David Chandler – лучшие книги

Forewarned of Prussia's intention to declare war on France, Napoleon decided to strike first with a bold advance from Wurzburg into Saxony. On 14 October the double battle was fought: Napoleon with 96,000 men and 120 guns engaged and heavily defeated Prince Hohenlohe and General Ruchel. The decisive engagement was fought further north where Marshal Davout with 27,000 men and 40 guns routed the main Prussian army under Frederick William IV and the Duke of Brunswick. This title examines these two battles, Jena and Auerstadt in detail, showing clearly the swiftness with which Napoleon dealt Prussia's military machine a severe blow.

This handbook of slogans, interspersed with historical commentary and contextual analysis, describes the Khmer Rouge regime and exposes the horrific foundation upon which it constructed its reign of terror. On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge seized

Book DescriptionA collection of essays on the Marlburian Wars by the leading authority on the period describing the Duke of Marlborough's development into one of Britain's most successful military commanders ever. Dr David Chandler is

In January 1979, at the end of their two-year war against Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, Vietnamese troops captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. As they entered the city, they came upon the grounds of a former high school where they discovered the bodies of several recently murdered men and a huge, hastily abandoned archive.

The site had been a prison, code-named S-21, where in just under 4 years, some 14,000 men, women and children had been incarcerated, interrogated, tortured and killed by the Khmer Rouge in a demented effort to cleanse the country of its perceived political enemies. Only seven prisoners who entered S-21 emerged alive. The archives of S-21 held stacks of administrative records documenting daily life, interrogations and torture. There were also 4000 ‘confessions’ extracted from prisoners.

How could a place like S-21 happen? By analyzing the mass of documents, supplemented by interviews with survivors and former workers, and then examining this alongside such horrific twentieth-century phenomena as the Holocaust, the Moscow Show Trials and Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ in the 1970s, Chandler looks at what was uniquely Cambodian and what was universal about what happened at S-21.

Austerlitz was the battle that established Napoleon's reputation: a classic example of the general's masterly use of deception to lure his enemy into a carefully devised trap. Beginning with the bold and crushing advance of the French Army from the Rhine to the Danube, David Chandler describes the envelopment of Mack's army at Ulm, the manoeuvres to Austerlitz and the counter-attack that resulted in the decisive defeat for the Austro-Russian Army. Excellent overview illustrations of the battlefield at Austerlitz supplement the text by clearly showing the movements of the opposing armies. A comprehensive guide to one of the most important battles of the Napoleonic Wars.