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  • Masters Of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    OTTO SKORZENYThe Most Dangerous Man In EuropeHe rescued a fallen dictator from a mountaintop fortress by crash-landing gliders on ground no pilot had ever dared attempt. He forced the abdication of a European head of state without firing a shot in anger. And when his luck finally ran out in the frozen forests of the Ardennes, he stood trial for his life, and walked free.Otto Sk...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    He began with a thousand survivors in a mountain redoubt. He ended with a nation of four hundred million. In between lay the most consequential military career in the history of modern Asia. In the autumn of 1927, a thirty-three-year-old organiser stripped of his Party offices led a thousand ragged survivors into the Jinggang Mountains of Hunan Province. He had no formal milita...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    He was born the son of a low-ranking samurai in a feudal Japan that could not defend its own coastline against four Western warships. He died a field marshal, a twice-serving Prime Minister, and the man who had, more than any other single figure, transformed his country into a recognised great power. In the eighty-three years between those two facts lies one of the most extraor...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    He never commanded an army in the field. He won no cavalry charges, held no independent field command, and wore his general’s uniform as ceremonial theatre rather than professional identity. And yet Otto von Bismarck remains, by any serious measure, one of the supreme military strategists of the modern age, the man who fought three precisely calibrated wars across nine years, u...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    He was born in the year of Marengo and died in the age of the phonograph. In ninety years he traversed the entire arc from horse-and-cannon warfare to industrial slaughter, from the personal command of the Napoleonic general to the telegraph-mediated direction of armies numbering in the hundreds of thousands. He did not merely witness this transformation. He was one of its chie...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    He was condemned to death at twenty-six. By fifty-three, he had conquered a kingdom with a thousand men.Born in Nice in 1807 to a family of sailors, Giuseppe Garibaldi spent his early life learning the sea, absorbing the spatial intelligence, the command authority, and the philosophical meritocracy that would define every battle he ever fought. Exiled, condemned, and twice stri...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    He was born in a provincial inn and died before a firing squad.In between, he changed the history of Europe. The eleventh child of a Quercy innkeeper, Joachim Murat rose through the ranks of Revolutionary France to become Marshal of the Empire, Grand Duke of Berg, and King of Naples, the supreme cavalry commander of the Napoleonic age and one of the most extraordinary military ...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    He was the son of a barrel-maker from a garrison town on the Franco-German frontier. He became, in Napoleon’s own words, le plus brave des braves, the bravest of the brave. Between these two facts lies one of the most extraordinary military careers in recorded history. Michel Ney rose through the armies of revolutionary France on the strength of nothing but his own extraordinar...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    When the Emperor dictated in the small hours of the morning, it was Berthier who caught the words. When seven corps had to cross a flooded river in darkness, it was Berthier who drafted the orders. When Napoleon’s operational genius needed to become the coherent movement of two hundred thousand men across four hundred miles of Germany in three weeks, it was Berthier who made it...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    He was born André Masséna, a merchant’s orphan in a Savoyard port town, without wealth, without connections, without a name that carried weight beyond the narrow streets of Nice. The army he joined at seventeen kept him in the ranks for fourteen years, the rigid hierarchy of the Ancien Régime ensuring that his formidable gifts reached precisely the ceiling his birth permitted. ...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    On 14 June 1807, at the river town of Friedland in East Prussia, Marshal Jean Lannes held the French left with twenty-six thousand men against a Russian army of nearly fifty thousand. He held it for eight hours. He held it with counter-attacks, with aggressive disruption of every Russian advance, with the sheer force of a commander who had decided that the position would not br...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    Masters of War: Louis-Nicolas Davout, The Iron Marshal On the morning of 14 October 1806, Louis-Nicolas Davout marched his corps of twenty-six thousand men into the path of the main Prussian army, sixty thousand soldiers under the Duke of Brunswick, at the village of Hassenhausen. He had no orders to fight a general engagement. He had no prospect of reinforcement. He had no rea...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    The Lion of the North and the Birth of Modern WarfareIn 1630, a thirty-six-year-old Swedish king landed on the coast of Germany with fewer than 15,000 men, facing the mightiest military power in Europe. Within two years, Gustavus II Adolphus had shattered the myth of Habsburg invincibility, revolutionized the art of war, and transformed his poor, peripheral kingdom into a great...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    The General Who Turned Defeat into VictoryIn December 1950, the Korean War appeared lost. Chinese forces had shattered UN lines, driven American troops into a headlong retreat, and threatened to push the entire invasion force into the sea. The Eighth Army was demoralized, defeated, and preparing for evacuation. Then Matthew Ridgway arrived.Within three weeks, he had transformed...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    The extraordinary story of the greatest defensive commander in modern military history, a man who preserved a nation’s independence against impossible odds.In the winter of 1939, Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim faced a stark mathematical reality: the Soviet Union possessed 126 divisions, over 10,000 tanks, and a population of 170 million. Finland could field perhaps 1...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    Thomas Edward Lawrence 'Lawrence of Arabia' stands as one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic and influential military figures. Scholar, archaeologist, guerrilla commander, and tortured genius, Lawrence transformed the nature of modern warfare through his leadership of the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I. This comprehensive military biography exa...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    He liberated six nations. He defeated an empire. He crossed mountains that killed his men and horses. Then he died in exile, convinced he had failed.Simón Bolívar stands among history’s most remarkable military commanders, a general who liberated more territory than Napoleon conquered, who built armies from nothing after catastrophic defeats, and who achieved victories against ...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    Masters of War: Charlemagne The Sword of Christendom and Architect of EuropeFrom 768 to 814, one man transformed the face of Europe through military genius, relentless ambition, and strategic vision that extended across decades. Charlemagne, Charles the Great, rose from king of the Franks to become Emperor of the West, forging an empire that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    MASTERS OF WAR: EDMUND ALLENBY The Last Great Cavalry Commander and the Conquest of PalestineFrom the sun-scorched deserts of the Middle East to the blood-soaked trenches of the Western Front, Field Marshal Edmund Allenby’s military career spanned the transformation of warfare from Victorian colonial campaigns to the mechanized slaughter of the First World War. This comprehensi...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    Field Marshal Douglas Haig remains one of the most controversial and misunderstood commanders in military history. As Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force from 1915 to 1918, he led the largest army Britain had ever fielded through the most devastating conflict the nation had faced. Under his command, British forces endured the catastrophic first day of the Somm...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    In September 1942, a Soviet general stood in the ruins of Stalingrad and made a promise that would define the Eastern Front: 'We will hold the city or die there.' Against all odds, Vasily Chuikov kept that promise and in doing so, changed the course of World War II.Masters of War: Vasily Chuikov presents the first comprehensive English-language biography of one of the 20th cent...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    In the summer of 1940, as Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe prepared to obliterate the Royal Air Force and clear the skies for invasion, Britain’s survival depended on one man’s vision, a vision that had taken four years to build and would be tested over 114 desperate days.Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding was not a warrior in the traditional mold. Reserved, methodical, and often called 'S...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    The Roman General Who Defeated HannibalA comprehensive military biography of one of history’s greatest commandersPublius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (236-183 BC) stands as one of the most brilliant military minds in human history. At seventeen, he witnessed Rome’s darkest hours as Hannibal’s armies destroyed Roman forces at Trebia and Cannae. By thirty-three, he had defeated Han...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    From the acclaimed 'Masters of War' series comes the definitive account of history’s most successful battlefield commander.John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, achieved what no other commander in modern military history has matched: he never lost a battle. Across a decade of commanding coalition armies against Louis XIV’s France, then Europe’s dominant military power, Marlborou...
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    41,09 €

  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    Frederick the Great transformed Prussia from a vulnerable second-tier kingdom into a major European power through military genius, strategic vision, and unwavering determination. Over a forty-six-year reign marked by near-constant warfare, he fought against overwhelming odds, defeated enemies who vastly outnumbered him, and survived a seven-year war that should have destroyed h...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    He conquered more territory than Alexander, Hannibal, and Napoleon combined. He never lost a battle in forty years of campaigning across two continents. Yet his name remains virtually unknown in the West.Born the son of a blacksmith in a subordinate tribe, Subutai rose through sheer merit to become the supreme military commander of the Mongol Empire. Over a career spanning more...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    MASTERS OF WAR: HANNIBAL BARCAThis comprehensive examination of Hannibal Barca offers an in-depth analysis of one of history’s most brilliant military commanders, whose audacious campaigns against Rome during the Second Punic War (218-201 BC) remain studied at military academies worldwide over two millennia later.From his legendary childhood oath never to be a friend of Rome th...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    MASTERS OF WAR: WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANA groundbreaking military biography that evaluates one of history’s most controversial commanders purely as a practitioner of the art of warWilliam Tecumseh Sherman remains one of the most polarizing figures in American history. To many in the North, he was a brilliant strategist whose innovative campaigns hastened the end of the Civil Wa...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    Masters of War: George WashingtonHow does a frontier surveyor with limited military experience defeat one of the world’s most powerful armies and create a nation?George Washington’s journey from colonial Virginia officer to Commander-in-Chief of a revolutionary army is one of history’s most improbable military achievements. This volume in the Masters of War series cuts through ...
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  • Masters of War
    J.F. Atkinson
    MASTERS OF WAR: THOMAS 'STONEWALL' JACKSONA rigorous examination of one of history’s most studied military commanders, stripped of mythology and analyzed purely through the lens of tactical and operational effectiveness.Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson remains one of the most enigmatic and debated figures in American military history. Celebrated as a tactical genius, studied at mi...
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