Scottish Military Disasters
Author: Paul Cowan
Publisher: Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compilation of Scotland's failures on the battlefields of the world from Mons Graupius to Korea.
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England and Scotland at War, C.1296-c.1513
Author: Andy King
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-06-22
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9004229825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn England and Scotland at War, c.1296-c.1513, Andy King and David Simpkin bring together new perspectives on the Anglo-Scottish conflict from Dunbar to Flodden. The essays focus on the military history of the wars from both sides of the border.
Great Military Disasters
Author: Julian Spilsbury
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2015-04-02
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 178429215X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreat Military Disasters tells the dramatic stories behind the world's most calamitous conflicts. From the French army's failure to understand the impact of new technology at Crécy to Hitler's blatant overconfidence at Stalingrad, military historian Julian Spilsbury provides thrilling accounts of each disaster, covering exactly what went wrong, how and why. Of course, a disastrous outcome for one side meant victory for another, so as well as exploring the reasons the conflict ended in disaster, Great Military Disasters also reveals the key to victory. Eyewitness quotations add another dimension to this intriguing study of human incompetence of the gravest kind.
How the Scots Created Canada
Author: Paul Cowan
Publisher:
Published: 2012-09-01
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781896124100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Scots in Canada made their mark as explorers, fur traders, soldiers, business leaders, prime ministers and more. Ex-pat Paul Cowan marks their journey from his native land to the New World.
Infantry in Battle
Author: Infantry School (U.S.)
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1934
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 1428916911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFighting the People's War
Author: Jonathan Fennell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-24
Total Pages: 967
ISBN-13: 1107030951
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.
The Dark Defile
Author: Diana Preston
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2012-02-14
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0802779824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of the mid-19th-century war in Afghanistan documents how the British government sought to protect regional interests by attempting to install a puppet ruler only to be defeated by united Afghanistan tribes, in a volume that profiles key contributors and discusses how the war set the stage for subsequent hostilities.
The Story of The Tyneside Scottish
Author: Trevor Ternan
Publisher:
Published: 1919
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles I and the Aristocracy, 1625-1642
Author: Richard Cust
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-06-13
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1107009901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major perspective on Charles I's relationship with the English aristocracy in the lead up to the Civil War.
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History
Author: T. M. Devine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2012-01-26
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 0199563691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA landmark study which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century, as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention. Places the Scottish experience firmly in an international historical experience.
