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Killing Rommel

Author : Steven Pressfield
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2009-10-06
ISBN 10 : 9781407040561
Pages : 416 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (4 downloads)

Download Killing Rommel PDF Format Full Free by Steven Pressfield and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unputdownable and incredibly evocative military novel full of thrilling battle scenes and flesh and blood characters from Steven Pressfield, author of The Sunday Times Bestseller Gates of Fire. "A terrific read...this is historical fiction at its very best." -- JAMES HOLLAND "A splendid tour-de-force...it should not be missed" -- WASHINGTON POST "Both a captivating history lesson and rousing guts-n-glory saga" -- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY "Compelling...the narrative is a page turner" -- ***** Reader review "Mr Pressfield is a true craftsman in the best possible way. You LIVE the story while he is telling it" -- ***** Reader review "Simply a brilliant read" -- ***** Reader review **************************************************** NORTH AFRICA, 1942. AN ELITE BRITISH ARMY UNIT IS ON A DEADLY MISSION. Autumn, 1942: Hitler's legions have swept across Europe. Soviet Russia reels under the German onslaught while across the channel, Britain struggles on. And in North Africa, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps have routed the 8th Army, threatening the oil fields of the Middle East. The war hangs in the balance... Out of this, the British hatch a desperate plan - to send a small, highly mobile fighting force behind enemy lines to strike a blow that will stop Rommel's army in its tracks. It is to be called the Long Range Desert Group and its exploits will become the stuff of legend. Based on real events, Steven Pressfield's bold novel brings to pulse-racing life the ingenuity and daring of this maverick commando unit - a disparate, dedicated 'band of brothers' who sacrificed so much for the sake of freedom...

Kill Rommel!

Author : Gavin Mortimer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-02-20
ISBN 10 : 9781472801104
Pages : 82 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (81 downloads)

Download Kill Rommel! PDF Format Full Free by Gavin Mortimer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed, illustrated analysis of the British Commandos' audacious attempt to assassinate Rommel in 1941. In November 1941, a small party of British Commandos landed by submarine in Libya, tasked with the assassination of General Erwin Rommel, commander of the German forces in North Africa, who was believed to be staying in a villa near the coast. Three men – Lt-Col Geoffrey Keyes, Capt Robin Campbell and Sgt Jack Terry – stormed the villa, but the German general was nowhere to be found. In the confused fighting Keyes was killed and Campbell wounded; only two raiders would escape, one of whom was Terry. The raid made headlines round the free world, and Keyes was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. Yet in truth the raid had been a glorious failure, a mission bedevilled by bad planning and poor intelligence. Even so, crucial lessons were learned, particularly by the Special Air Service – who carried out their first mission on the same night as the raid on Rommel's HQ.

Killing the Enemy

Author : Adam Leong Kok Wey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-09-28
ISBN 10 : 9780857729705
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (729 downloads)

Download Killing the Enemy PDF Format Full Free by Adam Leong Kok Wey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, the British formed a secret division, the 'SOE' or Special Operations Executive, in order to support resistance organisations in occupied Europe. It also engaged in 'targeted killing' - the assassination of enemy political and military leaders. The unit is famous for equipping its agents with tools for use behind enemy lines, such as folding motorbikes, miniature submarines and suicide pills disguised as coat buttons. But its activities are now also gaining attention as a forerunner to today's 'extra-legal' killings of wartime enemies in foreign territory, for example through the use of unmanned drones. Adam Leong's work evaluates the effectiveness of political assassination in wartime using four examples: Heydrich's assassination in Prague (Operation Anthropoid); the daring kidnap of Major General Kreipe in Crete by Patrick Leigh Fermor; the failed attempt to assassinate Rommel, known as Operation Flipper; and the American assassination of General Yamamoto.

Special Warfare

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Publisher :
Release Date : 2008
ISBN 10 : MSU:31293026186688
Pages : pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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Killing Rommel

Author : Steven Pressfield
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2009-06-02
ISBN 10 : 9780767926164
Pages : 0 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (926 downloads)

Download Killing Rommel PDF Format Full Free by Steven Pressfield and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling WWII tale based on the real-life exploits of the Long Range Desert Group, an elite British special forces unit that took on the German Afrika Korps and its legendary commander, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, "the Desert Fox." Autumn 1942. Hitler’s legions have swept across Europe; France has fallen; Churchill and the English are isolated on their island. In North Africa, Rommel and his Panzers have routed the British Eighth Army and stand poised to overrun Egypt, Suez, and the oilfields of the Middle East. With the outcome of the war hanging in the balance, the British hatch a desperate plan—send a small, highly mobile, and heavily armed force behind German lines to strike the blow that will stop the Afrika Korps in its tracks. Narrated from the point of view of a young lieutenant, Killing Rommel brings to life the flair, agility, and daring of this extraordinary secret unit, the Long Range Desert Group. Stealthy and lethal as the scorpion that serves as their insignia, they live by their motto: Non Vi Sed Arte—Not by Strength, by Guile as they gather intelligence, set up ambushes, and execute raids. Killing Rommel chronicles the tactics, weaponry, and specialized skills needed for combat, under extreme desert conditions. And it captures the camaraderie of this “band of brothers” as they perform the acts of courage and cunning crucial to the Allies’ victory in North Africa. Combining scrupulous historical detail and accuracy with remarkable narrative momentum, Pressfield powerfully renders the drama and intensity of warfare, the bonds of men in close combat, and the surprising human emotions and frailties that come into play on the battlefield to create a vivid and authoritative depiction of the desert war.

Daring Raids of World War Two

Author : Peter Jacobs
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2015-06-30
ISBN 10 : 9781783463336
Pages : 273 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (463 downloads)

Download Daring Raids of World War Two PDF Format Full Free by Peter Jacobs and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War saw a host of heroic raids enacted across the various theatres, all delivered valiantly in a variety of ways by British combatants; on land, by sea and from the air. Daring exploits such as the raid on Rommel, the endeavours of the Cockleshell Heroes and the Dam Busters have become legendary in the annals of warfare. All feature here, alongside details of fascinating lesser-known operations.??It goes without saying that not all the raids were a success; in fact, some went disastrously wrong but the men who carried them out did so with extreme courage and in the knowledge that they might not return. Here, Peter Jacobs tells the gripping stories of some of the most heroic raids of the entire conflict. These include the disastrous landings at Dieppe; the amphibious assault on the dry dock at St Nazaire (more Victoria Crosses were won during this raid than in any other operation of the war); the airborne assaults on the German radar installation at Bruneval and later on Pegasus Bridge as a prelude to D-Day; and the low-level raid by RAF Mosquitos on the prison at Amiens to release members of the French Resistance.??This is an intriguing and insightful historical record of thirty of the most daring and strategic raids of military history and is sure to appeal to all enthusiasts of the genre.

Speed, Aggression, Surprise

Author : Tom Petch
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2022-11-10
ISBN 10 : 9780753559413
Pages : 368 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (559 downloads)

Download Speed, Aggression, Surprise PDF Format Full Free by Tom Petch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Awesome!' - Andy McNab 'You must read this book' - Colonel Tim Collins OBE 'Page-turning and revelatory' - Sir Ranulph Fiennes _________________ The official origin story of the SAS is a myth. This is the real story of how the world's preeminent Special Forces was born. It's a fly-on-the-wall, character-driven story of the origins of a new means of warfare, forged from the wreckage of Dunkirk. It's the birth of subliminal methods - guerrilla Commando units that could inflict devastating 'mosquito stings' on larger, and better-armed opponents. It's a never-before-told account of how the shock of defeat propelled an unlikely group of renegades into the frontline of the war. An adventure that reaches back from the trenches of the Western Front, to high piracy in the deserts of North Africa, to the final assault on Germany. It's a concept that takes shape in the corridors of headquarters, on long nights at the long bar in Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo, and on the deadliest battlefields in history, around a cast of insubordinate mavericks who didn't fit into the tight hierarchy of the armed forces. Flashing between dramatic accounts from the field and back-channel power negotiations in Westminster, reeling in a cast of characters that includes Evelyn Waugh, Ernest Hemingway and Randolph Churchill, as well as a lot of alcohol, amphetamines and grenades, this is the real story of the SAS as you have never seen it before.

Rise and Kill First

Author : Ronen Bergman
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-07-26
ISBN 10 : 9781473694729
Pages : 760 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (694 downloads)

Download Rise and Kill First PDF Format Full Free by Ronen Bergman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A gripping investigation of Israel's assassination policy' Sunday Times 'Remarkable' Observer 'Riveting' Daily Mail 'Compelling' John le Carré Winner of 2018 National Jewish Book Award From the very beginning of its statehood in 1948, the instinct to take every measure to defend the Jewish people has been hardwired into Israel's DNA. This is the riveting inside account of the targeted assassinations that have been used countless times, on enemies large and small, sometimes in response to attacks against the Israeli people and sometimes pre-emptively. Rise and Kill First counts their successes, failures and the moral and political price exacted on those who carried out the missions which have shaped the Israeli nation, the Middle East and the entire world. 'Exciting, sometimes moving and always considered ... a stunning feat of research and a riveting read' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

Churchill and Australia

Author : Graham Freudenberg
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Release Date : 2008-11-01
ISBN 10 : 1742623670
Pages : 624 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (742 downloads)

Download Churchill and Australia PDF Format Full Free by Graham Freudenberg and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Australia seemed to bring out the worst in Winston Churchill. Often enough to form a discernible pattern, Australia found itself on the wrong side of the very qualities-his strength of will, singleness of purpose, his refusal to 'give way, in things great or small, large or petty', the power of his imagination to set grim reality at defiance, his mastery of the English language-that made Winston Churchill, as the philosopher Isaiah Berlin described him, 'the saviour of his country, the largest human being of his time'." Winston Churchill was a titan of the 20th Century, universally acknowledged as one of the greatest leaders of his age. Yet his relationship with Australia was a fraught one, tainted by the military failure of the Gallipoli campaign in the First War, and the disaster of Singapore in the Second. Churchill the patrician, descendant of dukes, could not appreciate Australia's dearly held egalitarianism, while Churchill the imperial statesman was impatient, and at times intolerant, of Australia's growing urge towards independence. The relationship between the two would span the first 50 tumultuous years of the 20th Century, from the Boer War through to opening salvoes of the Cold War, and act as a fascinating backdrop to Australia's maturity from a collection of autonomous colonies to full nationhood. Written with extraordinary narrative verve, and relying on exhaustive research and a true insider's knowledge of the political world, this is history written at its compelling best. Winner of the Walkley Award for Non-fiction 2008

The Star-Spangled Screen

Author : Bernard F. Dick
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2014-07-11
ISBN 10 : 9780813148953
Pages : 308 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (148 downloads)

Download The Star-Spangled Screen PDF Format Full Free by Bernard F. Dick and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American World War II film depicted a united America, a mythic America in which the average guy, the girl next door, the 4-F patriot, and the grieving mother were suddenly transformed into heroes and heroines, warriors and goddesses. The Star-Spangled Screen examines the historical accuracy—or lack thereof—of films about the Third Reich, the Resistance, and major military campaigns. Concerned primarily with the films of the war years, it also includes discussions of such postwar movies as Battleground (1949), Attack! (1956), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and Patton (1970). This revised edition includes a new afterword that covers more recent films, such as Sophie's Choice (1982), Biloxi Blues (1986), and Schindler's List (1993). The Star-Spangled Screen makes a major contribution to popular culture by recreating an era that, for all its tragedy, was one of the most creative in the history of American film.

Rommel's Afrika Korps

Author : George Bradford
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Release Date : 2008-10-21
ISBN 10 : 9781461751571
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (751 downloads)

Download Rommel's Afrika Korps PDF Format Full Free by George Bradford and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008-10-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrait of this famous World War II unit at the height of its success Completely illustrated with photos, maps, and diagrams--in color where available In the sands of the Western Desert in 1941-42, Erwin Rommel made history as the Desert Fox, waging a brilliant and bold campaign against the British. Beginning at El Agheila in March 1941, the Afrika Korps--frequently outnumbered--drove the British steadily east across Libya and into Egypt. The German offensive eventually ground to a halt in a series of battles at El Alamein. In impressive detail, George Bradford depicts what it was like to serve and fight in the Afrika Korps, from its tanks and equipment to its battles and daily life.

England's Last War Against France

Author : Colin Smith
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-11-25
ISBN 10 : 9780297857815
Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (857 downloads)

Download England's Last War Against France PDF Format Full Free by Colin Smith and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genuinely new story of the Second World War - the full account of England's last war against France in 1940-42. Most people think that England's last war with France involved point-blank broadsides from sailing ships and breastplated Napoleonic cavalry charging red-coated British infantry. But there was a much more recent conflict than this. Under the terms of its armistice with Nazi Germany, the unoccupied part of France and its substantial colonies were ruled from the spa town of Vichy by the government of Marshal Philip Petain. Between July 1940 and November 1942, while Britain was at war with Germany, Italy and ultimately Japan, it also fought land, sea and air battles with the considerable forces at the disposal of Petain's Vichy French. When the Royal Navy sank the French Fleet at Mers El-Kebir almost 1,300 French sailors died in what was the twentieth century's most one-sided sea battle. British casualties were nil. It is a wound that has still not healed, for undoubtedly these events are better remembered in France than in Britain. An embarrassment at the time, France's maritime massacre and the bitter, hard-fought campaigns that followed rarely make more than footnotes in accounts of Allied operations against Axis forces. Until now.

Rommel's Peace

Author : Lawrence Wells
Publisher : Yoknapatawpha Press
Release Date : 2008
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015082649651
Pages : 220 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download Rommel's Peace PDF Format Full Free by Lawrence Wells and published by Yoknapatawpha Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hitler rejects Rommel's request to draw up a surrender plan, the field marshal acts on his own. He sends Lt. Max Speigner, an American intelligence officer being held at a German POW camp, to deliver a ceasefire offer to England. Speigner is caught in the middle as events spiral out of control.

Discovering the Rommel Murder

Author : Charles F. Marshall
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Release Date : 2017-09-15
ISBN 10 : 9780811742788
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (742 downloads)

Download Discovering the Rommel Murder PDF Format Full Free by Charles F. Marshall and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshall recounts how he learned the facts from Rommel's widow while delving into the great general's background and death.

Max Hastings Two-Book Collection: All Hell Let Loose and Catastrophe

Author : Max Hastings
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2014-05-08
ISBN 10 : 9780007585373
Pages : 1440 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (585 downloads)

Download Max Hastings Two-Book Collection: All Hell Let Loose and Catastrophe PDF Format Full Free by Max Hastings and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 1440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-book collection of Max Hastings’ bestselling works about the 20th century’s most terrible global conflicts.

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

Author : Max Hastings
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2011-09-29
ISBN 10 : 9780007338122
Pages : 768 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (338 downloads)

Download All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 PDF Format Full Free by Max Hastings and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommended for viewing on a tablet. From one of our finest historians, a magisterial account of the most terrible event in history – World War II.

Book Review Index 2009

Author : Dana Ferguson
Publisher : Book Review Index Cumulation
Release Date : 2009-08
ISBN 10 : 1414419120
Pages : 1304 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (414 downloads)

Download Book Review Index 2009 PDF Format Full Free by Dana Ferguson and published by Book Review Index Cumulation. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index an exceptionally useful reference tool. More than 600 publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers. Book Review Index is available in a three-issue subscription covering the current year or as an annual cumulation covering the past year.