Ian Drury: 2 books
by Ian Drury
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
On 24 April 1877 Tsar Alexander II declared war on the Ottoman Empire. The Sultan had a battle-hardened army ready for war. For the Tsar, this was to be the first major conflict since the abolition of serfdom and the creation of a German-style military reserve system. Ian Drury details the campaigns...
by Charles D. Winchester, Ian Drury
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
The Russian Front was the decisive theatre of World War II, with the great mass of the German Army and Luftwaffe locked in battle with the Red Army in the largest land campaign in history. On a 1,200 mile front, from the Arctic Circle to the Caspian Sea, in baking summer heat and freezing winter temperatures,...