Résultats pour "A" dans Armée et guerre

Military treatises have long fascinated readers, even those who are not military professionals, and people in other fields have long sought to apply the lessons learned in military treatises to other walks of life. As a result, an ancient Chinese writer who lived nearly 2,500 years ago remains...

From the pharaohs of ancient Egypt to the final decades of the British Empire, humanity’s greatest powers rose through ambition, military strength, political skill, technological innovation, and the ability to organize millions of lives.A "Brief History of Empires" takes readers across more...

Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., and the impossible burden of a famous name. Theodore Roosevelt taught his eldest son to imagine himself as “the principal actor in great events.” For Theodore Roosevelt Jr., those words became both an inspiration and a burden. The son of one of...

From A DOZEN DAYS TO DIE: One Soldier's Story From World War II: 'Sitting in my foxhole watching for enemy movement, I peered over the dirt, with my hands one on top of the other supporting my chin and head. Suddenly, "ZING!" a rifle bullet struck the dirt about two inches below my eyes. The...

The battlefield didn't end when he left the war. It followed him home.In this raw and unflinching memoir, a former Army Ranger captain and combat sniper takes you inside two invisible wars: the one he fought overseas and the one still raging inside his mind. From the chaos of Mogadishu to the...

The Warrior’s Ride Isn’t Over: What’s the Alternative? is the true story of Vietnam veteran Steve “Mac” MacInnes and a life shaped by service, adversity, faith, and purpose. From surviving polio as a child and serving in Vietnam to facing cancer, major surgery, strokes, PTSD, and the...

“Vivid and brilliantly written: a pulsating account of the battle for Musa Qala, the Rorke’s Drift of our times.”—Martin Bell, OBE, British UNICEF Ambassador, former broadcaster, and war reporter In Helmand province in July 2006, Major Adam Jowett was given command of Easy Company, a...

Fourteen years after No Easy Day made him a #1 New York Times bestseller, and the federal government’s legal target, Matt Bissonnette is writing again. This time, under his own name. And for the first time, narrating his own story.

Schlesien in den Kriegsjahren: Katharina Elliger wächst zwischen Schule, Kirche und Hitlerjugend auf, der Krieg scheint lange weit entfernt. Als Ende 1944 die Rote Armee näherrückt, flieht die Fünfzehnjährige mit ihrer Mutter in einem Flüchtlingstreck bis in die Tschechei, kehrt jedoch nach dem Zusammenbruch in die Heimat zurück. Es folgen die Monate der russischen Besatzung, die Ankunft der Polen, Hunger, Willkür und das Lager, bis die Familie ein Jahr später unter unmenschlichen Bedingungen endgültig vertrieben wird.

"[Keegan is] the best military historian of the world."—Tom Clancy When today’s world leaders require inspiration and strength in times of crisis, they often invoke Winston Churchill. The son of a member of Parliament, Churchill, a poor academic student, wanted to be a solider early in life...

Based on the moving true story of a World War I war dog, passed down through generations from a war nurse who witnessed events firsthand. In the summer of 1915, seventeen-year-old William "Bill" Higgins leaves his quiet village in Berkshire, brimming with dreams of glory and adventure. Alongside...

The Man I Knew as Grandad is a moving family memoir that uncovers the hidden wartime life of Arthur Hemmings, a quiet mechanic, husband, father, and grandfather who rarely spoke of the suffering he endured during the Second World War.To his family, Arthur was simply Grandad: steady, practical...

A gripping portrait of courage, trauma, and the making of the most decorated American soldier of WWII, Audie Murphy, providing an intimate perspective on both his fights on the battlefield and the demons that followed him home. On the battlefields of Europe, Audie Murphy faced machine guns...

CEW Bean's wartime reports and photographs mythologised the Australian soldier and helped spawn the notion that the Anzacs achieved something nation-defining on the shores of Gallipoli and the battlefields of western Europe. In his quest to get the truth, Bean often faced death beside the Diggers in the trenches of Gallipoli and the Western Front – and saw more combat than many. But did Bean tell Australia the whole story of what he knew?

Military and security expert Daniel Wasserbly introduces the elite unit tasked with protecting the nation from long-range weapons of mass destruction. Comprised of just three hundred soldiers, the United States Army’s 100th Missile Defense Brigade and 49th Missile Defense Battalion utilize...

George Mergenthaler, the grandson of the inventor of the Linotype, was an only child, and at the time of his birth in 1920, became the sole male heir the family fortune. Tall, handsome, Ivy League educated, speaking fluent German and French, "Merg" as he was know to his friends, did what many in his generation did following the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor: He enlisted in the Army. 

For much of the 20th century, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's life and career remained mostly obscure outside of dedicated scholars of the Battle of Gettysburg and alumni and students of Bowdoin College. Colonel Chamberlain had led the 20th Maine regiment at Gettysburg, holding the extreme left of the Union line on Little Round Top, and he continued to rise up the ranks toward the end of the war until he was commanding a brigade and present at the surrender ceremony of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox.