An account of the last major operation in the West in
World War II, the entrapment and destruction of Model's
Army Group. The end of the war in Europe was in sight, but
there remained one last major battle to be fought: The
Battle of the Ruhr Pocket. The desperate battle arose from
Eisenhower's surprise abandonment of the race for Berlin,
choosing instead to encircle Field Marshal Walter Model
and his 300,000 troops of Army Group B in the shattered
heartland of the Reich. Victory was won in a battle that
perhaps never should have been fought - a battle whose
result was the division of Europe by the so called 'Iron
Curtain'
Very good in d/w - 245pp, photos,
maps, bibliography, index.
The story of volunteer citizen armies from 1799 to
1939. Amongst those conflicts featured are the American
and French Revolutions, uprisings in South America, The
First World War, The Spanish Civil War, Mao Tse Tung's Red
Army and the various Irish conflicts. The book examines
the true significance of the citizen army when political
problems are not susceptible to a normal military
solution.
Good in d/w - 255pp, 23 ills, 9 maps,
bibliography, index
The history of war propaganda, from the ancient world
to the nuclear age. Samples include stone monuments,
coins, broadsheets, paintings, pamphlets, radio, film and
television. Looks at the impact of printing in the 15th
Century, the revolutions of the 20th Century, and the
advent of global communications.
A concise study of two hundred of the most significant
leaders in land warfare from the 10th to 20th Century.
Amongst those featured are such legendary leaders as
William the Conqueror, Saladin, Richard Coeur de Lion,
Edward Plantagenet (The Black Prince), Oliver Cromwell,
John Churchill Duke of Marlborough, George Washington,
Napoleon Bonaparte, Ulysses S Grant, Horatio Herbert
Kitchener, Douglas Haig, Douglas MacArthur, Sir Claude
Auchinleck, Fritz Erich von Manstein, Charles de Gaulle,
Heinz Guderian, Dwight D Eisenhower and many more.
