Resultados para "William King" en Militar

L’eco dei colpi di cannone risuona nella pianura della Somme, mentre l’aria si fa densa di fumo e polvere. È il luglio del 1916, e la battaglia che sta per iniziare segnerà per sempre la storia dell’umanità. La battaglia della Somme, tra le più lunghe e sanguinose della Prima Guerra Mondiale, sarà una lotta impari tra l’esercito britannico e quello tedesco, con al centro la cittadina francese di Bapaume.

Il primo settembre 1939 la Germania invase la Polonia, segnando l’inizio della Seconda guerra mondiale in Europa. Fu l’esordio della Blitzkrieg, la “guerra lampo”, con le divisioni Panzer e i bombardieri Stuka in prima linea. Questa nuova produzione audio racconta la storia di un esercito polacco non così arretrato come viene spesso descritto, la sua tenace difesa infatti risultò una sorpresa per la Germania che subì perdite particolarmente pesanti per una campagna così breve.

Dicembre 1915, da oltre un anno l’Europa brucia. La guerra lampo dei tedeschi è fallita, ma sul fronte occidentale gli eserciti di Guglielmo II di Germania sembrano accingersi ad attaccare in forze uno dei punti strategici della linea difensiva francese, Verdun. Se la città fortificata cade, i tedeschi potranno spingersi fino a Parigi. A Febbraio 1916, ha inizio una delle più sanguinose battaglie della storia dell’uomo. Per quasi un anno, i due schieramenti combatterono nel fango e nella polvere, lasciando sui campi e negli ospedali oltre mezzo milione di soldati.

The tale of William the Conqueror is written down by numerous contemporaries with various perspectives. It's a tale that would inspire some, while fascinate and even terrify others. It’s a tale of a man from a seemingly small land rising to rule one of the most powerful, stable kingdoms in all of Europe at the time - a kingdom that would sow the seeds of an empire that would sprout many centuries later.

King William’s War actually encompassed several proxy wars being fought by the English and the French through their native allies. King William’s War: The First Contest for North America, 1689-1697 by Michael G. Laramie is the first book-length treatment of a war that proved crucial to the future of North America.

In the spring of 1839, Britain invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. On the way in, the British faced little resistance. But after two years of occupation, the Afghan people rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into violent rebellion. The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in Britain's greatest military humiliation of the 19th century.

In Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King, Thomas J. Balcerski explores the lives of these two politicians and discovers one of the most significant collaborations in American political history. He traces the parallels in the men's personal and professional lives before elected office, including their failed romantic courtships and the stories they told about them. Unlikely companions from the start, they lived together as congressional messmates in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse and became close confidantes. 

How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history? In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed...

This decidedly unusual book gives an excellent account of what its title purports. Rendering fresh views, not only of the poet and engraver William Blake and the radical democratic pamphleteer Thomas Paine, but of the entirety of that cavalcade of events encompassed under the rubric of revolution in the 18th century—in America, in France, and in the Caribbean island known today as Haiti, as well as of the reform and radical movements contemporaneous in Britain with the rise of empire and “industrialism”.

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. In a writing career that spanned over twenty years during the explosion of poetic and theatrical creativity of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, William Shakespeare produced a body of work that has become the bedrock of human...

A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second World War, and also the last. The ‘Devil Dogs’ of K Company, 3/5 Marines, were part of the legendary first...

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Nicknamed ‘The Anarchy' for its unprecedented levels of chaos and disorder, the succession crisis that followed the death of King Henry I in 1135 resulted in England's first civil war. ‘The Medieval Anarchy: History in an Hour’ neatly...

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. George Washington – a figure synonymous with American history. His image is known worldwide, marked on American currency, postage stamps – even a state is named after him. George Washington in an Hour explores the man beneath the symbol...

THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘As gripping as any thriller. History doesn't get any better than this’ BILL BRYSON ’A brilliant read … Game of Thrones but in the real world’ ANTHONY HOROWITZ PICKED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE GUARDIAN, THE DAILY MAIL AND...