Jack Sheldon
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The book starts with on the capture of Vimy Ridge and the nearly spur of Notre Dame de Lorette in October 1914. The major battles of spring and autumn 1915 is described as is the twelve month period from late autumn 1915 when British forces occupied the lines on the western Ridge. The period from late autumn 1916 onwards when the Canadian Corps was preparing for the April 1917 assault on the ridge, is given detailed treatment, with special emphasis...
Author
Language
English
Description
This book will provide an entirely fresh way of looking at the Battle of the Somme 1916. It will not be a rehashed narrative history of the battle. Instead, drawing heavily on examples that can be illustrated through exploitation of the primary sources still available in abundance in the archives at Stuttgart and Munich and anecdotal accounts, it will explain how and why the German defence was designed and conducted as it was. There will be descriptions...
Author
Language
English
Description
Jack Sheldon examines the German mindset at the close of 1914 when it became apparent that a quick victory was no longer a possibility. Both sides were temporarily exhausted in static positions from the Channel to the Swiss Border. In a reversal of roles, the French launched major offensives in Champagne and Artois, while the British Army, adapting to the demands of large scale continental warfare, went on the offensive in support at Neuve Chapelle,...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Petilius Cerealis is one of the few Imperial Roman officers, below the level of Emperor, whose career it is possible to follow in sufficient detail to write a coherent biography. Fortunately his career was a remarkably eventful and colorful one. With a knack for being caught up in big events and emerging unscathed despite some hairy adventures (and scandal, usually involving some local wench) he appears to have been a Roman version of Blackadder and...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Military
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
This WWI military history presents a detailed account of the third Battle of Ypres, in the Belgian village of Passchendaele , from the German perspective. More than a century since the epic battle, the name Passchendaele has lost none of its power to shock and dismay. Reeling from the huge losses in earlier battles, the German army was in no shape to absorb the impact of the Battle of Messines and the subsequent attritional struggle. Throughout the...
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Series
Language
English
Description
These three Battleground Europe books on Ypres 1914 mark the centenary of the final major battle of the 1914 campaign on the Western Front. Although fought over a relatively small area and short time span, the fighting was even more than usually chaotic and the stakes were extremely high. Authors Nigel Cave and Jack Sheldon combine their respective expertise to tell the story of the men British, French, Indian and German - who fought over the unremarkable...
Author
Language
English
Description
These three Battleground Europe books on Ypres 1914 mark the centenary of the final major battle of the 1914 campaign on the Western Front. Although fought over a relatively small area and short time span, the fighting was even more than usually chaotic and the stakes were extremely high. Authors Nigel Cave and Jack Sheldon combine their respective expertise to tell the story of the men British, French, Indian and German - who fought over the unremarkable...
Author
Series
Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 12
Language
English
Description
Lila B. has earned Mike Hammer's attention for a number of reasons, not least of which is her intoxicating voice. But the beautiful jazz singer also has a dangerous side, keeping company with mobsters. When her beaux arrested, he's forced rat on his partners. The plot thickens when one of Lila's gentlemen called is killed and she becomes a suspect. With both the police and the mob on her heels, Hammer is determined to keep the songstress safe.
Author
Series
Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 13
Language
English
Description
Lila B. is in the wind, terrified that she may have seen something to precipitate the murders. Mike Hammer finds a way to post bail and sets out to track the jazz singer down. But with Lila on the lam and Hammer on her trail, the death toll continues to rise and raise the cops' suspicions. Lila reunites with Johnny Dive, and both find themselves face to face with danger when mobsters get a hold of them.