Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Guerras y conflictos

One of the last cavalry units to ride horses into battle, the Sherwood Rangers were transformed into a “mechanized cavalry” of tanks in 1942. After winning acclaim in the North African campaign, they spearheaded one of the D-Day landings in Normandy and became the first British troops to cross into Germany. Their courage, skill, and tenacity contributed mightily to the surrender of Germany in 1945.

Pietro Badoglio, Ugo Cavallero, Francesco Saverio Grazioli, e ancora Umberto di Savoia, Ettore Bastico e Carlo Favagrossa: chi erano i generali di mussolini? Come si sono formati e che influenza hanno avuto sulle strategie militari e politiche del Duce? Questo libro ripercorre la carriera dei generali del regime, analizzandone con rigore storico le mosse vincenti, le operazioni riuscite, ma anche gli errori tattici e le cocenti sconfitte.

In questa nuova edizione il volume, fortemente innovativo per tesi, documentazione e metodo, ha segnato uno spartiacque negli studi sulla prima guerra mondiale. Le riviste dell'età della "Voce", i fogli interventisti, i diari di trincea e la letteratura sulla guerra: rileggendo questa sterminata produzione Isnenghi ha ricostruito l'atteggiamento di una intera generazione di intellettuali italiani nei confronti dell'intervento e poi dell'esperienza bellica.

Vienna, 1971. In un appartamento nel cuore della città una giovane donna sta per incontrare sua madre. Non si vedono da trent'anni. Helga era bambina quando, in una Berlino già sventrata dalle bombe, la madre aveva abbandonato il marito e i figli per entrare volontaria nelle SS. Ora, dopo pochi formali abbracci, la conduce verso un armadio dentro al quale è riposta una perfetta uniforme nazista. Sospira, nostalgica. E Helga scappa, corre per le scale, si allontana per sempre da lei e da quella implacabile fedeltà.

Se c'è una battaglia che ha compromesso in modo definitivo il sogno di gloria di Hitler, è senza dubbio quella di Stalingrado. Dal 23 agosto 1942 al 10 marzo 1943 la VI Armata tedesca, condotta da Paulus, fu inchiodata dal tenace attaccamento dei russi alla città che portava il nome del loro leader. Uno scontro senza esclusione di colpi, con due fronti che si battevano all'ultimo sangue con una sola direttiva: annientare il nemico. Vincitori in estate, i tedeschi vennero però decimati dal terribile inverno russo e dalla strenua opposizione del popolo sovietico.

Patton foi um dos personagens mais famosos e controversos da Segunda Guerra Mundial. General competente e carismático, ficou conhecido pelas suas falas pouco convencionais, como aquela da famosa cena de abertura do filme que leva seu nome. Originário de uma família rica e poderosa (sendo considerado o mais rico oficial do Exército dos eua na sua época), Patton era capaz de falar com a linguagem simples dos soldados. Seu poder de persuasão podia levar a tropa aos maiores sacrifícios, o que fazia dele um comandante amado e odiado ao mesmo tempo.

First published in 1961, John Hope Franklin’s revelatory study of the Reconstruction Era is a landmark work of history, exploring the role of former slaves and dispelling longstanding popular myths about corruption and Radical rule. Looking past dubious scholarship that had previously dominated the narrative, Franklin combines astute insight and careful research to provide an accurate, comprehensive portrait of the era.

Sommer 1938: Die Situation für die Juden in Deutschland wird immer schwieriger. Manfred Gans, 16 Jahre alt, verlässt seine Heimat, seine Eltern und seine Jugendliebe Anita und geht nach England. Sieben Jahre später im Mai 1945 ist er zurück! In den Tagen der deutschen Kapitulation fährt er mit neuer Identität durch seine einstige Heimat, quer durch das Deutsche Reich. Er hofft, seine Eltern noch lebend im Konzentrationslager zu finden. Und Anita? Werden sie sich wiedersehen?

Es ist einer der größten Skandale der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte: ein Flughafen, der einst das neue Drehkreuz Europas werden sollte. Ein Flughafen, der die Erfolgsgeschichte des Qualitätslabels "Made in Germany" fortschreiben sollte. Ein Flughafen, der so nie hätte gebaut werden dürfen. Ein Flughafen, der nicht fertig wird.

The author is the son of broadcaster and adventurer Macdonald Hastings, and journalist and gardening writer Anne Scott-James. Max’s father roamed the world for newspapers and as a presenter for BBC TV’s legendary 'Tonight' programme, while his mother edited 'Harper’s Bazaar', became a famous columnist and wrote bestselling gardening books. One of Max’s grandfathers was a literary editor, while the other wrote plays and essays.

In August 2006, many senior U.S. officials thought America had lost the war in Iraq, as the senior U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer there wrote that control of al Anbar Province, the seat of the raging Sunni insurgency, was irrevocably lost to the insurgents. In January 2007, the 3rd Battalion, 69th Armored Regiment deployed to Ramadi as part of the 3rd Infantry Division, the first regular Army unit to deploy to Iraq for a third time. The battalion and its went to work in a campaign that will be seen as the D-Day of the Global War on Terror.

Long relegated to a secondary position behind Gettysburg, Vicksburg has more recently earned consideration by historians as the truly decisive battle of the Civil War. Indeed, Vicksburg is fascinating on many levels. A focal point of both western armies, the Federal campaign of maneuver that finally isolated the Confederates in the city was masterful. The Navy’s contribution to the Federal victory was significant. The science of the fortifications and siege tactics are rich in detail.

This book describes the often overlooked World War II campaign for Norway - a complex series of battles in which Hitler out-gambled Churchill in order to secure a vital resource lifeline for the Third Reich. After Hitler conquered Poland and was still fine-tuning his plans against France, the British began to exert control of the coastline of neutral Norway, an action that threatened to cut off Germany’s iron-ore conduit to Sweden and outflank from the start its hegemony on the Continent.

Col. Mark James Alexander was the only airborne officer to lead three different battalions into combat in World War II, successively commanding the 2nd and 1st Battalions, 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, and the 2nd Battalion, 508 PIR, of the 82nd Airborne Division. A legend in his own time, he fought in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France, and even after being seriously wounded in Normandy, insisted on playing a role in the Battle of the Bulge.

During the second half of 1943, after the failure at Kursk, Germany’s Army Group South fell back from Russia under repeated hammer blows from the Red Army. Under Erich von Manstein, however, the Germans were able to avoid serious defeats, while at the same time fending off Hitler’s insane orders to hold on to useless territory. Then, in January 1944, a disaster happened.

The fires on Bataan burned on the evening of April 9, 1942 - illuminating the white flags of surrender against the nighttime sky. Woefully outnumbered, outgunned, and ill-equipped, battered remnants of the American-Philippine army surrendered to the forces of the Rising Sun. Yet amongst the chaos and devastation of the American defeat, Army Captain Donald D. Blackburn refused to lay down his arms.

Harold Guard became a war correspondent quite by chance, after he had been invalided out of the navy following a submarine accident. Thereafter, working for United Press, he gained a front row seat to many of the most dramatic battles and events of the century. In March 1942 Guard arrived in Australia, having narrowly escaped from Japanese forces invading Singapore and Java. His dispatches from that disastrous front prompted one observer to comment on “the crisis days when everybody except Harold Guard was trying to hush up the real situation.”

In this long awaited work one of the squad’s integral members - and probably its best soldier - reveals his own inside account of fighting as a spearhead of the Screaming Eagles in Normandy, Market Garden, and the Battle of the Bulge.

An inside account of the South Vietnamese elites who strove to carry on the war against the Communists during the US Army’s withdrawal. The book is a personal memoir of the author’s service as a US Army advisor during the end stages of America’s involvement in Vietnam. During the period 1970–71, the US was beginning to draw down its combat forces, and the new watchword was “Vietnamization.”

This is a true story of war, the story of one man's transformation as he retraces the mine-strewn roads of a land itself transformed by mankind's most shockingly inhuman practice. It is the firsthand account of a member of one of the United States Army's three-man Tactical Psychological Operations Teams, groups of men tasked with winning the hearts and minds of Iraq's civilian population through leaflets, loudspeakers, conversation, and bribery.