The Wellington Experience
Title | The Wellington Experience PDF eBook |
Author | David O. Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2020-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780999765913 |
This study examines the observations of U.S. military personnel who attended India's Defence Services Staff College (DSSC) at Wellington. Although the DSSC is a tri-service professional military education institution, this study focuses primarily on the Indian Army, the largest and most influentialmilitary service in India. Collectively, U.S. personnel at the DSSC had sustained interactionsover an extended period of time with three distinct groups of Indian Army officers: seniorofficers (brigadier through lieutenant general), senior midlevel (lieutenant colonel and colonel),and junior midlevel (captain and major). The study focuses on the attitudes and values of theIndian Army officer corps over a 38-year period, from 1979 to 2017, to determine if there waschange over time, and if so, to understand the drivers of that change.
To the Finish Line
Title | To the Finish Line PDF eBook |
Author | Chrissie Wellington |
Publisher | Center Street |
Pages | 569 |
Release | 2017-10-03 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1455570974 |
Chrissie Wellington, the world's number one female Ironman athlete and four-time World Ironman Champion, presents her struggles, wisdom, and experiences gained from her hard-won career as a triathlete. With close to 2 million core participants, triathlons of various distances and challenges are attracting more participants than ever before. In TO THE FINISH LINE, one of the sports' greatest legends brings triathlon to life, with guidance for newbies or experienced athletes, to achieve their best triathlons-no matter their ability. Filled with training tips, practical advice and inside information from a champion, triathletes of all levels can benefit from Wellington's experience and insight. Her book will guide readers on their own journey, whether that be a sprint or an Ironman, and encourage them to rise to every new challenge.
On Wellington
Title | On Wellington PDF eBook |
Author | Carl von Clausewitz |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2012-10-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0806185392 |
The Battle of Waterloo has been studied and dissected so extensively that one might assume little more on the subject could be discovered. Now historian Peter Hofschröer brings forward a long-repressed commentary written by Carl von Clausewitz, the author of On War. Clausewitz, the Western world’s most renowned military theorist, participated in the Waterloo campaign as a senior staff officer in the Prussian army. His appraisal, offered here in an up-to-date and readable translation, criticized the Duke of Wellington’s actions. Lord Liverpool sent his translation of the manuscript to Wellington, who pronounced it a “lying work.” The translated commentary was quickly buried in Wellington’s private papers, where it languished for a century and a half. Now published for the first time in English, Hofschröer brings Clausewitz’s critique back into view with thorough annotation and contextual explanation. Peter Hofschröer, long recognized as a leading scholar of the Napoleonic Wars, shows how the Duke prevented the account’s publication during his lifetime—a manipulation of history so successful that almost two centuries passed before Clausewitz’s work reemerged, finally permitting a reappraisal of key events in the campaign. In addition to translating and annotating Clausewitz’s critique, Hofschröer also includes an order of battle and an extensive bibliography.
Wellington in the Peninsula, 1808-1814
Title | Wellington in the Peninsula, 1808-1814 PDF eBook |
Author | Jac Weller |
Publisher | Frontline Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-03-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781848326538 |
This classic account of Wellington s tactics and strategy in the Peninsular War is one of the best single-volume works ever written on the epic campaign. Jac Weller covers all the battles with the French in which Wellington was involved. Talavera, Busaco, Salamanca and Vitoria are among the famous battles that he brings to life once more, with the aid of meticulous research, extensive visits to and photographs of the battlefields themselves, and an unwavering ability to cut a clear path through tangled military events. Wellington in the Peninsula brilliantly demonstrates how a great commander finally achieved victory after six years of battle against Napoleon s army.
Exhibiting War
Title | Exhibiting War PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Wellington |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2017-09-21 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1107135079 |
A comparative study of how museum exhibitions in Britain, Canada and Australia were used to depict the First World War.
Salamanca 1812
Title | Salamanca 1812 PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Fletcher |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2012-08-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1846036291 |
Salamanca was the most decisive battle of the entire Peninsular War. This detailed, illustrated volume recounts its progression, alongside full-colour maps and illustrations. Wellington smashed Marmont's French Army and his pursuit of its shattered remnants led to the famous cavalry charge of the King's German Legion at Garcia Hernandez. There would be two more years of sieges and hard fighting before the Iron Duke crossed the Pyrenees into France but from Salamanca the British and their Portuguese and Spanish allies always had the upper hand. Ian Fletcher examines this important battle in detail and also discusses the campaign which led up to it.
Vittoria 1813
Title | Vittoria 1813 PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Fletcher |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2012-08-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1782001956 |
A compact, fully-illustrated guide to a strategic British victory that forced the French troops out of occupied Spain. Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later Wellington's series of brilliant manoeuvres threw the French onto the defensive on all fronts, culminating in the final victory at Vittoria: 90,000 men and 90 guns attacking in four mutually supporting columns. The French centre gave way and both flanks were turned, their army finally breaking in flight towards Pamplona. Any French hopes of maintaining their position in the Peninsular were crushed forever. On 7 October the British set foot on the 'sacred soil' of' Napoleon's France.