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Lost battles : reconstructing the great clashes of the ancient world
\"Lost Battles takes a new and innovative approach to the battles of antiquity. Using his experience with conflict simulation, Philip Sabin draws together ancient evidence and modern scholarship to construct a generic, grand tactical model of the battles as a whole. This model unites a mathematical framework, to capture the movement and combat of the opposing armies, with human decisions to shape the tactics of the antagonists. Sabin then develops detailed scenarios for 36 individual battles such as Marathon and Cannae, and uses the comparative structure offered by the generic model to help cast light on which particular interpretations of the ancient sources on issues such as army size fit in best with the general patterns observed elsewhere. Readers can use the model to experiment for themselves by re-fighting engagements of their choice, tweaking the scenarios to accord with their own judgment of the evidence, trying out different tactics from those used historically, and seeing how the battle then plays out. Lost Battles thus offers a unique dynamic insight into ancient warfare, combining academic rigor with the interest and accessibility of simulation gaming. This book includes access to a downloadable computer simulation where the reader can view the author's simulations as well create their own.\"--Publisher description.
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A Guide to the Battles of the American Revolution
\"A well-organized and concise introduction to the war's major battles\" ( The Journal of America's Military Past).
Winner of the Gold Star Book Award for History from the Military Writers Society of America
This is the first comprehensive account of every engagement of the Revolution, a war that began with a brief skirmish at Lexington Green on April 19, 1775, and concluded on the battlefield at the Siege of Yorktown in October 1781.
In between were six long years of bitter fighting on land and at sea. The wide variety of combats blanketed the North American continent from Canada to the Southern colonies, from the winding coastal lowlands to the Appalachian Mountains, and from the North Atlantic to the Caribbean.
Every entry begins with introductory details including the date of the battle, its location, commanders, opposing forces, terrain, weather, and time of day. The detailed body of each entry offers both a Colonial and a British perspective of the unfolding military situation, a detailed and unbiased account of what actually transpired, a discussion of numbers and losses, an assessment of the consequences of the battle, and suggestions for further reading. Many of the entries are supported and enriched by original maps and photos.
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The Great War
Named one of The Economist's best books of 2013, The Great War provides an unparalleled one-volume account of the twentieth century's defining event.
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Legacy of Caliban
ADVENTURE. Omnibus edition of the Legacy of Caliban trilogy, featuring the mysterious Dark Angels Space Marines. Descendents of the First Legion, the Dark Angels are peerless warriors with a knightly heritage from their sundered home world of Caliban. Amongst their hallowed ranks are the lightning fast Ravenwing and the stalwart Deathwing. But the Legacy of Caliban is dark, and the need for atonement is great and echoes through the ages. Ever do the Dark Angels hunt the mysterious Fallen, their greatest shame and their darkest secret. This omnibus edition contains the novels Ravenwing, Master of Sanctity and The Unforgiven, along with the short story collection Lords of Caliban.
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Warfare in Woods and Forests
Fighting in woods and forests is a very special form of war. Avoided by military commanders unless such terrain is to their advantage, for soldiers forest battles are a chaotic mix of dread, determination, and, all too often, death. Adversaries remain in constant fear of concealed ambush, casualties usually must be abandoned, and prisoners who cannot be guarded are killed. Heightened fear can lead to excesses. Too often, armies have been badly prepared and trained for such warfare and have suffered severely for it. In Warfare in Woods and Forests, noted military historian Anthony Clayton describes major events in woods and forest warfare from the first century CE to the 21st. These events involve Roman soldiers in Germany 2,000 years ago; North Americans in 18th- and 19th-century conflicts; invaders of Russia in 1812 and 1941; British, French, and Americans in France in 1916 and 1918; Americans in the Hürtgen Forest in 1944; and modern-day Russian soldiers in Chechnya.
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The shadow of what was lost
\"It has been twenty years since the god-like Augurs were overthrown and killed. Now, those who once served them-- the Gifted-- are spared only because they have accepted the rebellion's Four Tenets, vastly limiting their own powers. As a young Gifted, Davian suffers the consequences of a war lost before he was even born. He and his friends are despised beyond their school walls for the magical power they wield: a power that Davian, despite his best efforts, cannot seem to control. Worse, with his final test approaching and the consequences of failure severe, time to overcome his struggles is fast running out. But when Davian discovers he wields the forbidden power of the Augurs, he unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events that will change his life-- and shake the entire world\"-- Provided by publisher.
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True Faith and Allegiance
True Faith and Allegiance: An American Paratrooper and the
1972 Battle for An Loc is an intimate and compelling account
of the most brutal infantry warfare and is also a critique of the
mishandling of America’s departure from Indochina. An
unintended consequence of Washington’s stampede to get out
of Indochina was an upsurge in combat on a scale not seen before
in Vietnam, peaking with the Easter Offensive of 1972. The battle
for An Loc, a key component in the North Vietnamese attempt to
overwhelm the South, swept Mike McDermott, then the senior
advisor to an elite South Vietnamese paratrooper battalion, into
some of the most horrific close-quarters fighting of the war. His
in-the-trenches account is augmented by detailed descriptions of
a user’s perspective on the parachute resupply, tactical
airpower, and B-52 strikes that allowed the An Loc garrison to
survive.
True Faith and Allegiance is a riveting recounting of
the prism through which a Vietnam veteran views the war as he
continues to live with the aftereffects of life-altering
experiences in the service of his country.
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The biggest military battles
\"Humans have been fighting it out on the battlefield for as long as we've existed. But some battles stand out in their savagery. Get the details of some of the most devastating battles of all time.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Hell in An Loc
In 1972 a North Vietnamese offensive of more than 30,000 men and 100 tanks smashed into South Vietnam and raced to capture Saigon. All that stood in their way was a small band of 6,800 South Vietnamese (ARVN) soldiers and militiamen, and a handful of American advisors with U.S. air support, guarding An Loc, a town sixty miles north of Saigon and on the main highway to it. This depleted army, outnumbered and outgunned, stood its ground and fought to the end and succeeded. Against all expectations, the ARVN beat back furious assaults from three North Vietnamese divisions, supported by artillery and armored regiments, during three months of savage fighting. This victory was largely unreported in the U.S. media, which had effectively lost interest in the war after the disengagement of most U.S. forces. Thi believes that it is time to set the record straight. Without denying the tremendous contribution of the U.S. advisors and pilots, this book is written primarily to tell the South Vietnamese side of the story and, more importantly, to render justice to the South Vietnamese soldier.
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