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“elton martyn”

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  • The King's Last Field, Gustavus Adolphus, Wallenstein, and the Battle That Broke the Thirty Years' War

    by Elton Martyn ...
    The King's Last Field, Gustavus Adolphus, Wallenstein, and the Battle That Broke the Thirty Years' WarAt noon on the sixteenth of November 1632, a Swedish king rode into fog and gunsmoke to save his faltering center, and never rode out again. Gustavus II Adolphus, the soldier-king whose battlefield reforms had shattered imperial armies at Breitenfeld and carried Swedish arms to the gates of Munich ... Read more

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  • The Miracle on the Vistula: How Poland Stopped the Red Army and Saved Western Civilisation

    by Elton Martyn ...
    On August 13, 1920, Soviet scouts reached the outskirts of Warsaw. Government ministries were packing their archives. Diplomatic legations were preparing to flee. The Red Army — fresh from the most rapid advance in modern European military history — stood within artillery range of the Polish capital, and Lenin had already appointed the revolutionary committee that would govern a Soviet Poland. The ... Read more

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  • The Landeswehr: Germany's Secret War in the Baltic and the Birth of Latvia and Estonia

    by Elton Martyn ...
    In the winter of 1918, four empires had just collapsed, and on the amber coast of the eastern Baltic, every force the collapse had released was converging on a single piece of ground. Into this vacuum marched the Baltische Landeswehr — the Baltic Territorial Army — a military force as contradictory as the world that created it: German-funded and German-commanded, yet nominally Latvian; built to ... Read more

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  • Blood and Iron

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    by Katja Hoyer ...
    In this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918—which inspired events that forever changed the European continent—here is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War.Before 1871, Germany was not yet nation but simply an idea.Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring ... Read more

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  • The German Empire

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    In The German Empire, one of Europe's great historians and men of letters chronicles one of history's most fateful transformations--Germany's rise from new nation to prime mover in the chain of events that sent it hurtling into two world wars.In 1871, Otto von Bismarck fused with "blood and iron" a motley collection of principalities, Free Cities, and bishoprics into one Reich. In England, ... Read more

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  • Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

    Edited by Peter Paret, Gordon A. Craig, Felix Gilbert ...
    The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice of war from the Renaissance to the present. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear ... Read more

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    How the Nazis Ruled Europe

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  • Coercive Diplomacy: Otto Von Bismarck And The Unification Of Germany

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  • Bismarck and the German Empire

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    Updated and expanded, this second edition of Bismarck and the German Empire, 1871–1918 is an accessible introduction to this important period in German history.Providing both a narrative of events at the time and an analysis of social and cultural developments across the period, Lynn Abrams examines the political, economic and social structures of the Empire. Including the latest research, the ... Read more

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