Author : David Nicolle
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : France
ISBN : 9780275988630
The inspired leadership of Joan of Arc helped to break the siege of the key city of Orleans and turn the tide of the Hundred Years War. Her death at the hands of the English only strengthened French resistance to their oppressors and gave birth to a saint.
Author : Victoria Sackville-West
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802138163
Vita Sackville-West wrote Saint Joan of Arc in 1936 at the age of forty-four, and had, at that point, already been writing for thirty years. At fourteen, Sackville-West published her first book, and at fourteen Joan of Arc first heard the voices. Joan was seventeen when she took command of the armies of France--a peasant girl in the early fifteenth century in charge of a nation's forces. At nineteen she was captured by the British and tried as a witch by a church court. Before her twentieth birthday she was burned at the stake. In 1920 she was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church as a saint. In a clever, brisk voice, Vita Sackville-West tells the triumphant story of a French peasant girl raised in a country torn apart by the Hundred Years' War who rose from poverty to military greatness. With dazzling insight and clarity, Sackville-West breathes new life into Joan of Arc's beautiful and tragic story.
Author : Walter Edward Haigh
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward
Publisher : London, Longmans
Page : 1506 pages
File Size : 45,67 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Biography
ISBN :
Author : J. P. Alexander
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,94 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1482818043
Strategic leadership is observed through campaigns of the great commanders from Pharaoh Thutmose at Meggido (1479 BC) to Manekshaw and the Bangladesh War of 1971. The battlefield tactics of Cyrus, Alexander, Hannibal, Genghis, Robert Bruce, Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, Gustavus Adolphus, Marlborough, Abdali, Napoleon, Lee, and Giap are examined. The cataclysmic fall of Constantinople, Vijay Nagar, Delhi (1857), and Singapore are described in gory detail. Sun Tzu, Musashi, Maos guerilla tactics, Clausewitz and the theories of Liddell Hart, De Gaulle and Fuller, leading to the strategic use of tanks in the German Blitzkrieg are analyzed. The author enters the mind of the strategist to understand how and why a particular battlefield decision impacts the fate of armies and nations. The basic principles of war, business/war and business/games analogy are lucidly presented to provide interesting reading for practicing managers.
Author : Philip Van Ness Myers
Publisher :
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : Philip Van Ness Myers
Publisher :
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 46,76 MB
Release : 1921
Category : World history
ISBN :
Author : Francis Cabot Lowell
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 36,16 MB
Release : 1897
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Edward Shepherd Creasy
Publisher : New York : A.L. Burt, [18--?]
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Battles
ISBN :
The battle of Marathon -- Defeat of the Athenians at Syracuse, 413 B.C. -- The battle of Arbela -- The battle of the Metaurus, 207 B.C. -- Victory of Arminius over the Roman legions under Varus, A.D. 9 -- The battle of Chalons, A.D. 451 -- The battle of Tours, A.D. 731 -- The battle of Hastings, A.D. 1066 -- Joan of Arc's victory over the English at Orleans, A.D. 1429 -- The defeat of the Spanish Armada, A.D. 1588, The battle of Blenheim, A.D. 1704, The battle of Pultowa, A.D. 1709 -- Victory of the American over Burgoyne at Saratoga, A.D. 1777 -- The battle of Valmy -- The battle of Waterloo, 1815.
Author : John Curnow
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
