Bøger af Alan Clark

The classic account of the war on the Eastern Front between the Russians and the Germans - the greatest clash of arms the world has ever seen - written by the eminent military historian, diarist and politician Alan Clark.

Moorland Cricket Club, somewhere in the north of England, probably west of the Pennines is very much the centre of village life and has been for well over a century. From the antics of the committee to the matches that bring the entire village together, this is the story of the club on and off the field, through two world wars and a century of change. But village cricket in Moorland is about far more than cricket. It's about relationships between people, teammates, opponents, friends, committee members, spectators, umpires and scorers, villagers. It's about the village pub and the church, the school, Farmer Swain's field and the little wood behind the ground. It contains all the humour and heart one would expect from village cricket but there is also heartbreak and tragedy concealed within these pages. And as for the great man himself? Take a Look Inside to judge for yourself whether W G Grace really taught the villagers of Moorland a true cricketing lesson!

On June 22, 1941, before dawn, German tanks and guns began firing across the Russian border. It was the beginning of Hitler's Operation Barbarossa, one of the most brutal campaigns in the history of warfare. Four years later, the victorious Red Army has suffered a loss of seven million lives. Alan Clark's incisive analysis succeeds in explaining how a fighting force that in one two-month period lost two million men was nevertheless able to rally to defeat the Wehrmacht. The Barbarossa campaign included some of the greatest episodes in military history: the futile attack on Moscow in the winter of 1941-42, the siege of Stalingrad, the great Russian offensive beginning in 1944 that would lead the Red Army to the historic meeting with the Americans at the Elbe and on to victory in Berlin.Barbarossa is a classic of miltary history. This paperback edition contains a new preface by the author.

First published in 1973, this is an account of those forbidden to carry parachutes; they lived in dread of being shot down in flames; their life expectancy was measured in days...But these were the flyers who became legends in their own life-times - Albert Ball, Manfred von Richthofen, Mick Mannock, Rene Fonck, Georges Guynemer. Aces High is the vivid chronicle of aerial warfare over the Western Front during five turbulent years of World War One.

Some of the most talked about books of recent years, Alan Clark's diaries provide a witty and irreverant insider's account of political life in Britain. Now in one volume.

The landmark expose of incompetent leadership on the Western Front - why the British troops were lions led by donkeys On 26 September 1915, twelve British battalions - a strength of almost 10,000 men - were ordered to attack German positions in France.