Five Days From Defeat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Five Days From Defeat write by Walter Reid. This book was released on 2017-11-02. Five Days From Defeat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On 21 March 1918 Germany initiated one of the most ferocious and offensives of the First World War. During the so-called Kaiserschlacht, German troops advanced on allied positions in a series of ferocious attacks which caused massive casualties, separated British and French forces and drove the British back towards the Channel ports. Five days later, as the German advance continued, one of the most dramatic summits of the war took place in Doullens. The outcome was to have extraordinary consequences. For the first time an allied supreme commander – the French General Foch – was appointed to command all the allied armies, while the statesmen realized that unity of purpose rather than national interest was ultimately the key to success. Within a few months a policy of defence became one of offence, and paved the way for British success at Amiens and the series of unbroken British victories that led Germany to plea for armistice. Victory in November 1918 was a matter for celebration; what was excised from history was how close Britain was to ignominious defeat just eight months earlier.
Revolution, Defeat and Theoretical Underdevelopment
Revolution, Defeat and Theoretical Underdevelopment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revolution, Defeat and Theoretical Underdevelopment write by Loren Goldner. This book was released on 2016-08-01. Revolution, Defeat and Theoretical Underdevelopment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The historical studies presented here examine four ideologies— Leninism, Trotskyism, anarchism, and anti-imperialism— still with us, however different and diffuse in form. They are a contribution to the worldwide Marx renaissance of recent decades which has helped clear away the legacies of the Second, Third and Fourth Internationals, not to mention of the ‘real existing socialism’ of the Soviet Union and its bastard progeny. These revolutionary predecessors did not fail because ‘they had the wrong ideas’; in contrast to today, they were merely embedded in an earlier dynamic where capitalism, globally, was not yet fully dominant. The cases of Russia, Turkey, Spain and Bolivia allow us to measure the distance between their epoch and our own, and to clear away their problematic legacies.
Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs
Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs write by John H. Gill. This book was released on 2014-05-19. Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This history of the 1809 Franco-Austrian War presents an in-depth chronicle Napoleon’s last great victory. On April 10th, 1809, while Napoleon was occupied in Western Europe with the Peninsular War, the Austrian Empire launched a surprise attack that sparked the War of the Fifth Coalition. Though France would ultimately win the conflict, it would be Napoleon’s last victorious war. Even then, the margin of French superiority was decreasing. Archduke Charles, the best of the Habsburg commanders, led a reformed Austrian Army that was arguably the best ever fielded by the Danubian Monarchy. Though caught off guard, the French Emperor reversed a dire strategic situation with stunning blows that he called his 'most brilliant and most skillful maneuvers'. Following a breathless pursuit down the Danube valley, Napoleon occupied the palaces of the Habsburgs for the second time in four years. He would win many battles in his future campaigns, but never again would one of Europe's great powers lie broken at his feet. In Thunder on the Danube, historian John H. Gill tackles the political background of the war, including the motivations behind the Austrian offensive. Gill also demonstrates that 1809 was both a high point of the First Empire as well as a watershed, for Napoleon's armies were declining in quality and he was beginning to display the corrosive flaws that contributed to his downfall five years later. His opponents, on the other hand, were improving.
The French Defeat of 1940
The French Defeat of 1940 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The French Defeat of 1940 write by Joel Blatt. This book was released on 1997-08-01. The French Defeat of 1940 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why France, the major European continental victor in 1918, suffered total defeat in six weeks at the hands of the vanquished power of 1918 only two decades later remains moot. Why the stunning reversal of fortunes? In this volume thirteen prominent scholars reexamine the French debacle of 1940 in interwar perspectives, utilizing fresh analysis, original approaches, and new sources. Although the tenor of the volume is critical, the contributors also suggest that French preparations for war knew successes as well as failures, that French defeat was not inevitable, and that the Battle of France might have turned out differently if different choices had been made and other paths been followed.
The Peace of the Anglo-Saxons
The Peace of the Anglo-Saxons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Peace of the Anglo-Saxons write by Stewart Lygon Murray. This book was released on 1905. The Peace of the Anglo-Saxons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
