European General category: 8233 books
Garibaldi
The Man and the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
First published in 1935, this is a biography of Giuseppe Garibaldi (4 July 1807 - 2 June 1882), the Italian general, politician and nationalist who played a large role in the history of Italy.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest generals of modern times and one of Italy’s “fathers of...
by Gen.-Lt. Andreas Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The German Air Force General Staff, first published in 1959, written by Generalleutnant a. D. Andreas Nielsen, is one of a series of historical studies written for the United States Air Force Historical Division by former key officers of the German Air Force for the United States Air Force Historical...
The Normandy Campaign
An Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Since the 50th anniversary of World War Two (1994), there has been an increased interest in the Normandy campaign. The Normandy campaign was a watershed event for the US Army and left a great influence. General William E. Depuy, the first commander of the Army’s Cold War Training & Doctrine...
by Major Matthew H. Fath
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
There are currently two contradictory schools of thought in the historiography of General Robert L. Eichelberger’s generalship. One group of authors, John Shortal and Jay Luvaas, consider Eichelberger a brilliant World War II commander. Another author, Paul Chwialkowski, believes Eichelberger to...
by Dr. Albert Norman
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
A fascinating in-depth study of the planning for the D-Day landings which set the first Allied troops on the road to Berlin. Dr Norman served with the US 12th Army Group staff during the Second World War under General Omar Bradley, which put him in an expert position to tell the story of the exhaustive...
Bismarck’s Rival
A Political Biography of General and Admiral Albrecht von Stosch
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Originally published in 1960, “[t]he political biography of Albrecht von Stosch (1818-1896), a prominent man of action, opens unique insights into the entire Bismarckian epoch. Stosch became a general, an admiral, and a minister of state. As Chief of the Admiralty he was the founder of the Imperial...
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by General William W. Momyer USAF
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
[Includes over 130 illustrations and maps]
This insightful work documents the thoughts and perspectives of a general with 35 years of history with the U.S. Air Force – General William W. Momyer. The manuscript discusses his years as a senior commander of the Air Force – strategy, command and control...
Born to Rule
Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Julia Gelardi's Born to Rule is an historical tour de force that weaves together the powerful and moving stories of the five royal granddaughters of Queen Victoria. These five women were all married to reigning European monarchs during the early part of the 20th century, and it was their reaction...
The Perfect Prince
Truth and Deception in Renaissance Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In 1491, as Machiavelli advised popes and princes and Leonardo da Vinci astonished the art world, a young man boarded a ship in Portugal bound for Ireland. He would be greeted upon arrival as the rightful heir to the throne of England. The trouble was, England already had a king.
The most intriguing...
A Throne in Brussels
Britain, the Saxe-Coburgs and the Belgianisation of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Offers a history of the monarchy of Belgium, a country artificially created in 1817. This book argues that the pan-European super-state resembles a 'Greater-Belgium' rather than a 'Greater-Switzerland'.
Au Revoir to All That
Food, Wine, and the End of France
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
France is in a rut, and so is French cuisine. Twenty-five years ago it was hard to have a bad meal in France; now, in some cities and towns, it is a challenge to find a good one. For the first time in the annals of modern cuisine, the most influential chefs and the most talked-about restaurants in...
by Oswald Mosley
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
‘Mosley: Right or Wrong?’ explores the ideas of the man many claimed was the most creative political thinker of the twentieth century. The book uses a concise question and answer format to give Oswald Mosley’s solutions to major problems still afflicting the world today.He suggests an alternative...
United States Army in WWII - Europe - Cross-Channel Attack
[Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Includes 4 charts, 31 maps and 62 illustrations]
Cross-Channel Attack has been planned and written as the introduction to the history of those campaigns in 1944 and 1945 which led to the destruction of the German armies in the west. It provides necessary background for the study of all the campaigns...
The Renaissance
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The Renaissance holds an undying place in the human imagination, and its great heroes remain our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Montaigne. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern; reviving the city as the...