Tag: Bloodiest

Free Download The Battle of Antietam: America’s Bloodiest Day by VIVEK SINGH
English | October 12, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DJZDZB5Y | 135 pages | EPUB | 1.31 Mb
Step back in time to September 17, 1862, when the small town of Sharpsburg, Maryland, became the site of America’s bloodiest day-the Battle of Antietam. This meticulously researched book, "The Battle of Antietam: America’s Bloodiest Day," offers a comprehensive guide to one of the most significant events in American Civil War history. Dive into the intense battles and strategies that defined this conflict, where Union and Confederate forces clashed with unprecedented ferocity.

Free Download Operation Tidal Wave: The Bloodiest Air Battle in the History of War by Vincent dePaul Lupiano
English | December 1, 2020 | ISBN: 1493053728 | 272 pages | PDF | 4.21 Mb
Operation Tidal Wave tells the story of the bloodiest air battle in the history of war. It is about 1700 airmen who set out to bomb the oil refineries surrounding the city of Ploesti, Romania, on August 1, 1943. Success, they thought, would be a force in ending the war. Success instead was extremely limited and 500 airmen were killed, wounded, captured, or interned. Negligible damage resulted at the Ploesti refineries, and a few months later they were operating at one-hundred percent capacity. To show the asperity of the raid, five Congressional Medals of Honor were awarded, two posthumously.

Free Download Jon Cooksey, "3 Para Mount Longdon: the Bloodiest Battle"
English | 2004 | pages: 112 | ISBN: 1844151158 | EPUB | 28,5 mb
June 1982, and in the middle of a South Atlantic winter, the Falklands War is at its height. The Parachute Regiment has already been in action – 2 Para securing a hard fought victory at Darwin-Goose Green at a heavy price in killed and wounded including their CO, Lieutenant Colonel ‘H’ Jones, later awarded a posthumous VC.

Free Download Graham Turner, "Towton 1461: England’s bloodiest battle"
English | 2003 | pages: 97 | ISBN: 1841765139, 0275988597 | PDF | 10,3 mb
On a bitterly cold Palm Sunday, 29 March 1461, the army of King Edward IV met that of his Lancastrian enemies on a snow-covered battlefield south of the village of Towton in Yorkshire. The struggle lasted all day in the longest and bloodiest battle of the Wars of the Roses (1455-1485). With the arrival of Yorkist reinforcements under the Duke of Norfolk, the Lancastrian line eventually broke and their troops fled, many being caught and slaughtered in the death trap known as ‘Bloody Meadow’. Christopher Gravett examines the campaign that marked the resurgence of the Yorkist cause and established Edward IV as king