How We Won the War

How We Won the War
Title How We Won the War PDF eBook
Author Nguyên Giáp Võ
Publisher Recon Publications
Pages 72
Release 1976
Genre History
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Den nord-vietnamesiske forsvarsminister og øverstbefaldende Giap samt general Dung fremsætter politiske, strategiske og taktiske tanker om sejren.

How the War Was Won

How the War Was Won
Title How the War Was Won PDF eBook
Author Phillips Payson O'Brien
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 655
Release 2015-02-12
Genre History
ISBN 1107014751

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An important new history of air and sea power in World War II and its decisive role in Allied victory.

How I Won the War

How I Won the War
Title How I Won the War PDF eBook
Author Patrick Ryan
Publisher Faber & Faber
Pages 254
Release 2012-03-13
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0571290213

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'Well, Sergeant, here we go then', I said. 'Getting our chance at last of a good old crack at the Boche, eh...?'Ex-infantryman and reconnaissance officer, author and humorist Patrick Ryan is perhaps best remembered for this acerbically comic novel - first published in 1963 and quickly adapted into a 1967 feature film by Richard Lester, starring Michael Crawford and John Lennon. It is a satirical 'memoir' of the misadventures of the haphazard and notably naïve Lieutenant Ernest Goodbody and his fellow fighting men of Twelve Platoon - Sergeant Transom, Corporals Hink, Globe and Dooley, Private Drogue et al - as they stumble ill-preparedly into the theatres of World War Two.

A War To Be Won

A War To Be Won
Title A War To Be Won PDF eBook
Author Williamson Murray
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 736
Release 2009-06-30
Genre History
ISBN 0674041305

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Chronicles the military operations and tactics of World War II in both the European and Pacific theaters from the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the surrender of Japan in 1945.

We Won a War

We Won a War
Title We Won a War PDF eBook
Author John Akehurst
Publisher
Pages 248
Release 1982
Genre History
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Forfatteren, som selv var fører af Sultanen af Omans styrker, beskriver Dhofarkrigen, hvor Omans styrker - suppleret med andre landes styrker, herunder britiske styrker - nedkæmpede kommunistiske styrker. Krigen varede ca. 10 år, og forfatteren var selv tjenestegørende dér de sidste 18 måneder af krigen.

What We Won

What We Won
Title What We Won PDF eBook
Author Bruce Riedel
Publisher Brookings Institution Press
Pages 211
Release 2014-07-28
Genre History
ISBN 081572585X

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In February 1989, the CIA's chief in Islamabad famously cabled headquarters a simple message: "We Won." It was an understated coda to the most successful covert intelligence operation in American history. In What We Won, CIA and National Security Council veteran Bruce Riedel tells the story of America's secret war in Afghanistan and the defeat of the Soviet 40th Red Army in the war that proved to be the final battle of the cold war. He seeks to answer one simple question—why did this intelligence operation succeed so brilliantly? Riedel has the vantage point few others can offer: He was ensconced in the CIA's Operations Center when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on Christmas Eve 1979. The invasion took the intelligence community by surprise. But the response, initiated by Jimmy Carter and accelerated by Ronald Reagan, was a masterful intelligence enterprise. Many books have been written about intelligence failures—from Pearl Harbor to 9/11. Much less has been written about how and why intelligence operations succeed. The answer is complex. It involves both the weaknesses and mistakes of America's enemies, as well as good judgment and strengths of the United States. Riedel introduces and explores the complex personalities pitted in the war—the Afghan communists, the Russians, the Afghan mujahedin, the Saudis, and the Pakistanis. And then there are the Americans—in this war, no Americans fought on the battlefield. The CIA did not send officers into Afghanistan to fight or even to train. In 1989, victory for the American side of the cold war seemed complete. Now we can see that a new era was also beginning in the Afghan war in the 1980s, the era of the global jihad. This book examines the lessons we can learn from this intelligence operation for the future and makes some observations on what came next in Afghanistan—and what is likely yet to come.

The Day We Won The War

The Day We Won The War
Title The Day We Won The War PDF eBook
Author Charles Messenger
Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pages 265
Release 2008-09-18
Genre History
ISBN 0297856189

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How the British, ANZACs and Canadians finally broke the German army on the most decisive day of the Great War. The British attack at Amiens was the most decisive day of the Great War. In earlier offensives, a gain of a few hundred yards counted as a 'victory', but this time our troops advanced seven miles in a day and broke clean through the German defences. The long agony on the Western Front was nearly over. Spearheaded by tanks and armoured cars and supported by the RAF, the attack was led by the Australian and Canadian Corps, with British and French troops on the flanks. Elaborate deception measures were employed to ensure surprise. Drawing on both primary and secondary sources, as well as eyewitness accounts, this book describes how the attack was conceived, the preparations, and the actual assault itself, as well as what happened on the subsequent days and how Amiens paved the way for the final victorious Allied advance.