Tag: Campaigns

December 20, 2024

Decisions of the Galveston Campaigns The Twenty-One Critical Decisions That Defined the Operations

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Free Download Decisions of the Galveston Campaigns: The Twenty-One Critical Decisions That Defined the Operations (Command Decisions in America’s Civil War) by Edward T. Cotham
English | December 16th, 2024 | ISBN: 1621909131 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 8.34 MB
The Galveston Campaigns were a series of naval and overland battles that pitted Confederate General John B. Magruder and his often-improvised Confederate forces against General Nathaniel P. Banks and a variety of Union army and naval forces. A Federal fleet entered Galveston Bay on October 4, 1862, and the city surrendered after the expiration of a four-day truce. However, on New Year’s Day of 1863, Magruder coordinated a bold new attack to retake Galveston using a land bombardment and two cottonclad Confederate gunboats. Aided by victories at the Battle of Sabine Pass and two purely naval engagements in Texas waters, the city would remain in Southern hands and end the war as the last major Confederate port.

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November 26, 2024

Campaigns and Elections

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Free Download Daron Shaw, Keena Lipsitz, "Campaigns and Elections"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0393441687 | PDF | pages: 845 | 13.3 mb
The #1 book examines contemporary campaigns and elections―now updated through 2020

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September 17, 2024

The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand The German Campaigns of 1944-1945 [Audiobook]

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Free Download Robert M. Citino, Tom Beyer (Narrator), "The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945"
English | ASIN: B0DBJ8TL5J | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~25:29:00 | 714 MB
By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some historians have found explanations in the power of Hitler or the role of ideology, Robert M. Citino, the world’s leading scholar on the subject, posits a more straightforward solution: Bewegungskrieg, the way of war cultivated by the Germans over the course of history. In this book, Citino charts the path by which Bewegungskrieg, or a "war of movement," inexorably led to Nazi Germany’s defeat.
The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand analyzes the German Totenritt, or "death ride," from January 1944-with simultaneous Allied offensives at Anzio and Ukraine-until May 1945, the collapse of the Wehrmacht in the field, and the Soviet storming of Berlin. In clear and compelling prose, and bringing extensive reading of the German-language literature to bear, Citino focuses on the German view of these campaigns. Often very different from the Allied perspective, this approach allows for a more nuanced and far-reaching understanding of the last battles of the Wehrmacht than any now available. With Citino’s previous volumes, Death of the Wehrmacht and The Wehrmacht Retreats, The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand completes a uniquely comprehensive picture of the German army’s strategy, operations, and performance against the Allies in World War II.
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September 17, 2024

Death of the Wehrmacht The German Campaigns of 1942 [Audiobook]

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Free Download Robert M. Citino, Tom Beyer (Narrator), "Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942"
English | ASIN: B0D6P7GQNT | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~16:10:00 | 445 MB
For Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates and strategic retreats. In this major reevaluation of that crucial year, Robert Citino shows that the German army’s emerging woes were rooted as much in its addiction to the "war of movement"-attempts to smash the enemy in "short and lively" campaigns-as they were in Hitler’s deeply flawed management of the war.
From the overwhelming operational victories at Kerch and Kharkov in May to the catastrophic defeats at El Alamein and Stalingrad, Death of the Wehrmacht offers an eye-opening new view of that decisive year. Building upon his widely respected critique in The German Way of War, Citino shows how the campaigns of 1942 fit within the centuries-old patterns of Prussian/German warmaking and ultimately doomed Hitler’s expansionist ambitions. He examines every major campaign and battle in the Russian and North African theaters throughout the year to assess how a military geared to quick and decisive victories coped when the tide turned against it. More than the turning point of a war, 1942 marked the death of a very old and traditional pattern of warmaking, with the classic "German way of war" unable to meet the challenges of the twentieth century.
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September 13, 2024

Sudan 1885 (Australian Army Campaigns Series)

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Free Download Michael Tyquin, "Sudan: 1885 (Australian Army Campaigns Series)"
English | 2016 | pages: 200 | ISBN: 1922132993 | EPUB | 30,9 mb
The involvement of an Australian colonial military force in Britains Egyptian campaigns between 1883 and 1885 was very short, extending for only five months overall, including the pre-deployment phase. Consequently its influence on these campaigns was insignificant. Nevertheless, our involvement in the Sudan in 1885 is part of Australia’s military history. This book provides the context for Australia’s involvement in the Sudan, and follows operations chronologically. The call in the 1880s for jihad or ‘holy war’ by Sudanese leaders shows us that some of our current global challenges are not new.

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