The Encyclopedia Of Nineteenth Century Land Warfare

Author : Byron Farwell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0393047709

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The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-century Land Warfare by Byron Farwell Pdf

The late Byron Farwell served as an engineer in the British forces of World War II and was an author of at least seven books on various aspects of military history. In this encyclopedia, a labor of love intended for both scholars and general readers, entries include information on wars, revolutions, battles, sieges, spies, soldiers, technical military terms, weapons, and other aspects of 19th-centruy wars and military life. The length of an entry does not necessarily correspond to its importance. Some lesser conflicts and minor personalities are given more space, because information is not readily available elsewhere; and conversely, if information on a topic is widely available, the entry is short. Small bandw images enhance the text. A selected bibliography is included at the end of the volume. Indexing, at least by country or general topic would have improved this otherwise carefully prepared reference. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Ray Bonds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : LCCN:07641073

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The Encyclopedia of Land Warfare in the 20th Century by Ray Bonds Pdf

Author : William T. Walker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313354052

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Term Paper Resource Guide to Nineteenth-Century World History by William T. Walker Pdf

With this guide, major help for nineteenth-century World History term papers has arrived to enrich and stimulate students in challenging and enjoyable ways. Show students an exciting and easy path to a deep learning experience through original term paper suggestions in standard and alternative formats, including recommended books, websites, and multimedia. Students from high school age to undergraduate can get a jumpstart on assignments with the hundreds of term paper suggestions and research information offered here in an easy-to-use format. Users can quickly choose from the 100 important events, spanning the period from the Haitian Revolution that ended in 1804 to the Boer War of 1899-1902. With this book, the research experience is transformed and elevated. Term Paper Resource Guide to Nineteenth-Century World History is a superb source with which to motivate and educate students who have a wide range of interests and talents. Coverage includes key wars and revolts, independence movements, and theories that continue to have tremendous impact.

Author : Franklin D. Margiotta
Publisher : Booksales
Page : 1141 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0762851694

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Brassey's Encyclopedia of Land Forces and Warfare by Franklin D. Margiotta Pdf

Author : Daniel K. Blewett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781598844986

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American Military History by Daniel K. Blewett Pdf

In this companion volume to his 1995 bibliography of the same title, Daniel Blewett continues his foray into the vast literature of military studies. As did its predecessor, it covers land, air, and naval forces, primarily but not exclusively from a U.S. perspective, with the welcome emergence of small wars from publishing obscurity. In addition to identifying relevant organizations and associations, Blewett has gathered together the very best in chronologies, bibliographies, biographical dictionaries, indexes, journals abstracts, glossaries, and encyclopedias, each accompanied by a brief descriptive annotation. This work remains a pertinent addition to the general reference collections of public and academic libraries as well as special libraries, government documents collections, military and intelligence agency libraries, and historical societies and museums.

Author : Harold E. Raugh Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781576079263

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The Victorians at War, 1815-1914 by Harold E. Raugh Jr. Pdf

Capturing the strength of the British Army from 1815 to 1914, this groundbreaking reference presents the most recent research on the most significant wars, campaigns, battles, and leaders. The Victorians at War*, 1815–1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History surveys the major wars, campaigns, battles, and expeditions of the British Army as well as its weaponry, tactics, and all other aspects of its operations from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the dawn of World War I. Containing numerous maps depicting various theaters of war, this all-encompassing volume explains why the numerous military operations took place and what the results were. Biographies reveal fascinating facts about British and Indian Army officers and other ranks, while other entries deal with recruitment, training, education and literacy, uniforms, equipment, pay and conditions, social backgrounds of the soldiers, diseases and wounds they fell victim to, and much more. This volume is indispensable to those wanting to gain information about the British Army during this remarkable imperial era.

Author : Charles M. Hubbard
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780809334544

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Lincoln, the Law, and Presidential Leadership by Charles M. Hubbard Pdf

"The essays in this book focus on Lincoln's views on the rule of law and the Constitution and expose the difficulty and ambiguity associated with the protection of civil rights during the Civil War"--

Author : Dennis W. Belcher
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476639918

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The Cavalries in the Nashville Campaign by Dennis W. Belcher Pdf

The Nashville Campaign, culminating with the last major battle of the Civil War, is one of the most compelling and controversial campaigns of the conflict. The campaign pitted the young and energetic James Harrison Wilson and his Union cavalry against the cunning and experienced Nathan Bedford Forrest with his Confederate cavalry. This book is an analysis of contributions made by the two opposing cavalry forces and provides new insights and details into the actions of the cavalry during the battle. This campaign highlighted important changes in cavalry tactics and never in the Civil War was there closer support by the cavalry for infantry actions than for the Union forces in the Battle of Nashville. The retreat by Cheatham's corps and the Battle of the Barricade receive a more in-depth discussion than in previous works on this battle. The importance of this campaign cannot be overstated as a different outcome of this battle could have altered history. The Nashville Campaign reflected the stark realities of the war across the country in December 1864 and would mark an important part of the death knell for the Confederacy.

Author : Bob Cordery
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780244874827

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The Portable Colonial Wargame by Bob Cordery Pdf

The author has been a confirmed colonial wargamer for over forty years, and took part in the famous Madasahatta Campaign that was run by the late Eric Knowles. This interest has grown over the years, and has finally resulting in the writing of this book. Please note that all the rules have been designed to be used with a gridded tabletop made up of squares or hexes. This book has fourteen chapters, two sets of rules, two exemplar battle reports, two appendices, a list of sources of inspiration, and over one hundred and ten illustrations.

Author : Megan Kate Nelson
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501152559

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The Three-Cornered War by Megan Kate Nelson Pdf

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History A dramatic, riveting, and “fresh look at a region typically obscured in accounts of the Civil War. American history buffs will relish this entertaining and eye-opening portrait” (Publishers Weekly). Megan Kate Nelson “expands our understanding of how the Civil War affected Indigenous peoples and helped to shape the nation” (Library Journal, starred review), reframing the era as one of national conflict—involving not just the North and South, but also the West. Against the backdrop of this larger series of battles, Nelson introduces nine individuals: John R. Baylor, a Texas legislator who established the Confederate Territory of Arizona; Louisa Hawkins Canby, a Union Army wife who nursed Confederate soldiers back to health in Santa Fe; James Carleton, a professional soldier who engineered campaigns against Navajos and Apaches; Kit Carson, a famous frontiersman who led a regiment of volunteers against the Texans, Navajos, Kiowas, and Comanches; Juanita, a Navajo weaver who resisted Union campaigns against her people; Bill Davidson, a soldier who fought in all of the Confederacy’s major battles in New Mexico; Alonzo Ickis, an Iowa-born gold miner who fought on the side of the Union; John Clark, a friend of Abraham Lincoln’s who embraced the Republican vision for the West as New Mexico’s surveyor-general; and Mangas Coloradas, a revered Chiricahua Apache chief who worked to expand Apache territory in Arizona. As we learn how these nine charismatic individuals fought for self-determination and control of the region, we also see the importance of individual actions in the midst of a larger military conflict. Based on letters and diaries, military records and oral histories, and photographs and maps from the time, “this history of invasions, battles, and forced migration shapes the United States to this day—and has never been told so well” (Pulitzer Prize–winning author T.J. Stiles).

Author : Johanna Luggin,Sebastian Fink
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783658278595

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Battle Descriptions as Literary Texts by Johanna Luggin,Sebastian Fink Pdf

Battle descriptions are usually seen as the raw material of the military historian, who uses them to explain why generals won or lost a given battle. This volume does not aim to contribute to this discussion; it rather approaches battle descriptions as literary texts that interact with the expectations of a given audience. Therefore literary traditions in structure, vocabulary and topics of battle descriptions should be explored. The transgression of genre-borders – also literary and fictional texts are included – and a broad comparative approach, combining evidence from the third millennium BC up to the 20th century AD, makes cultural specifics and differences more easily perceivable. Contents With contributions by Marcos Such-Guttiérrez, Pavel Čech, Hilmar Klinkott, Wolfgang Oswald, Kai Ruffing, Oliver Stoll, Martin M. Bauer, Reinhold Bichler, Christian Mileta, Simon Lentzsch, Sven Günther, Dennis Pulina, Johanna Luggin, Sonjar Koroliov, Magdalena Gronau and Martin Gronau. The Editors Dr. Johanna Luggin is a post-doc researcher in the ERC-funded project “NOSCEMUS – Nova Scientia: Early Modern Science and Latin” in Innsbruck, Austria. Dr. Sebastian Fink is a postdoctoral researcher at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence “Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions”.

Author : Kaveh Farrokh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780962405

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Iran at War by Kaveh Farrokh Pdf

Following on from his award-winning book on the history of ancient Persia, Kaveh Farrokh goes on to examine Iran's wartime history from the Safavid dynasty of the 16th and 17th century through to the 1979 Revolution and beyond. He shows how the early military successes were followed by centuries of defeat as the external influences of nations like Russia and Britain began to shape the internal history of Iran, before unraveling the complex, violent 20th century military history of the country, which encompasses two world wars, regional movements, foreign intervention, anti-government revolts, conflicts on the Soviet border, a revolution and an eight-year war with Iraq. Illustrated with contemporary illustrations and photographs this book provides an unparalleled investigation into the bloody martial history of Iran.

Author : Hew Strachan,Sibylle Scheipers
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191618895

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The Changing Character of War by Hew Strachan,Sibylle Scheipers Pdf

Over the last decade (and indeed ever since the Cold War), the rise of insurgents and non-state actors in war, and their readiness to use terror and other irregular methods of fighting, have led commentators to speak of 'new wars'. They have assumed that the 'old wars' were waged solely between states, and were accordingly fought between comparable and 'symmetrical' armed forces. Much of this commentary has lacked context or sophistication. It has been bounded by norms and theories more than the messiness of reality. Fed by the impact of the 9/11 attacks, it has privileged some wars and certain trends over others. Most obviously it has been historically unaware. But it has also failed to consider many of the other dimensions which help us to define what war is - legal, ethical, religious, and social. The Changing Character of War, the fruit of a five-year interdisciplinary programme at Oxford of the same name, draws together all these themes, in order to distinguish between what is really changing about war and what only seems to be changing. Self-evidently, as the product of its own times, the character of each war is always changing. But if war's character is in flux, its underlying nature contains its own internal consistency. Each war is an adversarial business, capable of generating its own dynamic, and therefore of spiralling in directions that are never totally predictable. War is both utilitarian, the tool of policy, and dysfunctional. This book brings together scholars with world-wide reputations, drawn from a clutch of different disciplines, but united by a common intellectual goal: that of understanding a problem of extraordinary importance for our times. This book is a project of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : OSU:32435070577176

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Parameters by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Indiana by Anonim Pdf