenge of America; and the challenge of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France.
Author : Adrian Murdoch
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0752494554
In AD 9 half of Rome's Western army was ambushed in a German forest and annihilated. Three legions, three cavalry units and six auxiliary regiments - some 25,000 men - were wiped out. It dealt a body blow to the empire's imperial pretensions and was Rome's greatest defeat. No other battle stopped the Roman empire dead in its tracks. Although one of the most significant and dramatic battles in European history, this is also one which has been largely overlooked. Drawing on primary sources and a vast wealth of new archaeological evidence, Adrian Murdoch brings to life the battle itself, the historical background and the effects of the Roman defeat as well as exploring the personalities of those who took part.
