Author: Francis Joseph Reynolds
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
The Story of the Great War
Author: Francis Joseph Reynolds
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
The Woman Who Fought an Empire
Author: Gregory J. Wallance
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1640120068
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Though she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman—the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine—who became the daring leader of a Middle East spy ring. Following the outbreak of World War I, Sarah learned that her brother Aaron had formed Nili, an anti-Turkish spy ring, to aid the British in their war against the Ottomans. Sarah, who had witnessed the atrocities of the Armenian genocide by the Turks, believed that only the defeat of the Ottoman Empire could save the Palestinian Jews from a similar fate. Sarah joined Nili, eventually rising to become the organization’s leader. Operating behind enemy lines, she and her spies furnished vital information to British intelligence in Cairo about the Turkish military forces until she was caught and tortured by the Turks in the fall of 1917. To protect her secrets, Sarah got hold of a gun and shot herself. The Woman Who Fought an Empire, set at the birth of the modern Middle East, rebukes the Hollywood stereotype of women spies as femme fatales and is both an espionage thriller and a Joan of Arc tale.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1640120068
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Though she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman—the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine—who became the daring leader of a Middle East spy ring. Following the outbreak of World War I, Sarah learned that her brother Aaron had formed Nili, an anti-Turkish spy ring, to aid the British in their war against the Ottomans. Sarah, who had witnessed the atrocities of the Armenian genocide by the Turks, believed that only the defeat of the Ottoman Empire could save the Palestinian Jews from a similar fate. Sarah joined Nili, eventually rising to become the organization’s leader. Operating behind enemy lines, she and her spies furnished vital information to British intelligence in Cairo about the Turkish military forces until she was caught and tortured by the Turks in the fall of 1917. To protect her secrets, Sarah got hold of a gun and shot herself. The Woman Who Fought an Empire, set at the birth of the modern Middle East, rebukes the Hollywood stereotype of women spies as femme fatales and is both an espionage thriller and a Joan of Arc tale.
The Story of the Great War
Author: Francis Joseph Reynolds
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 1036109062
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 1036109062
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Verdun 1916
Author: H. W. Kaufmann
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473875188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Wrapped in myth and distortion, the Battle of Verdun is one of the most enigmatic battles of the Great War, and the controversy continues a century later. Before the battle the Germans believed they had selected one of the strongest points in the French defences in the hope that, if they smashed through it, the French would collapse. But Verdun was actually a hollow shell since its forts were largely disarmed and the trench lines were incomplete. So why did the Germans fail to take Verdun? As well as seeking to answer this fundamental question, the authors of this perceptive new study reconsider other key aspects of the battle the German deployment of stormtroopers, the use of artillery and aircraft, how the French developed the idea of methodical battle which came to dominate their military thought after the war. They look too at how Verdun brought about a renaissance of fortress engineering that resulted in the creation of the Maginot Line and the other fortifications constructed in Europe before the Second World War.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473875188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Wrapped in myth and distortion, the Battle of Verdun is one of the most enigmatic battles of the Great War, and the controversy continues a century later. Before the battle the Germans believed they had selected one of the strongest points in the French defences in the hope that, if they smashed through it, the French would collapse. But Verdun was actually a hollow shell since its forts were largely disarmed and the trench lines were incomplete. So why did the Germans fail to take Verdun? As well as seeking to answer this fundamental question, the authors of this perceptive new study reconsider other key aspects of the battle the German deployment of stormtroopers, the use of artillery and aircraft, how the French developed the idea of methodical battle which came to dominate their military thought after the war. They look too at how Verdun brought about a renaissance of fortress engineering that resulted in the creation of the Maginot Line and the other fortifications constructed in Europe before the Second World War.
The Politics of the First World War
Author: Scott Wolford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426018
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
This analytical history of World War I offers a rigorous yet accessible training in game theory, and a survey of modern political science research.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426018
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
This analytical history of World War I offers a rigorous yet accessible training in game theory, and a survey of modern political science research.
Essentials in Modern European History
Author: Daniel Chauncey Knowlton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Collected Materials for the Study of the War
Author: Albert Edward McKinley
Publisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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George W. Hamilton, USMC
Author: Mark Mortensen
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786486171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
In its list of the "Top 10 Badass Marines," Leatherneck magazine declared that Major George W. Hamilton "never asked anyone to do anything he wasn't prepared to do himself...and do better." Indeed, the author of A History of the United States Marine Corps once called Hamilton "the most outstanding Marine Corps hero in World War I." A leader of the first major American assault on June 6, 1918, and the last ranking officer in the American Expeditionary Forces to learn that the war was over, Hamilton remained in the thick of the fighting from start to finish. Although he earned the Distinguished Service Cross, the Navy Cross, the Croix de Guerre, and two Medal of Honor recommendations for his service, Hamilton's fame stalled when he died prematurely in 1922. With this first complete biography, Hamilton takes his rightful place among the first rank of American military heroes.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786486171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
In its list of the "Top 10 Badass Marines," Leatherneck magazine declared that Major George W. Hamilton "never asked anyone to do anything he wasn't prepared to do himself...and do better." Indeed, the author of A History of the United States Marine Corps once called Hamilton "the most outstanding Marine Corps hero in World War I." A leader of the first major American assault on June 6, 1918, and the last ranking officer in the American Expeditionary Forces to learn that the war was over, Hamilton remained in the thick of the fighting from start to finish. Although he earned the Distinguished Service Cross, the Navy Cross, the Croix de Guerre, and two Medal of Honor recommendations for his service, Hamilton's fame stalled when he died prematurely in 1922. With this first complete biography, Hamilton takes his rightful place among the first rank of American military heroes.
The Story of the Great War
Author: Francis Joseph Reynolds
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description