Penguin Books Ltd: A superb re-telling. Beevor combines a soldier's understanding of war's realities with the narrative... Zobraziť viac
The Battle for the Bridges, 1944 Zobraziť viac
On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas—- Zobraziť viac
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, ... Zobraziť viac
Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire... Zobraziť viac
Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era... Zobraziť viac