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|  | | Barbarossa to Berlin Volume 1
The Long Drive East: A Chronology of the Campaigns on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945
span style="color: #333333">Between June 1941 and May 1945 the largest conflict the world had ever seen was fought across Eastern Europe, culminating in the absolute defeat not only of a new ideology, but of an entire nation./span>
span style="color: #333333"> em>The Long Drive East/em> is the first of two volumes and follows the German advance from the Soviet frontier to the eve of the Soviet counter offensive at Stalingrad. In a clear chronological style, this book covers the main areas of operations across the extensive battle front. It includes details of | |  | | Barbarossa to Berlin Volume 2
The Defeat of Germany: A Chronology of the Campaigns on the Eastern Front, 1941 to 1945
span style="color: #333333">The second book in the Barbarossa to Berlin series, em>The Defeat of Germany/em> takes a chronological look at the Soviet counter attack at Stalingrad, Manstein's enigmatic counter stroke in the spring of 1943 through to the Battle of Kursk in the summer. Following the German defeat and the subsequent retreat the Red Army unleashed a devastating series of operations throughout 1944 which liberated occupied Soviet territory and took the war home to the Germans. The defeat of the Reich in 1945 saw the Soviet conquest of much of Eastern Europe, and th | |  | | The Battle of Königsberg
The Struggle for the East Prussian Capital, October 1944 to April 1945
p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0cm">span style="font-family: 'Arial', 'sans-serif'" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">From October 1944 to April 1945 the Red Army fought a series of bloody battles in an effort to destroy the German Army in East Prussia and capture the capital city of the province, Königsberg. This book, em>The Battle of Königsberg,/em> follows these events and recounts in detail the desperate defensive actions the Germans undertook to hold off the Red Army, from the Memel and Gumbinnen Offensives of October 1944 which saw Russian sold | |  | | The Empire of the French
A Chronology of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792 to 1815
Between 1789 and 1815 France and Europe were ravaged by a period of revolution and incessant conflict which spread from Lisbon to Moscow, and changed the face of warfare in Europe.
em>The Empire of the French/em> folows the events of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and the impact they had on Europe and its status quo. Closely following the events of the revolution in France, the Revolutionary Wars ensured the unity of the fledgling French government, despite its own internal difficulties. Beset by enemies on all frontiers, the French resorted to calli | |  | | The Later Roman Republic
The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume Two 145 BC to 27 BC
The final tumultuous century of the Roman Republic began with a war against the tribes of the Spanish interior and the struggle in Rome between the newly emerging Optimate and Populares factions, embodied by the rivalry between the Gracchi and the Senate. Bloodshed between these factions increased the pace of decline and led to civil war which erupted between Sulla and Marius. This cycle of civil war, which was continued years later by Pompeius and Caesar, would ensure the eventual rise to power of the ruthless political genius Octavian, the originator of the Principate and | |  | | The Rise of the Romans
The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume One 753 BC to 146 BC
The Roman state, from its foundation as a primitive village on the hills above the Tiber in the eighth Century BC, to the fall of the Western Empire in the fifth Century AD, and the final defeat of Byzantium in the 1450s, remains the longest existing state in the history of the world. Its achievements were immense, and the impact it had on the development of the modern world is still evident today.
In em>The Rise of the Romans,/em> the first in a series of chronologies on the rise of Ancient Rome, Brian Taylor tells the story of the formation, battles and con |
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