In the heat of battle: a history of those who rose to the occasion and those who didn't
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Oxford [u.a.]
Osprey Publ.
2009
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-277) and index |
| Beschreibung: | 288 S. Ill. 24 cm |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
PREFACE
PART
1 :
THOSE WHO ROSE TO THE OCCASION
...
1-
SEIZING THE MOMENT
Audie Murphy and His Three Careers
13
Corporal James Graham and
Hougoumonťs
Gate
15
Erwin
Rommel and His Handkerchief
20
Yoni Netanyahu and Entebbe
23
Lance-Corporal Patrick Kenneally and His
Bren
Gun
27
Captain Danjou and His Fight to the Death
28
George Welch, Kenneth Taylor and Pearl Harbor
31
H Jones and the
Falklands
34
2
-BUCKING THE ODDS
Horatius
and His Bridge
39
Douglas
Bader
and His Tin Legs
43
George Washington and the Delaware
46
Elizabeth I and the Invincible Armada
49
Osman
Pasha and His Rifles
52
Captain Lucas and Admiral Nelson
55
Robert Baden-Powell and Mafeking
59
Roman
Orlik
and His Tiny Tank
64
John Paul Jones and His Fight
66
3 -
COURAGE OFTHEIR CONVICTIONS
Julius Caesar and the Pirates
71
Michael Collins and the Last Shot
75
Prince
Blücher
and His Horse
79
Alvin
York and His Reluctant Heroism
82
Joan of Arc and the Siege of
Orléans
85
Gérard
Leman
and His Forts
89
Elazar Ben-Yair and
Masada
92
Kemal
Atatürk
and His Watch
95
4-
A CONSTANT THREAD OF VALOUR
Michael Wittmann
and His Tiger
101
Colonel Chamberlain and His Gettysburg Charge
103
Claus von Stauffenberg
and His Bomb
107
Eugene
Esmonde
and the Six Swordfish 111
Albert
Jacka
and His One Victoria Cross
114
King Brian
Boru
and His Brief United Ireland
117
Josef
František
and His Polish Friends
120
5
-WITHOUT FAME AND FANFARE
Alan Turing and His
Bombes
123
Jean-Baptiste
Ebié
and His Berezina Bridges
127
Constance Babington Smith and the Little Plane
129
Captain Hall and His
Zimmermann
Telegram
133
Richard
Sorge
and His Vital Message
136
Antoine de
Saint
Exupéry
and His Last Flight
139
Noor,
Odette,
Violette:
Spies Behind the Lines
141
Baron Larrey and His Flying Ambulances
145
Weary Dunlop and His Patients
147
The
Krupp
Family and Its Weapons of War
150
PART
2:...
AND THOSE WHO DIDN T
1 -
TOO CONFIDENT BY HALF
John
E
Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs
157
King Guy of Jerusalem and Hattin
161
Reinhard
Heydrich and His Commuting Routine
164
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Piroth and His Guns
166
Byrhtnoth and the Vikings
169
Hermann Goering and His Uniforms
172
William Fetterman and His Massacre
176
Saddam Hussein and His Delusions
179
2 - FATAL
INATTENTION
Admiral
Gensoul
and His Missing Clause
183
Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon and His Signal
187
General James Ledlie and the Crater
190
Charles DAlbret and His Nobles
193
Romanus Diogenes and Manzikert
196
3 -
FLAWS AND OBSESSIONS
Douglas MacArthur and the Chinese
201
Napoleon and His Russian Campaign
206
Rudolf Hess and His Flight of Fancy
209
Shaka and His Mother
213
Bernard Montgomery and the Americans
215
Crassus and His Thirst for Glory
218
George
Patton
and His Temper
220
Mark Antony and His Dangerous Lover
223
Charles Lindbergh and America First
225
4 -
TREACHERY AND RANK DISOBEDIENCE
Lord Chelmsford, Sir
Bartle
Frere and the Zulus
231
Mark Clark and His Very Own City
234
Lord Sackville and
Minden
238
Lord Louis Mountbatten and His Raid
241
George Armstrong Custer and the Little Big Horn
244
Benedict Arnold and West Point
249
5-
A STREAK OF CRUELTY
Sir John Maxwell and His Firing Squads
253
Stalin and His Country Retreat
257
Amritsar and Three Irishmen
261
William Calley and His My Lai Orders
264
Francisco Lopez and His Irish Mistress
269
SELEQ BIBLIOGRAPHY
272
INDEX
278
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