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Free Download Abandoned by Napoleon in Russia’s Depths, Marshal Michel Ney’s Rear Guard’s Struggle for Survival by Phillip Thomas Tucker
English | August 8, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DCP7NMGG | 109 pages | EPUB | 0.64 Mb
Napoleon described Marshal Michel Ney as the "bravest of the brave" for his stirring achievements and exploits in commanding the rearguard of the reeling Grande Armee during the 1812 retreat from Moscow. This current book is the first volume of the most stirring drama of the Napoleonic Wars. Ney was Napoleon’s finest marshal and he demonstrated this reality in full during the Russia Campaign, which was Napoleon’s greatest mistake of his distinguished career that resulted in the destruction of the Grande Armee.

Free Download Theodore Evergates, "Geoffroy of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne: His Life and Memoirs of the Fourth Crusade "
English | ISBN: 1501773496 | 2024 | 252 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Geoffroy of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne by Theodore Evergates traces the remarkable life of Geoffroy of Villehardouin (c. 1148-c. 1217) from his earliest years in Champagne through his last years in Greece after the crusade.

Free Download Henrik Meinander, Bruce Mann (Narrator), "Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland: A Life in Geopolitics"
English | ASIN: B0D18JYDTQ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:17:00 | 289 MB
Field marshal and statesman Gustaf Mannerheim (1867-1951) was the most acclaimed and the most hated Finn of the twentieth century. After three decades of loyal and distinguished service in the Russian Tsarist army, he returned to his homeland in 1917 to defend its new independence. This iconic figure led the Finnish forces as Commander-in-Chief during both World Wars, then ended his career as President of Finland.
This new critical biography sets Mannerheim’s entire life’s work, and his often nerve-wracking decisions as a Finnish leader on the world stage, against the backdrop of his elite upbringing and lifestyle, his adventurous imperial career, his outspoken anti-communism, and his keen instincts for great power politics. Painful details emerge about Mannerheim’s private life, and myths and rumors are scrutinized, as Henrik Meinander charts the complex legacy of this nationalist cosmopolitan who found himself fighting on the same side as Hitler.
Meinander paints his portrait with strong contrasts and bright colors. This is the story of a multicultural Russian empire, a newborn nation-state treading warily between Europe’s military titans, a front of the Second World War not easily reduced to moral binaries-and, above all, a shrewd political operator playing many a dangerous game.

Free Download Phillip Warner, "Phillip Warner – Field Marshal Earl Haig"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1859595618 | EPUB | pages: 170 | 8.5 mb
Douglas Haig is probably the most controversial figure in British military history. No previous commander ever oversaw such enormous casualties. By 1917 Haig commanded the largest army Britain had ever put into the field; over two million men. The horrors of the First World War still stun the imagination and make it almost impossible for the ordinary reader to reach a calm appraisal of Haig, particularly since opinions among military historians and biographers have varied widely. He has been condemned by critics as a butcher who condoned mass slaughter, while sympathetic writers have shown him as a sound professional who did astonishingly well when faced with a virtually impossible task. Philip Warner’s new biography of Haig’s is neither a eulogy nor a condemnation. It sets out to assess objectively the task Haig faced and what measure of success he achieved. In so doing Warner traces the development of a man who at the outset of his career seemed to his contemporaries merely an undistinguished, industrious junior officer, but became a leader or iron self control who presided over the army that won the most gruelling war in history.

Free Download France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain by Julian Jackson
English | September 19th, 2023 | ISBN: 024145025X, 014199309X | 480 pages | True EPUB | 30.66 MB
One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French history

Free Download Vincent Orange, "Park: The Biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park"
English | 2012 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1902304616 | EPUB | 4,3 mb
‘If ever any one man won the Battle of Britain, he did. I don’t believe it is realized how much that one man, with his leadership, his calm judgment and his skill, did to save not only this country, but the world.’