Military Dispatches

Author : The Duke of Wellington
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141394329

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Military Dispatches by The Duke of Wellington Pdf

The vivid and exciting accounts written from the front line, taking the story of the British war with Napoleon from its desperate beginnings in Portugal to the final triumph at Waterloo The Duke of Wellington was not only an incomparable battle commander but a remarkably expressive, fluent and powerful writer. His dispatches have long been viewed as classics of military literature and have been pillaged by all writers on the Peninsular War and the final campaigns in France and Belgium ever since they were published. This new selection allows the reader to follow the extraordinary epic in Wellington's own words - from the tentative beginnings in 1808, clinging to a small area of Portugal in the face of overwhelming French power across the whole of the rest of Europe, to the campaigns that over six years devastated opponent after opponent. The book ends with Wellington's invasion of France and the coda of 'the 100 days' that ended with Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo.

Author : Michael Herr
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307814166

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Dispatches by Michael Herr Pdf

"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.

Author : David Halton
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771038204

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Dispatches from the Front by David Halton Pdf

The first major biography of an iconic war correspondent sheds light on the personal life and fascinating career of a remarkable Canadian figure--and it's now available in paperback. "This is Matthew Halton of the CBC." So began Matthew Halton's war broadcasts. Originally a reporter for the Toronto Star, Matt Halton, as Senior War Correspondent for the CBC during the Second World War, reported from the front lines in Italy and Northwest Europe, and became "the voice of Canada at war." His reports were at times tender and sad and other times shocking and explosive. Covering the flashpoints of his generation--from the war trenches to the coronation of the Queen--Halton filed a series of reports warning that the Third Reich was "becoming a vast laboratory and breeding ground for war." For a decade he chronicled Europe's drift to disaster, covering the breakdown of the League of Nations, the Spanish Civil War, and the Nazi takeover of Austria and Czechoslovakia. Along the way he interviewed Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herman Goering, Neville Chamberlain, Charles de Gaulle, Mahatma Gandhi, and dozens of others who shaped the history of the last century. Drawing on extensive interviews and archival research, this definitive biography, written by Matthew's son, acclaimed former CBC correspondent David Halton, is a fascinating look at the career of one of the most accomplished journalists Canada has ever known.

Author : Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Generals
ISBN : 0141394315

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Military Dispatches by Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington Pdf

The Duke of Wellington was not only an incomparable commander in battle but also a remarkable writer. His dispatches have long been viewed as classics of military literature and have influenced all military accounts after his. This selection follows the campaign of the British against Napoleon in Wellington’s own words, telling the story of the conflict from its desperate beginnings in Portugal to the final triumph at Waterloo.

Author : John Geddes
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Iraq War, 2003-
ISBN : 9780767930253

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Highway to Hell by John Geddes Pdf

Geddes, a private military contractor, delivers a frontline report on life asa hired gun in Iraq.

Author : P. K. Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : African Americans
ISBN : IND:30000050402209

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Black Dispatches by P. K. Rose Pdf

Author : Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : CHI:096019055

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The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, During His Various Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France by Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington Pdf

Author : Declan Walsh
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393249927

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The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State by Declan Walsh Pdf

Winner of the 2021 Overseas Press Club of America Cornelius Ryan Award The former New York Times Pakistan bureau chief paints an arresting, up-close portrait of a fractured country. Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis—a chieftain readying for war at his desert fort, a retired spy skulking through the borderlands, and a crusading lawyer risking death for her beliefs, among others. Through these “nine lives” he describes a country on the brink—a place of creeping extremism and political chaos, but also personal bravery and dogged idealism that defy easy stereotypes. Unbeknownst to Walsh, however, an intelligence agent was tracking him. Written in the aftermath of Walsh’s abrupt deportation, The Nine Lives of Pakistan concludes with an astonishing encounter with that agent, and his revelations about Pakistan’s powerful security state. Intimate and complex, attuned to the centrifugal forces of history, identity, and faith, The Nine Lives of Pakistan offers an unflinching account of life in a precarious, vital country.

Author : Spencer Fitz-Gibbon
Publisher : James Clarke & Co.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Falkland Islands War, 1982
ISBN : 0718830164

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Not Mentioned in Despatches by Spencer Fitz-Gibbon Pdf

This controversial and very readable work examines in detail the decisive events of the Falklands War. With maps and diagrams the author takes us through the build-up to the conflict and the different stages of the battle, right up to the final surrender.

Author : Marc H. Abrams
Publisher : Westholme Pub Llc
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1594161569

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Sioux War Dispatches by Marc H. Abrams Pdf

The story of the Great Sioux War, including the battle of the Little Big Horn, as seen through the eyes of contemporary newspaper correspondents, both civilian and military. Many of these reports have not appeared in print since the first time they were published more than 130 years ago.

Author : Darren Ware
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Brothers
ISBN : 1906033579

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A Rendezvous with the Enemy by Darren Ware Pdf

As a Section Commander in one of the British Army's toughest Infantry regiments, Darren Ware spent a decade with the Royal Green Jackets and fought a vicious border war with the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland. It was in the border region that his brother lost his life in a massive unpredicted terrorist attack in 1991.

Author : Mike Bechthold
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806157863

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Flying to Victory by Mike Bechthold Pdf

Canadian-born flying ace Raymond Collishaw (1893–1976) served in Britain’s air forces for twenty-eight years. As a pilot in World War I he was credited with sixty-one confirmed kills on the Western Front. When World War II began in 1939, Air Commodore Collishaw commanded a Royal Air Force group in Egypt. It was in Egypt and Libya in 1940–41, during the Britain’s Western Desert campaign, that he demonstrated the tenets of an effective air-ground cooperation system. Flying to Victory examines Raymond Collishaw’s contribution to the British system of tactical air support—a pattern of operations that eventually became standard in the Allied air forces and proved to be a key factor in the Allied victory. The British Army and Royal Air Force entered the war with conflicting views on the issue of air support that hindered the success of early operations. It was only after the chastening failure of Operation Battleaxe in June 1941, fought according to army doctrine, that Winston Churchill shifted strategy on the direction of future air campaigns—ultimately endorsing the RAF's view of mission and target selection. This view adopted principles of air-ground cooperation that Collishaw had demonstrated in combat. Author Mike Bechthold traces the emergence of this strategy in the RAF air campaign in Operation Compass, the first British offensive in the Western Desert, in which Air Commodore Collishaw’s small force overwhelmed its Italian counterpart and disrupted enemy logistics. Flying to Victory details the experiences that prepared Collishaw so well for this campaign and that taught him much about the application of air power, especially how to work effectively with the army and Royal Navy. As Bechthold shows, these lessons learned altered the Allied approach to tactical air support and, ultimately, changed the course of the Second World War.

Author : Surjit Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1897829213

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Despatches from Soldiers' Oases by Surjit Singh Pdf

Author : James J. Barnes,Patience P. Barnes
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Diplomats
ISBN : 0873388313

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The American Civil War Through British Eyes Dispatches from British Diplomats: November 1860-April 1862 by James J. Barnes,Patience P. Barnes Pdf

Author : Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Europe
ISBN : IND:30000100791544

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The dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington by Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington Pdf