Quick and reliable reference to land battles in Europe is now made possible with this invaluable dictionary. From the Great Peloponnesian War to the Second World War, this dictionary offers a concise and informative review of all the significant land battles of European history.

A Dictionary of European Land Battles: From the Earliest Times to 1945

History

Sweetman, John

Europe

Macmillan Pub. Co.

The port of Balaclava was crucial in maintaining the supply lines for the Allied siege of Sevastapol in the Crimea. The Russian attack in October 1854 therefore posed a major threat to the survival of the Allied cause. This book examines in detail the crucial battle of Balaclava, including the attack on the redoubts; the action of the thin red line in which an assortment of about 700 British troops, some invalids, were abandoned by their Turkish allies; the subsequent charge of the Heavy Brigade; and the most legendary part of the battle: the infamous charge of the Light Brigade.
The port of Balaclava was crucial in maintaining the supply lines for the Allied siege of Sevastapol. The Russian attack on it on 25th October 1854 therefore posed a major threat to the survival of the Allied cause. The battle took place in four stages, first of which was the successful Russian attack on the redoubts of Balaclava. This was followed by the action of the thin red line in which an assortment of about 700 British troops, some invalids, were abandoned by their Turkish allies and forced to successfully resist the attack of four squadrons of Russian cavalry. The subsequent charge of the Heavy Brigade which neutralised the threat to nearby Kadikoi was followed by the most famous part of the battle: the charge of the Light Brigade. Immortalised by Tennyson's poem, this action was not so much glorious as a major example of military ineptitude. Divisions at the top of the British command structure, and confusion in the transmission of orders prompted Lord Cardigan and the men of the Light Brigade to attack the Don Battery which was protected by infantry and more artillery on its flanks. John Sweetman looks at these events and analyses their collective significance in the outcome of the Battle of Balaclava.

Balaclava 1854: The Charge Of The Light Brigade (Praeger Illustrated Military History)

Military

Praeger Pub Text

Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of May 16 1943, was the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. For the loss of 11 aircraft, the Mohne and Eder dams in Germany's industrial heartland were breached, and a famous if controversial victory won. John Sweetman's book is the most comprehensive account of this legendary mission, from the development of Barnes Wallis' 'bouncing bomb' (in reality a revolving depth-charge) to every moment of the raid itself, under the charismatic command of Guy Gibson, VC.

The Dambusters Raid (Cassell Military Paperbacks)

UNKNO

Did Russia's sacrifice save Britain and France from defeat in 1914? Step back into the combat zone of World War One to watch a crucial moment in the struggle. Amazing visuals--color illustrations; contemporary photographs of the faces, weapons, and landscapes of war; and specially commissioned diagrams and cutting-edge computer cartography--will transport you there, bringing added dimension to the battlefield. In 1914, Russia's doomed Tsar, Nicholas II ordered his armies to invade German territory. They moved faster than expected, and panic stories of Cossacks running amok in Prussia led the German High Command to call back troops from France. However, the two Russian generals leading the attack hated each other and refused to communicate--ultimately helping the Germans annihilate them, but saving the rest of Europe at their own expense.

Tannenberg 1914

Cassell

The Dambusters

The breaching of the dams in Germany's industrial heartland was to have a pivotal effect. A triumph for Allied thinking and courage, it convinced Roosevelt to commit to the invasion of Italy and the countdown to the D-Day landings. Sixty years on, The Dambusters describes how the pilots overcame the odds to pull off one of the most astonishing military successes in history. Accompanying a major television series, the book uses contemporary re-enactments to show just what an astonishing feat the mission was. Lavishly illustrated, it captures the brilliance of the scientists and the bravery of the crews, as well as the enormous impact their success had on the outcome of war.

Coward, David

Johnstone, Gary

Little, Brown Book Group

The Dambusters' mission is of enduring fascination and appeal. The breaching of the dams in Germany’s industrial heartland was to have a pivotal effecta triumph for Allied thinking and courage, it convinced Roosevelt to commit to the invasion of Italy and the countdown to the D-Day landings. Sixty years on, The Dambusters is the definitive telling of one of World War Two’s most remarkable episodes. The book describes how it was down to the ingenuity and persistence of a scientific maverick, Barnes Wallis, that the idea of the backwards-spinning bouncing bomb came about and how the pilots overcame the odds to pull off one of the most astonishing military successes in history. Accompanying the television series, the book uses contemporary re-enactments to show just what an astonishing feat the mission was. Lavishly illustrated, it captures the brilliance of the scientists and the bravery of the crews, as well as the enormous impact their success had on the outcome of war.

The Dambusters / John Sweetman, David Coward and Gary Johnstone

London : Time Warner

Ploesti: Oil Strike (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century. Battle Book, No. 30)

Ballantine

From the withdrawal from Dunkirk in 1940 to the Allied invasion of Germany four and a half years later, RAF Bomber Command was the only British force to strike directly at the enemy homeland. During raids, bomber crews were confined to cramped quarters, buffeted by flak, and at the mercy of storms, high winds, prowling fighters, and equipment malfunction. Bomber Crew vividly portrays the wartime experiences of these young men and the loved ones they so often left behind.

Bomber Crew: Taking on the Reich

The Dambusters' mission is of enduring fascination and appeal. The breaching of the dams in Germany’s industrial heartland was to have a pivotal effecta triumph for Allied thinking and courage, it convinced Roosevelt to commit to the invasion of Italy and the countdown to the D-Day landings. Sixty years on, The Dambusters is the definitive telling of one of World War Two's most remarkable episodes. The book describes how it was down to the ingenuity and persistence of a scientific maverick, Barnes Wallis, that the idea of the backwards-spinning bouncing bomb came about and how the pilots overcame the odds to pull off one of the most astonishing military successes in history. Accompanying a major new television series, the book  uses contemporary re-enactments to show just what an astonishing feat the mission was. Lavishly illustrated, it captures the brilliance of the scientists and the bravery of the crews, as well as the enormous impact their success had on the outcome of war.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

The Oriental Obsession begins in the early sixteenth century with Cardinal Wolsey waiting two years for the delivery of sixty rare Turkey carpets from Venice, and ends in the age of the great exhibitions and emporia on both sides of the Atlantic, before and after 1900, when Islamic objects were seen, appreciated, and bought by millions of the public. The book is concerned with a subject which has not been treated before - the history over four centuries of Islamic artistic traditions and European ideas of Islam as they affected the visual arts of the west and particularly the English-speaking peoples. Studies of individual aspects have been made previously, but this is the first time that an attempt has been made to consider the subject as a whole. The geographical purview extends from Moorish Spain in the west to British India in the east and, besides architecture, the activities that are involved include painting, ceramics, textiles, metalwork, furniture and bookcrafts.

The Oriental Obsession: Islamic Inspiration in British and American Art and Architecture 1500–1920 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Art)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

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A Dictionary of European Land Battles: From the Earliest Times to 1945

Balaclava 1854: The Charge Of The Light Brigade (Praeger Illustrated Military History)

The Dambusters Raid (Cassell Military Paperbacks)

Tannenberg 1914

The Dambusters

The Dambusters / John Sweetman, David Coward and Gary Johnstone

Ploesti: Oil Strike (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century. Battle Book, No. 30)

Bomber Crew: Taking on the Reich

The Dambusters

The Oriental Obsession: Islamic Inspiration in British and American Art and Architecture 1500–1920 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Art)