Download or read book The Edge of the Sword written by General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1951, at the height of the Korean War, Chinese troops advanced south of the 38th parallel towards a strategic crossing-point of the Imjin River on the invasion route to the South Korean capital of Seoul. The stand of the 1st Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment, against the overwhelming numbers of invading troops has since passed into British military history. In The Edge of the Sword General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, then Adjutant of the Glosters, has painted a vivid and accurate picture of the battle as seen by the officers and soldiers caught up in the middle of it. The book does not, however, end there. Like the majority of those who survived, the author became a prisoner-of-war, and the book continues with a remarkable account of his experiences in and out of Chinese prison camps. This book is not an attempt at a personal hero-story, and it is certainly not a piece of political propaganda. It is, above all, an amazing story of human fortitude and high adventure.
Download or read book Edge of Battle written by Dale Brown and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Richter and his high-tech unit Task Force TALON are charged with securing the Mexican border, where a terrorist band has been operating with impunity and enflaming the passions of the population.
Download or read book At the Forward Edge of Battle written by Syed Ali Hamid and published by Asia@War. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide ranging study that chronicles the remarkable growth of the Pakistan Armoured Corps over 95 years, and embraces its evolution, culture, doctrine, equipment, operational performance, garrisons, personalities, etc.
Download or read book Orders of Battle written by Marko Kloos and published by 47North. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle against the Lankies has been won. Earth seems safe. Peacetime military? Not on your life. It's been four years since Earth threw its full military prowess against the Lanky incursion. Humanity has been yanked back from the abyss of extinction. The solar system is at peace. For now. The future for Major Andrew Grayson of the Commonwealth Defense Corps and his wife, Halley? Flying desk duty on the front. No more nightmares of monstrous things. No more traumas to the mind and body. But when an offer comes down from above, Andrew has to make a choice: continue pushing papers into retirement, or jump right back into the fight? What's a podhead to do? The remaining Lankies may have retreated in fear, but the threat isn't over. They need to be wiped out for good before they strike again. That'll take a new offensive deployment. Aboard an Avenger warship, Andrew and the special tactics team under his command embark on the ultimate search-and-destroy mission. This time, it'll be on Lanky turf. No big heroics. No unnecessary risks. Just a swift hit-and-run raid in the hostile Capella system. Blow the alien seed ships into oblivion and get the hell back to Earth. At least, that's the objective. But when does anything in war go according to plan?
Download or read book Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and unique reference work central to any serious examination of the Army2s involvement in World War I. Reproduced in 5 volumes, the original volume numbering and consecutive pagination remain unchanged to assist researchers using citations to the first printing.
Download or read book Mons Graupius AD 83 written by Duncan B Campbell and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Osprey's Campaign title for the battle at Mons Graupius (83 AD), which was a decisive conflict between Rome and Britain. In AD 77, Roman forces under Agricola marched into the northern reaches of Britain in an attempt to pacify the Caledonian tribesman. For seven years, the Romans marched and battled across what is now Scotland. Finally, in AD 83, they fought the final battle at Mons Graupius where 10,000 Caledonians were slaughtered from only 360 Roman dead. It proved the high-water mark of Roman power in Britain. Following unrest elsewhere in the empire, the north of Scotland was abandoned and Rome's forces began their long retreat. Never again would Roman arms stand on the edge of the known world.
Download or read book Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War American Expeditionary Forces Divisions written by Army War College (U.S.). Historical Section and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 300 Heroes written by Terri Dougherty and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2009 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes events before, during, and after the battle of Thermopylae, including key players, weapons, and battle tactics"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War General Headquarters armies Army Corps services of supply separate forces written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Edge written by Roland Smith and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * "A winner at every level." --Booklist, starred review ofPeak The International Peace Ascent is the brainchild of billionaire Sebastian Plank: Recruit a global team of young climbers and film an inspiring, world-uniting documentary. The adventure begins when fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello and his mountaineer mother are helicoptered to a remote base camp in the Hindu Kush Mountains on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. When the camp is attacked and his mother taken, Peak has no choice but to track down the perpetrators to try to save her. Fans of the bestsellingPeak will be thrilled with this gripping, high-stakes sequel.
Download or read book The Day of Battle written by Rick Atkinson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy.
Download or read book Marathon written by Gary Smailes and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take up your weapons and prepare to fight your own battle in these all-action, interactive adventures, in which you take part in epic battles from throughout history. It is 490 BCE and the ancient city of Athens is under threat. The Persians have sailed across the ocean to invade your land, and now camp on the plains of Marathon, just a few miles from Athens. You are Miltiades, an old warrior with one last chance to prove your loyalty to the city you love. You will command the mighty Greek Hoplite army as it attempts to halt the Persian invasion and save Athens...
Download or read book Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War American Expeditionary Forces divisions written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and unique reference work central to any serious examination of the Army2s involvement in World War I. Reproduced in 5 volumes, the original volume numbering and consecutive pagination remain unchanged to assist researchers using citations to the first printing.
Download or read book Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War written by Army War College (U.S.). Historical Section and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War American Expeditionary Forces General Headquarters Armies Army Corps Services of Supply and separate forces written by Army War College (U.S.). Historical Section and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Other Face of Battle written by Wayne E. Lee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking its title from The Face of Battle, John Keegan's canonical book on the nature of warfare, The Other Face of Battle illuminates the American experience of fighting in "irregular" and "intercultural" wars over the centuries. Sometimes known as "forgotten" wars, in part because they lackedtriumphant clarity, they are the focus of the book. David Preston, David Silbey, and Anthony Carlson focus on, respectively, the Battle of Monongahela (1755), the Battle of Manila (1898), and the Battle of Makuan, Afghanistan (2020) - conflicts in which American soldiers were forced to engage in"irregular" warfare, confronting an enemy entirely alien to them. This enemy rejected the Western conventions of warfare and defined success and failure - victory and defeat - in entirely different ways. Symmetry of any kind is lost. Here was not ennobling engagement but atrocity, unanticipatedinsurgencies, and strategic stalemate.War is always hell. These wars, however, profoundly undermined any sense of purpose or proportion. Nightmarish and existentially bewildering, they nonetheless characterize how Americans have experienced combat and what its effects have been. They are therefore worth comparing for what they hold incommon as well as what they reveal about our attitude toward war itself. The Other Face of Battle reminds us that "irregular" or "asymmetrical" warfare is now not the exception but the rule. Understanding its roots seems more crucial than ever.
Download or read book Landing on the Edge of Eternity written by Robert Kershaw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in 1944, German commander Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took a look at the sloping sands and announced "They will come here!” He was referring to "Omaha Beach”. The beach was then transformed into three miles of lethal, bunker-protected arcs of fire, with seaside chalets converted into concrete strongpoints, with layers of barbed wire and mines. When Company A of the US 116th Regiment landed on Omaha Beach in D-Day’s first wave on 6th June 1944, it lost 96% of its effective strength. This was the beginning of the historic day that Landing on the Edge of Eternity narrates hour by hour—midnight to midnight—tracking German and American soldiers fighting across the beachhead. The Wehrmacht thought they had bludgeoned the Americans into submission yet by mid-afternoon, the American troops were ashore. Why were the casualties so grim, and how could the Germans have failed? Juxtaposing the American experience—pinned down, swamped by a rising tide, facing young Wehrmacht soldiers fighting desperately for their lives, Kershaw draws on eyewitness accounts, memories, letters, and post-combat reports to expose the true horrors of Omaha Beach. Landing on the Edge of Eternity is a dramatic historical ride through an amphibious landing that looked as though it might never succeed.
