Tag: Battle

January 14, 2025

The Battle of Hastings

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Free Download Jim Bradbury, "The Battle of Hastings"
English | ISBN: 0750937947 | 2010 | 228 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
The Battle of Hastings is probably the best-known and perhaps the most significant battle in English history. Its effects were deeply felt at the time, causing a lasting shift in cultural identity and national pride. Jim Bradbury explores the full military background to the battle and investigates both the sources for our knowledge of what actually happened in 1066 and the role that the battle plays in national myth. The Battle of Hastings starts by looking at the Normans – who they were, where they came from – and the career of William before 1066. Next, Jim Bradbury turns to the Saxons in England, and to Harold Godwineson, successor to Edward the Confessor, and his attempts to create unity in the divided kingdom. The core of the book is a move-by-move reconstruction of the battle, including the advance planning, the site, the composition of the two armies and the use of archers, feigned fights and the death of Harold. This is a book that anyone interested in England’s most famous battle will find indispensable.

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January 13, 2025

Battle of Britain Attack of the Eagles

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Free Download Battle of Britain Attack of the Eagles: 13 August 1940 – 18 August 1940 by Dilip Sarkar MBE
English | July 2, 2024 | ISBN: 139905791X | 352 pages | PDF | 9.37 Mb
"Sarkar thoroughly researched and constructed this de-tailed narrative after careful deconstruction and forensic analysis of primary sources. His work as a trained detective and historian are evidence-based with actual facts driving the narrative."[/center]
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January 12, 2025

The Battle for the Pacific

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Free Download The Battle for the Pacific by Donald G. F. W. Macintyre
English | November 17, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DDJKGZLM | 306 pages | EPUB | 1.37 Mb
An absorbing and compelling study of the most intensive naval struggle the world has ever seen.[/center]
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January 12, 2025

Pillars of Fire The Battle of Messines Ridge June 1917

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Free Download Ian Passingham, "Pillars of Fire: The Battle of Messines Ridge June 1917"
English | ISBN: 0752476645 | 2012 | 256 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
"Gentleman, we may not make history tomorrow, but we shall certainly change the geography," so said General Plumer the day before 600 tons of explosives were detonated under the German position on Messines Ridge. The explosion was heard by Lloyd George in Downing Street and as far away as Dublin. Until 1918, Messines was the only clear cut Allied victory on the Western Front, coming at a time when Britain and her allies needed it most: boosting Allied morale and shattering that of the Germans. Precisely orchestrated, Messines was the first true all-arms modern battle which brought together artillery, engineers, infantry, tanks, aircraft and administrative units from a commonwealth of nations to defeat the common enemy. So why is its name not as familiar as the Somme, Passchendaele or Verdun? This book examines the battle for the Messines-Wytschaete Ridge from the British, ANZAC and German perspectives. Illustrated with archive photographs and maps, it is a major contribution to our understanding of one of the seminal battles of the First World War.

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January 12, 2025

Passchendaele 1917 The Third Battle of Ypres in Photographs

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Free Download Chris McNab, "Passchendaele 1917: The Third Battle of Ypres in Photographs"
English | ISBN: 0750978937 | 2017 | 120 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Fought over three torturous months in 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres, or Passchendaele, was one of the most pitiless and iconic sets of battles of the First World War. The fighting raged through some of the worst physical conditions of the entire conflict, across battlefields collapsing into endless mud and blood as the weather turned against them. When it ended, the front line had moved by only a few hundred yards. Casualties numbered 500,000. In his richly illustrated commemoration of this bloodiest of battles, Chris McNab brings to life the Passchendaele story using fact boxes, maps and poignant first-person accounts, while images from AirSeaLand Photos provide a stark, moving look at the horrific conditions men of all sides were tasked to fight in.

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