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Zusammenfassung: The story of Lutzen, one of the most famous battles of the cataclysmic Thirty Years' War - how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it has come to mean.
The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) was Europe's most destructive conflict prior to the two world wars. Two of European history's greatest generals faced each other at Lutzen in November 1632, mid-way through this terrible war. Neither achieved his objective. Albrecht von Wallenstei…
Zusammenfassung: The story of Lutzen, one of the most famous battles of the cataclysmic Thirty Years' War - how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it has come to mean
The British-led Mediterranean Expeditionary Force that attacked the Ottoman Empire at Gallipoli in 1915 was a multi-national affair, including Australian, New Zealand, Irish, French, and Indian soldiers. Ultimately a failure, the campaign ended with the withdrawal of the Allied …
Bogen beskriver de store slag på Østfronten under 1. Verdenskrig 1914-18. Herunder skildres slaget ved Tannenberg, Grev Conrads (Østrigs) nederlag, de tyske sejre i Polen, Brusilovs offensiv og endelig Ruslands revolution og overgivelse. Ludendorff; Hindenburg; Hotzendorf; Keren…
The Battle of Waterloo commenced when the first shots were fired on a Sunday morning in June 1815. By the evening, 40,000 men and 10,000 horses lay dead or wounded among the Belgian cornfields and Napoleon had fled. This book provides an account of that day.
The story of Culloden, one of the most important battles in Scottish history - how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it has come to mean. Cover -- Great Battles: Culloden -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List…
Agincourt (1415) is an exceptionally famous battle, one that has generated a huge and enduring cultural legacy in the six hundred years since it was fought. Everybody thinks they know what the battle was about. Even John Lennon, aged 12, wrote a poem and drew a picture headed 'A…
Shakespeare's Agincourt ReplayedOlivier's Agincourt (1944); Branagh's Agincourt (1989); Conclusion; 5: 'France's Bane and England's Glory! 'Agincourt, War, and National Identity; The Seventeenth Century; The Eighteenth Century; The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; 1815-1914; T…
Waterloo was the last battle fought by Napoleon and the one which finally ended his imperial dreams. It involved the deployment of huge armies and incurred heavy losses on both sides; for those who fought in it, Dutch and Belgians, Prussians and Hanoverians as well as British an…