1415 was a year of religious persecution, personal suffering and one horrendous battle Agincourt. This is the story of that year, as seen over the shoulder of its most cold-hearted, most ambitious and most celebrated hero Henry V. The dramatic event of 1415 are recorded here on a day-to-day basis.Bodley Head, 2009; 640 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 35,00 Voor/Our Price € 16,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 52 %
In 1958, William Morgan walked into a camp in the Cuban jungle to join the revolutionaries in their fight to overthrow the corrupt president Batista. His dedication, military skill, and charisma won him a place as a comandante in Castro's army.Algonquin, 2007; 300 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 24,95 Voor/Our Price € 9,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 60 %
From the eerie spectacle of a bristling hedgehog of Swiss pikemen oozing its way across the battlefield to a gargantuan cannon that breached the walls of Constantinople, Turnbull tells the story of the knight and the technology of warfare during the 14th and 15th centuries.Greenhill, 2006; 272 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 34,95 Voor/Our Price € 13,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 60 %
Was Napoleon murdered. This baffling question has been sparking hot debates for nearly 200 years. But according to Swedish toxicologist Forshufvud and Napoleonic scholar Weider, the answer is an irrefutable yes. John Wiley and Sons; 555 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 30,00 Voor/Our Price € 10,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 63 %
As Hitler's Army Adjutant from 1938 to 1943, Gerhard Engel was privy to many of the Fuhrer's most significant decisions. Engel kept a diary during those years, which he supplemented with additional reminiscences after the war, including his firsthand account of Hitler's conversations with Halder, Guderian, and Brautisch, his thoughts on the German Jews, and the invasion of Russia.Greenhill, 2005; 208 pp.; EN; index; hbVan/List Price € 35,00 Voor/Our Price € 10,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 69 %
The Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 was one of the decisive battles in British history. The bitter hostility between England and Scotland which had continued since 1296, the contrasting characters of the opposing commanders Edward II and Robert the Bruce, the strategy of the campaign and the tactics of he battle itself - all these elements combine to make the event one of absorbing and lasting interest.Pen and Sword, 2008; 174 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 35,00 Voor/Our Price € 17,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 50 %
On 16 December 1944, Hitler launched a massive surprise attack on the Allies. The Battle of the Bulge had begun. Had Hitler's gambit succeeded, a German victory in the war would have certainly been possible, if not likely. Battle of the Bulge - Hitler's Alternate Scenarios explores this idea, revealing exactly how history could have been dramatically altered.Greenhill Books, 2004; 256 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 34,95 Voor/Our Price € 12,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 64 %
The US-backed military invasion of Cuba in 1962 remains one of the most ill-fated military blunders in American history, with echoes of the event reverberating even today. Drawing on long-hidden CIA documents, Rasenberger takes a closer look at this darkly fascinating incident in American history, in particular tracing what Kennedy knew, thought, and said as the events unfolded.Scribner, 2011; 460 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 32,00 Voor/Our Price € 12,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 61 %
In Spain's First Carlist War, foreign volunteers fought on both sides, among them the 10,000 men of the British Auxiliary Legion, an arm of Palmerston's foreign policy supporting the liberal Cristino cause and Queen Isabella II against her uncle.Four Courts Press, 2005; 240 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 31,00 Voor/Our Price € 11,90Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 62 %
The conflagration that consumed Europe in August 1914 had been a long time in coming, and yet it need never have happened at all, argues the author. For though the European powers were prepared to accept war as a resolution to the tensions fermenting across the Continent, Germany deliberately chose war over other options on 3 key occasions. Butler interweaves the events of the summer of 1914 with portraits of monarchs, diplomats and other leaders.Casemate, 2010; 330 pp.; EN; index; hbhb €
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