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Eugene Sledge. Un Marine dans L'enfer du Pacifique

On Friday 15 September 1944, after three days' intensive preliminary bombardment of the Japanese defences, the Old Breed , the 1st Marine Division, landed on the Island of Peleliu, in the Palaos Archipelago. The Marines' objective was to neutralise the island's garrison and capture the Japanese (...)
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Battles and Battlefields of the Peninsular War

A frequent visitor to Spain and Portugal who has specialized in the history of the Peninsular War for his entire career, Charles Esdaile has visited most of the battlefields and other sites associated with that conflict. In this work, he places his unrivalled knowledge of the subject at the (...)
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Tragedy and Revenge. The Battles of Coronel & the Falklands, 1914

The Battle of Coronel on 1 November 1914, when Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock and ships of his 4th Cruiser Squadron were out gunned and out matched by the German East Asiatic Squadron under Vice Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee, was the worst British naval disaster for more 100 years; two (...)
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