Bloomsbury Press, 2013. — 320 p. Leading military historian Victor Davis Hanson returns to non-fiction in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five Generals who single-handedly saved their nations from defeat in war. War is rarely a predictable enterprise--it is a mess of luck, chance, and incalculable variables. Today's sure winner can easily...
Knox Press, 2021. — 950 p. Johann Ewald began as a commoner in one of the states of the Holy Roman Empire who rose above the constraints of his time. As a soldier he fought in all of the great conflict of the latter eighteenth century, the Seven Years’ War, the American War of Independence and the Napoleonic Wars. He keenly recorded his observations of both the people he met...
New York: Basic Books, 2008. — 274 p. An even less known period of a little-known period of history, the effects of the Chinese Revolution and the Russian Civil War in Mongolia is dealt expertly by Palmer, who tries to understand not only the period of history, but the motivations and character of a frightening man. Combining history with first-hand accounts of the author's...
Berkley Publishing Group, 2014. — 448 p. General George S. Patton. His tongue was as sharp as the cavalry saber he once wielded, and his fury as explosive as the shells he’d ordered launched from his tank divisions. Despite his profane, posturing manner, and the sheer enthusiasm for conflict that made both his peers and the public uncomfortable, Patton’s very presence commanded...
М.: Вече, 2020. — 614 с. — (Всемирная история в романах) — ISBN 978-5-4484-8166-6. От монаха из захолустного монастыря бенедиктинцев в провинции Лангедок на юге Франции до одного из первых лиц в Швеции. Таков путь этой незаурядной личности с насыщенной жизнью за 35 неполных лет после побега из монастыря. Понтус де ла Гарди – монах, военный, политик, дипломат. Он опалён был...
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