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A gripping and authoritative revisionist account of the German Winter Campaign of 19411942Germanys winter campaign of 19411942 is commonly seen as its first defeat In Retreat from Moscow a bold gripping account of one of the seminal moments of World War II David Stahel argues that instead it was its first strategic success in the East The Soviet counteroffensive was in fact a Pyrrhic victory Despite being pushed back from Moscow the Wehrmacht lost far fewer men frustrated its enemys strategy and emerged in the spring unbroken and poised to recapture the initiativeHitlers strategic plan called for holding important Russian industrial cities and the German army succeeded The Soviets as of January 1942 aimed for nothing less than the destruction of Army Group Center yet not a single German unit was ever destroyed Lacking the professionalism training and experience of the Wehrmacht the Red Armys offensive attempting to break German lines in countless headon assaults led to far more tactical defeats than victoriesUsing accounts from journals memoirs and wartime correspondence Stahel takes us directly into the Wolfs Lair to reveal a German command at war with itself as generals on the ground fought to maintain order and save their troops in the face of Hitlers capricious increasingly irrational directives Excerpts from soldiers diaries and letters home paint a rich portrait of life and death on the front where the men of the Ostheer battled frostbite nearly as deadly as Soviet artillery With this latest installment of his pathbreaking series on the Eastern Front David Stahel completes a military history of the highest order
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A gripping and authoritative revisionist account of the German Winter Campaign of 19411942Germanys winter campaign of 19411942 is commonly seen as its first defeat In Retreat from Moscow a bold gripping account of one of the seminal moments of World War II David Stahel argues that instead it was its first strategic success in the East The Soviet counteroffensive was in fact a Pyrrhic victory Despite being pushed back from Moscow the Wehrmacht lost far fewer men frustrated its enemys strategy and emerged in the spring unbroken and poised to recapture the initiativeHitlers strategic plan called for holding important Russian industrial cities and the German army succeeded The Soviets as of January 1942 aimed for nothing less than the destruction of Army Group Center yet not a single German unit was ever destroyed Lacking the professionalism training and experience of the Wehrmacht the Red Armys offensive attempting to break German lines in countless headon assaults led to far more tactical defeats than victoriesUsing accounts from journals memoirs and wartime correspondence Stahel takes us directly into the Wolfs Lair to reveal a German command at war with itself as generals on the ground fought to maintain order and save their troops in the face of Hitlers capricious increasingly irrational directives Excerpts from soldiers diaries and letters home paint a rich portrait of life and death on the front where the men of the Ostheer battled frostbite nearly as deadly as Soviet artillery With this latest installment of his pathbreaking series on the Eastern Front David Stahel completes a military history of the highest order
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An excellent guide to military costume
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A digital copy of Foreign Policy in Transition Moscows Retreat from Central America and the Caribbean 19851992 by Jan S Adams Download is immediately available upon purchase
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This gorgeously written memoir tells the story of one mans search for his religious callinga search that led him to the Dominican Republic and Central Europe to Moscow and the South Bronx and finally into married life with a woman whose search for God coincided with his ownIn 1990 Andrew Krivakpoet yacht rigger ocean lifeguard student of the classicsentered the Society of Jesus The heart of Jesuit training is the Long Retreat thirty days of silence and prayer in which the Jesuit novice reflects on the Gospels and tests his desire for the priesthood nbspFor Krivak eight years of Jesuit formation turned out to be a long retreat in its own right as he tested all his desiresfor poetry for travel for independence for loveagainst the pledge to do all for the greater glory of God And in this deeply affecting book the long retreat becomes a pattern for our own spiritual lives enabling us to embrace our desire for solitude and perspective in our own circumstances the way Krivak has in his new life as a husband father and writerThe search for God is finally the search for oneself St Augustine wrote Krivaks story pushes past the awful stories of scandal in the Catholic Church to reveal why a modern forwardlooking man would yearn to be a priest Unlike those stories it has an happy endingone in which we can recognize ourselves
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This is an illustrated autobiography of the Emperor Napoleon compiled from his commentaries and memoirs dictated on St Helena edited and put into chronological order The text spans his childhood in Corsica to exile on St Helena and covers family feuds divorce from Josephine retreat from Moscow Waterloo and more all in his own words Napoleon was in inveterate writer he dictated obsessively and edited his own scripts He was also very aware of his position as one of historys great leaders The book should be useful to military enthusiasts historians and writers
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This is an illustrated autobiography of the Emperor Napoleon compiled from his commentaries and memoirs dictated on St Helena edited and put into chronological order The text spans his childhood in Corsica to exile on St Helena and covers family feuds divorce from Josephine retreat from Moscow Waterloo and more all in his own words Napoleon was in inveterate writer he dictated obsessively and edited his own scripts He was also very aware of his position as one of historys great leaders The book should be useful to military enthusiasts historians and writers
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This is an illustrated autobiography of the Emperor Napoleon compiled from his commentaries and memoirs dictated on St Helena edited and put into chronological order The text spans his childhood in Corsica to exile on St Helena and covers family feuds divorce from Josephine retreat from Moscow Waterloo and more all in his own words Napoleon was in inveterate writer he dictated obsessively and edited his own scripts He was also very aware of his position as one of historys great leaders The book should be useful to military enthusiasts historians and writers
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This extraordinary book provides a journey through the jungle of good and bad graphical devices used to illustrate and mystify data The diversity of examples ranges from Napoleons retreat from Moscow to the Orings on the space shuttle and from mortalities in hospitals to bus schedules The author illustrates how a wellchosen graphic can reveal in an instant the essential truth behind some data whilst a poorly designed representation can be used to conceal the awful truth As well as providing numerous examples of both the author includes numerous suggestions to make us all better producers and consumers of graphics
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A decade ago Manu Chaos band Mano Negra toured Columbia by train negotiating with government troops and rebels an episode described at the time as less like a rocknroll tour more like Napoleons retreat from Moscow He is a multimillion selling artist who prefers sleeping on friends floors to fivestar hotels an antiglobalisation activist who hangs out with prostituteactivists in Madrid a recluse who is at home singing in front of 100000 people in stadiums in Latin America or festivals in Europe Clandestino has been five years in the writing as Peter Culshaw followed Manu around the world
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Translated from the French and edited by Paul Cottin and Maurice Henault Foreword and Historical Introduction by David G Chandler Memoirs first published in 1857 of Napoleons retreat from Moscow in 1812
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The diverse array of subjects covered include the British campaign in Egypt in 1801 the battle of Maida Napoleons decisive victories at Marengo and Austerlitz the Peninsular War the Russian Army at war in 1807 and 1812 and the retreat from Moscow The collection spans the entire career of Dr Chandler and demonstrates the depth of his research
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The story of the Jagdwaffe on the Eastern Front continues with an explanation of the reasons for the German retreat from Moscow in late 1941 and subsequent rallying of forces prior to the advances of 1942 This book chronicles the astonishing victories scored by Luftwaffe fighter aces over the Soviet Air Force during battle for the Crimea and during the advance on Stalingrad Author Christer Bergstr246m an acknowledged expert on the air war in Russia describes the activities of the Luftwaffes fighterforce in its battles over the Russian Front
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Napoleons freezing army is trying to retreat from MoscownbspnbspA wobbly waiter needs to make his way over precarious pedestriannbspnbspwalkways on a flooded piazza in Venice A runaway must escape from the Roman arena sneaking past the snoozing gladiators and avoiding the hungry lions Find the right paths through these obstaclesand nine other uniquely challenging mazesin this gorgeously illustrated and informative puzzle book Set in eras as varied as ancient Egypt and modernday Manhattan and on monuments from the Eiffel Tower to the Great Wall of China these mazes take readers around the world through different times and places With quirky characters and activities galore on every page there is much to keep an eagleeyed reader engaged even once or if the mazes are solved Solutions and historical information for each spread are included
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Recounts the Nazi invasion of Russia describes the difficulties German soldiers faced from the harsh climate and terrain and recounts the siege of Moscow and the retreat of German forces
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