Guns, Sails and Empires
Author: Carlo M. Cipolla
Publisher:
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
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The Guns at Last Light
Author: Rick Atkinson
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2013-05-14
Total Pages: 897
ISBN-13: 142994367X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II It is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how the American-led coalition fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now, in The Guns at Last Light, he tells the most dramatic story of all—the titanic battle for Western Europe. D-Day marked the commencement of the final campaign of the European war, and Atkinson's riveting account of that bold gamble sets the pace for the masterly narrative that follows. The brutal fight in Normandy, the liberation of Paris, the disaster that was Operation Market Garden, the horrific Battle of the Bulge, and finally the thrust to the heart of the Third Reich—all these historic events and more come alive with a wealth of new material and a mesmerizing cast of characters. Atkinson tells the tale from the perspective of participants at every level, from presidents and generals to war-weary lieutenants and terrified teenage riflemen. When Germany at last surrenders, we understand anew both the devastating cost of this global conflagration and the enormous effort required to win the Allied victory. With the stirring final volume of this monumental trilogy, Atkinson's accomplishment is manifest. He has produced the definitive chronicle of the war that unshackled a continent and preserved freedom in the West. One of The Washington Post's Top 10 Books of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013
The Guns of Europe
Author: Joseph Altsheler
Publisher: Litres
Published: 2022-05-15
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 5040495978
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Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-04
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Guns of Europe" by Joseph A. Altsheler is a fictional account of factual events. The book takes place at the very beginning of World War I. John Scott and American and Anson were in Dresden, they were taking in the sights. Although invited to Prague, they were advised not to go because of a possible war with Austria and Hungary against Serbia. They decided to go to Vienna instead where John's uncle lived. However, the beginning of the war complicates their plans.
Firearms
Author: Kenneth Warren Chase
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-07-07
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521822749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a history of firearms across the world from the 1100s up to the 1700s, from the time of their invention in China to the time when European firearms had become clearly superior. It asks why it was the Europeans who perfected firearms when it was the Chinese who had invented them, but it answers this question by looking at how firearms were used throughout the world.
The Guns of August
Author: Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Guns of Europe, The Forest of Swords & The Hosts of the Air: The World War Trilogy
Author: Joseph Alexander Altsheler
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2019-06-03
Total Pages: 653
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis eBook collection has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This series includes three novels about the First World War written by Joseph A. Altsheler who witnessed the described events himself: The Guns of Europe The Forest of Swords: A Story of Paris and the Marne The Hosts of the Air: The Story of a Quest in the Great War Joseph Alexander Altsheler was an American newspaper reporter, editor and author of popular juvenile historical fiction. He was a prolific writer, and produced fifty-one novels and at least fifty-three short stories. Thirty-two of his novels were part of his seven series: The Civil War Series, The French and Indian War Series, The Gold Series, The Great West Series, The Texan Series, The World War Series, The Young Trailers Series.
The Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War
Author: David G. Herrmann
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0691201382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Herrmann's work is the most complete study to date of how land-based military power influenced international affairs during the series of diplomatic crises that led up to the First World War. Instead of emphasizing the naval arms race, which has been extensively studied before, Herrmann draws on documentary research in military and state archives in Germany, France, Austria, England, and Italy to show the previously unexplored effects of changes in the strength of the European armies during this period. Herrmann's work provides not only a contribution to debates about the causes of the war but also an account of how the European armies adopted the new weaponry of the twentieth century in the decade before 1914, including quick-firing artillery, machine guns, motor transport, and aircraft. In a narrative account that runs from the beginning of a series of international crises in 1904 until the outbreak of the war, Herrmann points to changes in the balance of military power to explain why the war began in 1914, instead of at some other time. Russia was incapable of waging a European war in the aftermath of its defeat at the hands of Japan in 1904-5, but in 1912, when Russia appeared to be regaining its capacity to fight, an unprecedented land-armaments race began. Consequently, when the July crisis of 1914 developed, the atmosphere of military competition made war a far more likely outcome than it would have been a decade earlier.
Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe
Author: Bert S. Hall
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780801869945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize from the Canadian Historical Association Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe explores the history of gunpowder in Europe from the thirteenth century, when it was first imported from China, to the sixteenth century, as firearms became central to the conduct of war. Bridging the fields of military history and the history of technology—and challenging past assumptions about Europe's "gunpowder revolution"—Hall discovers a complex and fascinating story. Military inventors faced a host of challenges, he finds, from Europe's lack of naturally occurring saltpeter—one of gunpowder's major components—to the limitations of smooth-bore firearms. Manufacturing cheap, reliable gunpowder proved a difficult feat, as did making firearms that had reasonably predictable performance characteristics. Hall details the efforts of armorers across Europe as they experimented with a variety of gunpowder recipes and gunsmithing techniques, and he examines the integration of new weapons into the existing structure of European warfare.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Author: Jared Diamond
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1999-04-17
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 0393069222
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."—Bill Gates In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.
