Gerry Van Tonder Bücher

Detailed account of the history of the dispute, burgeoning military capabilities on both sides of the border in the Himalayas and full-scale clashes.

Nine armies of 27 divisions of the Communist Chinese People's Volunteer Army, numbering 250,000 troops, launch a night attack along a 40-mile front of the US Eighth Army.

This guide offers step-by-step instructions on how to make biltong and droewors, a variety of different sausages (including boerewors, salami and pork sausages), as well as cured and smoked meats. Not only does this guide provide the basic instructions on how to master these traditional methods at home but it also includes recipes for an array of delicious dishes. The dishes range form biltong quiche, biltong potbread, ham and Cheddar rolls, Kasseler rib with mustard, glazed ham, soutribbetjie and pastrami to Russian sausage and banana kebabs, salami and noodle salad, wors with ratatouille, and quick bacon and egg pie.

Recently declassified documents give a fresh insight into the phenomenon that was Irgun - also known as Etzel. číst celé

When the world held its breath ... It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944--long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe--with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Iraq, Somalia and Ukraine. In an era of mass-produced AK-47s and ICBMs, one such flashpoint was Berlin. Allied agreements entered into at Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam for the carving up of postwar Berlin now meant nothing to the Soviet conquerors. Their victory had cost millions of Russian lives - troops and civilians - so the hammer and sickle hoisted atop the Reichstag was more a claim to ownership than success. Moscow's agenda was clear and simple: the Western Allies had to leave Berlin. The blockade ensued as the Soviets orchestrated a determined program of harassment, intimidation, flexing of muscle, and Socialist propaganda to force the Allies out. Truman had already used the atomic bomb: Britain and America would not be cowed. History's largest airborne relief program was introduced to save the beleaguered city. In a war of attrition, diplomatic bluff and backstabbing, and mobilizing of forces, the West braced itself for a third world war.

Second volume in the series on North Korea, this book uses unique and original material drawn from contemporary, now declassified CIA documents.

An entirely new way of viewing the wartime damage to the city-blending the modern and wartime image in one shot.

Inchon, a dramatic Cold War event: in the first two volumes in the author's series on battles of the Korean War, North Korean ground forces, armour and artillery cross the 38th Parallel into South Korea, inflicting successive ignominious defeats on the ill-prepared US-led UN troops, pushing them ever southward into a tiny defensive enclave--the ...

Communist China enters the Korean War on 26 October 1950, when elements of the Chinese People's Liberation Army ambush and overpower UN forces at Onj?ng in North Korea. For the first time UN air superiority is challenged as Chinese MiG-15 jet fighters attack American aircraft south of the Yalu River in MiG Alley'.

Over the years since 1980 when Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, much has been written and recorded about the various regiments that served the country of Rhodesia from the early pioneers in the 1890s, right through to the day that these fine units marched off their respective parade grounds for the last time and into the august annals of history.