Author: Robert Crisp
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393327120
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The story of Operation Crusader launched by the Eighth Army on 18 November 1941, against the Axis forces which stood on the borders of Egypt and around beleaguered Tobruk.
Fighting Rommel
Author: Kaushik Roy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000690598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Fighting Rommel examines how and why some armies innovate under pressure while others do not. Focusing on the learning culture of the British Imperial Forces, it looks at the Allied campaign during the Second World War against the Afrika Korps of Rommel. The volume highlights the hitherto unexplored yet key role of the British Indian Army, the largest volunteer force in the world. It also introduces ‘learning culture’ as a heuristic device. Further, it goes on to analyze military innovation on the battlefield, in victory and defeat. A major intervention in the study of the Second World War, this book will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of military history, especially British and German, battlefield history, and defence and strategic studies.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000690598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Fighting Rommel examines how and why some armies innovate under pressure while others do not. Focusing on the learning culture of the British Imperial Forces, it looks at the Allied campaign during the Second World War against the Afrika Korps of Rommel. The volume highlights the hitherto unexplored yet key role of the British Indian Army, the largest volunteer force in the world. It also introduces ‘learning culture’ as a heuristic device. Further, it goes on to analyze military innovation on the battlefield, in victory and defeat. A major intervention in the study of the Second World War, this book will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of military history, especially British and German, battlefield history, and defence and strategic studies.
Troop Leader
Author: Bill Bellamy
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752495615
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Bill Bellamy was a young officer in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars from 1943 to 1955. He served in 7th Armoured Division in the North West Europe campaign, landing in Normandy on D+3, fought throughout the Battle for Normandy and into the Low Countries as a troop leader in Cromwell tanks, and was latterly a member of the initial occupying force in Berlin in May 1945. Against the rules, Bill kept diaries and notes of his experiences. His account is fresh and open, and his descriptions of battle are vivid. He witnessed many of his contemporaries killed in action, and this life-altering experience clearly informs his narrative. The accounts of tank fighting in the leafy Normandy bocage in the height of summer, or in the iron hard fields of Holland in winter, are graphic and compelling.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752495615
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Bill Bellamy was a young officer in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars from 1943 to 1955. He served in 7th Armoured Division in the North West Europe campaign, landing in Normandy on D+3, fought throughout the Battle for Normandy and into the Low Countries as a troop leader in Cromwell tanks, and was latterly a member of the initial occupying force in Berlin in May 1945. Against the rules, Bill kept diaries and notes of his experiences. His account is fresh and open, and his descriptions of battle are vivid. He witnessed many of his contemporaries killed in action, and this life-altering experience clearly informs his narrative. The accounts of tank fighting in the leafy Normandy bocage in the height of summer, or in the iron hard fields of Holland in winter, are graphic and compelling.
The Chariots of Ra
Author: Kenneth Bulmer
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575122307
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
The chariots came on at great speed and there was no mistaking their purpose. Tulley wondered if they were using this place as a base . . . Then an arrow plunked into the parapet of his chariot. Oolou lashed the reins. The nageres sprang forward. With suicidal speed the two chariot groups closed on each other. Tulley swallowed down, feeling the dryness in his throat, loosed a shaft at the oncoming mass. There must be twenty chariots out there . . . He glanced at Oolou, shouting. She stared back at him with a ghastly grin, the blood pouring from her neck above the corselet where an arrow stood, stark and brutal. The Chariots of Ra is a parallel worlds adventure novel, set in Kenneth Bulmer's 'Keys to the Dimensions' series.
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575122307
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
The chariots came on at great speed and there was no mistaking their purpose. Tulley wondered if they were using this place as a base . . . Then an arrow plunked into the parapet of his chariot. Oolou lashed the reins. The nageres sprang forward. With suicidal speed the two chariot groups closed on each other. Tulley swallowed down, feeling the dryness in his throat, loosed a shaft at the oncoming mass. There must be twenty chariots out there . . . He glanced at Oolou, shouting. She stared back at him with a ghastly grin, the blood pouring from her neck above the corselet where an arrow stood, stark and brutal. The Chariots of Ra is a parallel worlds adventure novel, set in Kenneth Bulmer's 'Keys to the Dimensions' series.
The Falcon Force
Author: C. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 1481758853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The Falcon Force, is a book about a New Orleans police department detective, John Kelly, who has spent ten years trying to nail Franco Medina, a narco-terrorist, who blatantly runs guns into Mexico and South America and smuggles drugs back into the U. S.. Magically Medina is always able to escape apprehension. All of Kelly's detective skills are put to the test, when his longtime partner, Brandon Thompson, is kidnapped. Just when everything seems hopeless, he's reunited with an old girlfriend from his high school days. Their volatile relationship buds, then is threatened by a circumstance that teeters on disaster. His investigations lead him to a top secret spin-off of the CIA. Then he's drafted into the clandestine organization and becomes an elite commando participating in dangerous missions that nearly take his life. He eventually comes full circle to renew his obsession to take down his old nemesis, Medina, the God Father of the Gulf Coast. The book is fast paced, with surprising twists and turns, and the ending is riveting.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1481758853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The Falcon Force, is a book about a New Orleans police department detective, John Kelly, who has spent ten years trying to nail Franco Medina, a narco-terrorist, who blatantly runs guns into Mexico and South America and smuggles drugs back into the U. S.. Magically Medina is always able to escape apprehension. All of Kelly's detective skills are put to the test, when his longtime partner, Brandon Thompson, is kidnapped. Just when everything seems hopeless, he's reunited with an old girlfriend from his high school days. Their volatile relationship buds, then is threatened by a circumstance that teeters on disaster. His investigations lead him to a top secret spin-off of the CIA. Then he's drafted into the clandestine organization and becomes an elite commando participating in dangerous missions that nearly take his life. He eventually comes full circle to renew his obsession to take down his old nemesis, Medina, the God Father of the Gulf Coast. The book is fast paced, with surprising twists and turns, and the ending is riveting.