New Releases by John Keegan

The author concentrates on four key conflicts, Trafalgar, Jutland, Midway and the Battle of the Atlantic. He aims to take readers into the heart of the fighting and also to give them a panoramic view of naval warfare through the centuries.

Military historian John Keegan’s gripping history of naval warfare’s evolution. In The Price of Admirality, leading military historian John Keegan illuminates the history of naval combat by expertly dissecting four landmark sea battles, each featuring a different type of warship: the Battle of Trafalgar, the Battle of Jutland in World War I, the Battle of Midway in World War II, and the long and arduous Battle of the Atlantic. “The best military historian of our generation.”—Tom Clancy “The Price of Admirality stands alongside Mr. Keegan’s earlier works in its power to impart both the big and little pictures of war.”—The New York Times

Søgeord: 2. Verdenskrig; Vestfronten, 1940-1943, 1943-1945; Østfronten, 1941-1943, 1943-1945; Stillehavskrigen, 1941-1943, 1943-1945; Hitler; Operation Barbarossa; Stalingrad; Tojo; Pearl Harbor; Churchill; Nordafrika; Landgang Sicilien; Overlord; Ardennerne; Stalin; Kursk; Vistula; Roosevelt; Japan, Historie, 1939-1945; Frankrigs Fald, 1940; Blitzkrieg; Tyskernes Invasion af Polen; Battle of the Atlantic; Kreta; Stalingrad; Krimhalvøen; Pacific War; Kampene ved Rhinen; Kampene om Berlin; Eisenhower; Montgomery; Patton; Bradley; Wavell; von Bock; Rommel; Guderian; Balkan; Jugoslavien; Modstandsbevægelser; Darlan, de Gaulle; Frie Franske; Admiral Dönitz; Chiang Kai-shek; Brooke, Alan; Enigma; Efterretningstjeneste; Halder, Franz; Leyte Gulf; Lend-Lease; MacArthur; von Kleist; von Kluge; General Marshall; Rokossovsky; Roosevelt; Zhukov; Weygand; Burma; Slim; Speer; Singapore; Tanks, kampvogne; Undervandsbåde, u-både.

This book discusses generals: who they are, what they do, and how they do it affects the world in which we live.

Tells the story of the Allied invasion of Normandy and shows how each of the armies mirrored its own nation''s values.

Broad in geographical and chronological scope, witnessn all the major conflicts in history from 1453 to the present day.

Søgeord: Felttoget i Rusland, 1941; Invasionen af Sovjetunionen, 1941; Zhukov; Voroshilov; Timoshenko; Shaposhnikov; Budenny; Blucher; Tukhachevsky; Stalin; Kampvognsslag; Tanks; Panzer; Sovjetiske Civilbefolkning; Keitel; Hitler''s Generaler; Molotov; Ribbentrop; Halder; Marcks; Waffen-SS; Ritter von Leeb; von Bock; von Rundstedt; Balkan; Guderian; Brest-Litovsk; Minsk; Smolensk; Beria; Wehrmacht; Partisankrig; Hoth; Panzer Mark IV; Dnieper; Kiev; Yeromenko; Odessa; Riga; Manstein; Kücher; Mannerheim; Grodno

How could troops who fought with such almost superhuman bravery, behave so cruelly and callously towards those who fell into their hands? They acted with stupifying ruthlessness toward civilians. They were a law unto themselves.