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The Battle of Normandy 1944 - Robin Neillands - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The Battle of Normandy 1944 - Robin Neillands - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

A fresh and incisive examination of one of the Second World War''s crucial campaigns, the battle for Normandy in the months after D-Day. What happened to the Allied armies in Normandy in the months after D-Day, 1944? Why, after the initial success of the landings, did their advance stall a few miles inland from the beaches? Why did the British take so long to capture Caen? Why did the US infantry struggle so much in the bocage south of Omaha beach? Who was right about the conduct of the land campaign - Eisenhower or Montgomery? How did the Germans, deprived of air support, manage to hold off such a massive Allied force for more than two months? And if Enigma was allowing the Allies to read German battleplans, why did things go wrong as often as they did?THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY re-examines the demands and difficulties of the campaign and sheds new light on both with the aid of accounts from veterans on both sides. (Oral history forms a large part of the book.) It also analyses in detail the plans and performance of the commanders involved: Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton, Montgomery, Crerar and, of course, Rommel. Controversial and at times catastrophic, the Battle of Normandy was the last great set-piece battle in history and is long overdue for reassessment.

DKK 141.00
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Dancing into Battle - Nicholas Foulkes - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Dancing into Battle - Nicholas Foulkes - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The social backdrop, vividly described, to one of the greatest battles in European history, Waterloo 1815 The summer of 1815 saw the final and desperate efforts of European powers to usurp Napoleon''s reign over France. The pivotal moment was unfolding in an age where war was a social occasion; the military urgency was matched only by the soldiers and their wives'' frantic efforts to keep apace of the lavish balls which were being thrown. The intention to deny war with frivolity persevered until 15 June, when the tension broke, and troops exchanged dance partners for weapons and prepared for battle. Nick Foulkes captures the sense of what it was like to be at the very hub of events when the fate of Europe seemed to hang in the balance.

DKK 126.00
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Rage of Ares - Christian Cameron - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Rage of Ares - Christian Cameron - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Arimnestos of Plataea was one of the heroes of the Battle of Marathon, in which the heroic Greeks halted the invading Persians in their tracks, and fought in the equally celebrated naval battle at Salamis.But even these stunning victories only served to buy the Greeks time, as the Persians gathered a new army, returning with overwhelming force to strike the final killing blow.For the Greeks, divided and outnumbered, there was only one possible strategy: attack. And so, in the blazing summer of 479 BC, Arimnestos took up his spear one final time at the Battle of Plataea.

DKK 120.00
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Fatal Rivalry, Flodden 1513 - George Goodwin - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Fatal Rivalry, Flodden 1513 - George Goodwin - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The relationship of England and Scotland became defined by events on 9 September 1513 in a battle of great size, bloodshed and finality - the Battle of Flodden. On the back of historian George Goodwin''s critically acclaimed debut, FATAL COLOURS, comes FATAL RIVALRY, providing the first in-depth examination of the Battle of Flodden, the biggest and bloodiest in British history.This book captures the importance of the key players in the story - the kings and their respective queens, their nobles, diplomats and generals - as the rivalry brought the two countries inexorably to war. Fatefully, it would be an error by James, that most charismatic of commanders, and in the thick of engagement, that would make him the last British king to fall in battle, would condemn the bulk of his nobility to a similarly violent death and settle his country''s fate.

DKK 127.00
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Jutland, 1916 - Peter Hart - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Jutland, 1916 - Peter Hart - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Dramatic, illustrated account of the biggest naval battle of the First World War. On 31 May, 1916, the great battle fleets of Britain and Germany met off Jutland in the North Sea. It was a climactic encounter, the culmination of a fantastically expensive naval race between the two countries, and expectations on both sides were high. For the Royal Navy''s Grand Fleet, there was the chance to win another Trafalgar. For the German High Seas Fleet, there was the opportunity to break the British blockade and so change the course of the war. But Jutland was a confused and controversial encounter. Tactically, it was a draw; strategically, it was a British victory.Naval historians have pored over the minutiae of Jutland ever since. Yet they have largely ignored what the battle was actually like for its thousands of participants. Full of drama and pathos, of chaos and courage, JUTLAND, 1916 describes the sea battle in the dreadnought era from the point of view of those who were there.

DKK 152.00
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The Somme - Peter Hart - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The Somme - Peter Hart - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

A major new history of the most infamous battle of the First World War, as described by the men who fought it. On 1 July 1916, Douglas Haig''s army launched the ''Big Push'' that was supposed finally to bring an end to the stalemate on the Western Front. What happened next was a human catastrophe: scrambling over the top into the face of the German machine guns and artillery fire, almost 20,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers were killed that day alone, and twice as many wounded - the greatest loss in a single day ever sustained by the British Army. The battle did not stop there, however. It dragged on for another 4 months, leaving the battlefield strewn with literally hundreds of thousands of bodies. The Somme has remained a byword for the futility of war ever since. In this major new history, Peter Hart describes how the battle looked from the point of view of those who fought it. Using never-before-seen eyewitness testimonies, he shows us this epic conflict from all angles. We see what it was like to crawl across No Man''s Land in the face of the German guns, what it was like for those who stayed behind in the trenches - the padres, the artillerymen, the doctors. We also see what the battle looked like from the air, as the RFC battled to keep control of the skies above the battlefield. All this is put in the context of the background to the battle, and Haig''s overall strategy for the Western Front, making this the most comprehensive history of the battle since Lyn MacDonald''s bestselling work over 20 years ago.

DKK 141.00
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Salamis - Christian Cameron - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Salamis - Christian Cameron - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

480 BC. Arimnestos of Plataea has already lived through several lifetimes'' worth of adventure, from being a rich man''s slave in Ephesus to winning glory at the battle of Marathon against the might of the Persian Empire. But the gods - and the Persians - aren''t finished with him yet. As an experienced sea captain - his enemies might say pirate - he has a part to play in the final epic confrontation of the Long War between the Greeks and Persians, the Battle of Salamis. It is a battle where many debts of blood will be repaid, ancient grudges settled, fame won and treachery exposed, where the Greeks must finally bury their differences and fight as one - for against them Xerxes, the Great King, has assembled the greatest fleet the world has ever known, his sworn purpose to brutally extinguish the flame of freedom and make every Greek his slave.

DKK 126.00
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The Battle for Spain - Antony Beevor - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The Battle for Spain - Antony Beevor - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The bestselling author of STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL on the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of newly discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives. The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a war of atrocities and political genocide and a military testing ground before WWII for the Russians, Italians and Germans, whose Condor Legion so notoriously destroyed Guernica.Antony Beevor''s account narrates the origins of the Civil War and its violent and dramatic course from the coup d''etat in July 1936 through the savage fighting of the next three years which ended in catastrophic defeat for the Republicans in 1939. And he succeeds especially well in unravelling the complex political and regional forces that played such an important part in the origins and history of the war.

DKK 155.00
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Fatal Colours - George Goodwin - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Fatal Colours - George Goodwin - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

A gripping account of the Wars of the Roses battle of Towton - the most brutal day in English history. ''Vivid, humane and superbly researched'' David Starkey ''The story has never been told so well or so excitingly'' Desmond Seward The Battle of Towton in 1461 was unique in its ferocity and brutality, as the armies of two kings of England engaged with murderous weaponry and in appalling conditions to conclude the first War of the Roses. Variously described as the largest, longest and bloodiest battle on English soil, Towton was fought with little chance of escape and none of surrender. Fatal Colours i ncludes a cast of strong and compelling characters: a warrior queen, a ruthless king-making earl, even a papal legate who excommunicates an entire army.Combining medieval sources and modern scholarship, George Goodwin colourfully recreates the atmosphere of 15th century England and chronicles the vicious in-fighting as the increasingly embittered royal factions struggle for supremacy.

DKK 127.00
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Cambrai 1917 - Bryn Hammond - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Cambrai 1917 - Bryn Hammond - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The story of the first great tank battle, and the genesis of one of the most formidable weapons of the twentieth century. Cambrai was the last - and most influential - battle fought by the British on the Western Front in 1917. With many of the Allies on the brink of collapse, only Britain was still capable of holding the Germans at bay. Over time, many myths have grown up around what happened at Cambrai. The events of this iconic attack are now buried beneath accumulated legends and misrepresentations built up over almost a century. It is remembered as the world''s first great tank battle, but it was the brilliant British innovations in artillery techniques that most shocked the enemy. Equally important were the new ''stormtroop'' tactics the Germans pioneered.Drawing on previously unpublished letters, diaries, first-hand accounts and official reports, Bryn Hammond''s definitive account examines this military milestone, how the myths were created, and how they changed the face of warfare for ever.

DKK 193.00
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Tyrant: Funeral Games - Christian Cameron - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Tyrant: Funeral Games - Christian Cameron - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

An action-packed tale of betrayal and revenge set amid the war between Alexander the Great''s generals and climaxing in the most spectacular battle of the ancient world. Satyrus and Melitta, twin heirs to a rich kingdom on the Black Sea, become desperate fugitives when their mother, the Scythian warrior-princess Srayanka, is cut down in a savage act of betrayal. Accompanied by their tutor, the Spartan Philokles, they must make a perilous journey west, pursued by ruthless assassins, to find sanctuary with the army of their father''s closest friend, Diodorus. But Diodorus is caught up in the tangled web of alliances, betrayals and intrigue that followed Alexander the Great''s death, as his generals fought over the huge empire he had created - and soon the twins will have their first taste of real battle as two Macedonian warlords clash. In this violent and unstable world, they must choose sides carefully, as Antigonus One-Eye, and his brilliant son Demetrius, prepare to take on the might of Ptolemy''s Egypt, and the forces gather for the biggest and most spectacular battle the world had ever seen - Gaza.

DKK 127.00
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Through German Eyes - Christopher Duffy - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Through German Eyes - Christopher Duffy - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The key battle of the First World War from the German point of view The Battle of the Somme has an enduring legacy, the image established by Alan Clark of ''lions led by donkeys'': brave British soldiers sent to their deaths by incompetent generals. However, from the German point of view the battle was a disaster. Their own casualties were horrendous. The Germans did not hold the (modern) view that the British Army was useless. As Christopher Duffy reveals, they had great respect for the British forces and German reports shed a fascinating light on the volunteer army recruited by General Kitchener.The German view of the British Army has never been made public until now. Their typically diligent reports have lain undisturbed in obscure archives until unearthed by Christopher Duffy. The picture that emerges is a far cry from ''Blackadder'': the Germans developed an increasing respect for the professionalism of the British Army. And the fact that every British soldier taken prisoner still believed Britain would win the war gave German intelligence teams their first indication that their Empire would go down to defeat.

DKK 127.00
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The Fall of Dragons - Miles Cameron - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The Fall of Dragons - Miles Cameron - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The Red Knight''s final battle lies ahead . . . but there''s a whole war still to fight first.He began with a small company, fighting the dangerous semi-mythical creatures which threatened villages, nunneries and cities. But as his power - and his forces - grew, so the power of the enemy he stood against became ever more clear. Not the power of men . . . but that of gods, with thousands of mortal allies.Never has strategy been more important, and this war will end where it started: at Lissen Carak. But to get there means not one battle, but many - to take out the seven armies which stand against them and force Ash, the huge black dragon, to finally take to the field himself . . .

DKK 155.00
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Dragon Heart - Peter Higgins - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Dragon Heart - Peter Higgins - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

For readers of Cormac McCarthy and Justin Cronin , this is the story of one family''s battle for survival in a world where evil has already won. As they fight their way across a dying land, Shay and Cass will do anything to keep their daughter, Hope, alive. The family faces unimaginable dangers as they try to stay together, and stay alive, long enough to reach safety. But when the heart of a dragon starts to beat in Hope''s chest, they fear they''ll lose her to a battle they can''t possibly help her win . . . Critically acclaimed author Peter Higgins has written a richly evocative post-apocalyptic fantasy novel about how, even in the darkest of times, we have so much to lose.

DKK 120.00
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Arnhem - Christopher Hibbert - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Arnhem - Christopher Hibbert - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The vivid account of how a brilliant plan turned into an epic tragedy - made into the BAFTA award-winning film A BRIDGE TOO FAR ''Alive with the detail that evokes the smoking background'' DAILY TELEGRAPH ''Finely recorded...truly the battle of Arnhem has been fortunate in its historian'' SUNDAY TIMES This book tells the true story of the Battle of Arnhem which was fought in September 1944. Nine thousand men of the First British Airborne Division were parachuted into the peaceful countryside that surrounded Arnhem. Their objective was to capture and hold the bridge over the Rhine ahead of the advancing British Second Army. Nine days later, after some of the fiercest street-fighting of the war, 2000 paratroopers managed to escape to safety. Made famous by the film A BRIDGE TOO FAR

DKK 127.00
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The Letters of Private Wheeler - B.h. Liddell Hart - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The Letters of Private Wheeler - B.h. Liddell Hart - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

''In a later age he would have become a successful war correspondent ... We have no more human account of the Peninsular War from a participant in all its battles. Vivid images - of people, landscapes, events - flows from his pen ... One of military history''s great originals'' John Keegan, DAILY TELEGRAPHThese letters, in the form of a frank and amusing diary, were written by a private in Wellington''s army who fought throughout the Napoleonic Wars. Private Wheeler''s record covers the Peninsular Campaign, keeping order during the coronation of Louis XVIII (whom he called ''an old bloated poltroon'') and his later posting to Corfu.Most of all, Wheeler''s account of the historic Battle of Waterloo - written before the muskets of battle had cooled - reveals him to be a master of lively anecdote and mischievous characterisation.

DKK 127.00
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Ravensoul - James Barclay - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Ravensoul - James Barclay - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The Raven: The final stand.NOT EVEN DEATH CAN STOP THEM.The Unknown Warrior has spent last ten years mourning his dead - those of the legendary mercenary band, The Raven, who fell in battle. As the reluctant ruler of Balaia, he has also presided over the gradual recovery of his land after the devastation wreaked by the Demonstorm. The other survivor from The Raven, Denser, has spent those years rebuilding Xetesk to be the dominant college of magic.But something is wrong. The Elves are fleeing their homeland, as rumours of the dead coming back to life ... of something that has so terrified the spirits of the dead that they are returning to Balaia. And amongst them are The Raven''s fallen. The legendary band are together again - just in time to face a battle that cannot be won ...

DKK 141.00
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Bosworth - Chris Skidmore - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Bosworth - Chris Skidmore - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Richard III and Henry Tudor''s legendary battle: one that changed the course of English history. On the morning of 22 August 1485, in fields several miles from Bosworth, two armies faced each other, ready for battle. The might of Richard III''s army was pitted against the inferior forces of the upstart pretender to the crown, Henry Tudor, a 28-year-old Welshman who had just arrived back on British soil after 14 years in exile. Yet this was to be a fight to the death - only one man could survive; only one could claim the throne.It would become one of the most legendary battles in English history: the only successful invasion since Hastings, it was the last time a king died on the battlefield. But BOSWORTH is much more than the account of the dramatic events of that fateful day in August. It is a tale of brutal feuds and deadly civil wars, and the remarkable rise of the Tudor family from obscure Welsh gentry to the throne of England - a story that began 60 years earlier with Owen Tudor''s affair with Henry V''s widow, Katherine of Valois.Drawing on eyewitness reports, newly discovered manuscripts and the latest archaeological evidence, Chris Skidmore vividly recreates this battle-scarred world in an epic saga of treachery and ruthlessness, death and deception and the birth of the Tudor dynasty.

DKK 141.00
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The Book of the Dead - Lincoln Child - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The Book of the Dead - Lincoln Child - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The final battle between good and evil. Only one will survive... The New York Museum of Natural History receives their stolen gem collection back...ground down to dust. Diogenes, the psychotic killer who stole them in DANCE OF DEATH, is throwing down the gauntlet to both the city and to his brother, FBI Agent Pendergast, who is currently incarcerated in a maximum security prison.To quell the PR nightmare of the gem fiasco, the museum decides to reopen the Tomb of Senef. An astounding Egyptian temple, it was a popular museum exhibit until the 1930s, when it was quietly closed. But when the tomb is unsealed in preparation for its gala reopening, the killings - and whispers of an ancient curse - begin again. And the catastrophic opening itself sets the stage for the final battle between the two brothers: an epic clash from which only one will emerge alive.

DKK 139.00
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The Last Crusaders: Ivan the Terrible - William Napier - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The Last Crusaders: Ivan the Terrible - William Napier - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Hardened by battle, seasoned by war, four adventurers caught in the path of one of history''s most enigmatic leaders. 1571. At the great naval battle of Lepanto the Ottoman Empire is finally defeated, and it seems that Europe is safe.But then Nicholas Ingoldsby is summoned to London by the Queen herself and sent on a diplomatic mission to Constantinople, the heart of the old enemy - and then onward, to a little-known but rising power called Muscovy, ruled by a deranged but cunning czar - Ivan the Terrible.The rise of Muscovy has also caught the attention of the Ottomans; and their allies, the wild Tatar horsemen of the Asiatic steppes, Russia''s ancient enemy. Soon Nicholas and his fellow travellers are caught up in their most dangerous adventure yet, trapped in a doomed Muscovy with a vast army of Tatar tribesmen riding down upon them, vowed to burn the city to the ground and extinguish Russia for ever...

DKK 123.00
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