Caudine Forks 321 BC: Rome's Humiliation in the Second Samnite War, Paperback - Nic Fields

A highly illustrated account of one of Ancient Rome's most humiliating defeats, the battle of the Caudine Forks in 321 BC, and how the embarrassmen...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Nic FieldsIllustration(s): Colour illustrations throughout, including battlescene artworks, maps, 3D...

The Third Samnite War was a crucial turning point in the early history of the Rome, with her very survival on the line.

In 52 BC Caesar's continued strategy of annihilation had engendered a spirit of desperation, which detonated into a revolt of Gallic tribes under t...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Nic FieldsIllustration(s): Colour illustrations throughout, including profiles, technical drawings, ...

Describes and analyses the campaigns that saw the rise of the Roman empire in the East.Illustrations: 17 black and white illustrations

DescriptionDuring the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaign...

Highlights a neglected war between the two superpowers of the era.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Gareth C SampsonIllustration(s): 20 il...

The peace that followed the First Punic War was shallow and fractious, with the resumption of hostilities in 218 BC sparked by Carthaginian expansi...

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Robin Brook's action-packed book describes the military airfields of Berkshire during the last war, including Greenham Common, Membury, Welford, an...

A concise and authoritative account of North Korea's post war historyIllustrations: 20 illustrations

Previously untold stories and unpublished photographs of Norwich in wartimePublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Neil R StoreyIllustration(s):...

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Aceste volume ofera o relatare concisa si lucida a unor campanii militare (...), precum si o analiza patrunzatoare a strategiilor si a modului de c...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

When the Romans occupied the southern half of Britain in AD 43, the Iceni tribe quickly allied themselves with the invaders. Having paid tribute to...

The publication of this book in 1999 provided the first detailed examination of the many Irish men and women, all volunteers, who served in the Sec...

DescriptionIn the year AD 9, three Roman legions were crushed by the German warlord Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. This event is w...

Before becoming the masters of the Mediterranean world, the Romans had first to conquer the Italian peninsula in a series of harsh conflicts agains...

An insightful look at the use of black propaganda during the Second World War

Reducere. The success of these operations can be measured by the fact that by 1943 the Germans were almost wholly dependent on double agents for news of what...

Reducere. Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War ...

New paperback edition - The experiences of the German fighter pilots in the Second World War, based on extensive recollections of veterans as well ...

Description*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "His character too had i...

Highlights two significant but neglected episodes in Roman social and military history.

Reducere. The battle to keep the nation fed during the Second World War was waged by an army of workers on the land and the resourcefulness of the housewives...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Paul BrickhillNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 128 x 196 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedes...

Publisher: Manchester University PressAuthor(s): Corinna (Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural History) Peniston-BirdIllustration(s): Illustratio...

The first book to fully explore the uniform and style of young people in the Second World War

DescriptionThough World War II took place after the development of color photography, nearly all of the familiar images of it are in black and whit...

Reducere. The Second World War gripped Poland as it did no other country in Europe. Invaded by both Germany and the Soviet Union, it remained under occupatio...

This book reveals the myths and mayhem which accompanied the three waves of wartime evacuation and documents the experiences of evacuees in their o...