The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns that took place during the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the series provides a six-volume history of the battles and campaigns on land, at sea and in the air. The assassination in Sarajevo of the Austro-Hungarian heir, Archduke Franz Ferdinand lit an explosive mixture of ethnic tensions, nationalism, political opportunism, and the quest for power within the Balkans to plunge Europe into a conflict that would cost millions of lives. Austro-Hungary faced both Serbia and Russia during the opening phase of the war, but Bulgaria's decision to join the Central Powers in October 1915 led to the opening of the Salonika front in Greece, where 150,0000 British and French troops saw little fighting until the disastrous 1918 Doiran campaign. At the war's outbreak, the British authorities in Africa were totally unprepared, with few forces available to attack the German colonies, who themselves were effectively left isolated from help. The German commander in East Africa, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, launched a brilliant guerrilla campaign with scant resources, conducting lightning attacks on Allied targets, particularly the Uganda Railway. He was opposed by the South African General Jan Smuts and his mixture of Boer, British, Rhodesian, Indian, African, Belgian and Portuguese soldiers: fighting continued until November 1918. Italy entered the war against the Central Powers in April 1915. For two years, Austro-Hungarian forces were kept at bay on Italy's northern borders, until a combined German and Austro-Hungarian defeated the Italian forces at the Battle of Caporetto in October 1917. Revenge came with the Allied victory at Vittorio Veneto in November 1918, which led to Austro-Hungary's collapse. With the aid of over 300 photographs, complemented by full-colour maps, The Balkans, Italy & Africa provides a detailed guide to the background and conduct of the war in the Balkan, Italian and African theatres from the assassination in Sarajevo to the surrender of the Central Powers.
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Formaat:
Rivier van bloed : Een cultuurgeschiedenis van de Wolga
Met opgestroopte mouwen : Een geschiedenis van Rotterdam
Prisoner of Lies : Jack Downey's Cold War
'Ik ben koopman' : Kroniek van de familie Fentener van Vlissingen
De spion zonder naam
Nico Rost : de man die van Duitsland hield
Toen Napoleon Maly verliet : de bewogen geschiedenis van Rusland, verteld door degenen die het hebben meegemaakt. Door voormalig NOS-correspondent Peter d`Hamecourt
Brotherhood of Heroes : The Marines at Peleliu, 1944 -- The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War
The Greatest Battle : Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II
Récit d'un voyage à pied à travers la Russie et la Sibérie tartare : des frontières de Chine à la mer Gelée et au Kamtchatka
Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veteran
Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government
Gallipoli & the Middle East 1914–1918 : From the Dardanelles to Mesopotamia
The Eastern Front 1914–1920 : From Tannenberg to the Russo-Polish War
The Western Front 1914–1916 : From the Schlieffen Plan to Verdun and the Somme
Naval Warfare 1914–1918 : From Coronel to the Atlantic and Zeebrugge
The Western Front 1917–1918 : From Vimy Ridge to Amiens and the Armistice